Etymology

argillic

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Today it means: Of or pertaining to clay or clay minerals. Full definition →

Latin argilla
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromargilla“clay”
  2. English todayargillic

From argill + -ic, from Latin argilla (“clay”).

Words from the same roots

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