Latin word [[vexillum]] (a kind of square flag which was carried by Roman cavalry) and the Greek suffix ("study").

History

American scholar Whitney Smith is acknowledged for conceiving "vexillology" in 1957. He wrote, "While the use of flags goes back to the earliest days of human civilization, the study of that usage in a serious fashion is so recent that the term for it did not appear in print until 1959." Before this time, the study of flags was generally considered a part of

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