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.
Noun
פְּסִיכוֹלוֹגְיָה • (psikhologya) f
- psychology (study of the human mind)
References
- Darko Zubrinic, Zagreb (1995) Croatian Humanists, Ecumenists, Latinists, and Encyclopaedists. croatianhistory.net
- “psihologija”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Croatian), accessed 3 June 2013
- Vidal, Fernando (2011) The Sciences of the Soul: The Early Modern Origins of Psychology, University of Chicago Press, page 25