English
manometry
Manometry comes from Ancient Greek μέτρον ‘something used to measure: measure, rule, weight’, and goes back to μανός ‘thin, rare’.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμανός1manós‘thin, rare’
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμέτρον1métron‘something used to measure: measure, rule, weight’
- Englishtodaymanometry1
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, English manometry
Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμανόςWiktionary, English manometrymanós‘thin, rare’
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμέτρονWiktionary, English manometrymétron‘something used to measure: measure, rule, weight’
- EnglishtodaymanometryWiktionary, English manometry
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *men- ‘to think, mind’
money, music, mind, amount, mouth, mountain, museum, mental, remain, mention, comment, monster, auto, mount, min, monitor, permanent, demonstration, monk, mint, monetary, mentor, monument, monte, imminent, maya, amnesty, dementia, muse, mosaic, eminent, summon, ming, monastery, mont, muster, prominence, menace, amnesia, mas, 123 more
through Ancient Greek μέτρον ‘something used to measure: measure, rule, weight’
meter, metric, metre, madder, asymmetry, metrology, metra, 43 more
Today it means
noun The measurement of pressure using a manometer
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “manometry”. 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 / manometry