Learned borrowing fromLatingermānicus, equivalent toGerman +-ic.
Germanic
- (linguistics) The early, undocumented ancestral language from which other Germanic languages developed, such asAfrikaans,Danish,Dutch,Frisian,English,German,Faroese,Icelandic,Yiddish,Norwegian andSwedish.
- Synonyms:Ur-Germanic,Proto-Germanic,Common Germanic
2017 April 5, Emily Dreyfuss, “That Cool Dialect on The Expanse Mashes Up 6 Languages”, inWIRED[1], archived fromthe original on25 January 2022:Belter is composed mainly of Chinese, Japanese, Slavic,Germanic, and romance languages because Earth's most common tongues would be the ones to survive to form the new brogue of the cosmos.
- (linguistics) The group ofIndo-European languages that developed from (Ur-)Germanic.
group of Indo-European languages
Germanic (comparativemoreGermanic,superlativemostGermanic)
- Relating to the Germanic peoples (such as Germans, Scandinavians orAnglo-Saxons).
aGermanic tribe
- (linguistics) Relating to the language or group of languages known as Germanic.
- Synonyms:Teutonic;see alsoThesaurus:Germanic language
aGermanic language
1945,E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, inThe Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire:Clarendon Press,→OCLC, page xii:Sanskrit, Greek, Slavonic,Germanic, and Celtic names were all of this type, but there are also shorter names formed from the compound ones;[…].
- (sometimes proscribed) HavingGerman characteristics.
- Synonyms:German,Teutonic
He arrived withGermanic punctuality.
relating to the Germanic peoples
relating to the language or group of languages known as Germanic
having German characteristics
Germanic (pluralGermanics)
- (history) Anative ofGermania.
- Synonym:Germanian