Where does “analyze” come from?
Analyze comes from French analyser, derived from French analyse, from Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις meaning a breaking up or loosening, itself from ἀνά meaning up or back and a root from Proto-Indo-European h₂en-.
analyze (English): To subject to analysis; To resolve into its...
Definitions
- To subject to analysis; To resolve into its...
Ancestry of “analyze”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | analyser | to analyse; to parse, to construe |
| 2 | French | analyse | analysis; first-person singular present... |
| 3 | Medieval Latin | analysis | analysis |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | ἀνάλυσις | a loosing, releasing; a dissolving, resolution of... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | ἀναλύω | to unloose, release, set free; I unravel,... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | ἀνά | on board; on, upon |
| 7 | Proto-Hellenic | *aná | up, upon |