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Language: Old French
Origin: -logie, from Latin -logia, from Greek, from logos; LOGIC

-logy

 suffix
     
Related topics: Hard Science, Society
-logy [in nouns]
HS another form of the suffix -ology:
mineralogy (=the study of minerals)
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