English
rhythmometer
Rhythmometer comes from Ancient Greek μέτρον ‘something used to measure: measure, rule, weight’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*meh₁-‘to measure’reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμέτρονmétron‘something used to measure: measure, rule, weight’
- Englishtodayrhythmometer
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*meh₁-‘to measure’reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμέτρονmétron‘something used to measure: measure, rule, weight’
- Englishtodayrhythmometer
A compound of rhythm + -ometer
Proto-Indo-European *srew- ‘to flow, stream’
Proto-Indo-European *sru-dʰ-mo-s
Proto-Hellenic *hrutʰmós
Ancient Greek ῥῠθμός ‘measured motion, rhythm’
Latin rhythmus
English rhythm
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- ‘to measure’
month, moon, measure, meal, moral, sunny, dimensional, dimension, immense, moody, meta, mesa, geometric, menstrual, symmetric, commensurate, mensa, centimetre, firman, menses, metis, moodiness, mete, 60 more
through Ancient Greek μέτρον ‘something used to measure: measure, rule, weight’
metric, metre, parameter, asymmetry, madder, metrology, metra, 43 more
Today it means
noun An instrument for marking time in music, e.g. a metronome.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- / rhythmometer