Etymology

terabyte

tera·byte
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Today it means: One trillion (10¹², or 1,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 gigabytes. Full definition →

English byte ← Middle English biten ← Old English bītan
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The story

  1. Englishtera-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeyd-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*bʰéydt
  4. Proto-Germanic*bītaną
  5. Proto-West Germanic*bītan
  6. Old Englishbītan
  7. Middle Englishbiten
  8. Englishbite
  9. Englishbyte
  10. English todayterabyte

From tera- + byte.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.