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Where does “psyops” come from?

psyops (English) comes from English psychological, from English psychology, from French psychologie, from Latin psychologia, from Latin -logia, from Ancient Greek -λογία, from Ancient Greek λόγος, from Ancient Greek λέγω — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

psyops (English): Techniques used by military and police forces to...

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  1. Techniques used by military and police forces to...

Ancestry of “psyops”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpsychologicalOf or pertaining to psychology; Without an...
2EnglishpsychologyThe study of the human mind; The study of human...
3Frenchpsychologiepsychology
4Latinpsychologia—
5Latin-logia-logy; the study of
6Ancient Greek-λογίαBase for nouns denoting the study of something,...
7Ancient GreekλόγοςThat which is said: word, sentence, speech,...
8Ancient GreekλέγωI put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,...
9Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
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