
English word synthetic comes from Ancient Greek (to 1453) συνθετικός, and later French synthétique (Synthetic.)
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συνθετικός (Ancient Greek)
synthétique (French)
Synthetic.
synthetic (English)
(chemistry) Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained).. (grammar) Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word. Compare analytic.. (linguistics) Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to indicate syntactic relationships. Compare analytic.. Artificial, not [...]