Etymograph

English

myopathologic

Myopathologic comes from Ancient Greek πᾰθολογῐκός ‘treating feeling or sensation’, from 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. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπαθολογίᾱ1pathologíā
  6. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπᾰθολογῐκός1păthologĭkós‘treating feeling or sensation’
  7. English1500–presentpathologic1
  8. Englishtodaymyopathologic1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English myopathologic

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-Wiktionary, English myopathologic‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak by carefully selecting one's words’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lóǵosWiktionary, English myopathologicreconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosWiktionary, English myopathologicreconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγοςWiktionary, English myopathologiclógos‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech, story, debate, utterance, argument’
  5. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπαθολογίᾱWiktionary, English myopathologicpathologíā
  6. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπᾰθολογῐκόςWiktionary, English myopathologicpăthologĭkós‘treating feeling or sensation’
  7. English1500–presentpathologicWiktionary, English myopathologic
  8. EnglishtodaymyopathologicWiktionary, English myopathologic

A compound of myo- + pathologic

Proto-Indo-European *múHs ‘mouse’

Proto-Hellenic *mū́s

Ancient Greek μῦς ‘mouse’

English myo-

Ancient Greek πᾰ́σχω ‘to feel’

Ancient Greek πάθος ‘suffering’

Ancient Greek παθολογικός ‘treating feeling or sensation’

English pathologic

Linked words

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

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

through Proto-Hellenic *lógos

etymology, homologous, pathophysiology, neurophysiology, psychopathology, histopathology, 101 more

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

apology, trilogy, analogy, sociology, terminology, physiology, logos, archaeological, monologue, prologue, eulogy, pathology, archaeologist, logistic, epistemology, entomology, pathological, pathologist, astrological, etiology, bacteriology, apologia, syllogism, bacteriologist, bacteriological, 106 more

Today it means

adj Relating to myopathies

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “myopathologic”. 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- / myopathologic

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