The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromταὐτολογία
- Late Latin · derived fromtautologia
- English todaytautology
From Late Latin tautologia, from Ancient Greek ταὐτολογία (tautología) from ταὐτός (tautós, “the same”) + λόγος (lógos, “explanation”). By surface analysis, tauto- + -logy.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.