Etymograph

English

cytopathology

Cytopathology 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. Englishearliest quotation 2018cytopathology1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English cytopathology
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2018, Douglas P. Fine: “Immune serum could block the cytopathology; a heatlabile factor…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-Wiktionary, English cytopathology‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak by carefully selecting one's words’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lóǵosWiktionary, English cytopathologyreconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosWiktionary, English cytopathologyreconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγοςWiktionary, English cytopathologylógos‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech, story, debate, utterance, argument’
  5. Frenchc. 1600–presentpathologieWiktionary, English cytopathology‘pathology’
  6. English1500–presentpathologyWiktionary, English cytopathology
  7. Englishearliest quotation 2018cytopathologyWiktionary, English cytopathology. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2018, Douglas P. Fine: “Immune serum could block the cytopathology; a heatlabile factor…”

Linked words

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

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

through Proto-Hellenic *lógos

archaeological, etymology, astrological, 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 The branch of pathology that deals with abnormalities of cells, independently of the tissue architecture from which they came, as for example in aspiration biopsy such as fine-needle aspiration.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “cytopathology”. 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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