Where does “bűvös négyzet” come from?
bűvös négyzet (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian négyzet, from Hungarian négy, from Hungarian dimenziós, from Hungarian dimenzió, from Latin dimensio, from Latin -tiō, from Latin dissertātiō, from Latin dissertus — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
bűvös négyzet (Hungarian): magic square an n-by-n arrangement of n2 numbers such that the numbers in each row, in each column and along both diagonals all have the same sum
Definitions
- magic square an n-by-n arrangement of n2 numbers such that the numbers in each row, in each column and along both diagonals all have the same sum
Ancestry of “bűvös négyzet”, step by step
bűvös négyzet traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian négyzet
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | négyzet | square |
| 2 | Hungarian | négy | four |
| 3 | Hungarian | dimenziós | dimensional |
| 4 | Hungarian | dimenzió | dimension |
| 5 | Latin | dimensio | measuring; measurement; dimension |
| 6 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 7 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 8 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 9 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 10 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 11 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 12 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 13 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |