Where does “analog” come from?

analog (Romanian) comes from French analogue, from Latin analogus, from Ancient Greek ἀνάλογος, from Ancient Greek -λόγος, from Ancient Greek -ός, from Proto-Hellenic *-os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

analog (Romanian): analogue

Definitions

  1. analogue

Ancestry of “analog”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchanalogueanalogous
2Latinanalogusanalogous, proportionate
3Ancient Greekἀνάλογοςproportionate
4Ancient Greek-λόγοςword, speech; one who speaks; word, knowledge,...
5Ancient Greek-όςForms agentive or patientive adjectives and nouns from the o-grade of a verbal root
6Proto-Hellenic*-os
7Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ósEvery word from Ancient Greek -όςEvery word from Ancient Greek -λόγος