Etymograph

English

biopathology

Biopathology 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-‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak by carefully selecting one's words’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*lóǵosreconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosreconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγοςlógos‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech, story, debate, utterance, argument’
  5. Frenchc. 1600–presentpathologie‘pathology’
  6. English1500–presentpathology
  7. Englishtodaybiopathology

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak by carefully selecting one's words’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*lóǵosreconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosreconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγοςlógos‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech, story, debate, utterance, argument’
  5. Frenchc. 1600–presentpathologie‘pathology’
  6. English1500–presentpathology
  7. Englishtodaybiopathology

A compound of bio- + pathology

Ancient Greek βίος ‘life’

English bio-

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

Proto-Indo-European *lóǵos

Proto-Hellenic *lógos

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

French pathologie

English pathology

Linked words

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

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

through Proto-Hellenic *lógos

archaeological, astrological, etymology, homologous, pathophysiology, neurophysiology, bacteriological, 102 more

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

logic, apology, trilogy, analogy, terminology, logos, sociology, physiology, monologue, logistic, prologue, archaeologist, eulogy, epistemology, entomology, apologia, etiology, syllogism, bacteriology, bacteriologist, 108 more

through English pathology

pathological, pathologist, psychopathology, histopathology, 35 more

Today it means

noun The pathology (study of the diseases) of organs, tumours and similar biological structures

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- / biopathology