- anode
- 1834, coined from Gk. anodos "way up," from ana "up" + hodos "way" (see cede). Proposed by the Rev. William Whewell (1794–1866), Eng. polymath, and published by Eng. chemist and physicist Michael Faraday (1791-1867). So called from the path the electrical current was thought to take. Anodize is recorded from 1931.