Etymology

diagrammable

D2I1A1G2R1A1M3M3A1B3L1E1

Today it means: Capable of being diagrammed. Full definition →

English diagram ← French diagramme ← Italian diagramma
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  2. Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
  3. Proto-Indo-European*dwís
  4. Ancient Greekδιά (diá)
  5. Ancient Greekδῐᾰ- (dĭă-)
  6. Proto-Indo-European*gerbʰ-
  7. Proto-Hellenic*grə́pʰō
  8. Ancient Greekγρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
  9. Ancient Greekγρᾰ́μμᾰ (grắmmă)
  10. Ancient Greekδιάγραμμα (diágramma)
  11. Italiandiagramma
  12. Frenchdiagramme
  13. Englishdiagram
  14. English todaydiagrammable

From diagram + -able.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.