Where does “radiologic” come from?
Radiologic derives from English radiology combined with English -logy, which comes from Latin -icus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -kos, a suffix forming adjectives.
radiologic (English): Of or pertaining to radiology
Definitions
- Of or pertaining to radiology
Ancestry of “radiologic”, step by step
radiologic traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via English radiology
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | radiology | The use of radioactive substances in diagnosis... |
| 2 | English | radio | The technology that allows for the transmission... |
| 3 | English | radiotelegraphy | The process and techniques of sending telegrams... |
| 4 | English | telegraphy | communication at a distance by means of the... |
| 5 | English | Telegraph | any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code |
| 6 | French | télégraphe | telegraph |
| 7 | French | télé- | tele- |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | τῆλε | far off, afar, far away |
| 9 | Latin | commūnicāre | — |
| 10 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 11 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 16 | Middle English | kyt | — |
via French radiologique
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | radiologique | radiological |
| 2 | French | -ique | Used to form adjectives from nouns: -ic, -ical,... |
| 3 | Middle French | -ique | ic |
| 4 | Old French | -ique | -ic |
| 5 | Latin | -icus | belonging to; derived from; of or pertaining to;... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *-ikos | forms adjectives with the sense of 'of or pertaining to' |
via Catalan radiologia
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Catalan | radiologia | radiology |
| 2 | Catalan | radio- | radio |
| 3 | Latin | radio- | — |