English

metaphysical

Metaphysical comes from Medieval Latin metaphysicālis.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

Earliest quotation: 1995, Julius Evola, Regality: “The roots of authority, on the contrary, always had…”

Mycenaean Greek Mycenaean Greek form

Ancient Greek μετά ‘in the midst of, among, between, with’

English meta-

Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- ‘to appear, become’

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Ancient Greek φυσικός ‘natural; physical’

Ancient Greek φυσική

Latin physica ‘study of nature’

Late Latin physicālis

Every English word from Medieval Latin metaphysicālis

adj Of or pertaining to metaphysics.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.