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pathophysiology

Pathophysiology comes from French physiologie ‘natural philosophy, natural science’, 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. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEφῠσῐολογίᾱ1phŭsĭologíā‘inquiry into natural causes and phenomena’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEphysiologia1‘natural philosophy, natural science’
  7. Frenchc. 1600–presentphysiologie1‘natural philosophy, natural science’
  8. English1500–presentphysiology1
  9. Englishtodaypathophysiology1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English pathophysiology

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-Wiktionary, English pathophysiology‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak by carefully selecting one's words’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lóǵosWiktionary, English pathophysiologyreconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosWiktionary, English pathophysiologyreconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγοςWiktionary, English pathophysiologylógos‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech, story, debate, utterance, argument’
  5. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEφῠσῐολογίᾱWiktionary, English pathophysiologyphŭsĭologíā‘inquiry into natural causes and phenomena’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEphysiologiaWiktionary, English pathophysiology‘natural philosophy, natural science’
  7. Frenchc. 1600–presentphysiologieWiktionary, English pathophysiology‘natural philosophy, natural science’
  8. English1500–presentphysiologyWiktionary, English pathophysiology
  9. EnglishtodaypathophysiologyWiktionary, English pathophysiology

A compound of patho- + physiology

Ancient Greek πᾰ́σχω ‘to feel’

Ancient Greek πάθος ‘pain, suffering, death’

English patho-

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

…

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

Ancient Greek φῠσῐολογίᾱ ‘inquiry into natural causes and phenomena’

Latin physiologia ‘natural philosophy, natural science’

French physiologie

English physiology

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, lexical, cull, astrology, epilogue, dialectic, cosmology, alexia, lignite, lexis, lignin, gynecologist, legation, ineligibility, dialogic, 150 more

through Proto-Hellenic *lógos

archaeological, pathological, etymology, astrological, homologous, psychopathology, bacteriological, histopathology, 102 more

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

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

through English physiology

neurophysiology

Today it means

noun The physiological processes associated with disease or injury.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “pathophysiology”. 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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