Etymology

adaptational

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Today it means: Relating or pertaining to adaptation, or the adjustment of one thing to another; adaptive Full definition →

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? ← English adaptation ← French adaptation
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
  2. Proto-Italic*ad
  3. Proto-Italic*ad-
  4. Latinad-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ep-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ptós
  7. Proto-Italic*aptos
  8. Latinaptus
  9. Proto-Indo-European[Term?]
  10. Proto-Italic*apjō
  11. Latinapiō
  12. Latinaptō
  13. Latinadaptō
  14. Medieval Latinadaptātiō
  15. Frenchadaptation
  16. Englishadaptation
  17. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  18. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  19. English todayadaptational

From adaptation + -al.

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