Where does “スカラー” come from?
スカラー (Japanese) comes from English scalar, from Latin scālāris, from Latin scāla, from Latin scandere, from Latin scandō, from Proto-Indo-European sḱend-.
スカラー (Japanese): scalar
Ancestry of “スカラー”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | scalar | Having magnitude but not direction; Consisting of... |
| 2 | Latin | scālāris | — |
| 3 | Latin | scāla | — |
| 4 | Latin | scandere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 5 | Latin | scandō | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | sḱend- | — |