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

  1. 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

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishstereographyAny technique for representing solid objects in...
2EnglishstereoA system of recording or reproducing sound that...
3EnglishstereotypeA conventional, formulaic, and often...
4FrenchstéréotypeA stereotype, as in conventional, formulaic, and...
5Frenchtypetype; sort, kind; guy, bloke, man; typeface
6Latintypusfigure, image; type, form, sort, kind; form,...
7Ancient GreekτύποςA blow, pressing; The results of a blow: mark,...
8Ancient Greekτύπτωto beat, strike, smite; to beat, strike oneself
9Proto-Indo-European(s)tewp-to push, to stick
10Proto-Indo-European(s)tew-to push, to hit

via English raster

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishrasterA scanning pattern of parallel lines that form...
2GermanRasterraster; framework, schema
3Latinrasterto scrape
4Latinrāstrumrake, hoe, mattock
5Latin-trumforming instrument nouns
6Proto-Italic-tromsuffix forming instrument nouns from verbs
7Proto-Indo-European-tromForms nouns denoting a tool or instrument
8Proto-Indo-European-tḗrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)tew-