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Where does the word "logos" come from? It comes from Greek logos, and was adopted directly into English (1580s).
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Where does the word "logos" come from? It comes from Greek logos, and was adopted directly into English (1580s).
Logos’s story begins in Greek: logos meant “word, reason.” Word, reason, an appeal to logic in rhetoric. It reached English by 1580s as logos. Aristotle's 'Rhetoric' paired logos with ethos and pathos. Today, logos means an appeal to logic and reason as a means of persuasion.
- Stage 1 · Greek · ancient logos "word, reason", word, reason, an appeal to logic in rhetoric.
- Stage 2 · English · 1580s logos "persuasion through logical argument", Aristotle's 'Rhetoric' paired logos with ethos and pathos.