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kosmos
Greek · ancient
"order, the universe"
meaning "order" or "the ordered universe"
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cosmos
Latin · ancient
"the ordered universe"
adopted through Greek philosophical influence on Rome
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cosmos
English · 1600s
"the universe as an orderly, harmonious system"
settled as the English word for the universe as an ordered system
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