Where does “etiological” come from?
Etiological derives from English etiology plus the suffix -ic, which comes from French -ique, Latin -icus, and Proto-Indo-European -kos, an adjectival suffix.
etiological (English): Relating to an etiology
Ancestry of “etiological”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | -ical | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 2 | Middle English | -ical | — |
Words derived from “etiological”