Where does “radiometric” come from?
Radiometric comes from English radiometry, composed of English -metry (from Ancient Greek μέτρον meaning "measure") and English -y, tracing back through Latin -ia and -ivus formations.
radiometric (English): Referring to the science of radiometry
Definitions
- Referring to the science of radiometry
Ancestry of “radiometric”, step by step
radiometric traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish radiometria
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | radiometria | radiometry |
| 2 | Finnish | radio | radio; radio- |
| 3 | Swedish | radio | radio; radio; receiver |
| 4 | English | radio | The technology that allows for the transmission... |
| 5 | English | radiotelegraphy | The process and techniques of sending telegrams... |
| 6 | English | telegraphy | communication at a distance by means of the... |
| 7 | English | Telegraph | any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code |
| 8 | French | télégraphe | telegraph |
| 9 | French | télé- | tele- |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | τῆλε | far off, afar, far away |
| 11 | Latin | commūnicāre | — |
| 12 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 13 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 18 | Middle English | kyt | — |
via French radiométrique
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | radiométrique | radiometric |
| 2 | French | -métrique | -metric |
| 3 | Latin | metricus | metrical; metric, metrical; metric |
| 4 | Latin | metrum | a measure |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | μέτρον | something used to measure: measure, rule, weight;... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -τρον | Forms instrument nouns |
| 7 | Proto-Hellenic | -tron | Forms instrument nouns from verb stems |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -trom | Forms nouns denoting a tool or instrument |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tḗr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
via English radiometry
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | radiometry | The branch of science that deals with the... |
| 2 | English | -metry | Forming nouns relating to measures and... |
| 3 | Old French | -métrie | — |