periodic的词源

英文词源

periodic (adj.)

1640s, from French périodique (14c.), from Latin periodicus, from periodus (see period).

Periodic table in chemistry (1889) is from notion of the arrangement, in which similar properties recur at intervals in elements in the same area as you read down the rows of the table. This sense of the word is attested from 1872 (periodic law).

中文词源

periodic：周期性的

来自period,周期，时期。

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