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Where does “hemorrhagic” come from?

Hemorrhagic comes from French -ique, Latin -icus, and Ancient Greek αἷμα meaning blood, with Proto-Indo-European -kos forming the adjectival suffix.

hemorrhagic (English): Of, relating to, or producing hemorrhage

Definitions

  1. Of, relating to, or producing hemorrhage

Ancestry of “hemorrhagic”, 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 “hemorrhagic”

  • enterohemorrhagic
  • posthemorrhagic
  • antihemorrhagic
  • hemorrhagically
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →