'Technology' is Greek for 'systematic treatment of an art' — from 'techne' (craft) + 'logos' (study).
The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes; machinery, equipment, and methods developed from such knowledge; a branch of knowledge dealing with applied sciences.
From Greek 'tekhnologia' (systematic treatment of an art or craft), composed of 'tekhnē' (art, skill, craft) + 'logos' (word, discourse, study). In Greek, 'tekhnologia' meant the systematic study or description of a practical art. The word entered English in the seventeenth century referring to the systematic study of the arts and crafts. The modern sense — applied science
Greek 'tekhnē' encompassed far more than what we mean by 'technology.' For the Greeks, tekhnē included painting, sculpture, medicine, music, rhetoric, and shipbuilding — any systematic body of practical knowledge. Aristotle distinguished tekhnē (productive knowledge — knowing how to make things