- heuristic
[heuristic 词源字典]
- heuristic: see eureka
[heuristic etymology, heuristic origin, 英语词源] - heuristic (adj.)
- "serving to discover or find out," 1821, irregular formation from Greek heuretikos "inventive," related to heuriskein "to find" (from PIE *were- (2) "to find;" cognate with Old Irish fuar "I have found") + -istic. As a noun, from 1860.