Etymology

megascale

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Today it means: Extremely large-scale Full definition →

English scale ← Middle English scale ← Latin scāla
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*méǵh₂s
  2. Proto-Hellenic*mégas
  3. Ancient Greekμέγᾰς (mégăs)
  4. Englishmega-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*skend-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kn̥d-sleh₂
  7. Proto-Italic*skand-slā
  8. Latinscāla
  9. Middle Englishscale
  10. Englishscale
  11. English todaymegascale

From mega- + scale.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.