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Where does “thalamic” come from?

Thalamic comes from English thalamus, influenced by the French adjective suffix -ique, which derives from Latin -icus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -kos, an adjectival suffix.

thalamic (English): Of or pertaining to the thalamus

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to the thalamus

Ancestry of “thalamic”, step by step

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

Words derived from “thalamic”

  • subthalamic
  • spinothalamic
  • corticothalamic
  • interthalamic
  • paleospinothalamic
  • neospinothalamic
  • cerebellothalamic
  • transthalamic
  • prethalamic
  • caudothalamic
  • pallidosubthalamic
  • metathalamic
  • nonthalamic
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