connoisseur of both the Greek and Latin language, gave the term the
very form recorded by his biographer. I think that Bozicevic, not very
good at orthography (of which let his manuscripts be the proof),
somehow modified Marulic’s original term, at least changing
y
in
i,
and
perhaps treating the first part of the compound word as compounds with
»physis« (physiologia, physiognomia). In any case Marulic’s term is the
oldest case known so far of compounding the noun
yjvxy
and the suffix
-loyia
to form a term denoting the science of mental life — the term
»psychology«.
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