The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσφαῖρα“ball, globe”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromνόος“mind, spirit”
- French · borrowed fromnoosphère
- English todaynoosphere
Borrowed from French noosphère, from Ancient Greek νόος (nóos, “mind, spirit”) + Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “ball, globe”), developed and perhaps coined by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Vladimir Vernadsky, in analogy to atmosphere, biosphere etc. By surface analysis, nous (“mind”) + -sphere.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekνόος all →
noocracynoology
Ancient Greekσφαῖρα all →
sphere
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.