Where does “totemic” come from?
Totemic derives from totem plus the English suffix -ic, which comes from French -ique, from Latin -icus, from Proto-Indo-European -kos.
totemic (English): Serving as, or relating to, a totem
Definitions
- Serving as, or relating to, a totem
Ancestry of “totemic”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 2 | English | image | An optical or other representation of a real... |
| 3 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 4 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 5 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 6 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 7 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 8 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 9 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 10 | Latin | în | — |
| 11 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
Words derived from “totemic”