Where does “analogies” come from?
analogies (French) comes from French analogie, from Middle French analogie, from Latin analogia, from Ancient Greek ἀναλογία, from Ancient Greek ἀνάλογος, from Ancient Greek -λόγος, from Ancient Greek -ός, from Proto-Hellenic *-os — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
analogies (French): plural of analogie
Ancestry of “analogies”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | analogie | analogy |
| 2 | Middle French | analogie | analogy |
| 3 | Latin | analogia | analogy, similarity; ratio, proportion |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | ἀναλογία | mathematical proportion |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | ἀνάλογος | proportionate |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -λόγος | word, speech; one who speaks; word, knowledge,... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -ός | — |
| 8 | Proto-Hellenic | *-os | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |