Etymograph

English

oncopathology

Oncopathology 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. Englishtodayoncopathology1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English oncopathology

Lineage

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

A compound of onco- + pathology

Ancient Greek ὄγκος ‘lump, mass, bulk’

English onco-

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, technology, collection, select, elite, lesson, eligible, collect, elect, elegant, legion, coil, catalogue, negligence, negligible, negligent, leach, diligent, lexical, cull, astrology, epilogue, lexicon, dialectic, alexia, lignite, lexis, lignin, cosmology, legation, 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, apology, trilogy, analogy, sociology, terminology, logos, physiology, logistic, prologue, archaeologist, monologue, 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 cancer

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “oncopathology”. 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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