Where does “mammalophagic” come from?
mammalophagic (English) comes from English phagic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine, from Latin imāginem — in.
mammalophagic (English): That feeds on (the blood of) mammals
Definitions
- That feeds on (the blood of) mammals
Ancestry of “mammalophagic”, step by step
mammalophagic traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English phagic
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | phagic | Of or pertaining to a phage; bacteriophagic |
| 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 mammal
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | mammal | An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by... |
| 2 | Latin | Mammalia | — |
| 3 | Latin | mammalis | Of or for the breasts |
| 4 | Latin | mamma | a breast; an udder; a pap; a teat, a dug |
| 5 | Latin | ferō | to bear; to carry |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | ferō | carry, bear |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰéreti | to be carrying |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰēr- | shiny, light brown |