The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromδασύς“thick with leaves, dense”
- English todaydasymetric
Coined by its inventor, Benjamin (Veniamin) Petrovich Semenov-Tyan-Shansky in 1911, from Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús, “thick with leaves, dense”) and μέτρον (métron, “measure”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekδασύς all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.