The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπνεύμων“lung”
- New Latin · derived frompneumologia
- English todaypneumology
From New Latin pneumologia, from Ancient Greek πνεύμων (pneúmōn, “lung”) + -logia (“-logy”). By surface analysis, pneumo- + -logy.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπνεύμων all →
pneumo-
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.