ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
- android (n.)
- "automaton resembling a human being," 1842, from Mod.L. androides (itself attested as a Latin word in English from 1727), from Gk. andro- "human" (see andro-) + eides "form, shape." Gk. androdes meant "like a man, manly;" cf. also Gk. andrias "image of a man, statue." Listed as "rare" in OED 1st edition (1879), popularized from c.1951 by science fiction writers.
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WIKIPEDIA:
The word was coined
from the Greek
root ἀνδρ- 'man' and the suffix -oid
'having the form or likeness of'.
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