1770, from German Terminologie, a hybrid coined by Christian Gottfried Schütz (1747-1832), professor of poetry and rhetoric at Jena, from Medieval Latin terminus "word, expression" (see terminus) + Greek -logia "a dealing with, a speaking of" (see -logy). Related: Terminological.
Decandolle and others use the term Glossology instead of Terminology, to avoid the blemish of a word compounded of two parts taken from different languages. The convenience of treating the termination ology (and a few other parts of compounds) as not restricted to Greek combinations, is so great, that I shall venture, in these cases, to disregard this philological scruple. [William Whewell, "The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences," 1847]
实用例句
1. It's couched in such very user-unfriendly terminology.
文中使用了令用户敬而远之的术语。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The disagreement arose over a different use of terminology.
分歧的缘起在于专门用语使用的不同。
来自《权威词典》
3. In biological terminology life is divided into two groups: plants and animals.
在生物学术语中,生物分为两大类: 植物和动物.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. He particularly criticized the terminology in the document.
他特别批评了文件中使用的术语.
来自《简明英汉词典》
5. The article uses rather specialized musical terminology.
