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Where does “microspherical” come from?

microspherical (English) comes from English spherical, from English spheric, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.

microspherical (English): Composed of microscopic spheres; Having the form...

Definitions

  1. Composed of microscopic spheres; Having the form...

Ancestry of “microspherical”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsphericalShaped like a sphere; Of, or pertaining to,...
2EnglishsphericSpherical; Of or relating to the heavenly orbs,...
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 →