Etymology

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Today it means: An instrument for compounding the resultant of two parallel, simple, harmonic waves. Full definition →

Latin cȳmat(is) ← Ancient Greek κῡ́μᾰτος
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromκῡ́μᾰτος“wave, billow, swell, sprout, fetus”
  2. Latin · derived fromcȳmat(is)“sprout, swelling, hollow sphere”
  3. English todaycymatograph

From Latin cȳmat(is) (“sprout, swelling, hollow sphere”) + -o- + -graph, stem of cȳma, from Ancient Greek κῡ́μᾰτος (kū́mătos, “wave, billow, swell, sprout, fetus”), genitive of κῦμα (kûma). Compare cymograph.

Words from the same roots

Latincȳma all →

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Ancient Greekκῦμα all →

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