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By surface analysis, physis + -al; diachronically, via New Latin; the morphology is influenced by the source word's native inflections, as is true of many other words descended from Latin and Greek.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: Relating to the physis. Full definition →
By surface analysis, physis + -al; diachronically, via New Latin; the morphology is influenced by the source word's native inflections, as is true of many other words descended from Latin and Greek.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.