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Where does “sonicate” come from?

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

sonicate (English): To disrupt with ultrasonic sound waves

Definitions

  1. To disrupt with ultrasonic sound waves

Ancestry of “sonicate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishSonic—
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

Words derived from “sonicate”

  • sonicative
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →