Etymology

plyometrics

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Ancient Greek πλείων
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  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromπλείων“more”
  2. English todayplyometrics

From Ancient Greek πλείων (pleíōn, “more”) + -metric (“measure”). Additional details are available in Wikipedia at plyometrics § Etymology.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekπλείων all →

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