coadapt

coadapt

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin co-der.
English co-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Italic *aptos
Latin aptus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin apiō
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Latin -ō
Latin -tō
Latin aptō
Latin adaptōder.
Middle English *adapten
English adapt
English coadapt

    From co- +‎ adapt.

    Verb

    coadapt (third-person singular simple present coadapts, present participle coadapting, simple past and past participle coadapted)

    1. To adapt together.
      • 2013 March 4, Luis P Villarreal, Guenther Witzany, “The DNA Habitat and its RNA Inhabitants: At the Dawn of RNA Sociology”, in Genomics Insights‎[1], volume 6, →DOI:
        Such networks determine regulation complexity in various ways and may coadapt to different functions than they originally evolved for.
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