English
logothete
Logothete comes from Ancient Greek λόγος ‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech,…’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning…’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak by carefully selecting one's words’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*lóǵosreconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγος‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech, story, debate, utterance, argument’
- Englishearliest quotation 1997logothete
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak by carefully selecting one's words’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*lóǵosreconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγος‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech, story, debate, utterance, argument’
- Englishearliest quotation 1997logothete
Earliest quotation: 1997, John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium: “Bardas rode to the imperial pavilion, where he seated…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning…’
election, collection, technology, lesson, select, collect, eligible, elite, elect, elegant, legion, coil, negligence, catalogue, negligible, negligent, leach, diligent, lexicon, astrology, lexical, cull, epilogue, dialectic, cosmology, legation, gynecologist, alexia, lexis, lignin, lignite, ineligibility, dialogic, 150 more
through Proto-Hellenic *lógos
archaeological, pathological, astrological, etymology, homologous, pathophysiology, psychopathology, neurophysiology, histopathology, bacteriological, 101 more
through Ancient Greek λόγος ‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech,…’
logic, apology, trilogy, sociology, analogy, physiology, terminology, pathology, monologue, logos, prologue, archaeologist, logistic, pathologist, eulogy, entomology, epistemology, etiology, apologia, bacteriology, syllogism, bacteriologist, 110 more
Today it means
noun Any of various state officials or functionaries in the Byzantine Empire.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- / logothete