logos

See also: Logos and loĝos

English

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Wikipedia

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):

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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) Portuguese: logos (pt) Serbo-Croatian: lȏgos (sh) m Turkish: logos (tr), deyi (tr)

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Etymology 2

Noun

logos

1. plural of logo

Anagrams

• slogo

Cornish

Etymology

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

Noun

logos f (singulative logosen or logojen)

1. mice

Derived terms

• (Revived Late Cornish) logos broas

Czech

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈloɡos]

Noun

logos m inan

1. Logos

Declension

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

Declension of logos (hard masculine inanimate)

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), 2008–2025

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

logos m (uncountable)

1. logos

   Coordinate terms: bathos, ethos, pathos

Related terms

• logica
• -logie
• logisch

Further reading

• logos on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Esperanto

Verb

logos

1. future of logi

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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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

From Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈlo.ɡos/, [ˈɫ̪ɔɡɔs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlo.ɡos/, [ˈlɔːɡos]

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
genitive	logī	logōrum
dative	logō	logīs
accusative	logon	logōs
ablative	logō	logīs
vocative	loge	logī

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

Declension of logos

	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 (Cyrillic spelling ло̑гос)

1. (philosophy, religion) logos

Declension

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

Declension of logos

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, Pacific linguistics