The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὑδραυλικός“of a water organ”
- Latin · derived fromhydraulicus
- French · borrowed fromhydraulique
- English todayhydraulic
From French hydraulique, from Latin hydraulicus, from Ancient Greek ὑδραυλικός (hudraulikós, “of a water organ”), from ὕδραυλις (húdraulis, “water organ”), from ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + αὐλός (aulós, “pipe”).
First known use, by meaning
- from early 17th c. Pertaining to water.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.