Where does “semiballistic” come from?

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

semiballistic (English): Being or relating to a missile of a kind that has...

Definitions

  1. Being or relating to a missile of a kind that has...

Ancestry of “semiballistic”, step by step

semiballistic traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English ballistic

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishballisticOr relating to ballistics; Or relating to...
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 semi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsemiA semi-detached house; A semitrailer; a...
2Englishsemi-half; partial, incomplete; somewhat, rather,...
3Latinsēmi-half
4Proto-Indo-Europeansēmihalf; partially
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Proto-Italic en