cosmic (adj.)
1640s, "worldly, of this world," a sense now obsolete, from Latinized form of Greek kosmikos "worldly, earthly, of the world," from kosmos "world-order, world" (see cosmos).
Cosmical "related to the earth" is attested from 1580s..
Origin of cosmology
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From the New Latin word cosmologia, dating back to 1650–60.
See cosmo-, -logy..
Origin of cosmology
1.
From the New Latin word cosmologia, dating back to 1650–60.
See cosmo-, -logy..
cosmic (adj.)
1640s, "worldly, of this world," a sense now obsolete, from Latinized form of Greek kosmikos "worldly, earthly, of the world," from kosmos "world-order, world" (see cosmos).
Cosmical "related to the earth" is attested from 1580s..
Cosmos is originally a Greek word, meaning both "order" and "world," because the ancient Greeks thought that the world was perfectly harmonious and impeccably put in order.
We now use cosmos without the idea of perfect order..
The branch of learning that deals with phenomena at the scale of many millions of light-years is called cosmology—a term derived from combining two Greek words, kosmos, meaning “order,” “harmony,” and “the world,” and logos, signifying “word” or “discourse.” Cosmology is, in effect, the study of the universe at large.5 days ago.
