metaphysics (branch of philosophy that studies first principles)
çekim: çoğul metafísicas
köken: Borrowed from Medieval Latin metaphysica, methephisica, from Byzantine Greek μεταφυσικά (metaphusiká). See English metaphysics for further etymology.
köken: From Latin metaphysica, from Byzantine Greek μεταφυσική (metaphusikḗ), from the title of the collection by Aristotle μετὰ τὰ φυσικά (metà tà phusiká), a collection that comes after (μετά (metá)) Aristotle's collection entitled τὰ φυσικά (tà phusiká), from φυσικός (phusikós, “natural”). By surface analysis, meta- + fysica.
metaphysics (branch of philosophy that studies first principles)
çekim: çoğul metafísicas
köken: Borrowed from Medieval Latin metaphysica, methephisica, from Byzantine Greek μεταφυσικά (metaphusiká). See English metaphysics for further etymology.
köken: From 形(けい)而(じ)上(じょう) (keijijō, “metaphysical”) + 学(がく) (-gaku, “-logy; -graphy”). Coined by Japanese philosopher Inoue Tetsujirō in 1881 in his work 哲学字彙 (Tetsugaku Jii, “Dictionary of Philosophy”) as a translation of English metaphysics, based on the phrase 形而上者謂之道，形而下者謂之器 in the Book of Changes (《易經》).
metaphysics (branch of philosophy that studies the first principles meant to explain all that exists; the specific metaphysical teaching of a certain school of thought or philosopher)
çekim: tamlayan metafizikas
köken: Via some other European language, from Latin metaphysica, from Byzantine Greek μεταφυσικά (metaphusiká), from the title of the collection by Aristotle μετὰ τὰ φυσικά (metà tà phusiká), a collection that comes after (= μετά (metá)) Aristotle's collection entitled τὰ φυσικά (tà phusiká), from φυσικός (phusikós, “natural”).
köken: Borrowed from Medieval Latin metaphysica, methephisica, from Byzantine Greek μεταφυσικά (metaphusiká). See English metaphysics for further etymology.
köken: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin metaphysica, methephisica, from Byzantine Greek μεταφυσικά (metaphusiká). See English metaphysics for further etymology.