English
hadron
Hadron comes from Ancient Greek ἁδρός ‘thick’.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἁδρόςhadrós‘thick’
- Englishearliest quotation 1996hadron
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἁδρόςhadrós‘thick’
- Englishearliest quotation 1996hadron
Earliest quotation: 1996, J. R. Batley, Measurements of B Hadron Lifetimes at LEP: “The weak decays of b hadrons are dominated by…”
The story
Coined by Russian physicist Lev Okun in 1962 in a plenary talk at the International Conference on High Energy Physics.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- ‘to fill up, satiate, satisfy’
sad, insane, secular, sane, sanity, sanitary, saturation, insatiable, saturate, sade, satiety, satiate, 19 more
Today it means
noun A composite particle that comprises two or more quarks held together by the strong force and (consequently) can interact with other particles via said force; a meson or a baryon.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek ἁδρός / hadron