Where does “technician” come from?
Technician comes from English technic, from Latin -ianus, from Latin -ius, from Latin -um, from Latin -us, from Proto-Indo-European -yós, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós.
technician (English): A person who studies or practises technology
Definitions
- A person who studies or practises technology
Ancestry of “technician”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | technic | The method of performance in any art; technique;... |
| 2 | Latin | technicus | technical |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | τεχνικός | technical; artistic, skillful; of or pertaining... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | τέχνη | craft, skill, trade; art; cunning, wile |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | -λογία | Base for nouns denoting the study of something,... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | λόγος | That which is said: word, sentence, speech,... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | λέγω | I put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |