analyze

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1. Ancient Greek · derived fromἀνάλυσις“a breaking up, a loosening, releasing”
2. Medieval Latin · derived fromanalysis
3. Middle French · derived fromanalyser
4. English todayanalyze

Probably formed within English, by back-formation, or by haplology from analysis + -ize, or from Middle French analyser, from the noun analyse, from Medieval Latin analysis, from Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις (análusis, “a breaking up, a loosening, releasing”), from ἀναλύω (analúō, “to unloose, release, set free”), from ἀνά (aná, “on, up, above, throughout”) + λύσις (lúsis, “a loosening”), from λύω (lúō, “to unfasten”).

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