terminology
ter·mi·no·logy
noun
1.
a system of words used in a particular discipline
- “legal terminology”
- “the language of sociology”
Origin
From French terminologie or German Terminologie and their source, New Latin terminologia, from Medieval Latin terminus (“a term”) + -ologia (“study of”), from -o- (“(interconsonantal)”) + -logia, from Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “-logy, branch of study, to speak”).
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