English
bacteriologist
Bacteriologist comes from Ancient Greek λόγος ‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech,…’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning…’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak by carefully selecting one's words’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*lóǵosreconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγοςlógos‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech, story, debate, utterance, argument’
- Englishearliest quotation 1895bacteriologist
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak by carefully selecting one's words’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*lóǵosreconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγοςlógos‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech, story, debate, utterance, argument’
- Englishearliest quotation 1895bacteriologist
Earliest quotation: 1895, H. G. Wells: “'This again,' said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide…”
A compound of bacterio- + -logist
Ancient Greek βακτηρία ‘rod, staff, cane’
Ancient Greek βακτήριον ‘diminutive of βακτηρία (baktēría)’
New Latin bactērium
English bacterio-
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning…’
election, technology, collection, lesson, select, elite, eligible, collect, elegant, elect, coil, catalogue, negligence, legion, negligent, negligible, diligent, leach, lexicon, lexical, cull, astrology, epilogue, cosmology, dialectic, alexia, legation, lignin, lignite, lexis, gynecologist, ineligibility, dialogic, 153 more
through Proto-Hellenic *lógos
archaeological, pathological, etymology, homologous, pathophysiology, astrological, psychopathology, neurophysiology, histopathology, 104 more
through Ancient Greek λόγος ‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech,…’
logic, apology, trilogy, analogy, sociology, logos, pathology, physiology, terminology, monologue, prologue, eulogy, archaeologist, pathologist, logistic, entomology, epistemology, etiology, apologia, syllogism, 112 more
Today it means
noun A microbiologist whose speciality is bacteriology.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- / bacteriologist