פסיכולוגיה

Hebrew

Etymology

Ultimately from Renaissance Latin psychologia (coined by Marko Marulić[1][2][3] from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”) + Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “study of”)).

Cognate with Russian психология (psixologija), Polish psychologia and other Slavic synonyms.

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Noun

פְּסִיכוֹלוֹגְיָה • (psikhologya) f

  1. psychology (study of the human mind)

References
  1. Darko Zubrinic, Zagreb (1995) Croatian Humanists, Ecumenists, Latinists, and Encyclopaedists. croatianhistory.net
  2. “psihologija”, in Hrvatski jezični portal‎ (in Serbo-Croatian), 2013 June 3 (last accessed)
  3. Vidal, Fernando (2011) The Sciences of the Soul: The Early Modern Origins of Psychology‎, University of Chicago Press, page 25
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