parapsychology=باراسايكولوجي

parapsychology=باراسايكولوجي

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:

parapsychology (n.)

1924, from para- (1) "beside" + psychology.

para- (1)

before vowels, par-, word-forming element meaning "alongside, beyond; altered; contrary; irregular, abnormal," from Gk. para- from para (prep.) "beside, near, issuing from, against, contrary to," from PIE root *per- "forward, through," cognate with O.E. for- "off, away" (see fore (adv.)).

psychology (n.)

1650s, "study of the soul," probably coined mid-16c. in Germany by Melanchthon as Mod.L. psychologia, from Gk. psykhe- "breath, spirit, soul" (see psyche) + logia "study of" (see -logy). Meaning "study of the mind" first recorded 1748, from G. Wolff's Psychologia empirica (1732); main modern behavioral sense is from 1895.

psyche (n.)

1640s, "animating spirit," from L. psyche, from Gk. psykhe "the soul, mind, spirit, breath, life, the invisible animating principle or entity which occupies and directs the physical body" (personified as Psykhe, the lover of Eros), akin to psykhein "to blow, cool," from PIE root *bhes- "to blow" (cf. Skt. bhas-). The word had extensive sense development in Platonic philosophy and Jewish-influenced theological writing of St. Paul. In English, psychological sense is from 1910.

-logy

word-forming element meaning "a speaking, discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science," from Gk. -logia (often via Fr. -logie or M.L. -logia), from root of legein "to speak;" thus, "the character or deportment of one who speaks or treats of (a certain subject);" see lecture (n.).