androīdēs

Meaning

1. New Latinandroid
   Parce qu'en ce chapit. il ne parle que de ces images ou statuës parlantes, telle que on dit faussemẽt auoir esté l'Androide d'Albert le Grand.For in that chapter he speaks only of talking figures or statues, of such kind as they report (although falsely) the Android of Albertus Magnus to have beenJacques Gaffarel (1631), Curiositez inouyes, sur la sculpture talismanique des Persans, horoscope des patriarches, et lecture des estoilles, page 163
   ALBERTVS M. Ratisbonensium ille Episcopus & Germaniae nostrae olim decus. Hic quoque niger est passim apud daemonographos magiae vetitae suspicione, quod Androidem seu imaginem aeneam ita fabricasse dicatur, ut loqui, et ad quaesita respondere potuerit. [...] Alphonsus Tostatus Avilensis Episcopus d) Albertum M. perhibet Androidem suam Ita confecisse...Albertus M. bishop of Regensburg and once the glory of our Germany. He also is black among demonologers everywhere by suspicion of forbidden magic, because he is said to have made an android, or bronze figure, that could speak and respond to questions. … Alphonsus Tostatus Bishop of Ávila asserts that Albertus M. made his android in such a way...1715, Daniel Dost, Georg Christian Wagner, Eruditos, Spirituum Familiarium Usu Suspectos Dissertatione Literario-Critica Percensuerunt, Leipzig, page 7:

Declension

Origins

From Ancient Greek ἀνδροειδής (androeidḗs), from ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “shaped”). Initially used to describe legendary human-shaped devices such as metallic talking heads alleged to have been made by wise scholars such as Albertus Magnus or Roger Bacon.