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English word synthetic comes from Ancient Greek (to 1453) συνθετικός, and later French synthétique (Synthetic.)

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 [...]

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