Etymology

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Today it means: Of, related to, or composed of logographs. Full definition →

English logograph ← Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) ← Proto-Hellenic *lógos
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*lóǵos
  3. Proto-Hellenic*lógos
  4. Ancient Greekλόγος (lógos)
  5. Englishlogo-
  6. Englishgraph
  7. Englishlogograph
  8. English todaylogographic

From logograph + -ic.

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