Etymology

acidly

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Today it means: sourly; tartly Full definition →

English acid ← French acide ← Latin acidu
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The story

  1. Latinacidu
  2. Frenchacide
  3. Englishacid
  4. English todayacidly

From acid + -ly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.