-stat

Etymology
The terminal element in certain names of scientific instruments, employed on the analogy of early coinages from other languages, namely (from the 🇨🇬, itself apparently representing an assumed Ancient Greek etymon of the form *, from  +, the latter an agent-nominal suffix from the aorist active participial stem (the  root) of ),  (from the 🇨🇬,  + the 🇨🇬), and  (from the 🇨🇬, itself a back-formation from  (formed after ), formed on the analogy of ); later coinages have been formed on the analogy of , apparently with some reference to the Ancient Greek. See also, , and.

Translations

 * Polish: -stat

Etymology

 * compare 🇨🇬.