gerontocentric etymology

English word gerontocentric comes from English -centric, English geronto- (Pertaining to old age or those of old age.)

Detailed word origin of gerontocentric

Dictionary entryLanguageDefinition
-centric English (eng) Having a specified number of centres. Having a specified object at the centre, or as the focus of attention.
geronto- English (eng) Pertaining to old age or those of old age.
gerontocentric English (eng) Centered around old people.

Words with the same origin as gerontocentric

Descendants of -centric
Afrocentrically Americentric Christocentric Danocentric Hibernocentric Scotocentric Swedocentric acrocentric androcentric autocentric ciscentric cybercentric egocentric endocentricity excentric heterocentric holocentric idiocentric jovicentric lipocentric matricentric metrocentric nucleocentric omphalocentric somatocentric
Descendants of geronto-
biogerontology geronticide gerontocide gerontocracy gerontogene gerontolatry gerontological gerontologist gerontology gerontomorphosis gerontophagy gerontophile gerontophilia gerontophobe gerontosexuality gerontotherapeutic gerontotherapy psychogerontology sociogerontology