sociology

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromλόγος“word, knowledge”
2. Ancient Greek · derived from-λογία
3. Latin · derived fromsocius“companion, fellowship”
4. French · borrowed fromsociologie
5. English todaysociology

From French sociologie, coined by Auguste Comte in 1834, itself a combination of Latin socius (“companion, fellowship”) and the Greek suffix Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía), itself from Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos, “word, knowledge”), from socio- + -logy. Previous mentions of the field in English usually referred to it as social physics.

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