English

hexapole

From hexa- + pole.

Formed from hexa- + pole

Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs ‘six’

Proto-Hellenic *hwéks ‘six’

Ancient Greek ἕξ ‘six’

English hexa-

Latin pālus ‘stake, pale, prop, stay’

Proto-West Germanic *pālu ‘pole, stake’

Proto-West Germanic *pāl

Old English pāl ‘a pole, stake, post’

Middle English pole ‘pole, stake, staff’

English pole

Today it means

noun Anything having six poles or electrodes

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

Etymograph / hexapole