The story
- Latin · derived from-logia“study”
- Medieval Latin · derived fromminera“mineral”
- New Latin · borrowed fromminerālogia
- English todaymineralogy
From New Latin minerālogia, from Medieval Latin minera (“mineral”) + Latin -logia (“study”). By surface analysis, mineral + -logy.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.