Etymograph

English

astrological

Astrological comes from Latin astrologia ‘astronomy’, from Ancient Greek λόγος ‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech,…’, and ultimately from 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. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἀστρολογία1astrología‘astronomy’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEastrologia1‘astronomy’
  7. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEastrologicus2
  8. Englishtodayastrological2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin astrologicus
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English astrological

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-Wiktionary, Latin astrologicus‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak by carefully selecting one's words’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lóǵosWiktionary, Latin astrologicusreconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosWiktionary, Latin astrologicusreconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγοςWiktionary, Latin astrologicuslógos‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech, story, debate, utterance, argument’
  5. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἀστρολογίαWiktionary, Latin astrologicusastrología‘astronomy’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEastrologiaWiktionary, Latin astrologicus‘astronomy’
  7. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEastrologicusWiktionary, English astrological
  8. EnglishtodayastrologicalWiktionary, English astrological

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, negligence, catalogue, negligent, negligible, leach, diligent, cull, lexicon, epilogue, cosmology, legation, lexical, lignite, lexis, lignin, dialectic, alexia, gynecologist, ineligibility, dialogic, 150 more

through Proto-Hellenic *lógos

archaeological, pathological, etymology, homologous, pathophysiology, psychopathology, neurophysiology, histopathology, bacteriological, 101 more

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

logic, apology, trilogy, sociology, terminology, analogy, physiology, logos, pathology, monologue, eulogy, prologue, archaeologist, pathologist, epistemology, entomology, logistic, etiology, bacteriology, apologia, syllogism, bacteriologist, 109 more

Today it means

adj Of, or relating to astrology.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “astrological”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin astrologicus. 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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