Where does “diagnostics” come from?
Diagnostics derives from English diagnostic, which comes from Modern Latin diagnosticus, from Greek diagnostikos meaning "able to distinguish," derived from diagignōskein meaning "to distinguish between."
diagnostics (English): plural of diagnostic; The process of determining...
Definitions
- plural of diagnostic; The process of determining...
Ancestry of “diagnostics”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | -ics | Forms nouns referring to fields of knowledge or... |
| 2 | English | -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 3 | English | image | An optical or other representation of a real... |
| 4 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 5 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 6 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 7 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 8 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 9 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 10 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 11 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 12 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |