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Where does “tympanic” come from?

tympanic (English) comes from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine, from Latin imāginem, from Latin im- — in.

tympanic (English): Of, relating to, or resembling a drum; Relating...

Definitions

  1. Of, relating to, or resembling a drum; Relating...

Ancestry of “tympanic”, 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 “tympanic”

  • intratympanic
  • epitympanic
  • pharyngotympanic
  • petrotympanic
  • transtympanic
  • squamotympanic
  • mesotympanic
  • hypotympanic
  • paratympanic
  • subtympanic
  • intertympanic
  • tympanicity
  • nontympanic
  • posttympanic
  • supratympanic
  • post-tympanic
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