Where does “ατομικός” come from?
ατομικός (Greek) comes from French personnel, from Old French personel, from Latin persōnālis, from Latin persōna, from Etruscan 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖, from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον, from Ancient Greek ὤψ, from Proto-Hellenic ókʷs — to see; eye.
ατομικός (Greek): personal, individual
Definitions
- personal, individual
Ancestry of “ατομικός”, step by step
ατομικός traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via French personnel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | personnel | personal; staff, members of staff, personnel |
| 2 | Old French | personel | personal |
| 3 | Latin | persōnālis | personal; of or belonging to a person |
| 4 | Latin | persōna | mask |
| 5 | Etruscan | 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 | a mask; a masked individual, often performing in... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | πρόσωπον | face, visage, countenance; front; mask |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | ὤψ | to the eye; in the face; eye |
| 8 | Proto-Hellenic | ókʷs | eye |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ókʷs | eye |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ekʷ- | to see; eye |
via French atomique
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | atomique | atomic |
| 2 | French | atome | atom; scrap, jot, iota, whit |
| 3 | Middle French | athome | atom |
| 4 | Latin | atomus | indivisible; an atom, particle incapable of being... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | ἄτομος | uncut; indivisible, not capable of being... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | ἀ- | The alpha privativum, used to make words that... |
| 7 | Proto-Hellenic | hə- | same; together |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | sm̥- | one; with, together |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | sem- | together, one |