The Greek historian Herodotos of Halicarnassos used the term after the name of the Indus River.
He was copying the earlier Old Persian and Sanskrit words.
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DariusThe Persians called it so after the Indus River. which was their take on the local word Sindhu.
The word refers to a style of architecture common in Europe between the 9th and the 12th centuries, typical of the Roman Empire. Meaning descended from Latin - the Roman style, coined in the early 1700's
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The word "sarcasm" is believed to have been coined in 1382. It originates from the Greek word "sarkasmos," which means a tearing of the flesh or a bitter sneer.
Terabyte, coined in 1982, combined tera- + byte.Tera- is a prefix coined in 1947 to indicate large units of measure, taken from the Greek word terasmeaning "marvel, monster".