Where does “dianoetic” come from?
dianoetic (English) comes from Ancient Greek διανοητικός, from Ancient Greek διανοητός, from Ancient Greek διανοέομαι, from Ancient Greek νοέω, from Ancient Greek νόος, from Ancient Greek σφαῖρα, from Ancient Greek -ειδής, from Ancient Greek -ής — Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs;...
dianoetic (English): Pertaining to reason or thinking; intellectual
Definitions
- Pertaining to reason or thinking; intellectual
Ancestry of “dianoetic”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Ancient Greek | διανοητικός | pertaining to thinking |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | διανοητός | — |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | διανοέομαι | — |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | νοέω | to perceive, observe, see, notice; to think,... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | νόος | mind; an act of mind; the sense or meaning of a... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | σφαῖρα | ball, globe, sphere |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -ειδής | like, connected to, from the nature of, full of;... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -ής | adjective suffix |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -ēs | Primarily forms adjectival bahuvrīhi compounds |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -ess | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -os | Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs;... |
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