English
logos
Logos comes from Ancient Greek λόγος ‘speech, oration, discourse, quote, story,…’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ‘to collect (words)’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-‘to collect (words)’reconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγοςlógos‘speech, oration, discourse, quote, story, study, ratio, word, calculation, reason’
- Englishtodaylogos
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-‘to collect (words)’reconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγοςlógos‘speech, oration, discourse, quote, story, study, ratio, word, calculation, reason’
- Englishtodaylogos
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ‘to collect (words)’
election, collection, technology, lesson, select, elite, collect, eligible, elect, elegant, legion, coil, negligence, catalogue, negligible, negligent, leach, diligent, lexicon, astrology, lexical, cull, epilogue, dialectic, legation, alexia, lignite, gynecologist, lexis, lignin, cosmology, ineligibility, dialogic, 151 more
through Proto-Hellenic *lógos
archaeological, pathological, etymology, astrological, pathophysiology, homologous, psychopathology, neurophysiology, histopathology, bacteriological, 102 more
through Ancient Greek λόγος ‘speech, oration, discourse, quote, story,…’
logic, apology, sociology, trilogy, terminology, physiology, analogy, pathology, monologue, archaeologist, pathologist, prologue, logistic, epistemology, eulogy, entomology, etiology, bacteriology, apologia, bacteriologist, syllogism, 111 more
Today it means
noun A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses logical argument as the main form of persuasion.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- / logos