Where does “tannic” come from?
Tannic comes from French tannique, formed from French -ique (from Latin -icus, from Proto-Indo-European -kos) combined with Gaulish tanno- and Latin tannum.
tannic (English): Pertaining to, containing, or obtained from...
Definitions
- Pertaining to, containing, or obtained from...
Ancestry of “tannic”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | tannique | tannic |
| 2 | French | tan | pulped oak bark used in the tanning process |
| 3 | French | ton | Your, thy; Tone; Tone, shade |
| 4 | Old French | ton | your |
| 5 | Latin | tonus | The stretching or straining of a rope; A strain;... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | τόνος | rope, cord; chord; tone, note |
| 7 | Proto-Hellenic | tónos | rope, cord; tension |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | tónos | something stretched; chord, fiber, string |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ten- | to stretch, to extend |