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Where does “postatomic” come from?

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

postatomic (English): After the discovery or use of the atomic bomb

Definitions

  1. After the discovery or use of the atomic bomb

Ancestry of “postatomic”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishatomicOf or relating to atoms; composed of atoms;...
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 →