The story
- French · derived fromplombique
- Latin · derived fromplumbum“lead”
- English todayplumbic
From Latin plumbum (“lead”) + -ic, originally in calques of French plombique, from plomb (“lead”) + -ique (“-ic”). See also molybdic.
Words from the same roots
Latinplumbum all →
plummetblunketplumbismplumbo-plumbotsumiteplumbum
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.