Etymology

eutely

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Today it means: The property of a species that all members have the same pattern of cell division, and thus the same number of cells, either in the whole body or in a particular organ system such as the nervous system. Full definition →

Ancient Greek εὐ-
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromεὐ-“good”
  2. English todayeutely

From Ancient Greek εὐ- (eu-, “good”) (modern sense: “true”) + τέλος (télos, “result, end”) + -y, i.e. “the state of having a true limit”.

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