megalithic

English

Etymology

PIE word
*méǵh₂s

From mega- (prefix meaning ‘very large, great’) +‎ -lith (suffix meaning ‘stone’) +‎ -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’, forming adjectives from nouns), probably modelled after monolithic;[1] according to the Oxford English Dictionary the word is first attested earlier than megalith.[2] It is analysable as megalith +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛɡəˈlɪθɪk/
Rhymes: -ɪθɪk
Hyphenation: meg‧a‧lith‧ic

Adjective

megalithic (not comparable)

Of or pertaining to megaliths, to the people who made them, or to the period when they were made.

Translations

of or pertaining to megaliths

Catalan: megalític (ca)
Finnish: megaliittinen
French: mégalithique (fr)
Galician: megalítico (gl)
Georgian: მეგალითური (megalituri)
Greek: μεγαλιθικός (el) (megalithikós)
Irish: meigiliteach
Italian: megalitico (it)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: megalittisk
Nynorsk: megalittisk
Spanish: megalítico (es)
Swedish: megalitisk
Ukrainian: мегаліти́чний (mehalitýčnyj)

References

Compare “megalithic, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “megalithic, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
“megalith, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “megalith, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.