NODE / 0055attestedAncient Greek
λογικός
TRANSLITERATION logikós
of speech, reason, or reasoning
- DATE
- Ancient Greek
- SENSE
- default
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Hellenic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:10:logikos:attested
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANTderivationestablished
Ancient Greek · Ancient Greekλογική
the logical art or science
- SOUND
- Greek λογική is the substantivized feminine of λογικός, conventionally with an understood noun such as τέχνη.
- MEANING
- “Pertaining to reasoning” becomes the name of the art itself.
- SCHOLAR
- Ancient Greek lexicography
- CONFIDENCE
- established
03TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE
This is the complete downstream closure currently supported by the canonical graph. Every displayed step is a real reviewed edge with its own sound claim, meaning claim, scholar, confidence, and citations.
- UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES
- 5
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 5
- DEEPEST PATH
- 5
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01derivationestablished
- SOUND
- Greek λογική is the substantivized feminine of λογικός, conventionally with an understood noun such as τέχνη.
- MEANING
- “Pertaining to reasoning” becomes the name of the art itself.
Ancient Greek lexicography1 CITATIONEDGE 46 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Latin logica borrowed and adapted Greek λογική.
- MEANING
- The Greek “logical art” became the Latin discipline.
Merriam-Webster · Greek lexicography1 CITATIONEDGE 45 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 031 EDGE
STEP 03borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- French transmitted the learned Latin form with Romance phonology.
- MEANING
- The name of the rational art remained technical.
French and Latin historical lexicography1 CITATIONEDGE 44 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 041 EDGE
STEP 04borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English adapted the Anglo-French form and spelling.
- MEANING
- The scholastic discipline retained its core reference.
HISTORICAL STEP 051 EDGE
STEP 05inheritanceestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English final consonant and vowel pattern stabilized as modern logic with later pronunciation change.
- MEANING
- The technical discipline broadened into everyday “reasoning” and, later, computational circuitry.
“Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.
04RECORDED EVIDENCE
ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE
NO RECORDED WITNESS ATTACHED.The reviewed graph does not yet attach a source-reported or directly inspected witness to this canonical form.
05EDITORIAL REUSE
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