Etymograph

English

manograph

Manograph comes from Ancient Greek μανός ‘thin, rare’.

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμανόςmanós‘thin, rare’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1909manograph

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμανόςmanós‘thin, rare’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1909manograph

Earliest quotation: 1909, Minutes of Proceedings of the Institutio: “In addition to the ordinary type of indicator, the…”

Formed from -graph

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *men- ‘small’

money, music, mind, amount, comment, mental, mouth, mention, mountain, museum, remain, monster, auto, mount, min, monitor, permanent, monetary, demonstration, mentor, monk, mint, monument, dementia, monte, imminent, maya, monastery, amnesty, muse, mosaic, eminent, summon, menace, ming, prominence, mont, muster, monstrous, amnesia, 127 more

Today it means

noun An optical device for making pressure volume diagrams for high-speed engines, involving a light-tight box or camera having at one end a small convex mirror reflecting a beam of light onto the ground glass or photographic plate at the other end. The mirror is pivoted so that it can be moved so as to copy the motion of the engine piston on a smaller scale.

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Etymograph / Ancient Greek μανός / manograph

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