English
scanpath
From scan + path.
Proto-Indo-European *skend- ‘to jump, dart, climb, scale, scan’
Proto-Italic *skandō
Latin scandō ‘to climb, rise, mount’
Middle English scanden ‘to scan verse’
Middle English scanne ‘to mark off verse to show metrical structure’
English scan
Proto-Germanic *paþaz ‘path’
Proto-West Germanic *paþ ‘path’
Old English pæþ ‘path’
Middle English path
English path
Today it means
noun The path followed by the viewer's eyes when reading a document or observing a scene.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “scanpath”. 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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