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analysis
Analysis comes from Medieval Latin analysis, from Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις, from ἀναλύω ‘to unravel, investigate’ (ἀνα- + λύω ‘to loosen’).
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλύωlúō‘to loosen’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEἀναλύωanalúō‘to unravel, investigate’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEἀνάλυσιςanálusis‘a loosing, releasing’
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500analysis
- Englishearliest quotation 1981analysis
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
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- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλύωlúō‘to loosen’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEἀναλύωanalúō‘to unravel, investigate’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEἀνάλυσιςanálusis‘a loosing, releasing’
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500analysis
- Englishearliest quotation 1981analysis
Earliest quotation: 1981, Gary Ralph, Shake 'N' Bake Sexology: “The "Homosexuals" chapter gets off to a brisk start…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- ‘to cut off, release’
so, lose, solution, solve, lease, sol, soluble, resolute, loess, 32 more
through Ancient Greek λύω ‘to loosen’
Today it means
noun Decomposition into components in order to study (a complex thing, concept, theory, etc.).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek λύω / analysis