terminology

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived from-λογία“-logy, branch of study, to speak”
2. Medieval Latin · derived fromterminus“a term”
3. New Latin · derived fromterminologia
4. German · borrowed fromTerminologie
5. French · borrowed fromterminologie
6. English todayterminology

From French terminologie or German Terminologie and their source, New Latin terminologia, from Medieval Latin terminus (“a term”) + -ologia (“study of”), from -o- (“(interconsonantal)”) + -logia, from Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “-logy, branch of study, to speak”).

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