Etymograph

English

nonpathologic

Nonpathologic 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. Englishearliest quotation 2015nonpathologic1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English nonpathologic
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2015: “MiRNA levels in these never smoker OSCCs were compared…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-Wiktionary, English nonpathologic‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak by carefully selecting one's words’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lóǵosWiktionary, English nonpathologicreconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosWiktionary, English nonpathologicreconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγοςWiktionary, English nonpathologiclógos‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech, story, debate, utterance, argument’
  5. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπαθολογίᾱWiktionary, English nonpathologicpathologíā
  6. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπᾰθολογῐκόςWiktionary, English nonpathologicpăthologĭkós‘treating feeling or sensation’
  7. English1500–presentpathologicWiktionary, English nonpathologic
  8. Englishearliest quotation 2015nonpathologicWiktionary, English nonpathologic. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2015: “MiRNA levels in these never smoker OSCCs were compared…”

A compound of non- + pathologic

Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos ‘one’

…

Proto-Germanic *nainaz ‘none, nought, zero’

Proto-West Germanic *nain

Old English nān ‘no, not any’

Middle English non ‘no, not any’

English non-

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, select, elite, lesson, collect, eligible, elect, elegant, coil, negligence, legion, catalogue, negligent, negligible, leach, diligent, astrology, cull, epilogue, lexical, lexicon, cosmology, dialectic, alexia, lignite, lexis, lignin, gynecologist, legation, 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, physiology, terminology, logos, archaeological, prologue, eulogy, pathology, archaeologist, monologue, logistic, epistemology, entomology, pathological, pathologist, astrological, etiology, bacteriology, apologia, syllogism, bacteriologist, bacteriological, 106 more

Today it means

adj Not pathologic.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “nonpathologic”. 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- / nonpathologic

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