athome

See also: at home

Middle French

Alternative forms

• antomme, antone, aptome

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin atomus, itself borrowed from ἄτομος (átomos). The h is unetymological but not unprecedented in Middle French. Compare autheur (no h in the origin Latin auctor).

Noun

athome m (plural athomes)

1. atom (in classical philosophy, a tiny indivisible unit)

Descendants

• French: atome (see there for further descendants)
• → Middle English: attome
  • English: atom
  • Scots: atom

References

• Etymology and history of “atome”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “athome”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.