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Logic — Word History
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Merriam-Webster
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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resolvedcontextestablished
Does λόγος simply mean “logic”?
No. λόγος ranges across account, reckoning, explanation, speech, discourse, word, and reason; “logic” is one specialized descendant.
Word History and modern sensesDocuments the later technical history of English logic.
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EDGE 42supportsestablished
logic → logik
Present-Day English → Middle English · inheritance
- 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.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster editors
Word History and modern sensesMiddle English continuity and expanded modern senses.
EDGE 43supportsestablished
logik → logique
Middle English → Anglo-French · borrowing
- SOUND
- Middle English adapted the Anglo-French form and spelling.
- MEANING
- The scholastic discipline retained its core reference.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster editors
EtymologyAnglo-French transmission.
EDGE 44supportsestablished
logique → logica
Anglo-French → Latin · borrowing
- SOUND
- French transmitted the learned Latin form with Romance phonology.
- MEANING
- The name of the rational art remained technical.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- French and Latin historical lexicography
EtymologyLatin stage.
EDGE 45supportsestablished
logica → λογική
Latin → Ancient Greek · borrowing
- SOUND
- Latin logica borrowed and adapted Greek λογική.
- MEANING
- The Greek “logical art” became the Latin discipline.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster · Greek lexicography
EtymologyGreek λογική source.
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logicSOURCE-REPORTED
logic
Middle English lexical record
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Latin and medieval French scholarship
Traces Middle English logik through Anglo-French and Latin logica to Greek logikē and reports first known English use in the twelfth century.
Word History: Etymology and First Known Use · regionalstage 4supports
England and global technical culture
Documents the formal-reasoning and computing/circuit senses while anchoring the English record in the twelfth century; it does not date every later semantic expansion.
Definitions 1 and 1d; First Known Use · global070
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