Where does “metalexicographical” come from?

metalexicographical (English) comes from English lexicographical, from English lexicographic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.

metalexicographical (English): Relating to metalexicography

Definitions

  1. Relating to metalexicography

Ancestry of “metalexicographical”, step by step

metalexicographical traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English lexicographical

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishlexicographicalRelating to lexicography; Meeting lexicographical...
2EnglishlexicographicLike a dictionary, relating to lexicography
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-un-, non-, not
12Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
13Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
14Proto-Italicenin
15Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via English meta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmetaSelf-referential; structured analogously, but at...
2Latinmētacone, pyramid
3Proto-West Germanicmōtijanto meet
4Proto-Germanicmōtijanąto meet, encounter
5Proto-Germanicmōtąmeeting
6Proto-Indo-Europeanmeh₂d-to be wet, to become wet; to meet, approach,...

Words derived from “metalexicographical

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Proto-Italic en