English
saccharometry
Saccharometry comes from Ancient Greek μέτρον ‘something used to measure: measure, rule, weight’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*meh₁-1‘to measure’reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμέτρον2métron‘something used to measure: measure, rule, weight’
- Englishtodaysaccharometry2
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, Ancient Greek μέτρον
- 2 Wiktionary, English saccharometry
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*meh₁-Wiktionary, Ancient Greek μέτρον‘to measure’reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμέτρονWiktionary, English saccharometrymétron‘something used to measure: measure, rule, weight’
- EnglishtodaysaccharometryWiktionary, English saccharometry
A compound of saccharo- + -metry
Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ ‘gravel’
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Pali sakkharā ‘sugar’
Ancient Greek σάκχαρ ‘sugar’
Latin saccharon ‘a syrupy liquid that exudes from bamboo, a…’
Latin saccharum ‘sugar’
English saccharo-
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- ‘to measure’
month, moon, measure, moral, meal, sunny, dimensional, dimension, immense, moody, meta, parameter, mesa, geometric, menstrual, symmetric, commensurate, mensa, centimetre, mete, firman, menses, metis, moodiness, 59 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 the amount of sugar in a liquid using a saccharometer.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “saccharometry”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Ancient Greek μέτρον. 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 / Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- / saccharometry