Adjective: pelitic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more pelitic |
| Superlative | most pelitic |
Sample Sentences
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Hostrock identified as quartzite may indicate silicification of pelitic country rock. [1998, Henry C. Berg, Bradfield Canal Quadrangle: Alaska Resource Data File, page 117:]
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pelitic schists
Adjectives inflected like pelitic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English pelite
3. Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
4. Proto-Italic *-ikos
5. Latin -icuslbor.
6. Old French -iquebor.
7. Middle English -ik
8. English -ic
9. English pelitic
10. From pelite + -ic.
Verbs referencing "pelitic"
Finnish Adjectives
peliittinen.