English
manometer
Manometer comes from Ancient Greek μανός ‘thin, rare’.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμανός1manós‘thin, rare’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentmanomètre1
- Englishearliest quotation 1872manometer1
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, English manometer
- Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1872, The American Journal of Science:: “As soon as the manometer of the pump indicated…”.
Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμανόςWiktionary, English manometermanós‘thin, rare’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentmanomètreWiktionary, English manometer
- Englishearliest quotation 1872manometerWiktionary, English manometer. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1872, The American Journal of Science:: “As soon as the manometer of the pump indicated…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *men- ‘small’
money, music, mind, amount, mouth, mountain, museum, mental, remain, mention, comment, auto, mount, min, monitor, monster, permanent, demonstration, monetary, monk, mint, mentor, monument, imminent, maya, amnesty, dementia, muse, mosaic, eminent, summon, ming, monte, mont, monstrous, prominence, menace, monastery, amnesia, mas, 127 more
Today it means
noun An instrument to measure pressure in a fluid, especially a double-legged liquid column gauge used to measure the difference in the pressures of two fluids.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “manometer”. 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.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek μανός / manometer