[1965–70; ‹ It sindon(e) the shroud in which Christ was interred (‹ Gk (NT) sindo᷇n winding sheet, Gk: muslin sheet; cf. sindon) + -o- + -logy]This word is first recorded in the period 1965–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Finlandization, double-book, overdub, stun gun, wraparound-o- is the typical ending of the first element of compounds of Greek origin (as -i- is, in compounds of Latin origin), used regularly in forming new compounds with elementsof Greek origin and often used in English as a connective irrespective of etymology(Franco-Italian; geography; seriocomic; speedometer); -logy is a combining form used in the names of sciences or bodies of knowledge. Other wordsthat use the affix -logy include: anthropology, genealogy, methodology, thanatology, topology