Etymology

picocell

P3I1C3O1C3E1L1L1

Today it means: A wireless communication system covering a small area, such as a single office or railway station, often used to extend cellular network coverage to indoor areas where signals cannot easily penetrate. Full definition →

English cell ← Spanish pico ← Old Spanish bico
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The story

  1. Proto-Celtic*bekkos
  2. Gaulish*bekkosbor.?
  3. Latinbeccus
  4. Old Spanishbico
  5. Spanishpico
  6. Englishpico-
  7. Englishcell
  8. English todaypicocell

From pico- + cell.

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