English
neuropathology
Neuropathology 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
- Englishtodayneuropathology1
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, English neuropathology
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-Wiktionary, English neuropathology‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak by carefully selecting one's words’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lóǵosWiktionary, English neuropathologyreconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosWiktionary, English neuropathologyreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγοςWiktionary, English neuropathologylógos‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech, story, debate, utterance, argument’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentpathologieWiktionary, English neuropathology‘pathology’
- English1500–presentpathologyWiktionary, English neuropathology
- EnglishtodayneuropathologyWiktionary, English neuropathology
A compound of neuro- + pathology
Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁- ‘to spin (thread), to sew’
Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥ ‘sinew, tendon’
Ancient Greek νεῦρον ‘sinew, tendon, cord’
English neuro-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning…’
Proto-Indo-European *lóǵos
Proto-Hellenic *lógos
Ancient Greek λόγος ‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech,…’
French pathologie
English pathology
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, epilogue, astrology, 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, epistemology, eulogy, entomology, etiology, apologia, bacteriology, syllogism, bacteriologist, 107 more
through English pathology
pathological, pathologist, psychopathology, histopathology, 34 more
Today it means
noun Neural pathology: The pathology of the nervous system, usually and especially in the sense of its cytopathology and histopathology (as opposed to the study of diseases generally).
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “neuropathology”. 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- / neuropathology