Etymology

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Today it means: Supplemental or added to something. Full definition →

Latin additionalis
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  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromadditionalis
  2. Latin · learned borrowing fromadditionalis
  3. English todayadditional

Learned borrowing from Latin additionalis. By surface analysis, addition + -al.

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