The story
- Ancient Greek · derived from-λογία“discourse, branch of knowledge”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromνόσος“disease”
- Latin · derived fromnosologia
- English todaynosology
From post-classical Latin nosologia, formed as from Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos, “disease”) + Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “discourse, branch of knowledge”). By surface analysis, noso- + -logy.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekνόσος all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.