Etymology

anamorphism

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Today it means: A generalization of the list-producing unfolds known from functional programming to arbitrary abstract data types that can be described as final coalgebras. Full definition →

English morphism ← Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰ- (ănă-) ← Proto-Hellenic *aná
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂en-
  2. Proto-Hellenic*aná
  3. Ancient Greekᾰ̓νᾰ́ (ănắ)
  4. Ancient Greekᾰ̓νᾰ- (ănă-)
  5. Englishana-
  6. Englishmorphism
  7. English todayanamorphism

From ana- (“up”) + morphism.

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