Tuesday, 4 December 2012

panoramic=البانورامي

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panoramic=البانورامي

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
panoramic (adj.)
1813; see panorama + -ic. Panoramic camera is attested from 1878.


panorama (n.)
1796, "a painting on a revolving cylindrical surface," coined c.1789 by inventor, Irish artist Robert Barker, lit. "a complete view," from pan- "all" + Gk. horama "a view," from horan "to look, see" (see warrant (n.)). Meaning "comprehensive survey" is 1801.
pan-
prefix meaning "all, every, whole, all-inclusive," from Gk. pan-, combining form of pas (neut. pan, masculine and neuter genitive pantos) "all," from PIE *pant- "all" (with derivatives found only in Greek and Tocharian). Commonly used as a prefix in Greek, in modern times often with nationality names, the first example of which seems to have been Panslavism (1846). Also panislamic (1881), pan-American (1889), pan-German (1892), pan-African (1900), pan-European (1901), pan-Arabism (1930).
-ic Look up -ic at Dictionary.com
adjective suffix, "having to do with, having the nature of, being, made of, caused by, similar to" (in chemistry, indicating a higher valence than names in -ous), from Fr. -ique and directly from L. -icus, which in many cases represents Gk. -ikos "in the manner of; pertaining to." From PIE *-(i)ko, which also yielded Slavic -isku, adjectival suffix indicating origin, the source of the -sky (Rus. -skii) in many surnames.

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