Etymology

postzygotic

P3O1S1T1Z10Y4G2O1T1I1C3

Today it means: Following a zygotic stage Full definition →

English zygotic ← Latin post ← Old Latin poste
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pós
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pósti
  3. Proto-Italic*posti
  4. Old Latinposte
  5. Latinpost
  6. Englishpost-
  7. Englishzygote
  8. Englishzygotic
  9. English todaypostzygotic

From post- + zygotic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.