Where does “microanalyzer” come from?
microanalyzer (English) comes from English analyzer, from English analyze, from French analyser, from French analyse, from Medieval Latin analysis, from Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις, from Ancient Greek ἀναλύω, from Ancient Greek ἀνά.
microanalyzer (English): Any of many devices that are either very small...
Definitions
- Any of many devices that are either very small...
Ancestry of “microanalyzer”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | analyzer | an instrument for the analysis of something; a... |
| 2 | English | analyze | To subject to analysis; To resolve into its... |
| 3 | French | analyser | to analyse; to parse, to construe |
| 4 | French | analyse | analysis; first-person singular present... |
| 5 | Medieval Latin | analysis | analysis |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | ἀνάλυσις | a loosing, releasing; a dissolving, resolution of... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | ἀναλύω | to unloose, release, set free; I unravel,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | ἀνά | on board; on, upon |
| 9 | Proto-Hellenic | *aná | — |