Where does “stratosphere” come from?
Stratosphere comes from French stratosphère, combining French strate (layer) with French -sphère from Latin sphera, ultimately from Ancient Greek σφαῖρα meaning ball or sphere.
stratosphere (English): Collectively, those layers of the Earth’s crust...
Definitions
- Collectively, those layers of the Earth’s crust...
Ancestry of “stratosphere”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | stratosphère | stratosphere |
| 2 | French | -sphère | -sphere |
| 3 | Late Latin | sphera | Alternative form of sphaera |
| 4 | Latin | sphaera | ball, globe, sphere; a globe of the heavens; a... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | σφαῖρα | ball, globe, sphere |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -ειδής | like, connected to, from the nature of, full of;... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -ής | adjective suffix |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -ēs | Primarily forms adjectival bahuvrīhi compounds |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -ess | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -os | Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs;... |
Words derived from “stratosphere”