The story
- Ancient Greek · derived from-λογία“study of”
- Latin · derived fromsilva“forest”
- English todaysilvology
From silva + -o- + -logy. From Latin silva (“forest”) + Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “study of”). Coined by Roeloff Oldeman in 1990 in his book Forests: elements of silvology.
Words from the same roots
Latinsilva all →
silvaSylviaSilviaselvasilvicoloussilvics
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.