Where does “physiologia” come from?
physiologia (Latin) comes from Ancient Greek φυσιολογία, from Ancient Greek φύσις, from Ancient Greek φύω, from Proto-Indo-European bʰuHyéti, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti, from Proto-Indo-European yé-, from Chichewa iye — he, she.
physiologia (Latin): physiology
Definitions
- physiology
Ancestry of “physiologia”, step by step
physiologia traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Ancient Greek φυσιολογία
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ancient Greek | φυσιολογία | natural philosophy |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | φύσις | origin, birth; nature, quality, property; later,... |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | φύω | To bring forth, produce, generate, cause to grow;... |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰuHyéti | to be becoming, to be growing, to be appearing |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 7 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via Ancient Greek φῠσῐολογίᾱ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ancient Greek | φῠσῐολογίᾱ | inquiry into natural causes and phenomena |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | -logía | — |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | λόγος | That which is said: word, sentence, speech,... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | λέγω | I put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |
Words derived from “physiologia”
- physiology
- pathophysiology
- neurophysiology
- electrophysiology
- psychophysiology
- ecophysiology
- ethnophysiology
- geophysiology
- neuropathophysiology
- sociophysiology
- histophysiology
- immunophysiology
- microphysiology
- thermophysiology
- zoophysiology
- neuropsychophysiology
- morphophysiology
- photophysiology
- geophysiologist
- cytophysiology
- physiologize
- physiologie
- физиоло́гия
- fiziológia