malacology

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromμαλακός“soft”
2. French · derived frommalacologie
3. English todaymalacology

From French malacologie, contraction of malacozoologie, from the (obsolete) taxonomic name Malacozoa + French -ologie (“-ology”), Malacozoa being in turn from Ancient Greek μαλακός (malakós, “soft”) + ζῷον (zōîon, “animal”). Equivalent to malaco- + -logy.

Words from the same roots