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Where does “microfluidics” come from?

microfluidics (English) comes from English fluidics, from English fluidic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.

microfluidics (English): The science concerned with the design and...

Definitions

  1. The science concerned with the design and...

Ancestry of “microfluidics”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishfluidicsThe branch of engineering and technology that is...
2EnglishfluidicOf or pertaining to a fluid; Of or pertaining to...
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
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →