Where does “anthropological” come from?
Anthropological comes from English anthropology plus the English suffix -ic, derived from Ancient Greek -λογία (discourse) and λόγος (word, reason), ultimately from λέγω (to speak) and Proto-Indo-European -kos.
anthropological (English): Relating to anthropology
Definitions
- Relating to anthropology
Ancestry of “anthropological”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | anthropology | The holistic scientific and social study of... |
| 2 | New Latin | anthropologia | anthropology |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | Ἄνθρωπος | human being; person (as differentiated from gods, beasts, etc.) |
| 4 | Latin | -us | suffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,... |
| 5 | Old Latin | -os | accusative masculine plural of -us |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -os | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |