Etymology

hygienic

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Today it means: Pertaining to hygiene; clean, sanitary, free of disease. Full definition →

French hygiénique
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  1. French · borrowed fromhygiénique
  2. English todayhygienic

From French hygiénique. Displaced earlier hygienal.

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