germanic

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: ger=man=ic

CIDE DICTIONARY

germanic, a. 

 Pertaining to, or containing, germanium.  [1913 Webster]

germanic, a. [L. Germanicus: cf. F. germanique. See German, n.].

•  Of or pertaining to Germany; as, the Germanic confederacy.  [1913 Webster]
•  Teutonic.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

germanic, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 having German characteristics.
2 hist. of the Germans.
3 of the Scandinavians, Anglo-Saxons, or Germans.
4 of the languages or language group called Germanic.
--n.
1 the branch of Indo-European languages including English, German, Dutch, and the Scandinavian languages.
2 the (unrecorded) early language from which other Germanic languages developed.

Idiom

East Germanic an extinct group including Gothic. North Germanic the Scandinavian languages. West Germanic a group including High and Low German, English, Frisian, and Dutch.

Etymology

L Germanicus (as GERMAN)

germanic, adj. Chem. of or containing germanium, esp. in its quadrivalent state.