The story
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ent-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂énts
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂énti
- Ancient Greekᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
- Ancient Greekἀντι- (anti-)
- Englishanti-
- Englishsymmetric
- English todayantisymmetric
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
antisymmetric
Today it means: Having the property that, for any two distinct elements of S, at least one is not related to the other via R; equivalently, having the property that, for any x, y ∈ S, if both xRy and yRx then x=y. Full definition →
English symmetric ← Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-) ← Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti