Etymology

tropicalization

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Today it means: The process of tropicalizing Full definition →

English tropical ← Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
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The story

  1. Englishtropic
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  4. Englishtropical
  5. English todaytropicalization

From tropical + -ization.

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