English
absorptiometer
Absorptiometer comes from Ancient Greek μέτρον ‘something used to measure: measure, rule, weight’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*meh₁-‘to measure’reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμέτρονmétron‘something used to measure: measure, rule, weight’
- Englishtodayabsorptiometer
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*meh₁-‘to measure’reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμέτρονmétron‘something used to measure: measure, rule, weight’
- Englishtodayabsorptiometer
A compound of absorption + -ometer ‘measure’
Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ- ‘to sip, gulp, suck (in)’
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Proto-Italic *sorβeō ‘to suck in’
Latin sorbeō ‘to suck in, drink up’
Latin absorbeō ‘absorb’
Latin absorptiō ‘a sucking in’
English absorption
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- ‘to measure’
month, moon, measure, meal, moral, sunny, dimensional, dimension, immense, moody, meta, mesa, geometric, menstrual, symmetric, commensurate, mensa, centimetre, firman, menses, moodiness, mete, metis, 60 more
through Ancient Greek μέτρον ‘something used to measure: measure, rule, weight’
metric, metre, parameter, asymmetry, madder, metrology, metra, 43 more
Today it means
noun An instrument that computes the absorption rate by measuring the pressure of the gas; a colorimeter for liquids.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- / absorptiometer