Where does “prisma” come from?

prisma (Latin) comes from Ancient Greek πρίσμα, from Ancient Greek -μᾰ, from Proto-Indo-European -mn̥ — Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs.

prisma (Latin): prism

Definitions

  1. prism

Ancestry of “prisma”, step by step

prisma traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Ancient Greek πρίσμα

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ancient GreekπρίσμαAnything sawn, sawdust; A prism
2Ancient Greek-μᾰ"suffix forming a noun denoting the result of an...
3Proto-Indo-European-mn̥Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs

via Ancient Greek πρίσμᾰ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ancient Greekπρίσμᾰanything sawn
2Ancient Greekπρίζω—

Words derived from “prisma”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -mn̥ →Every word from Ancient Greek -μᾰ →Every word from Ancient Greek πρίσμα →