The story
- Ancient Greek · derived from’Ελεατικός
- Latin · borrowed fromEleāticus
- English todayEleatic
Borrowed from Latin Eleāticus, from Ancient Greek ’Ελεατικός (’Eleatikós), from Ἐλέα (Eléa, “Elea, Velia”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Eleatic
Today it means: Of or relating to a certain school in Elea of Ancient Greek philosophers who taught that reality is stable and unchanging and that real knowledge comes from reason rather than senses. Full definition →
Latin Eleāticus ← Ancient Greek ’Ελεατικός