atmosphere

atmosphere
\ \ [17] Etymologically, atmosphere means ‘ball of vapour’. It was coined as modern Latin atmosphaera from Greek atmósvapour’ (related to áeinblow’, ultimate source of English air) and sphairasphere’. Its original application was not, as we would now understand it, to the envelope of air encompassing the Earth, but to a mass of gas exhaled from and thus surrounding a planet; indeed, in the first record of the word’s use in English, in 1638, it was applied to the Moon, which of course is now known to have no atmosphere. The denotation of the word moved forward with the development of meteorological knowledge.
\ \ Cf.AIR, SPHERE

Word origins - 2ed. . 2005.

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