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Where does “ohmically” come from?

ohmically (English) comes from English ohmic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine, from Latin imāginem — in.

ohmically (English): By means of ohmic heating, the process by which...

Definitions

  1. By means of ohmic heating, the process by which...

Ancestry of “ohmically”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishohmicOf or relating to, or measured in, ohms; That...
2English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
3EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
4Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
5Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
6Spanishimagenimage
7Italianimmagineimage; imago
8Latinimāginem—
9Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
10Latinīn-—
11Latinîn—
12Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
13Proto-Italicenin
14Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →