eccentrically
English
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs
Proto-Hellenic *eks
Ancient Greek ἐκ (ek)
Ancient Greek ἐκ- (ek-)
Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-der.
Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron)
Medieval Latin eccentricusder.
English eccentric
English eccentrically
Adverb
eccentrically (comparative more eccentrically, superlative most eccentrically)
- In an eccentric manner.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- The face which emerged was not reassuring. […]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.
Derived terms
Translations
in an eccentric manner
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