Etymology

preadaptation

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Today it means: An adaptation that evolved in an ancestral population, in which it served a different function Full definition →

English adaptation ← French adaptation ← Medieval Latin adaptātiō
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*per-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*preh₂-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*préh₂i?
  4. Proto-Italic*prai
  5. Proto-Italic*prai-
  6. Latinprae-
  7. Middle Englishpre-
  8. Englishpre-
  9. Medieval Latinadaptātiō
  10. Frenchadaptation
  11. Englishadaptation
  12. English todaypreadaptation

From pre- + adaptation.

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