English
macroworldmacroworld
From macro- + world.
A compound of macro- + world
Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- ‘to increase’
Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós ‘lean, meager’
Proto-Hellenic *makrós
Ancient Greek μακρός ‘long’
English macro-
Proto-Germanic *weraldiz ‘lifetime’
Proto-West Germanic *weraldi
Old English weorold
Middle English world ‘the world’
English world
Today it means
noun A world or reality on a larger scale, thus for example the social scale when discussing individual affairs, or the human scale when discussing particle physics.
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Etymograph / macroworld
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