1472: A Brief Study of '-(o)logy' Dec 23, 2018

The suffix '-(o)logy' often is used in words to mean 'study of'. Initially most of the elements to which this suffix affixed itself were Greek in origin, but in other, newer words like 'mixology' the stem word is English. However, other words like 'phraseology' does not refer to the study of phrases, and it never did; the suffix also denotes characteristics of speech and language. This is true of words like 'eulogy' and 'trilogy' as well.
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