Etymology of the English word gyrocompass
the English word
gyrocompassderived from the English word
compassderived from the Old French word
compasderived from the Old French word
compasserderived from the Vulgar Latin root
*compassarederived from the Late Latin word
passus (spread out; outstretched; dried; step, pace)
derived from the Latin word
pati (suffer; allow; undergo)
derived from the Latin word
pandere (spread out [passis manibus => with hands outstretched])
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*petÉ™-using the Latin prefix
com-derived from the Latin word
cum (with)
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*kom (near, with, together)
Usage
Word found in Modern English
