somatic

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σωματικός (sōmatikós, “bodily”), σῶμα (sôma, “body”).

Adjective

somatic (not comparable)

1. Part of, or relating to the body of an organism.
   • 2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 116:

     The somatic and botanical metaphors in this passage were commonplace in the 1700s.

2. Pertaining, and restricted, to an individual; not inheritable.

   a somatic epitype

3. Of or relating to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal.

   the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo

Derived terms

• axosomatic
• cephalosomatic
• dendritosomatic
• dendrosomatic
• endosomatic
• exosomatic
• extrasomatic
• extra-somatic
• gonadosomatic
• hepatosomatic
• intersomatic
• intestosomatic
• intrasomatic
• leptosomatic
• liposomatic
• metasomatite
• monosomatic
• neurosomatic
• nonsomatic
• normosomatic
• organosomatic
• orthosomatic
• polysomatic
• psychosomatic
• sociosomatic
• somaesthetics
• somatical
• somatically
• somatic cell
• somaticism
• somaticize
• somatic nervous system
• somatic sensory cortex
• somatic symptom disorder
• somatize
• splenosomatic
• telesomatic
• tubulosomatic
• viscerosomatic

 

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *tewh₂-‎ (0 c, 47 e)

• somatoplasm

Translations

relating to the body of an organism

• Arabic: جَسَدِيّ m (jasadiyy)
• Bulgarian: телесен (bg) (telesen)
• Catalan: somàtic
• Czech: somatický (cs) m
• Finnish: somaattinen (fi)
• French: somatique (fr)
• German: somatisch (de)
• Italian: somatico (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: somatisk

  Nynorsk: somatisk

• Spanish: somático (es)
• Swedish: somatisk (sv)

Anagrams

• atomics, osmatic

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French somatique.

Adjective

somatic m or n (feminine singular somatică, masculine plural somatici, feminine and neuter plural somatice)

1. somatic

Declension

Declension of somatic

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	somatic		somatică	somatici	somatice
	definite	somaticul		somatica	somaticii	somaticele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	somatic		somatice	somatici	somatice
	definite	somaticului		somaticei	somaticilor	somaticelor