troglodytic
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin troglodyticus, Ancient Greek τρωγλοδυτικός (trōglodutikós, “of cave-/hole-dwellers”) from τρωγλοδύτης (trōglodútēs, “cave-/hole-dweller”) from τρώγλη (trṓglē, “hole”) + δύω (dúō, “enter, go into”), equivalent to troglodyte + -ic.
Adjective
[edit]troglodytic (comparative more troglodytic, superlative most troglodytic)
- Of or pertaining to troglodytes, or dwellers in caves.
- Synonym: troglodytish
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- Foremost of all, of course, were the sight of the fiery caves and the certainty that some troglodytic race inhabited them.