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Etymology
The term science derives from the Latin scientia (meaning "knowledge, awareness, understanding"), sciens ("knowing") and sciō/scīre ("to know"), and has been used in the sense of "the state of knowing" since the 14th century in Middle English.

In the past, in keeping with its origin, science was used as a synonym for "knowledge" or "study", with one conducting scientific research called a "man of science" or a "natural philosopher". The term scientist was created in the early half of the 19th century, with science coming to acquire its current meanings.
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The names of many fields of science in English are ultimately derived from Latin and ancient Greek, beginning in a prefix relating to the nature of the field and ending in the suffix -logy, from Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía). Specialists in fields of these names are typically referred to be a term consisting of the field's prefix and the suffix -logist (e.g. a scientist specializing in biology is a biologist). Similarly in Japanese, the names of many fields end in the suffix -gaku (学, roughly relating to "study/learning"), with associated specialists ending in suffix -gakusha (学者, roughly "one who studies/scholar/academic(ian) etc"). <!-- W-Extract: The word science has been used in Middle English since the 14th century in the sense of "the state of knowing". The word was borrowed from the Anglo-Norman language as the suffix -cience, which was borrowed from the Latin word scientia, meaning "knowledge, awareness, understanding". It is a noun derivative of the Latin sciens meaning "knowing", and undisputedly derived from the Latin sciō, the present participle scīre, meaning "to know".[32]

There are many hypotheses for science's ultimate word origin. According to Michiel de Vaan, Dutch linguist and Indo-Europeanist, sciō may have its origin in the Proto-Italic language as *skije- or *skijo- meaning "to know", which may originate from Proto-Indo-European language as *skh1-ie, *skh1-io, meaning "to incise". The Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben proposed sciō is a back-formation of nescīre, meaning "to not know, be unfamiliar with", which may derive from Proto-Indo-European *sekH- in Latin secāre, or *skh2-, from *sḱʰeh2(i)- meaning "to cut".[33]

In the past, science was a synonym for "knowledge" or "study", in keeping with its Latin origin. A person who conducted scientific research was called a "natural philosopher" or "man of science".[34] In 1833, William Whewell coined the term scientist and the term first appeared in literature one year later in Mary Somerville's On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, published in the Quarterly Review.[35] History

W-Extract: -logy is a suffix in the English language, used with words originally adapted from Ancient Greek ending in -λογία (-logía).[1] The earliest English examples were anglicizations of the French -logie, which was in turn inherited from the Latin -logia.[2] The suffix became productive in English from the 18th century, allowing the formation of new terms with no Latin or Greek precedent.

The English suffix has two separate main senses, reflecting two sources of the -λογία suffix in Greek:[3]

a combining form used in the names of school or bodies of knowledge, e.g., theology (loaned from Latin in the 14th century) or sociology. In words of the type theology, the suffix is derived originally from -λογ- (-log-) (a variant of -λεγ-, -leg-), from the Greek verb λέγειν (legein, 'to speak').[4] The suffix has the sense of "the character or deportment of one who speaks or treats of [a certain subject]", or more succinctly, "the study of [a certain subject]".[5] (The Ancient Greek noun λόγος lógos mentioned below can also be translated, among other things, as "subject matter".[6]) the root word nouns that refer to kinds of speech, writing or collections of writing, e.g., eulogy or trilogy. In words of this type, the "-logy" element is derived from the Greek noun λόγος (logos, 'speech', 'account', 'story').[4] The suffix has the sense of "[a certain kind of] speaking or writing".[7]

Philology is an exception: while its meaning is closer to the first sense, the etymology of the word is similar to the second sense.[8] Contents

1 -logy versus -ology 2 Additional usage as a suffix 3 Compound series of works of art 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

-logy versus -ology In English names for fields of study, the suffix -logy is most frequently found preceded by the euphonic connective vowel o so that the word ends in -ology.[9] In these Greek words, the root is always a noun and -o- is the combining vowel for all declensions of Greek nouns. However, when new names for fields of study are coined in modern English, the formations ending in -logy almost always add an -o-, except when the root word ends in an "l" or a vowel, as in these exceptions:[10] analogy, dekalogy, disanalogy, genealogy, genethlialogy, hexalogy; herbalogy (a variant of herbology), mammalogy, mineralogy, paralogy, petralogy (a variant of petrology); elogy; heptalogy; antilogy, festilogy; trilogy, tetralogy, pentalogy; palillogy, pyroballogy; dyslogy; eulogy; and brachylogy.[7] Linguists sometimes jokingly refer to haplology as haplogy (subjecting the word haplology to the process of haplology itself). -->

Table
This section lists some of the fields, branches, disciplines and other sub-divisions of science which have been featured or referenced in the series. It should be noted that many areas of these fields overlap with one another.

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