English Explanatory Dictionary

adaptational

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Relating or pertaining to adaptation, or the adjustment of one thing to another; adaptive
  2. Applied to physiological or functional modifications of parts or organs, as distinguished from morphological or structural changes.

Word forms

adaptational

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Italic *aptos Latin aptus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin apiō ▲ Latin -ō Latin -tō Latin aptō Latin adaptō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Medieval Latin adaptātiōbor. French adaptationbor. English adaptation Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English adaptational From adaptation + -al.

Related words

adapt adaptability adaptable adaptableness adaptably adaptation adaptative adaptatively adaptativeness adaptedness adapter adaption adaptional adaptitude adaptive adaptively adaptiveness adaptly adaptness adaptorial

Derived words

adaptationally coadaptational photoadaptational polyadaptational
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