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Where does “hemispheric” come from?

Hemispheric comes from English hemisphere plus the French suffix -ique, derived from Latin -icus and Proto-Indo-European -kos, an adjectival suffix of unknown original meaning.

hemispheric (English): Of or pertaining to operating throughout a...

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to operating throughout a...

Ancestry of “hemispheric”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
2EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
3Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
4Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
5Spanishimagenimage
6Italianimmagineimage; imago
7Latinimāginem—
8Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
9Latinīn-—
10Latinîn—
11Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
12Proto-Italicenin
13Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “hemispheric”

  • interhemispheric
  • intrahemispheric
  • bihemispheric
  • unihemispheric
  • transhemispheric
  • nonhemispheric
  • bihemispherically
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