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Where does “sferic” come from?

sferic (English) comes from English atmospherics, from English -ics, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.

sferic (English): A short pulse of electromagnetic radiation...

Definitions

  1. A short pulse of electromagnetic radiation...

Ancestry of “sferic”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishatmosphericsradio interference caused by pulses of...
2English-icsForms nouns referring to fields of knowledge or...
3English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
4EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
5Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
6Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
7Spanishimagenimage
8Italianimmagineimage; imago
9Latinimāginem—
10Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
11Latinīn-—
12Latinîn—
13Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
14Proto-Italicenin
15Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “sferic”

  • sphericity
  • aspheric
  • spheric
  • asphericity
  • nonsphericity
  • semispheric
  • mycospheric
  • helispheric
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