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characteristically

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Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek χαράσσω (kharássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Ancient Greek -τήρ (-tḗr) Ancient Greek χᾰρᾰκτήρ (khărăktḗr) Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Ancient Greek χᾰρακτηρίζω (khăraktērízō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós) Ancient Greek χᾰρᾰκτηριστῐκός (khărăktēristĭkós)der. English characteristic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Proto-Indo-European *leyg- Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Old English -līċe Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English characteristically From characteristic + -ally.

  1. derived from *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Old English -līċe Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English characteristically From characteristic + -ally✻
  2. derived from -al Proto-Indo-European *leyg- Proto-Germanic *līkąder
  3. derived from -ālisbor
  4. derived from -ālis Old French -elbor
  5. derived from -albor
  6. derived from *-ālis Latin -ālisbor✻
  7. derived from characteristic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der

Definitions

  1. In a usual or expected way

    In a usual or expected way; in characteristic manner.

    • There, characteristically, he refused to be carried on a stretcher, saying he was too heavy for nurses. He walked in with their support.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at characteristically. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at characteristically. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at characteristically

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA