Etymograph

English

palaeopathology

Palaeopathology 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. Englishtodaypalaeopathology1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English palaeopathology

Lineage

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

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, negligence, catalogue, negligible, negligent, leach, diligent, lexicon, cull, astrology, epilogue, lexical, dialectic, cosmology, legation, lignite, lexis, lignin, gynecologist, alexia, 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, sociology, terminology, logos, analogy, physiology, monologue, logistic, prologue, archaeologist, eulogy, epistemology, entomology, etiology, apologia, bacteriology, syllogism, bacteriologist, 107 more

through English pathology

pathological, pathologist, psychopathology, histopathology, 34 more

Today it means

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Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “palaeopathology”. 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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