Etymograph

English

electrolocation

From electro- + location.

A compound of electro- + location

Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον ‘amber’

French electrum

French électro-

English electro-

Latin locus ‘a place’

Latin locō ‘to place’

Latin locātiō ‘a placing’

English location

Today it means

noun the ability of an animal to detect an object by its distortion of the animal's electric field, as in the electric fishes such as the electric eel.

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

Etymograph / electrolocation