The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμέρος“part”
- English todaymereology
Coined by Stanisław Leśniewski in 1927, from Ancient Greek μέρος (méros, “part”) + -logy (“study, discussion, science”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekμέρος all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.