English
copathology
Copathology 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…’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-1‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak by carefully selecting one's words’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lóǵos1reconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógos1reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγος1lógos‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech, story, debate, utterance, argument’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentpathologie1‘pathology’
- English1500–presentpathology1
- Englishtodaycopathology1
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, English copathology
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-Wiktionary, English copathology‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak by carefully selecting one's words’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lóǵosWiktionary, English copathologyreconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosWiktionary, English copathologyreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγοςWiktionary, English copathologylógos‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech, story, debate, utterance, argument’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentpathologieWiktionary, English copathology‘pathology’
- English1500–presentpathologyWiktionary, English copathology
- EnglishtodaycopathologyWiktionary, English copathology
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm ‘beside, near, by, with’
Proto-Italic *kom ‘with, along, at’
Proto-Italic *kom- ‘together’
English co-
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,…’
French pathologie
English pathology
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning…’
election, collection, technology, lesson, select, elite, eligible, collect, elect, elegant, legion, negligence, coil, catalogue, negligible, negligent, leach, diligent, lexical, cull, lexicon, epilogue, astrology, dialectic, alexia, lignite, legation, lexis, lignin, cosmology, gynecologist, 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, sociology, terminology, logos, physiology, monologue, logistic, prologue, archaeologist, eulogy, epistemology, entomology, etiology, apologia, bacteriology, syllogism, bacteriologist, 107 more
through English pathology
pathological, pathologist, psychopathology, histopathology, 34 more
Today it means
noun A pathosis that occurs along with another
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “copathology”. 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- / copathology