Where does “pyrometamorphic” come from?

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

pyrometamorphic (English): Rapidly changed by heat, such as a natural fire, or lava flow

Definitions

  1. Rapidly changed by heat, such as a natural fire, or lava flow

Ancestry of “pyrometamorphic”, step by step

pyrometamorphic traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English metamorphic

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmetamorphicCharacterised by or exhibiting a change in form...
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 pyro

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishpyroa pyromaniac; pyrocellulose; pyrotechnician
2Ancient Greekπῦρa fire; lightning; a fever
3Proto-Indo-Europeanpéh₂wr̥bonfire; spelt
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Proto-Italic en