English
logic
Logic comes from Middle English logik, from Old French logike, from Latin logica, from Greek λογική ‘logic’, from λόγος ‘speech, reason’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-‘to collect, gather (words)’reconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγος‘speech, reason’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEλογικόςlogĭkós‘of speech or reason; rational’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEλογική‘logic’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElogica
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400logike
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500logik
- Englishtodaylogic
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-‘to collect, gather (words)’reconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγος‘speech, reason’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEλογικόςlogĭkós‘of speech or reason; rational’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEλογική‘logic’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElogica
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400logike
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500logik
- Englishtodaylogic
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ‘to collect (words)’
election, collection, technology, lesson, select, elite, collect, eligible, elect, elegant, coil, negligence, legion, catalogue, negligent, leach, diligent, negligible, astrology, cull, lexicon, lexical, epilogue, legation, cosmology, alexia, dialectical, dialectic, lignite, lexis, lignin, gynecologist, ineligibility, 151 more
through Proto-Hellenic *lógos
etymology, homologous, pathophysiology, psychopathology, neurophysiology, histopathology, 102 more
through Ancient Greek λόγος ‘speech, reason’
apology, sociology, trilogy, terminology, physiology, analogy, pathology, archaeological, logos, monologue, prologue, pathological, archaeologist, pathologist, epistemology, eulogy, entomology, logistic, etiology, astrological, bacteriology, apologia, bacteriologist, syllogism, bacteriological, 107 more
Another origin of logic
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-‘to collect (words)’reconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγοςlógos‘speech, reason’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEλογικόςlogikós‘of or pertaining to speech or reason or reasoning, rational, reasonable’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEλογικήlogikḗfeminine of λογικός
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElogica
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400logike
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500logik
- Englishtodaylogic
Today it means
adj Logical.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- / logic