It means keeping things constant and comes from two Greek words: 'homeo,' meaning 'similar,' and 'stasis,' meaning 'stable.' A more formal definition of homeostasis is a characteristic of a system that regulates its internal environment and tends to maintain a stable, relatively constant condition of properties.
Edith is a female given name, derived from the Old English words ead, meaning 'riches or blessed ', and gyÃ°, meaning 'war', and is in common usage in this form in English, German, many Scandinavian languages and Dutch. Its French form, also a common name in French, is Ãdith. Ã©dith
[ 2 syll. e-dit(h) , ed-i- th ] The baby girl name Edith is pronounced IY-Dih-TH in English or EH-DihT in German â . Edith's origin is Old English, and its use, English and German. The meaning of the name is 'rich in war'. It is derived from ead + gyth which mean ' wealth, blessed ' + ' fight, battle ' respectively.Eadgyth (Old English) and Otgunde (Germanic) are older forms of Edith. Edith was an Old English two-element name in use before the Norman Conquest.dith is an all-time favorite. Today it is still somewhat popular as a baby girl name, but not to the degree it was previously. At the height of its usage in 1901, 0.733% of baby girls were given the name Edith.