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- Ancient Greek · derived fromἥλῐος“sun”
- English todayheliocentrism
Shortened from heliocentricism, from heliocentric + -ism, from Ancient Greek ἥλῐος (hḗlĭos, “sun”) + κέντρον (kéntron, “centre”), equivalent to helio- + -centrism.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.