English
glycosometer
Glycosometer comes from Ancient Greek μέτρον ‘something used to measure: measure, rule, weight’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*meh₁-‘to measure’reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμέτρονmétron‘something used to measure: measure, rule, weight’
- Englishtodayglycosometer
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*meh₁-‘to measure’reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμέτρονmétron‘something used to measure: measure, rule, weight’
- Englishtodayglycosometer
A compound of glycose + -ometer
Proto-Hellenic *dlukús
Ancient Greek γλῠκῠ́ς ‘sweet’
Ancient Greek γλεῦκος ‘sweet new wine, must’
French glucose
English glucose
English glycose
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- ‘to measure’
month, moon, measure, moral, meal, sunny, dimensional, dimension, immense, moody, meta, mesa, geometric, menstrual, symmetric, mensa, commensurate, centimetre, firman, menses, moodiness, metis, mete, 60 more
through Ancient Greek μέτρον ‘something used to measure: measure, rule, weight’
metric, metre, parameter, asymmetry, madder, metrology, metra, 43 more
Today it means
noun A medical instrument for determining the amount of sugar in diabetic urine.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- / glycosometer