Etymology

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Today it means: An ant colony, a pile of earth built by ants in which they nest. Full definition →

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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromformica“ant”
  2. English todayformicary

From Latin formica (“ant”) + -ary.

Words from the same roots

Latinformica all →

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