English
Fortran
A variant capitalization of FORTRAN (formally adopted with Fortran 90 in 1991), a blend of formula + translator or formula + translation.
A blend of formula + translator
Latin trānsferō ‘carry across’
Latin trānslātus ‘carried across’
Latin trānslātor ‘transferrer’
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The story
A variant capitalization of FORTRAN (formally adopted with Fortran 90 in 1991), a blend of formula + translator or formula + translation.
Today it means
name A high-level programming language first developed in the 1950s for scientific, engineering, and numerical computation.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Fortran