Etymology

photoeccentric

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Today it means: Relating to the light from a star partially obscured by a planet with an eccentric orbit Full definition →

English eccentric ← Middle French excentrique ← Medieval Latin eccentricus
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰéh₂os
  3. Proto-Hellenic*pʰáwos
  4. Ancient Greekφᾰ́ος (phắos)
  5. Ancient Greekφῶς (phôs)
  6. Ancient Greekφωτο- (phōto-)
  7. Englishphoto-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰ
  9. Proto-Indo-European*h₁eǵʰs
  10. Proto-Hellenic*eks
  11. Ancient Greekἐκ (ek)
  12. Ancient Greekἐκ- (ek-)
  13. Proto-Indo-European*ḱen-?
  14. Proto-Indo-European*ḱéntrom
  15. Proto-Hellenic*kéntron
  16. Ancient Greekκέντρον (kéntron)
  17. Ancient Greekἔκκεντρος (ékkentros)
  18. Medieval Latineccentricus
  19. Middle Frenchexcentrique
  20. Englisheccentric
  21. English todayphotoeccentric

From photo- + eccentric.

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