Etymology

anapnograph

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Today it means: A form of spirometer. Full definition →

French anapnographe ← Ancient Greek ἀναπνοή
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The story

  1. French · derived from-graphe
  2. Ancient Greek · derived fromἀναπνοή“recovery of breath; respiration”
  3. French · derived fromanapnographe
  4. English todayanapnograph

From French anapnographe, coined by the device's inventors Léon Bergeon and M. Kastus in the 1860s, from Ancient Greek ἀναπνοή (anapnoḗ, “recovery of breath; respiration”) (from ἀναπνέω (anapnéō, “to draw breath”), from ἀνα- (ana-, “up”) + πνέω (pnéō, “to breathe”)) + French -graphe (see -graph).

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