Etymology

graphitic

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Today it means: Of, relating to, resembling, or having the structure of graphite. Full definition →

English graphite ← German Graphit ← Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō)
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*gerbʰ-
  2. Proto-Hellenic*grə́pʰō
  3. Ancient Greekγράφω (gráphō)
  4. GermanGraphit
  5. Englishgraphite
  6. English todaygraphitic

From graphite + -ic.

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