Etymograph

English

Rhazes

Rhazes comes from Latin Rhazes.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CERhazes
  2. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CERhazes
  2. Englishtodaysame form

The story

From Latin Rhazes, from Arabic اَلرَّازِي (ar-rāzī), from Persian رازی (râzi), a surname meaning from Ray.

Today it means

name A Persian polymath and physician of the eighth and ninth centuries; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Rāzī.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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