Forms abstract nouns, typically of Latin/Greek stems as the counterpart to adjectives in -isch. · Forms nouns referring to schools of thought or movements. · Forms nouns describing a characteristic.
köken: Borrowed from Latin -icus and Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor. Latin -logialbor. Italian -logia Learned borrowing from Latin -logia.
Suffix denoting the study of something, or the branch of knowledge of a discipline.
köken: From Ancient Greek λέγω (légō, “speak, pick, tell”) (thus, “the character or department of one who speaks or treats of (a certain subject)”; see lecture).