plastic
PLAS-tik · adjective
Origin
From Latin plasticus, "of molding," itself borrowed from Ancient Greek plastikós, from plássō, "to mold, form."
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It's a doublet of plastique, meaning the two words descend from the same root but arrived in English by different paths.
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