Where does “oleophobic” come from?

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

oleophobic (English): Tending to repel oil

Definitions

  1. Tending to repel oil

Ancestry of “oleophobic”, step by step

oleophobic traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English phobic

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishphobicRelating to a phobia; Experiencing or expressing...
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-un-, non-, not
11Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
12Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
13Proto-Italicenin
14Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via English oleo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglisholeoThe various fats and oils that go into the making...
2Latinoleumolive oil; the palaestra
3Ancient Greekἔλαιονolive oil, commonly used as an anointing oil; any...
4Ancient Greekἐλαίαolive tree; olive; naevus
5Proto-Hellenicelaíwā
6Proto-Indo-Europeanloiwom

Words derived from “oleophobic

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én
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