Etymograph

English

biopathology

Biopathology comes from French pathologie ‘pathology’, 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. Frenchc. 1600–presentpathologie1‘pathology’
  6. English1500–presentpathology1
  7. Englishtodaybiopathology1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English biopathology

Lineage

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

Linked words

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

election, collection, technology, lesson, select, elite, eligible, collect, elect, elegant, coil, legion, negligence, catalogue, negligible, negligent, leach, diligent, lexicon, lexical, cull, astrology, epilogue, dialectic, alexia, cosmology, lignite, lexis, lignin, gynecologist, legation, ineligibility, dialogic, 149 more

through Proto-Hellenic *lógos

archaeological, astrological, etymology, homologous, pathophysiology, neurophysiology, bacteriological, 101 more

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

logic, apology, trilogy, analogy, terminology, logos, sociology, physiology, monologue, logistic, prologue, archaeologist, eulogy, epistemology, entomology, apologia, etiology, syllogism, bacteriology, bacteriologist, 107 more

through English pathology

pathological, pathologist, psychopathology, histopathology, 34 more

Today it means

noun The pathology (study of the diseases) of organs, tumours and similar biological structures

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “biopathology”. 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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