"the science of wines, the study of the nature, qualities, and varieties of wine," 1781, from oeno- "wine" + -logy. Related: Oenological; oenologist.
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oeno-
also oino-, word-forming element meaning "pertaining to wine," from Greek oinos "wine" (see wine (n.)).
-logy
word-forming element meaning "a speaking, discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science," from Greek -logia (often via French -logie or Medieval Latin -logia), from -log-, combining form of legein "to speak, tell;" thus, "the character or deportment of one who speaks or treats of (a certain subject);" from PIE root *leg- (1) "to collect, gather," with derivatives meaning "to speak (to 'pick out words')." Often via Medieval Latin -logia, French -logie. In philology "love of learning; love of words or discourse," apology, doxology, analogy, trilogy, etc., Greek logos "word, speech, statement, discourse" is directly concerned.