Etymology

centistokes

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Today it means: A unit of kinematic viscosity equal to one-hundredth of a stokes. Full definition →

English stokes ← French centi- ← Latin centi-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*déḱm̥
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱm̥tóm
  3. Proto-Italic*kəntom
  4. Latincentum
  5. Latincenti-
  6. Frenchcenti-
  7. Englishcenti-
  8. Englishstokes
  9. English todaycentistokes

From centi- + stokes.

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