Etymograph

English

kata thermometer

Kata thermometer comes from Ancient Greek κατά ‘down’, and goes back to Proto-Hellenic *kətá.

  1. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*kətáreconstructed
  2. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEκατάkatá‘down’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2003kata thermometer

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*kətáreconstructed
  2. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEκατάkatá‘down’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2003kata thermometer

Earliest quotation: 2003, Kenneth C. Parsons, Human Thermal Environments: The Effects of Hot: “The Kata thermometer (Hill et al., 1916), for example,…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm ‘beside, with’

among, conference, consider, gain, competition, consistent, counter, con, concrete, cum, comply, cue, commodity, compulsory, hind, likeness, contra, compel, concierge, connotation, condiment, condescend, limbed, 33 more

Today it means

noun A device consisting principally of an alcohol thermometer, used to measure air cooling power and, indirectly, small wind speeds in circulating air, by measuring the time taken for the temperature of the bulb of alcohol to make a specified drop (100° to 95°F).

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Etymograph / Proto-Hellenic *kətá / kata thermometer

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