Etymology

bureaupathology

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Today it means: Harmful traits of a bureaucratic organization, such as inflexibility and impersonality. Full definition →

English pathology ← French pathologie ← Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*péh₂wr̥
  2. Proto-Hellenic*pāwər
  3. Ancient Greekπῦρ (pûr)
  4. Ancient Greekπῠρρός (pŭrrhós)
  5. Latinburrus
  6. Latinburra
  7. Old French*bure
  8. Old Frenchburel
  9. Frenchbureau
  10. Proto-Indo-European*kret-
  11. Ancient Greekκρᾰ́τος (krắtos)
  12. Frenchbureaucratie
  13. Englishbureaucracy
  14. Ancient Greekπάσχω (páskhō)
  15. Ancient Greekπᾰ́θος (pắthos)
  16. Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
  17. Proto-Indo-European*lóǵos
  18. Proto-Hellenic*lógos
  19. Ancient Greekλόγος (lógos)
  20. Frenchpathologie
  21. Englishpathology
  22. English todaybureaupathology

Blend of bureaucracy + pathology.

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