Etymology

logorrheic

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Today it means: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting logorrhea, the excessive flow of words Full definition →

English logorrhea ← Ancient Greek ῥοία (rhoía) ← Proto-Hellenic *hréwō
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*lóǵos
  3. Proto-Hellenic*lógos
  4. Ancient Greekλόγος (lógos)
  5. Englishlogo-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*ser-?
  7. Proto-Indo-European*srew-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*sréweti
  9. Proto-Hellenic*hréwō
  10. Ancient Greekῥέω (rhéō)
  11. Ancient Greekῥοία (rhoía)
  12. Englishlogorrhea
  13. English todaylogorrheic

From logorrhea + -ic.

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