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climatic

/klaɪˈmætɪk/kligh-MA-tik
/klaɪˈmætɪk/kligh-MA-tik

Meaningof climate

Common meaning: to do with climate

Journey through time

  1. Latinclimatemsource
  2. Old Frenchclimatsource
  3. Middle Englishclimatsource
  4. Englishclimate‘a region's usual weather’
  5. Englishformed in English from climateclimatic‘to do with climate’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Formed in English from climate + -ic.

Dictionary: Skeat (1898), CLIMATE, p.114 · scan

Source words

  • climatem Latin · source word “a slope, a zone”

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