Etymograph

English

emotionology

Emotionology 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. Englishtodayemotionology1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English emotionology

Lineage

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

A compound of emotion + -ology

Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- ‘to move’

…

Vulgar Latin *exmovēre

Old French esmovoir ‘to move’

Middle French esmouvoir ‘to move’

Middle French emotion

English emotion

Linked words

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

election, technology, collection, select, elite, lesson, eligible, collect, elect, elegant, coil, catalogue, negligence, legion, negligible, negligent, leach, diligent, lexical, cull, lexicon, astrology, epilogue, dialectic, alexia, lignite, lexis, lignin, cosmology, gynecologist, legation, ineligibility, dialogic, 148 more

through Proto-Hellenic *lógos

archaeological, pathological, astrological, etymology, homologous, pathophysiology, psychopathology, neurophysiology, histopathology, bacteriological, 100 more

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

logic, apology, trilogy, analogy, logos, sociology, terminology, pathology, physiology, prologue, pathologist, archaeologist, logistic, eulogy, monologue, epistemology, entomology, apologia, syllogism, bacteriology, etiology, bacteriologist, 109 more

Today it means

noun The way a group of people think and speak about their emotions.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “emotionology”. 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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