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- Ancient Greek · derived fromπλοῦτος“wealth”
- English todayplutology
From Ancient Greek πλοῦτος (ploûtos, “wealth”) + -logy. Coined in the 1870s as a book title, Plutology, where the term was capitalised
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπλοῦτος all →
PlutusPloutospluto-plutocrat
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.