English word climate comes from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-, Proto-Hellenic *klinō, and later French climat (Climate.)
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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*ḱley- | Proto-Indo-European (ine) | |
*klinō | Proto-Hellenic (grk-pro) | |
κλίνειν | Ancient Greek (grc) | |
κλίνω | Ancient Greek (grc) | |
κλίμα | Ancient Greek (grc) | |
clima | Latin (lat) | (Late Latin) climate, clime. (Late Latin, figuratively) region. (historical, _, units of measure) A Roman unit of area equivalent to a square with sides of 60 Roman feet.. (mathematics) slope, inclination. |
climat | French (fr) | Climate. |
climate | English (en) | (figuratively) The context in general of a particular political, moral etc. situation.. (obsolete) A region of the Earth.. (obsolete) An area of the earth's surface between two parallels of latitude.. The long-term manifestations of weather and other atmospheric conditions in a given area or country, now usually represented by the statistical summary of its weather conditions during a period [...] |