symbolic

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromσυμβολικός“of or belonging to a symbol”
2. Latin · derived fromsymbolicus
3. French · derived fromsymbolique
4. English todaysymbolic

From French symbolique or directly from Latin symbolicus, from Ancient Greek συμβολικός (sumbolikós, “of or belonging to a symbol”), equivalent to symbol + -ic.

Words from the same roots