English
lysocline
Lysocline comes from Ancient Greek λύσις ‘loosening, breaking loose’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- ‘to cut off, separate, free’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lewh₁-‘to cut off, separate, free’reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλύω‘loosen’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEλύσιςlúsis‘loosening, breaking loose’
- Englishearliest quotation 2009lysocline
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lewh₁-‘to cut off, separate, free’reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλύω‘loosen’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEλύσιςlúsis‘loosening, breaking loose’
- Englishearliest quotation 2009lysocline
Earliest quotation: 2009, R. W. Wilson et al., Contribution of Fish to the Marine Inorganic Carbon Cycle: “The causes of CaCO₃ dissolution above the lysocline are…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- ‘to cut off, separate, free’
so, lose, solution, solve, lease, sol, soluble, resolute, loess, 29 more
through Ancient Greek λύω ‘loosen’
analysis, analyst, palsy, paralysis, dialysis, paralyze, paralytic, lysis, 14 more
Today it means
noun The depth in the ocean below which solubility of calcium carbonate (CaCO₃) increases dramatically.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- / lysocline