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Etymology

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

Adjective

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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

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French somatique.

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

  1. somatic

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