Etymograph

English

bacteriologically

Bacteriologically 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. English1500–presentbacteriological1
  6. Englishtodaybacteriologically1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English bacteriologically

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-Wiktionary, English bacteriologically‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak by carefully selecting one's words’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lóǵosWiktionary, English bacteriologicallyreconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosWiktionary, English bacteriologicallyreconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγοςWiktionary, English bacteriologicallylógos‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech, story, debate, utterance, argument’
  5. English1500–presentbacteriologicalWiktionary, English bacteriologically
  6. EnglishtodaybacteriologicallyWiktionary, English bacteriologically

A compound of bacteriological + -ly

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

Proto-Indo-European *lóǵos

Proto-Hellenic *lógos

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

English bacteriological

Linked words

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

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

through Proto-Hellenic *lógos

archaeological, pathological, etymology, homologous, pathophysiology, psychopathology, astrological, neurophysiology, histopathology, 103 more

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

logic, apology, trilogy, analogy, sociology, logos, pathology, physiology, terminology, monologue, prologue, eulogy, pathologist, archaeologist, logistic, epistemology, entomology, etiology, apologia, syllogism, 111 more

Today it means

adv In a bacteriological manner; with respect to bacteriology.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “bacteriologically”. 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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