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Where does “thermophilic” come from?

Thermophilic comes from English -philic, English -ic, French -ique, Latin -icus, and Proto-Indo-European -kos, a suffix denoting quality or relation.

thermophilic (English): of, or relating to a thermophile; living and...

Definitions

  1. of, or relating to a thermophile; living and...

Ancestry of “thermophilic”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-philicSynonym of -philous
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 “thermophilic”

  • hyperthermophilic
  • thermophilically
  • nonhyperthermophilic
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