Etymology

centrifugal

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Today it means: Tending, or causing, to recede from the center. Full definition →

New Latin centrifugālis ← Latin centrum
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromcentrum“center”
  2. New Latin · borrowed fromcentrifugālis
  3. English todaycentrifugal

From New Latin centrifugālis, coined by Christiaan Huygens from Latin centrum (“center”) + fugiō (“to flee”) + -al.

Words from the same roots

Latincentrum all →

centercentrecentrumcentrifugecentripetalcentro-centrolineal

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