somatic

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *twoH-mn̥

Proto-Hellenic *twṓmə?

Proto-Indo-European *styeH-

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *(s)tyoH-mn̥

Proto-Hellenic *styṓmə?

Ancient Greek σῶμα (sôma)

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)

Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Hellenic *-kos

Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)

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Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Hellenic *-tós

Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)

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Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)

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Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós)

Ancient Greek σωματικός (sōmatikós)der.

English somatic

From Ancient Greek σωματικός (sōmatikós, “bodily”), σῶμα (sôma, “body”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /səˈmætɪk/, [səˈmæɾɪk]

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

somatic (not comparable)

1. Part of, or relating to the body of an organism.

   Antonyms: psychological, mental

   • 2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 116:

     The somatic and botanical metaphors in this passage were commonplace in the 1700s.

2. Pertaining, and restricted, to an individual; not inheritable.

   a somatic epitype

3. Of or relating to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal.

   the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo

Derived terms

• axosomatic
• cephalosomatic
• dendritosomatic
• dendrosomatic
• endosomatic
• exosomatic
• extra-somatic
• extrasomatic
• gonadosomatic
• hepatosomatic
• intersomatic
• intestosomatic
• intrasomatic
• leptosomatic
• liposomatic
• metasomatite
• monosomatic
• neurosomatic
• nonsomatic
• normosomatic
• organosomatic
• orthosomatic
• polysomatic
• psychosomatic
• sociosomatic
• somaesthetics
• somatical
• somatically
• somatic cell
• somaticism
• somaticize
• somatic nervous system
• somatic sensory cortex
• somatic symptom disorder
• somatize
• somesthesis
• splenosomatic
• telesomatic
• tubulosomatic
• viscerosomatic

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *tewh₂- (0 c, 109 e)

• somatoplasm

Translations

relating to the body of an organism — see also bodily

• Arabic: جَسَدِيّ m (jasadiyy)
• Bulgarian: телесен (bg) (telesen)
• Catalan: somàtic
• Czech: somatický (cs) m
• Danish: somatisk
• Dutch: somatisch (nl)
• Finnish: somaattinen (fi)
• French: somatique (fr)
• German: somatisch (de)
• Italian: somatico (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: somatisk

  Nynorsk: somatisk

• Spanish: somático (es)
• Swedish: somatisk (sv)

Anagrams

• atomics, osmatic

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French somatique.

Adjective

somatic m or n (feminine singular somatică, masculine plural somatici, feminine/neuter plural somatice)

1. somatic

Declension

Declension of somatic

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	somatic		somatică	somatici	somatice
	definite	somaticul		somatica	somaticii	somaticele
genitive- dative	indefinite	somatic		somatice	somatici	somatice
	definite	somaticului		somaticei	somaticilor	somaticelor