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-logy is a in the English language, used with words originally adapted from ending in ( ).List of ancient Greek words ending in -λογία on The earliest English examples were anglicizations of the French , which was in turn inherited from the . "-logy." The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. retrieved 20 Aug. 2008. The suffix became productive in English from the 18th century, allowing the formation of new terms with no Latin or Greek precedent.

The English suffix has two separate main senses, reflecting two sources of the -λογία suffix in Greek: "-logy." Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. retrieved 20 Aug. 2008.

  • a combining form used in the names of school or bodies of knowledge, e.g., (loaned from Latin in the 14th century) or . In words of the type , the suffix is derived originally from -λογ- ( -log-) (a variant of -λεγ-, -leg-), from the verb λέγειν ( legein, 'to speak')."-logy." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. Oxford University Press, 1986. retrieved 20 August 2008. The suffix has the sense of "the character or deportment of one who speaks or treats of a", or more succinctly, "the study of a". "-logy." Online Etymology Dictionary. retrieved 20 Aug. 2008 (The Ancient Greek noun λόγος mentioned below can also be translated, among other things, as "subject matter".)
  • the root word nouns that refer to kinds of speech, writing or collections of writing, e.g., or . In words of this type, the "-logy" element is derived from the Greek noun λόγος ( , 'speech', 'account', 'story'). The suffix has the sense of "a speaking or writing"."-logy." The Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition. Oxford University Press, 1989. retrieved 20 August 2008.
is an exception: while its meaning is closer to the first sense, the etymology of the word is similar to the second sense. "Philology." Online Etymology Dictionary. retrieved 14 Jul. 2011


-logy versus -ology
In English names for fields of study, the suffix -logy is most frequently found preceded by the euphonic connective vowel o so that the word ends in -ology.Eric Partridge, Origins, 2nd edition, New York, Macmillan, 1959 In these Greek words, the root is always a noun and -o- is the for all declensions of Greek nouns. However, when new names for fields of study are coined in modern English, the formations ending in -logy almost always add an -o-, except when the root word ends in an "l" or a vowel, as in these exceptions: Words Ending In ogy : Words Ending With ogy , dekalogy, disanalogy, , , ; herbalogy (a variant of ), , , , petralogy (a variant of ); ; ; , ; , , ; , ; ; ; and . Linguists sometimes jokingly refer to as haplogy (subjecting the word haplology to the process of haplology itself).


Additional usage as a suffix
Per , words ending in -logy are sometimes used to describe a subject rather than the study of it (e.g., ). This usage is particularly widespread in medicine; for example, is often used simply to refer to "the disease" itself (e.g., "We haven't found the pathology yet") rather than "the study of a disease".

Books, journals, and treatises about a subject also often bear the name of this subject (e.g., the scientific journal Ecology).

When appended to other English words, the suffix can also be used humorously to create (e.g., as "the study of beer"). As with other classical compounds, adding the suffix to an initial word-stem derived from Greek or may be used to lend grandeur or the impression of scientific rigor to humble pursuits, as in cosmetology ("the study of beauty treatment") or cynology ("the study of dog training").


Compound series of works of art
The -logy or -ology suffix is commonly used to indicate finite series of art works like books or movies. For paintings, the "tych" suffix is more common (e.g. , ). Examples include:

Further terms like duology (two, mostly in ) quadrilogy (four) and octalogy (eight) have been coined but are rarely used: for a series of 10, sometimes "decalog" is used (e.g. in the ) instead of "decalogy".


See also
  • List of words ending in ology
  • Classical compound


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