English

groupmind

From group + mind.

A compound of group + mind

Vulgar Latin *cruppus

Italian gruppo ‘a knot, heap, group’

French groupe ‘cluster, group’

English group

Proto-Indo-European *men- ‘to think’

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Proto-Germanic *mundiz ‘memory’

Proto-West Germanic *mundi

Old English mynd ‘mind’

Middle English minde

English mind

Today it means

noun A composite mind, the sum of several individual minds.

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

Etymograph / groupmind