Etymograph

English

phytopathologic

Phytopathologic 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. Englishtodayphytopathologic1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English phytopathologic

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-Wiktionary, English phytopathologic‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak by carefully selecting one's words’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lóǵosWiktionary, English phytopathologicreconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosWiktionary, English phytopathologicreconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγοςWiktionary, English phytopathologiclógos‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech, story, debate, utterance, argument’
  5. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπαθολογίᾱWiktionary, English phytopathologicpathologíā
  6. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπᾰθολογῐκόςWiktionary, English phytopathologicpăthologĭkós‘treating feeling or sensation’
  7. English1500–presentpathologicWiktionary, English phytopathologic
  8. EnglishtodayphytopathologicWiktionary, English phytopathologic

Linked words

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

election, collection, technology, lesson, select, elite, collect, eligible, elect, elegant, legion, coil, negligence, catalogue, negligent, negligible, leach, diligent, astrology, lexicon, cull, epilogue, lexical, cosmology, dialectic, alexia, legation, lignite, lexis, lignin, gynecologist, ineligibility, dialogic, 149 more

through Proto-Hellenic *lógos

etymology, homologous, pathophysiology, psychopathology, neurophysiology, histopathology, 101 more

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

apology, trilogy, analogy, sociology, terminology, logos, archaeological, physiology, monologue, prologue, pathology, eulogy, archaeologist, logistic, epistemology, pathological, entomology, pathologist, astrological, etiology, bacteriology, apologia, syllogism, bacteriologist, bacteriological, 106 more

Today it means

adj Synonym of phytopathological.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “phytopathologic”. 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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