Etymology

micromovement

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Today it means: A microscopic movement. Full definition →

English movement ← Middle English mevement ← Old French movement
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*mey-der.?
  2. Ancient Greekμῑκρός (mīkrós)
  3. Ancient Greekμῑκρο- (mīkro-)
  4. Englishmicro-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
  7. Proto-Italic*moweō
  8. Latinmovēre
  9. Old Frenchmovoir
  10. Old Frenchmovement
  11. Middle Englishmevement
  12. Englishmovement
  13. English todaymicromovement

From micro- + movement.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.