The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἄνθρωπος“human”
- French · borrowed fromanthropométrie
- English todayanthropometry
1839, as anthropo- (“human”) + -metry (“measurement”), from French anthropométrie, from anthropo- + -métrie, from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “human”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”), influenced by Latin use.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἄνθρωπος all →
anthropologyanthropomorphismAnthropos-anthropeanthropo-anthropodicyanthropomancyanthropophobia-anthropytheanthropictheanthropism
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.