The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromταὐτός“the same”
- English todaytautochrone
From Ancient Greek ταὐτός (tautós, “the same”) + χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
tautochrone
Today it means: A curve, such that a weighted body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest point in the same time, wherever in the curve it begins to fall. Full definition →
Ancient Greek ταὐτός