Where does “nanodevice” come from?

nanodevice (English) comes from English nano-, from Latin nānus, from Ancient Greek νᾶνος — dwarf.

nanodevice (English): Any manufactured device whose scale is measured...

Definitions

  1. Any manufactured device whose scale is measured...

Ancestry of “nanodevice”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishnano-API; In the International System of Units and...
2Latinnānusdwarf
3Ancient Greekνᾶνοςdwarf
Every word from Ancient Greek νᾶνος →