Etymology

matheme

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Today it means: A quasi-scientific symbolic formula serving to represent an idea, used in the works of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. Full definition →

Ancient Greek μάθημα
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  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromμάθημα“lesson”
  2. English todaymatheme

From Ancient Greek μάθημα (máthēma, “lesson”).

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