Etymograph

English

pathologist

Pathologist 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. Englishtodaypathologist1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English pathologist

Lineage

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

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning…’

election, collection, technology, lesson, select, elite, collect, eligible, elect, elegant, coil, legion, negligence, catalogue, negligent, negligible, leach, diligent, lexicon, lexical, cull, epilogue, astrology, dialectic, cosmology, alexia, lignite, legation, lignin, lexis, gynecologist, ineligibility, dialogic, 151 more

through Proto-Hellenic *lógos

archaeological, etymology, homologous, astrological, pathophysiology, neurophysiology, bacteriological, 103 more

through Ancient Greek λόγος ‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech,…’

logic, apology, trilogy, analogy, sociology, terminology, physiology, logos, monologue, prologue, eulogy, archaeologist, entomology, logistic, epistemology, etiology, bacteriology, apologia, syllogism, bacteriologist, 109 more

through English pathology

psychopathology, histopathology, 36 more

Today it means

noun An expert in pathology; a specialist who examines samples of body tissues for diagnostic or forensic purpose.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “pathologist”. 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- / pathologist

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