An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

A manner or mode of procedure, especially an orderly, logical, or systematic way of instruction, inquiry, investigation, experiment, and so on.

Etymology (EN): From M.Fr. méthode, from L. methodus “way of teaching or going,” from Gk. methodus “scientific inquiry, method of inquiry,” originally “following after,” from → meta- “after” + hodos “way.”

Etymology (PE): Raveš “mthod,” originally “going, walking,” from row “going,” present stem of raftan “to go, walk;” Mid.Pers. raftan, raw-, Proto-Iranian *rab/f- “to go; to attack” + -eš a suffix of verbal nouns.