The story
- Ancient Greek · derived from-λογία
- Latin · derived from-logia“the study of”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromγεω-“earth”
- Renaissance Latin · derived fromgeōlogia
- English todaygeology
From geo- + -logy, partly after Renaissance Latin geōlogia, from Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-, “earth”) + Latin -logia (“the study of”), from Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekγεω- all →
geostrophicgeo-geosmin
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.