English
lectic
Lectic comes from Ancient Greek λέγω ‘to put in order, arrange, gather’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-‘to collect, gather’reconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*légō‘to gather’reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλέγω‘to put in order, arrange, gather’
- Englishtodaylectic
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-‘to collect, gather’reconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*légō‘to gather’reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλέγω‘to put in order, arrange, gather’
- Englishtodaylectic
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ‘to collect, gather’
elite, election, collection, lesson, logic, eligible, apology, trilogy, sociology, elegant, coil, select, collect, analogy, terminology, negligence, legion, physiology, pathology, logos, negligent, monologue, elect, diligent, prologue, negligible, pathologist, archaeologist, eulogy, leach, cull, etymology, epistemology, entomology, homologous, logistic, lignite, lignin, etiology, apologia, 163 more
through Ancient Greek λέγω ‘to put in order, arrange, gather’
technology, catalogue, astrology, epilogue, cosmology, lexicon, gynecologist, lexical, alexia, lexis, dialogic, dialectical, 19 more
Today it means
adj Pertaining to a generalization of alphabetical order applied to sets such that, for each pair of sets, their relative ordering is the order obtained if you remove their common (shared) elements and compare the last element in each remaining subset.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- / lectic