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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.

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