Etymograph

English

bacteriologist

Bacteriologist 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. Englishearliest quotation 1895bacteriologist1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English bacteriologist
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1895, H. G. Wells: “'This again,' said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-Wiktionary, English bacteriologist‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak by carefully selecting one's words’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lóǵosWiktionary, English bacteriologistreconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosWiktionary, English bacteriologistreconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγοςWiktionary, English bacteriologistlógos‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech, story, debate, utterance, argument’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1895bacteriologistWiktionary, English bacteriologist. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1895, H. G. Wells: “'This again,' said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide…”

Linked words

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

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

through Proto-Hellenic *lógos

archaeological, pathological, etymology, homologous, pathophysiology, astrological, psychopathology, 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, archaeologist, pathologist, logistic, entomology, epistemology, etiology, apologia, syllogism, 111 more

Today it means

noun A microbiologist whose speciality is bacteriology.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “bacteriologist”. 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.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- / bacteriologist

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