English
homologous
Homologous comes from Ancient Greek ὁμόλογος ‘agreeing, of one mind’, 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 BCEὁμόλογοςhomólogos‘agreeing, of one mind’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEhomologus
- Englishearliest quotation 1655homologous
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 BCEὁμόλογοςhomólogos‘agreeing, of one mind’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEhomologus
- Englishearliest quotation 1655homologous
Earliest quotation: 1655, Thomas Stanley, [Thales.] Chap[ter] VII. Of His Geometry.: “Of equiangle triangles, the ſides that are about equall…”
A compound of ὁμός ‘same’ + λόγος ‘reason, reckoning’
Proto-Indo-European *sem- ‘together, one’
Proto-Indo-European *somHós ‘same, alike’
Proto-Hellenic *homós
Ancient Greek ὁμός ‘same’
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ‘to collect (words)’
Proto-Hellenic *lógos
Ancient Greek λόγος ‘reason, reckoning’
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, legation, alexia, lignite, lexis, lignin, gynecologist, cosmology, ineligibility, dialogic, 151 more
through Proto-Indo-European *lóǵos
archaeological, pathological, astrological, pathophysiology, psychopathology, neurophysiology, bacteriological, histopathology, 90 more
through Proto-Hellenic *lógos
logic, apology, trilogy, analogy, sociology, terminology, physiology, pathology, logos, logistic, prologue, archaeologist, monologue, eulogy, pathologist, epistemology, etymology, etiology, entomology, bacteriology, apologia, syllogism, bacteriologist, 110 more
Today it means
adj In corresponding proportion.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- / homologous