Where does “technique” come from?
technique (French) comes from Latin technicus, from Ancient Greek τεχνικός, from Ancient Greek τέχνη, from Ancient Greek -λογία, from Ancient Greek λόγος, from Ancient Greek λέγω, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ- — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
technique (French): technical; technique, technology
Definitions
- technical; technique, technology
Ancestry of “technique”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | technicus | technical |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | τεχνικός | technical; artistic, skillful; of or pertaining... |
| 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... |