phylogeny

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromφῦλον“tribe, genus, species”
2. German · borrowed fromPhylogenie
3. English todayphylogeny

Borrowed from German Phylogenie, coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866, a neologism created as if borrowed from a Classic Greek word φυλογένεια (phulogéneia), composed from Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon, “tribe, genus, species”) + -γένεια (-géneia, “-geny (generation, production)”), equivalent to phylo- + -geny.

Words from the same roots