Etymology Dictionary

ANALYSE,  to resolve into parts.  (Gk.)   Sir T. Browne, Hydriotaphia, c. 3, says "what the sun compoundeth, fire analyseth, not transmuteth.'   Ben Jonson has analytic, Poetaster, A. v. sc. 1.   Cotgrave gives no related word in French, and perhaps the F. analyser is comparatively modern.   Most likely the word analytic was borrowed directly from the Gk. ἀναλυτικός, and the verb to analyse may easily have been formed directly from the sb. analysis, i.e. Gk. ἀνάλυσις, a loosening, resolving.—Gk. ἀναλύειν, to loosen, undo, resolve.—Gk. ἀνά, back; and λύειν, to loosen.   See Loosen.   Der. analys-t; the words analysis and analytic are directly from the Gk.; from the last are formed analytic-al, analytic-al-ly.