haptic
Meaningof touch
Common meaning: relating to touch
- haptto fasten; to touchLiddell & Scott, Greek-English Lexicon (1883), p. 209 · scan
- icadjective ending: relating to
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Greek ἅπτω ‘to fasten; to touch’.
Roots
- ἅπτω Greek “to fasten; to touch”
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