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Where does “superhydrophilicity” come from?

superhydrophilicity (English) comes from English hydrophilicity, from English hydrophilic, from English -philic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen — in.

superhydrophilicity (English): very great hydrophilicity

Definitions

  1. very great hydrophilicity

Ancestry of “superhydrophilicity”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishhydrophilicityThe condition of being hydrophilic; A measure of...
2EnglishhydrophilicHaving an affinity for water; able to absorb, or...
3English-philicSynonym of -philous
4English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
5EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
6Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
7Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
8Spanishimagenimage
9Italianimmagineimage; imago
10Latinimāginem—
11Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
12Latinīn-—
13Latinîn—
14Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
15Proto-Italicenin
16Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
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