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English word -o-matic comes from Ancient Greek αὐτός, Ancient Greek μέμαα, Proto-Indo-European *méntis (Thought.), English auto-
αὐτός (Ancient Greek)
μέμαα (Ancient Greek)
*méntis (Proto-Indo-European)
Thought.
auto- (English)
(from automatic) automatic. (from automobile) relating to cars or the driving of cars. Regarding oneself.
αὐτόματος (Ancient Greek)
automatique (French)
Automatic.
automatic (English)
A car with automatic transmission.. A semi-automatic pistol. (computing, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.. (maths, of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata. (of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.. (of a handgun) An [...]
-o-matic (English)
Appended to titles of (often fictional) machines, especially to suggest that the verb to which the suffix is appended is its primary function.