angelic

See also: Angelic, and angèlic

English

Alternative forms

• angelick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English angelik, aungillik, aungellike, (also angellich, aungellich > English angelly), from Old English anġelīċ, engellīċ, englelīċ, coalescing with Old French angélique, from Latin angelicus, from Ancient Greek ἀγγελικός (angelikós, “of or for a messenger”), from ἄγγελος (ángelos, “angel”). Equivalent to angel +‎ -ic. Doublet of angelique (“plant of the genus Angelica”) and angélique (“plucked bowl lute”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ăn-jĕlʹ-ĭk, IPA^(key): /ænˈd͡ʒɛlɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlɪk

Adjective

angelic (comparative more angelic, superlative most angelic)

1. Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel.
2. Very sweet-natured or well-behaved.

   an angelic child

3. (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to angelic acid.

   an angelic ester

4. (topology) A regular Hausdorff space is said to be angelic if the closure of each relatively countably compact set A is compact and the closure consists of the limits of sequences in A.

Synonyms

• (belonging to, proceeding from, or resembling an angel): angelical, angellike, angelly, heavenly, divine

Derived terms

• angelate
• angelically
• angelicize
• angelicness
• angelic non-determinism
• angelic salutation
• fallen angelic
• nonangelic
• overangelic
• superangelic
• unangelic

 

Translations

belonging to, proceeding from, or resembling an angel

• Armenian: հրեշտակային (hy) (hreštakayin)
• Asturian: anxélicu, anxelical
• Catalan: angèlic, angelical
• Czech: andělský (cs) m
• Dutch: engelachtig (nl)
• Esperanto: anĝela
• Estonian: ingellik
• Finnish: enkelimäinen (fi)
• French: angélique (fr)
• Galician: anxélico, anxelical
• German: engelhaft (de)
• Greek: αγγελικός (el) (angelikós)

  Ancient: ἀγγελικός (angelikós)

• Hebrew: מַלְאָכִי (he) m (mal'achí)
• Hungarian: angyali (hu)
• Icelandic: englalegur (is)
• Irish: ainglí
• Italian: angelico (it)
• Latin: angelicus
• Latvian: eņģelisks
• Macedonian: ангелски m (angelski)
• Occitan: angelic (oc)
• Polish: anielski (pl), angeliczny
• Portuguese: angélico (pt), angelical (pt)
• Romanian: îngeresc (ro), angelic (ro)
• Russian: а́нгельский (ru) (ángelʹskij)
• Scots: aungelic
• Scottish Gaelic: aingealach, àingleach, ainglidh, ainglidheach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: анђеоски

  Roman: anđeoski (sh)

• Spanish: angélico, angelical

Anagrams

• Galenic, galenic

Old English

Adjective

anġelīċ

1. Alternative form of enġellīċ

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French angélique, from Latin angelicus.

Adjective

angelic m or n (feminine singular angelică, masculine plural angelici, feminine and neuter plural angelice)

1. angelic

Declension

Declension of angelic

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	angelic		angelică	angelici	angelice
	definite	angelicul		angelica	angelicii	angelicele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	angelic		angelice	angelici	angelice
	definite	angelicului		angelicei	angelicilor	angelicelor