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  1. suffix Discourse; expression: phraseology.
  2. suffix Science; theory; study: dermatology; sexology.

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  1. Middle English -logie, from Old French, from Latin -logia, from Greek -logiā (from logos, word, speech; see leg- in Indo-European roots) and from -logos, one who deals with (from legein, to speak; see leg- in Indo-European roots).
 

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