Dirac
English
Etymology
From the French surname Dirac, probably from the French town by that name in Charente, from Medieval Latin Adiraco, Dyracum, from a Gallo-Roman name, Latin Atirius (a derivative of Atilius), or alternatively a Frankish/Germanic name *Adarus, in either case with the common Gallo-Roman nominal suffix -acum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɪˈræk/
Proper noun
Dirac
- A surname from French.
Derived terms
- Dirac comb
- Dirac delta function
- Dirac equation
- Dirac fermion
- Dirac field
- Dirac Hamiltonian
- Dirac monopole
- Dirac notation
- Dirac particle
- Dirac point
- Dirac wave function
- Fermi-Dirac distribution
- Fermi-Dirac statistics
- Kapitza-Dirac effect
See also
- Paul Dirac, British physicist.
References
- Albert Dauzat et Charles Rostaing, Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieux en France, Paris, Librairie Guénégaud, 1989 (1re éd. 1963), 738 p. p. 247.
- Jean Talbert, Origine des noms de lieux, 1928