Etymology

spirograph

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Today it means: an instrument for measuring and recording the depth and rapidity of breathing movements Full definition →

English graph ← Latin spīra ← Ancient Greek σπεῖρα (speîra)
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sper-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*sper-yeh₂-
  3. Ancient Greekσπεῖρα (speîra)
  4. Latinspīra
  5. Englishspiro-
  6. Englishgraph
  7. English todayspirograph

From spiro- + graph.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.