cindynics

The story

1. Pre-Greek · derived from
2. Ancient Greek · derived fromκῐ́νδῡνος“danger, hazard, risk”
3. French · borrowed fromcindyniques
4. English todaycindynics

Borrowed from French cindyniques + English -ics (suffix forming nouns denoting fields of knowledge or practice). Cindyniques is a learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κῐ́νδῡνος (kĭ́ndūnos, “danger, hazard, risk”) (probably from Pre-Greek) + French -ique (suffix forming nouns denoting fields of knowledge or practice) + -s (suffix forming plurals), and was coined by the French engineer Georges-Yves Kervern (1935–2008) in 1987, and first published in the Le Monde newspaper on 10 December 1987.

First known use, by meaning

• from late 20th c. The science of risk analysis.