Where does “rasterstereography” come from?
rasterstereography (English) comes from English stereography, from English stereo, from English stereotype, from French stéréotype, from French type, from Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος, from Ancient Greek τύπτω — to push, to hit.
rasterstereography (English): The three-dimensional measurement of body surfaces
Definitions
- The three-dimensional measurement of body surfaces
Ancestry of “rasterstereography”, step by step
rasterstereography traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English stereography
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | stereography | Any technique for representing solid objects in... |
| 2 | English | stereo | A system of recording or reproducing sound that... |
| 3 | English | stereotype | A conventional, formulaic, and often... |
| 4 | French | stéréotype | A stereotype, as in conventional, formulaic, and... |
| 5 | French | type | type; sort, kind; guy, bloke, man; typeface |
| 6 | Latin | typus | figure, image; type, form, sort, kind; form,... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | τύπος | A blow, pressing; The results of a blow: mark,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | τύπτω | to beat, strike, smite; to beat, strike oneself |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)tewp- | to push, to stick |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)tew- | to push, to hit |
via English raster
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | raster | A scanning pattern of parallel lines that form... |
| 2 | German | Raster | raster; framework, schema |
| 3 | Latin | raster | to scrape |
| 4 | Latin | rāstrum | rake, hoe, mattock |
| 5 | Latin | -trum | forming instrument nouns |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -trom | suffix forming instrument nouns from verbs |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -trom | Forms nouns denoting a tool or instrument |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tḗr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |