in silico

The story

1. Latin · derived fromsilex“flint, pebble, stone; crag, rock”
2. English todayin silico

Pseudo-Latinism, derived from in and silicon (from Latin silex (“flint, pebble, stone; crag, rock”)) + Latin -ō, by analogy with English in vitro (“in glass, referring to an experiment conducted in a test tube”). The silico component refers to silicon chips which were used for computing at the time when the term was coined.

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