Where does “mnemotehnică” come from?

mnemotehnică (Romanian) comes from French mnémotechnique, from French mnémotechnie, from English mnemo-, from Ancient Greek μνήμη, from Ancient Greek -μή, from Ancient Greek -μός, from Proto-Indo-European -mós — Creates action/result nouns from verb stems.

mnemotehnică (Romanian): mnemonics

Definitions

  1. mnemonics

Ancestry of “mnemotehnică”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmnémotechniquemnemonic
2Frenchmnémotechniemnemotechny
3Englishmnemo-memory
4Ancient GreekμνήμηMemory, remembrance
5Ancient Greek-μήsuffix forming action/result nouns from verb stems
6Ancient Greek-μόςForms abstract nouns
7Proto-Indo-European-mósCreates action/result nouns from verb stems
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -mósEvery word from Ancient Greek -μόςEvery word from Ancient Greek -μή