Where does “filologia” come from?
filologia (Finnish) comes from Latin philologia, from Ancient Greek φιλολογία, from Ancient Greek φιλόλογος, from Ancient Greek -λόγος, from Ancient Greek -ός, from Proto-Hellenic *-os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
filologia (Finnish): philology; Partitive singular form of filologi
Definitions
- philology; Partitive singular form of filologi
Ancestry of “filologia”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | philologia | — |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | φιλολογία | love of reasoning; love of learning, love of... |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | φιλόλογος | that loves to speak, loquacious; loving logic;... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | -λόγος | word, speech; one who speaks; word, knowledge,... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | -ός | Forms agentive or patientive adjectives and nouns from the o-grade of a verbal root |
| 6 | Proto-Hellenic | *-os | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |