Pronounced: tell-ee-AHL-uh-jee, noun
Notes: I didn’t recognize this word, but after I saw the definition, I’ve run across a form of it
Yesterday’s word
The word balneology is “the science of the therapeutic use of baths”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1800s
Background / Comments
As noted yesterday, I knew that the -ology ending meant “study” (but, as in our word, it can also mean “science”), but I didn’t know it had to do with baths. Our word came from the Latin word balneum (bath) and the -logy (science) ending.
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