myEtymology.com: English etymology of analogy

Etymology of the English word analogy

the English word analogy

derived from the Old French word analogie

derived from the Latin word analogia (ratio, proportion; analogy)

derived from the Greek word analogia, ἀναλογία (proportion)

derived from the Greek word analogos, ἀνάλογος

derived from the Greek word logos, λόγος (word, speech, topic, treatise, reasoning)

derived from the Greek word legein, λέγω (to speak)

derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *leg- (to collect, to speak)

using the Greek prefix ana-, ἀνα-

derived from the Greek word ana, ἀνά (according to; apart; properly, up; but (by extension) used (distributively) severally, or (locally) at (etc.))

derived from the Greek word logos, λόγος (word, speech, topic, treatise, reasoning)

derived from the Greek word legein, λέγω (to speak)

derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *leg- (to collect, to speak)

The earliest known usage of analogy in English dates from the 16th century.

Dutch analogie, French analogie, German Analogie, Italian analogia, Latin analogia, Lithuanian analogija, Norwegian analogi, Russian aналогия, Swedish analogi

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