Etymograph

English

brewster

After David Brewster.

Formed from brew + ster

Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- ‘to brew’

Proto-Germanic *brewwaną ‘to brew’

Proto-West Germanic *breuwan ‘to brew’

Old English brēowan ‘to brew’

Middle English brewen ‘to brew’

English brew

Another origin of brewster

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰrewh₁-‘to brew’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*brewwaną‘to brew’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*breuwan‘to brew’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150brēowan‘to brew’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500brewen‘to brew’
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500brewestere‘brewer’
  7. Englishtodaybrewster

Today it means

noun A unit of stress optical coefficient which is equal to 10⁻¹² m²/N or 10⁻¹² Pa⁻¹. Symbol: B.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “brewster”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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