The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀνάλογος“proportionate”
- French · borrowed fromanalogue
- English todayanalog
First attested in the early 19th century; from French analogue, from Ancient Greek ἀνάλογος (análogos, “proportionate”), from ἀνά (aná, “up to”) + λόγος (lógos, “ratio”). Equivalent to ana- (“functionally similar”) + -log.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἀνάλογος all →
analogon
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.