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See also: Logos and loĝos

English

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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/
  • (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈloʊɡoʊs/, /ˈloʊɡɑs/, /ˈlɑɡɑs/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

logos (plural logoi)

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

Noun

logos

  1. plural of logo

Anagrams

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *llugod, plural of *llug, from Proto-Celtic *lukūts.

Noun

logos f (singulative logosen or logojen)

  1. mice

Derived terms

Czech

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos).

Pronunciation

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

Further reading

  • logos in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • logos in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • logos in Internetová jazyková příručka

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

logos m (uncountable)

  1. logos
    Coordinate terms: bathos, ethos, pathos

Further reading

Esperanto

Verb

logos

  1. future of logi

French

Pronunciation

Noun

logos m

  1. plural of logo

Italian

Noun

logos m (invariable)

  1. logos

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos).

Pronunciation

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).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative logos logī
Genitive logī logōrum
Dative logō logīs
Accusative logon logōs
Ablative logō logīs
Vocative loge logī

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

Declension of logos
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) logos logosul (niște) logosuri logosurile
genitive/dative (unui) logos logosului (unor) logosuri logosurilor
vocative logosule logosurilor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lȏgos m (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

Noun

logos m pl

  1. plural of logo

Swedish

Noun

logos

  1. indefinite genitive singular of logo

Anagrams

West Makian

Etymology

Said by Voorhoeve to be of Austronesian origin.

Pronunciation

Noun

logos

  1. coral (of a reef)

References

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics
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