Etymograph

English

archaeologic

Archaeologic comes from Ancient Greek λόγος ‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech,…’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning…’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-1‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak by carefully selecting one's words’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lóǵos1reconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógos1reconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγος1lógos‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech, story, debate, utterance, argument’
  5. Englishtodayarchaeologic1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English archaeologic

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-Wiktionary, English archaeologic‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak by carefully selecting one's words’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lóǵosWiktionary, English archaeologicreconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosWiktionary, English archaeologicreconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγοςWiktionary, English archaeologiclógos‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech, story, debate, utterance, argument’
  5. EnglishtodayarchaeologicWiktionary, English archaeologic

A compound of archaeo- + -logic

Ancient Greek ἄρχω ‘to begin’

Ancient Greek ἀρχή ‘beginning, origin’

Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρχαῖος ‘pertaining to the beginning’

English archaeo-

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning…’

election, collection, technology, lesson, select, elite, collect, eligible, elect, elegant, coil, legion, catalogue, negligence, negligent, negligible, diligent, leach, astrology, cull, lexicon, epilogue, lexical, cosmology, legation, dialectic, alexia, lignite, lexis, lignin, gynecologist, ineligibility, dialogic, 151 more

through Proto-Hellenic *lógos

etymology, homologous, pathophysiology, psychopathology, neurophysiology, histopathology, 103 more

through Ancient Greek λόγος ‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech,…’

apology, trilogy, analogy, sociology, terminology, physiology, logos, pathology, monologue, prologue, pathological, eulogy, pathologist, logistic, epistemology, entomology, astrological, etiology, bacteriology, apologia, syllogism, bacteriologist, bacteriological, 108 more

Today it means

adj Pertaining to archaeology.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “archaeologic”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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