Etymology

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Today it means: A picture or image created from shadows, especially with X-rays. Full definition →

Ancient Greek σκιά
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromσκιά“shadow”
  2. English todayskiagram

From Ancient Greek σκιά (skiá, “shadow”) + -gram.

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.