atavistic
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin at- Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os Latin avus Latin atavus Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der. Latin -ismusbor. French -isme French atavismebor. English atavism ▲ Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)der. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English -istic English atavistic From atavism + -istic.
- derived from -iquebor
- derived from -istebor
- derived from -istader
- derived from -isme French atavismebor
- derived from -ismusbor
Definitions
Of the recurrence of a trait reappearing after an absence of one or more generations due…
Of the recurrence of a trait reappearing after an absence of one or more generations due to a chance recombination of genes.
- Although the heterozygote gives it an atavistic appearance, the gene is not atavistic.
- Thus the gene which produced atavistic digits in the vigorous heterozygous pentadactyl condition is a lethal monster in the homozygous condition.
- Reactivation of a dormant atavistic gene could account for the abnormal costocoracoid ligament in humans.
Of a throwback or exhibiting primitivism.
- They made me feel that I was alive in the nineteenth century, a sort of atavistic remnant, a romantic shred […]
- The true perversion took place only in the privacy of her mind — the way she imagined an atavistic macho atop her when engaged in a mandatory contribution to the fetus-banks with some cretinous inept breeder…
- Because I am atavistic enough to believe that drawing is the basic language of the illustrator, even as words comprise the basic language of the writer…
Relating to earlier, more primitive behavior that returns after an absence.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for atavistic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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