pathologia

Forms

pathologia f (genitive pathologiae); first declension^[1][2] Manuscripts mostly write patologia or patalogia.^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Ancient Greek παθολογία (pathología),^[3][4] made of πάθος (páthos, “suffering, emotion”) and λόγος (lógos, “word, account”).^[3] The TLL notes that the Greek word is not found elsewhere,^[1] while Etymonline gives the Greek word the sense “study of the passions”.^[5]

Earliest recorded meaning

It is known only from glossaries, which explain it as passionis ratio, “the account of suffering” or “of passion”.^[1][6][3]

Semantic evolution

The British medieval dictionary, which also has it only from a glossary, renders it as the study of the passions or of disease.^[4] Ecclesiastical Latin uses it for a disorder or illness, and for pathology.^[2]

Medical Latin pathologia, “study of disease”, gave French pathologie, the source of English pathology in the 1610s.^[5]

Timeline

• 1610s – English pathology is formed through French from medical Latin pathologia.^[5]

Meanings

Noun

1. (glossaries) The account of suffering or passion.^[1][6]
2. (Medieval Latin) The study of the passions or of disease.^[4]
3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) A disorder, illness; pathology.^[2]

Related words

• English pathology

References

1. ^ a b c d e Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
2. ^ a b c Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson
3. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
4. ^ a b c Latham, R. E., D. R. Howlett, R. K. Ashdowne, et al. (1975–2013), Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: British Academy / Oxford University Press
5. ^ a b c Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
6. ^ a b Goetz, Georg (1888–1923), Corpus glossariorum Latinorum, Leipzig: Teubner; vols. VI–VII Thesaurus glossarum emendatarum, digital ed. CGLO, Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften