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Where does “hydraulics” come from?

Hydraulics derives from English hydraulic, from Latin hydraulicus, from Ancient Greek ὑδραυλικός, from Ancient Greek ὕδραυλις, combining ὕδωρ water with a root meaning to draw or convey.

hydraulics (English): The engineering science that deals with practical...

Definitions

  1. The engineering science that deals with practical...

Ancestry of “hydraulics”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-icsForms nouns referring to fields of knowledge or...
2English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
3EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
4Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
5Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
6Spanishimagenimage
7Italianimmagineimage; imago
8Latinimāginem—
9Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
10Latinīn-—
11Latinîn—
12Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
13Proto-Italicenin
14Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “hydraulics”

  • electrohydraulics
  • thermohydraulics
  • psychohydraulics
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