Where does “електротехника” come from?
електротехника (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Russian те́хника, from German Technik, from French technique, from Latin technicus, from Ancient Greek τεχνικός, from Ancient Greek τέχνη, from Ancient Greek -λογία, from Ancient Greek λόγος — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
електротехника (Serbo-Croatian): electrical engineering
Definitions
- electrical engineering
Ancestry of “електротехника”, step by step
електротехника traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Russian те́хника
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | те́хника | technics |
| 2 | German | Technik | technique; technology |
| 3 | French | technique | technical; technique, technology |
| 4 | Latin | technicus | technical |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | τεχνικός | technical; artistic, skillful; of or pertaining... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | τέχνη | craft, skill, trade; art; cunning, wile |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -λογία | Base for nouns denoting the study of something,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | λόγος | That which is said: word, sentence, speech,... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | λέγω | I put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |
via Macedonian техника
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Macedonian | техника | technique |
via Serbo-Croatian тѐхника
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Serbo-Croatian | тѐхника | — |