of or relating to the Teutons or their languages.
of, relating to, or noting the Germanic branch of languages.
a branch of the Indo-European family of languages including German, Dutch, English, the Scandinavian languages, Afrikaans, Flemish, Frisian, and the extinct Gothic language. Gmc, Gmc.
an ancient Indo-European language, the immediate linguistic ancestor of the Germanic languages. Gmc, Gmc.
Gmc. a branch of the Indo-European family of languages that includes English, Dutch, German, the Scandinavian languages, and Gothic See East Germanic West Germanic North Germanic
the unrecorded language from which all of these languages developed; Proto-Germanic
of, denoting, or relating to this group of languages
of, relating to, or characteristic of Germany, the German language, or any people that speaks a Germanic language
First recorded in 1885–90; german(ium) + -ic
First recorded in 1625–35; from Latin Germānicus “pertaining to Germany or the Germans”; see origin at German, -ic
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The style blends Iranian, Greco-Roman, Germanic and Asian influences into a coherent visual language whose motifs persist even as meanings alter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
"It's a remarkable mixture - a vessel from the southern, classical world containing the remains of a very northern, very Germanic cremation," she said.
From BBC • May 20, 2025
“I have joked — and it’s not a bad comp — that we’re reaching for Merchant/Ivory doing Hammer Horror,” says Eggers, who staged a version of the Germanic “Dracula” doppelgänger in high school.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2024
So they replaced it with a Germanic “sun wheel” or a Sig rune.
From Salon • Dec. 22, 2023
One is dbghem, meaning earth; this became guman in Germanic, gumen in Old English, then homo and humanus in Latin, from which we have both “human” and “humus.”
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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