logos

See also: Logos and loĝos

English

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos, “speech, oration, discourse, quote, story, study, ratio, word, calculation, reason”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɒɡɒs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈloʊɡoʊs/, /ˈloʊɡɑs/, /ˈloʊɡɔs/, /ˈlɔɡɔs/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈloʊɡoʊs/, /ˈloʊɡɑs/, /ˈlɑɡɑs/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

logos (plural logoi)

1. (rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses logical argument as the main form of persuasion.
2. Alternative letter-case form of Logos.

Coordinate terms

• (form of rhetoric): ethos, pathos

Translations

form of rhetoric in which the writer or speak uses logic

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 邏各斯 / 逻各斯 (zh) (luógèsī)

• Dutch: logos (nl) m
• Finnish: järkeen vetoaminen, logos (fi)
• Greek: λόγος (el) m (lógos)
• Kazakh: логос (logos)
• Polish: logos (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: logos (pt)
• Serbo-Croatian: lȏgos (sh) m
• Spanish: logos (es)
• Turkish: logos (tr), deyi (tr)

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Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} logos (fr) m

Etymology 2

Noun

logos

1. plural of logo

Anagrams

• slogo

Cornish

Logosen chi (Mus musculus)

Etymology

From Middle Cornish logosan sg, from Old Cornish logoden sg, from Proto-Brythonic *llugod, plural of *llug, from Proto-Celtic *lukūts. Cognate with Breton logod and Welsh llygod.

Noun

logos (collective, singulative logosen f or logojen f)

1. mice

Derived terms

• glydh skovarn logos (“mouse-eared chickweed”)
• (Revived Late Cornish) logos broas (“rats”)
• pys logos (“vetches”)
• skovarn logos (“mouse-ear hawkweed”)

References

• “logos” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.

Czech

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈloɡos]

Noun

logos m inan

1. Logos

Declension

Declension of logos (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	logos	logosy
genitive	logosu	logosů
dative	logosu	logosům
accusative	logos	logosy
vocative	logose	logosy
locative	logosu	logosech
instrumental	logosem	logosy

Related terms

• analogický
• analogie
• antologie
• dialekt
• dialektální
• dialektický
• dialektik
• dialektika
• dialektismus
• dialektolog
• dialektologický
• dialektologie
• dialog
• dyslektický
• dyslektik
• dyslexie
• eklekticismus
• eklektický
• eklektik
• eklektismus
• epilog
• idiolekt
• lexém
• lexikalizace
• lexikalizovat
• lexikální
• lexikograf
• lexikografický
• lexikografie
• lexikolog
• lexikologický
• lexikologie
• lexikon
• -log
• logický
• -logie
• logik
• logika
• logo-
• logoped
• logopedický
• logopedie
• monolog
• nekrolog
• paralogismus
• prolog
• sociolekt
• sylogismus
• sylogistický

Further reading

• “logos”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “logos”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “logos”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Dutch

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos, “logos”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

logos m (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. logos

   Coordinate terms: bathos, ethos, pathos

Related terms

• logica
• -logie
• logisch

Further reading

• logos on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈloɡos/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -oɡos
• Syllabification: lo‧gos

Verb

logos

1. future of logi

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

logos m

1. plural of logo

Italian

Noun

logos m (invariable)

1. logos

Anagrams

• sgolo, sgolò, slogo, slogò, solgo

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-

Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)bor.

Latin logos

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫɔ.ɡɔs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlɔː.ɡos]

Noun

logos m (genitive logī); second declension

1. a word
2. (in the plural) idle talk, empty chatter
3. a witticism, bon mot
4. reason

   Synonym: ratiō

Declension

Second-declension noun (Greek-type).

	singular	plural
nominative	logos	logī logoe
genitive	logī	logōrum
dative	logō	logīs
accusative	logon	logōs
ablative	logō	logīs
vocative	loge	logī logoe

Related terms

• schēma logū n

References

• “logos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “logos”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “logos”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Latvian

Noun

logos m

1. locative plural of logs

Portuguese

Noun

logos

1. plural of logo

Romanian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos).

Noun

logos n (plural logosuri)

1. logos

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	logos	logosul	logosuri	logosurile
genitive-dative	logos	logosului	logosuri	logosurilor
vocative	logosule		logosurilor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lôːɡos/
• Hyphenation: lo‧gos

Noun

lȏgos m inan (Cyrillic spelling ло̑гос)

1. (philosophy, religion) logos

Declension

Declension of logos

	singular
nominative	lȏgos
genitive	lȏgosa
dative	lȏgosu
accusative	lȏgos
vocative	lȏgose
locative	lȏgosu
instrumental	lȏgosom

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈloɡos/ [ˈlo.ɣ̞os]

• Audio (Argentina):

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• Rhymes: -oɡos
• Syllabification: lo‧gos

Noun

logos m pl

1. plural of logo

Swedish

Noun

logos

1. indefinite genitive singular of logo

Anagrams

• slogo

West Makian

Etymology

Said by Voorhoeve to be of Austronesian origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈl̪o.ɡos̪/

Noun

logos

1. coral (of a reef)

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics