Where does “homographic” come from?
homographic (English) comes from English homograph, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine, from Latin imāginem — in.
homographic (English): Spelled identically; Employing a single and...
Definitions
- Spelled identically; Employing a single and...
Ancestry of “homographic”, step by step
homographic traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English homograph
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | homograph | A word that is spelled the same as another word,... |
| 2 | English | -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 3 | English | image | An optical or other representation of a real... |
| 4 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 5 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 6 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 7 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 8 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 9 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 10 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 11 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 12 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via English graphic
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | graphic | Drawn, pictorial; Vivid, descriptive, often in... |
| 2 | Latin | graphicus | pertaining to painting or drawing; belonging to... |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | γραφικός | pertaining to writing; pertaining to painting |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | γραφή | drawing; painting; writing, a writing |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | γράφω | to scratch, cut into; to draw, sketch, paint; to... |
| 6 | Proto-Hellenic | grəpʰō | to scratch, cut or carve into |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | gerbʰ- | to carve |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ger- | to turn, bend, twist, wind; to tie, bind... |