germanic

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Adjective, Noun
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ger=man=ic

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun germanic has 1 sense

Adjective germanic has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

germanica. 
     Pertaining to, or containing, germanium.  [1913 Webster]
germanica. [L. Germanicus: cf. F. germanique. See German, n.].
  •  Of or pertaining to Germany; as, the Germanic confederacy.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Teutonic.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

germanic, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 having German characteristics.
2 hist. of the Germans.
3 of the Scandinavians, Anglo-Saxons, or Germans.
4 of the languages or language group called Germanic.
--n.
1 the branch of Indo-European languages including English, German, Dutch, and the Scandinavian languages.
2 the (unrecorded) early language from which other Germanic languages developed.

Idiom
East Germanic an extinct group including Gothic. North Germanic the Scandinavian languages. West Germanic a group including High and Low German, English, Frisian, and Dutch.
Etymology
L Germanicus (as GERMAN)
germanic, adj. Chem. of or containing germanium, esp. in its quadrivalent state.


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