symmetry

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromσυμμετρία
2. Latin · borrowed fromsymmetria
3. English todaysymmetry

From Latin symmetria, from Ancient Greek συμμετρία (summetría), from σύμμετρος (súmmetros, “symmetrical”), from σύν (sún, “with”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”). By surface analysis, sym- + -metry.

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