Other forms: terminologies
Terminology is the special vocabulary of a particular field. Legal terminology, confusing terminology, agree the terminology.
Every field builds one, and the purpose is precision rather than exclusion — though the effect is often both. Arguing about terminology is what people do when they disagree about the underlying thing and have not noticed. Note term, terminological; and that the Latin terminus means a boundary, so a term marks off what it covers.
1nounterminologyThe special vocabulary of a particular field.
“Medical terminology can be very confusing for patients.”
terminology is a vocabulary.
Also accepted in games: jargon
New Latin terminologia is terminus, a boundary or term, plus the Greek ending for study. Terminate and determine come from the same boundary.
Ancient Greek
-λογία — -logy, branch of study, to speak
Medieval Latin
terminus — a term
New Latin
terminologia
German
Terminologie
French
terminologie
English, today
terminology
Built from
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 (“-logy, branch of study, to speak”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA