Etymology

plutology

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Today it means: The science that deals with wealth. Full definition →

Ancient Greek πλοῦτος
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  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromπλοῦτος“wealth”
  2. 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

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.