Meanings
- rareuncountablehuman sciencesThe explanation of technical terms.
- rareuncountablehuman sciencesTechnical terms collectively; terminology.
In the Terminology, or what, to avoid the barbarism of a word compounded of Latin and Greek, they would beg to call the Orismology of the science, they have endeavoured to introduce throughout a greater degree of precision and concinnity—dividing it into general and partial Orismology; […]
1815, William Kirby, William Spence, “Preface”, in An Introduction to Entomology: Or Elements of the Natural History of Insects: with Plates, 3rd edition, volume 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, published 1818, page xii
Origin
- Proto-Hellenic*wórwos
- Ancient Greekὅρος (hóros)
- Ancient Greekὁρίζω (horízō)
- Ancient Greekὁρισμός (horismós)
- Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
- Proto-Indo-European*lóǵos
- Proto-Hellenic*lógos
- Ancient Greekλόγος (lógos)
- Englishorismology
From Ancient Greek ὁρισμός (horismós, “definition”) + English -logy.
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