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-logy — Definition and Word History
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Merriam-Webster
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- EXTERNAL RECORD
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RANK 17GRADE Asupports
-logy never simply meant “the study of.”
The bound form’s recorded range includes expression and discourse as well as doctrine, theory, science, and study. Its trail reaches Greek logos—word, speech, account, reckoning, reason—rather than a prehistoric word meaning “science.”
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*leǵ- → λέγω → λόγος → -λογία → -logia → -logie → -logie → -logy
Definitions 1–2 and EtymologyPublishes the multi-sense combining form and its Greek logos ancestry.
-logy dossier ↗truth record ↗89UNVEILING
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DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
resolvedsupportsestablished
Does -logy simply mean “the study of”?
No. Merriam-Webster gives oral or written expression as one sense and doctrine, theory, or science as another; American Heritage separately gives discourse or expression and science, theory, or study. “Study of” is a useful reading in many formations, not a universal historical definition.
Definitions 1–2Publishes expression and discourse beside doctrine, theory, and science.
resolvedsupportsestablished
Was -logy a freestanding ancestral word?
No evidence reviewed here supports that representation. Merriam-Webster calls -logy a noun combining form and explains that a hyphenated entry is a word element forming part of a compound; the historical forms are likewise evidenced within larger formations. The unrelated adjective logy “sluggish” has a different history.
Separate adjective and noun combining-form entriesDistinguishes unrelated sluggish logy from the bound learned element.
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EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
EDGE 1025supportsestablished
-logy → -logie
Present-Day English → Middle English · historical continuation
- SOUND
- Middle English -logie is continued by modern English -logy with spelling and pronunciation adapted to later English patterns.
- MEANING
- The learned form remains productive across expression, discourse, doctrine, theory, science, and study senses rather than narrowing to one universal gloss.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- American Heritage Dictionary Editors · Merriam-Webster Editors
Definitions 1–2Documents the modern expression, doctrine, theory, and science range.
EDGE 1028contextestablished
-logia → -λογία
Latin → Ancient Greek · borrowing
- SOUND
- Latin -logia borrows and transliterates Greek -logiā.
- MEANING
- A Greek formation in the speaking and account family becomes a reusable learned Latin element.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- American Heritage Dictionary Editors · Merriam-Webster Editors
Etymology: French -logie, Latin -logia, Greek, from logosIndependently publishes the French, Latin, and Greek sequence in compressed form.
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-logySOURCE-REPORTED
-logy
Merriam-Webster noun combining-form entry
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stage 2context
Latin learned networks
Independently identifies the Latin learned form.
Etymology: Latin -logia · broadstage 5supports
Global English
Documents the current combining-form range.
Definitions 1–2 · global070
NON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS
HISTORICAL CONTEXT, KEPT SEPARATE
No non-genealogical context link currently cites this source.
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