The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀ-“not”
- English todayacentric
From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”, privative prefix) + κέντρο (kéntro, “a point, a center”). By surface analysis, a- + centric.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἀ- all →
AfricaagnosticabioticatresiaabiogenesisaneroidachalasiaalexithymiaazoteabarognosisabiosisablepharonabrachiaabrachiocephaliaabranchiataacatalepsyacerousachaenocarpacheneachilousachlamydateacholiaachromatizeAcœmitæacopicacrotismadermatoglyphiaadiaphoristsagnathagnatha
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.