Where does “antisymmetric” come from?
Antisymmetric comes from English symmetric via Latin symmetria and Ancient Greek συμ- (from σύν, meaning "with") combined with μέτρον (meaning "measure"), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European roots sem- and -trom.
antisymmetric (English): Having the property that, for any two distinct...
Definitions
- Having the property that, for any two distinct...
Ancestry of “antisymmetric”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | symmetric | Symmetrical; Of a relation "R" on a set "S", such... |
| 2 | English | symmetry | Exact correspondence on either side of a dividing... |
| 3 | Latin | symmetria | symmetry, proportion |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | συμμετρία | commensurability; symmetry, due proportion; a... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | σύμμετρος | symmetrical |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | μέτρον | something used to measure: measure, rule, weight;... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -τρον | Forms instrument nouns |
| 8 | Proto-Hellenic | -tron | Forms instrument nouns from verb stems |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -trom | Forms nouns denoting a tool or instrument |
Words derived from “antisymmetric”