myEtymology.com: French etymology of astrelabe

Etymology of the French word astrelabe

the Old French word astrelabe

derived from the Medieval Latin word astrolabium (astrolabe)

derived from the Greek word astrolabon

using the Greek prefix astro-

derived from the Greek word astron, ἄστρον (properly, a constellation; put for a single star (natural or artificial))

derived from the Greek word aster, ἀστήρ (star; a star (as strown over the sky), literally or figuratively)

derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ster-

derived from the Greek word lambanein, λαμβάνω

derived from the Byzantine Greek word astrolabion, ἀστρολάβιον

derived from the Byzantine Greek word astrolabos, ἀστρολάβος, ἀστρόλαβος

Word found in Old French