meditation, contemplation · rumination (deep thought or consideration)
çekim: çoğul διαλογισμοί · tamlayan διαλογισμού
eş: σκέψη, στοχασμός, συλλογισμός
köken: Learned borrowing from Koine Greek διαλογισμός (dialogismós, “balancing of accounts”) (directly inherited from Koine Greek in the 'deep thought' sense). By surface analysis, διαλογίζομαι (dialogízomai) + -μός (-mós).
köken: Etymology tree Latin meditor Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin meditātiōlbor. Polish medytacja Learned borrowing from Latin meditātiō.
köken: From Dutch meditatie, from Latin meditatio, from meditatus, the past participle of meditārī (“to meditate, to think over, consider”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, limit, consider, advise”).
verbal noun of machnaigh · contemplation, meditation, consideration
çekim: tamlayan machnaimh
eş: midheamhain
köken: Alteration of Middle Irish machtnad (“wonder, surprise”), a variant of Old Irish machdad (“wonder, astonishment”). By surface analysis, machn(aigh) + -amh.
köken: Etymology tree Esperanto mediti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin -atader. Occitan -adader. French -adebor. Esperanto -ad- Esperanto -o Esperanto -ado Esperanto meditado From mediti + -ado.
Coined in the Meiji period from Middle Chinese-derived roots, as a compound of 瞑 (mei, “closing one's eyes”) + 想 (sō, “to think, to contemplate”). First attested in the 1881 哲学字彙 (Tetsugaku Jii, “Philosophical Dictionary”) compiled by 井上哲次郎 (Inoue Tetsujirō).