köken: From Middle Dutch element, from Old French element, from Latin elementum (“a first principle, element, rudiment”), of uncertain origin (see further etymology there).
köken: Learned borrowing from Latin factor (“a doer, maker, performer”), from factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”). Doublet of feitor. Piecewise doublet of fazedor.
element; basic building block of matter in ancient philosophy · element; a place or state of being that an individual or object is better suited towards · elements; forces of weather
factor (one of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result) · factor (group of people affecting something) · factor (any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole)
element (one of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air) · elementary (basic knowledge or fact) · element (small part of the whole)
çekim: çoğul elementy · tamlayan elementu
köken: Inherited from Old Czech element, from Latin elementum.
one of four elements that composed the world. · basic principle, rudiment · the alphabet
çekim: çoğul elementa · tamlayan elementī
köken: Uncertain. Perhaps ultimately from L M N, first three letters of the second half of the Canaanite alphabet, recited by ancient scribes when learning it (in sense compare English ABC(s) (“fundamentals”)). This idea has been criticized though due to the absence of any evidence for use of a half-split in the Latin alphabet itself and the lack of evidence for the use of "el", "em", and "en" as letter…