Oryzic
/əˈrɪzɪk/noun
Relating to rice or to the genus Oryza.
Did you know?The scientific genus name Oryza preserves an ancient rice word that traveled through Greek and Latin before entering modern scientific English.
Etymological Timeline
Ancient Indo-Iranian
Sanskrit
vrīhí
“Rice; an early recorded form believed to be related to the wider rice-word family.”
Ancient Greek
Greek
ὄρυζα (óruza)
“Rice; the source of the scientific and classical European forms.”
Classical Latin
Latin
oryza
“Rice; a borrowing from Greek.”
13th–14th Century
Old French / Italian
ris / riso
“Rice; Romance descendants of Latin oryza.”
18th Century
English
Oryza
“The botanical genus containing cultivated rice.”
19th Century
Scientific English
oryzic
“Relating to rice, formed from Oryza with the adjective-forming suffix -ic.”