Etymology

macroworld

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Today it means: A world or reality on a larger scale, thus for example the social scale when discussing individual affairs, or the human scale when discussing particle physics. Full definition →

English world ← Middle English world ← Old English weorold
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*meh₂ḱ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*mh₂ḱrós
  3. Proto-Hellenic*makrós
  4. Ancient Greekμᾰκρός (măkrós)
  5. Frenchmacro-
  6. Englishmacro-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*weyh₁-?
  8. Proto-Indo-European*wiHrós
  9. Proto-Germanic*weraz
  10. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  11. Proto-Indo-European*h₂életi
  12. Proto-Germanic*alaną
  13. Proto-Germanic*aldiz
  14. Proto-Germanic*weraldiz
  15. Proto-West Germanic*weraldi
  16. Old Englishweorold
  17. Middle Englishworld
  18. Englishworld
  19. English todaymacroworld

From macro- + world.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.