Etymograph

English

analytic

Analytic comes from Ancient Greek ἀναλυτικός ‘analytical’, and goes back to ἀνᾰ́λῠσῐς.

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἀνᾰ́λῠσῐς‘analysis’
  2. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEἀναλυτικόςanalutikós‘analytical’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2021analytic

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἀνᾰ́λῠσῐς‘analysis’
  2. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEἀναλυτικόςanalutikós‘analytical’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2021analytic

Earliest quotation: 2021, Gessica Puccini, Lang Belta: the Belter language from SYFY/Amazon’s The Expan: “As for syntax and morphology, the Belter Creole can…”

Today it means

adj Of, or relating to any form of analysis, or to analytics.

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

Etymograph / Ancient Greek ἀνᾰ́λῠσῐς / analytic