'aposporogony' originates from Neo-Latin/Greek-derived scientific formation, specifically from the prefix 'apo-' (Greek) meaning 'away from' or 'without', 'spora'/'sporos' (Greek) meaning 'spore' or 'seed', and 'gony' from Greek 'gonos' meaning 'generation' or 'offspring'.

'aposporogony' formed in botanical/biological Neo-Latin usage by combining 'apospory' (the condition of gametophyte formation without meiosis) with the suffix '-gony' (relating to birth or generation), and entered technical English usage in specialized botanical literature in the 19th–20th centuries.

Initially coined to name a specific type of asexual gametophyte formation ('generation without spore formation via meiosis'), its use has remained specialized and now denotes the particular botanical process of embryo-sac development from somatic sporophytic cells without meiosis.