English
antiaccelerator
From anti- + accelerator.
A compound of anti- + acceleration + accelerate + -or + accelerator
Proto-Indo-European *kel- ‘to drive, particularly of animals’
Latin celer ‘fast, swift, quick, speedy, fleet’
Latin celerō ‘to quicken, accelerate’
Latin accelerō ‘hasten, accelerate’
Latin accelerātiō ‘a hastening’
English acceleration
Proto-Indo-European *kel- ‘to drive, particularly of animals’
Latin celer ‘fast, swift, quick, speedy, fleet’
Latin celerō ‘to quicken, accelerate’
Latin accelerō ‘hasten, accelerate’
Latin accelerātiō ‘a hastening’
English acceleration
English accelerate
Proto-Indo-European *kel- ‘to drive, particularly of animals’
Latin celer ‘fast, swift, quick, speedy, fleet’
Latin celerō ‘to quicken, accelerate’
Latin accelerō ‘hasten, accelerate’
Latin accelerātiō ‘a hastening’
English acceleration
English accelerate
English accelerator
Today it means
noun A substance having an antagonistic effect against an accelerator.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / antiaccelerator