Where does “Medizintechnik” come from?
Medizintechnik (German) comes from German Technik, from French technique, from Latin technicus, from Ancient Greek τεχνικός, from Ancient Greek τέχνη, from Ancient Greek -λογία, from Ancient Greek λόγος, from Ancient Greek λέγω — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
Medizintechnik (German): medical technology / engineering
Definitions
- medical technology / engineering
Ancestry of “Medizintechnik”, step by step
Medizintechnik traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Technik
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Technik | technique; technology |
| 2 | French | technique | technical; technique, technology |
| 3 | Latin | technicus | technical |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | τεχνικός | technical; artistic, skillful; of or pertaining... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | τέχνη | craft, skill, trade; art; cunning, wile |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -λογία | Base for nouns denoting the study of something,... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | λόγος | That which is said: word, sentence, speech,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | λέγω | I put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |
via German Medizin
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Medizin | medicine |
| 2 | Latin | medicīna | medicine, remedy, cure |
| 3 | Latin | medicus | healing, curative, medical; magic; a doctor,... |
| 4 | Latin | medeor | I heal, cure, remedy, am good for or against a... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | medēōr | heal |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | med- | to measure; to give advice; healing |