Etymograph

English

neuropathologic

Neuropathologic 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-‘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. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEπαθολογίᾱpathologíā
  6. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEπᾰθολογῐκόςpăthologĭkós‘treating feeling or sensation’
  7. English1500–presentpathologic
  8. Englishtodayneuropathologic

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. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEπαθολογίᾱpathologíā
  6. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEπᾰθολογῐκόςpăthologĭkós‘treating feeling or sensation’
  7. English1500–presentpathologic
  8. Englishtodayneuropathologic

A compound of neuro- + pathologic

Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁- ‘to spin (thread), to sew’

Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥ ‘sinew, tendon’

Ancient Greek νεῦρον ‘sinew, tendon, cord’

English neuro-

Ancient Greek πᾰ́σχω ‘to feel’

Ancient Greek πάθος ‘suffering’

Ancient Greek παθολογικός ‘treating feeling or sensation’

English pathologic

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, catalogue, negligence, leach, diligent, negligent, negligible, lexicon, cull, astrology, epilogue, lexical, cosmology, dialectic, alexia, legation, lignite, lexis, lignin, gynecologist, ineligibility, dialogic, 151 more

through Proto-Hellenic *lógos

etymology, homologous, pathophysiology, psychopathology, neurophysiology, histopathology, 102 more

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

apology, trilogy, analogy, sociology, terminology, physiology, logos, archaeological, monologue, pathology, prologue, archaeologist, logistic, eulogy, epistemology, entomology, pathological, pathologist, etiology, astrological, bacteriology, apologia, syllogism, bacteriologist, bacteriological, 107 more

Today it means

adj Of or pertaining to neuropathology

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

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