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Where does “hydroponic” come from?

hydroponic (English) comes from English hydroponics, from English -ics, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.

hydroponic (English): Of a plant; pertaining to or grown using...

Definitions

  1. Of a plant; pertaining to or grown using...

Ancestry of “hydroponic”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishhydroponicsThe cultivation of plants in a nutrient solution...
2English-icsForms nouns referring to fields of knowledge or...
3English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
4EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
5Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
6Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
7Spanishimagenimage
8Italianimmagineimage; imago
9Latinimāginem—
10Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
11Latinīn-—
12Latinîn—
13Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
14Proto-Italicenin
15Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “hydroponic”

  • hydroponically
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →