Where does “microporous” come from?
Microporous derives from English micro- combined with porous, which comes from Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος meaning a passage or pore.
microporous (English): Having pores of a size less than 2 nanometres
Definitions
- Having pores of a size less than 2 nanometres
Ancestry of “microporous”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | porous | Full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to... |
| 2 | Old French | poros | — |
| 3 | Latin | porus | pore, passage in the body; tufa |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | πόρος | a means of passage, passageway, way, opening;... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | πείρω | I pierce, run through; I cleave through |
| 6 | Proto-Hellenic | *péryō | — |
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