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- Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
- Proto-Italic*en
- Proto-Italic*en-
- Latinin-
- Ancient Greekμορφή (morphḗ)der.?
- Latinfōrma
- Latinfōrmō
- Latinīnfōrmō
- Late Latinīnfōrmātiō
- Middle Englishenformacioun
- Englishinformation
- English todayinformatics
Coined 1967 from information + -ics; possibly influenced by automation and automatic. German Informatik dates from 1957, French informatique from 1962.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.