Etymograph

English

geopotential

From geo- + potential.

A compound of geo- + potential

Proto-Hellenic *gaya

Ancient Greek γῆ ‘earth’

English geo-

Latin potens ‘powerful’

Latin potentia ‘power’

Late Latin potentialis ‘force’

English potential

Today it means

noun The work that must be done at a given altitude in raising a unit mass from sea level to that altitude against the earth's gravitational field.

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