Where does “metageometrician” come from?
metageometrician (English) comes from English geometrician, from English geometric, from French géométrique, from French géométrie, from Ancient Greek γεωμετρία, from Ancient Greek γεωμέτρης, from Ancient Greek γεω-, from Latin -logia — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
metageometrician (English): A geometrician whose speciality is non-Euclidean geometry
Definitions
- A geometrician whose speciality is non-Euclidean geometry
Ancestry of “metageometrician”, step by step
metageometrician traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English geometrician
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | geometrician | A geometer; a mathematician specializing in the... |
| 2 | English | geometric | Of or relating to geometry; Increasing or... |
| 3 | French | géométrique | geometric |
| 4 | French | géométrie | geometry |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | γεωμετρία | geometry, land-survey |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | γεωμέτρης | land measurer |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | γεω- | earth; earth- |
| 8 | Latin | -logia | -logy; the study of |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | -λογία | Base for nouns denoting the study of something,... |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | λόγος | That which is said: word, sentence, speech,... |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | λέγω | I put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |