nano-的词源

英文词源

nano-

introduced 1947 (at 14th conference of the Union Internationale de Chimie) as a prefix for units of one thousand-millionth part, from Greek nanos "a dwarf." According to Watkins, this is originally "little old man," from nannos "uncle," masc. of nanna "aunt" (see nana). Earlier it was used as a prefix to mean "dwarf, dwarfish," and still in a non-scientific sense of "very small."

中文词源

nano-：纳，十亿分之一

来自希腊语nanos,小矮人，部分词源学家认为该词原义为小老头，小祖父，词源同nana,nanny,-o,阳性格后缀，参照amigo,El Nino.后用于科学数词十亿分之一。

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