Etymology

isotim

I1S1O1T1I1M3

Today it means: An isoline joining points on a map with the same transport costs for a particular product. Full definition →

German Isotim ← Ancient Greek τιμή
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromτιμή“value”
  2. German · borrowed fromIsotim
  3. English todayisotim

Borrowed from German Isotim, coined by Alfred Weber. Equivalent to iso- + Ancient Greek τιμή (timḗ, “value”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.