Etymograph

English

implicational

Implicational comes from Latin implicātiōnem.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimplicātiōnem1
  2. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600implication1
  3. English1500–presentimplication1
  4. Englishtodayimplicational1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English implicational

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimplicātiōnemWiktionary, English implicational
  2. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600implicationWiktionary, English implicational
  3. English1500–presentimplicationWiktionary, English implicational
  4. EnglishtodayimplicationalWiktionary, English implicational

A compound of plicō ‘to fold, bend or flex’ + implicō ‘to entangle, entwine’

Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- ‘to fold, plait, weave’

Latin plicō ‘to fold, bend or flex’

Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- ‘to fold, plait, weave’

Latin plicō ‘to fold, bend or flex’

Latin implicō ‘to entangle, entwine’

Every English word from Latin implicātiōnem

Today it means

adj Of or pertaining to logical implication.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “implicational”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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