Etymology

microanatomy

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Today it means: Microscopic anatomy: the anatomy of minuscule structures, at microscopic scale. Full definition →

English anatomy ← Middle English anatomie ← Old French anatomie
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*mey-der.?
  2. Ancient Greekμῑκρός (mīkrós)
  3. Ancient Greekμῑκρο- (mīkro-)
  4. Englishmicro-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*h₂en-
  6. Proto-Hellenic*aná
  7. Ancient Greekᾰ̓νᾰ́ (ănắ)
  8. Ancient Greekἀνα- (ana-)
  9. Proto-Indo-European*temh₁-
  10. Ancient Greekτέμνω (témnō)
  11. Ancient Greekἀνατέμνω (anatémnō)
  12. Ancient Greekἀνατομή (anatomḗ)
  13. Latinanatomia
  14. Old Frenchanatomie
  15. Middle Englishanatomie
  16. Englishanatomy
  17. English todaymicroanatomy

From micro- + anatomy.

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