The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμήν“month”
- Medieval Greek · borrowed fromμηνολόγιον
- English todaymenologion
From Medieval Greek μηνολόγιον (mēnológion), from Ancient Greek μήν (mḗn, “month”) + -ο- (-o-, “-o-”) + λόγιον (lógion, “writing, record, announcement”), from λόγος (lógos, “writing, recording”) + -ιον (-ion, “-ion: forming related nouns”). Doublet of menologe, menologium, and menology. See horologion.
Words from the same roots
Medieval Greekμηνολόγιον all →
menologiummenology
Ancient Greekμήν all →
menopause
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.