English
nephropathology
Nephropathology 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
- Englishtodaynephropathology1
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, English nephropathology
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-Wiktionary, English nephropathology‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak by carefully selecting one's words’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lóǵosWiktionary, English nephropathologyreconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosWiktionary, English nephropathologyreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγοςWiktionary, English nephropathologylógos‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech, story, debate, utterance, argument’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentpathologieWiktionary, English nephropathology‘pathology’
- English1500–presentpathologyWiktionary, English nephropathology
- EnglishtodaynephropathologyWiktionary, English nephropathology
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, catalogue, negligence, negligible, leach, diligent, negligent, 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, bacteriological, neurophysiology, 101 more
through Ancient Greek λόγος ‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech,…’
logic, apology, trilogy, analogy, sociology, terminology, logos, physiology, monologue, logistic, archaeologist, prologue, eulogy, epistemology, entomology, etiology, apologia, bacteriology, syllogism, bacteriologist, 107 more
through English pathology
pathological, pathologist, psychopathology, histopathology, 34 more
Today it means
noun The pathology of the kidneys
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “nephropathology”. 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- / nephropathology