Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·greek ·1650s
Cosmos
from κόσμος (kosmos)
- Meaning
- Order, world — the universe seen as a harmonious whole.
- Source word
- κόσμος (kosmos)
- Route into English
- Pythagoras and Heraclitus used it for "ordered universe"; Latin and English took it on. Carl Sagan's 1980 series gave it modern weight.
- Arrived
- 1650s
English borrows.
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