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-logy

1. a combining form used in the names of sciences or bodies of knowledge: paleontology; theology.
2. a termination of nouns referring to writing, discourses, collections, etc.: trilogy; martyrology.

Origin:
ME -logie < L -logia < Gk. See -logue, -y 3
-logy or -ology  
suff.  
  1. Discourse; expression: phraseology.
  2. Science; theory; study: dermatology; sexology.


[Middle English -logie, from Old French, from Latin -logia, from Greek -logiā (from logos, word, speech; see leg- in Indo-European roots) and from -logos, one who deals with (from legein, to speak; see leg- in Indo-European roots).]


-logy 
"a speaking, discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science," from Gk. -logia (often via Fr. -logie or M.L. -logia), from root of legein "to speak;" thus, "the character or department of one who speaks or treats of (a certain subject);" see lecture.

-logy

A`pi*ol"o*gist\, n. [L. apis bee + -logist (see -logy).] A student of bees. [R.] --Emerson.

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