Where does “tantric” come from?
Tantric derives from English tantra, influenced by the French suffix -ique and Latin -icus, both descended from Proto-Indo-European -kos, an adjectival suffix.
tantric (English): Describing Vajrayana Buddhism; Describing any of...
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- Describing Vajrayana Buddhism; Describing any of...
Ancestry of “tantric”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | tantra | A Hindu or Buddhist religious or esoteric text |
| 2 | Sanskrit | तन्त्र | a loom; the warp; the leading or principal or... |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | tántram | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | *tántram | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ten- | to stretch, to extend |
Words derived from “tantric”