Where does “prisma” come from?

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

prisma (Spanish): prism; viewpoint, point of view, standpoint

Definitions

  1. prism; viewpoint, point of view, standpoint

Ancestry of “prisma”, step by step

prisma traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin prisma

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinprismaprism
2Ancient GreekπρίσμαAnything sawn, sawdust; A prism
3Ancient Greek-μᾰ"suffix forming a noun denoting the result of an...
4Proto-Indo-European-mn̥Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs

via Late Latin prisma

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Late Latinprismaprism

Words derived from “prisma”

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