geometry

The story

1. Proto-Hellenic*gaya
2. Ancient Greekγαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip.
3. Ancient Greekγῆ (gê)
4. Ancient Greekγεω- (geō-)
5. Proto-Indo-European*med-
6. Proto-Indo-European*meh₁-
7. Ancient Greekμέτρον (métron)
8. Ancient Greekγεωμετρῐ́ᾱ (geōmetrĭ́ā)
9. Latingeōmetria
10. Old Frenchgeometrie
11. Middle Englishgemetry
12. English todaygeometry

From Middle English gemetry, geometrie, from Old French geometrie (modern French géométrie), from Latin geōmetria, from Ancient Greek γεωμετρία (geōmetría, “geometry, land-survey”), from γεωμέτρης (geōmétrēs, “geometer, land measurer”), from γῆ (gê, “earth, land, country”) + -μετρία (-metría, “measurement”), from μέτρον (métron, “a measure”). By surface analysis, geometer + -y or geo- + -metry. Doublet of gematria. Displaced native Old English eorþcræft, literally, "earth-craft".

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