Where does “teknologiakritiikki” come from?
teknologiakritiikki (Finnish) comes from Finnish kritiikki, from Swedish kritik, from French critique, from New Latin critica, from Latin criticus, from Ancient Greek κριτικός, from Ancient Greek κρίσις, from Ancient Greek κρίνω — to sift, separate, divide.
teknologiakritiikki (Finnish): critique of technology, criticism of technology
Definitions
- critique of technology, criticism of technology
Ancestry of “teknologiakritiikki”, step by step
teknologiakritiikki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kritiikki
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kritiikki | criticism |
| 2 | Swedish | kritik | criticism |
| 3 | French | critique | critical; judgemental; criticism |
| 4 | New Latin | critica | critique; inflection of criticus: ##... |
| 5 | Latin | criticus | critical, decisive; a critic |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | κριτικός | Able to judge, discerning, critical; critic,... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | κρίσις | decision, determination, judgment; trial,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | κρίνω | To separate, divide, part, distinguish between... |
| 9 | Proto-Hellenic | kríňňō | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | krinyéti | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | krey- | to sift, separate, divide |
via Finnish teknologia
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | teknologia | technology; Partitive singular form of... |
| 2 | Finnish | tekno- | techno- |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | τέχνη | craft, skill, trade; art; cunning, wile |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | -λογία | Base for nouns denoting the study of something,... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | λόγος | That which is said: word, sentence, speech,... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | λέγω | I put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |