Etymograph

English

hippopathology

Hippopathology 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. Englishtodayhippopathology1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English hippopathology

Lineage

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

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

through English pathology

pathological, pathologist, psychopathology, histopathology, 34 more

Today it means

noun The science of veterinary medicine of equines; the pathology of the horse.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “hippopathology”. 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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