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User:Erutuon, are you sure about your 24 June 2017 edit? The TLFi says it's simply an ellipsis of λογιστικὴ τέχνη; what you've written is weird morphologically speaking.
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===Etymology 2===
===Etymology 2===
* From {{bor|fr|grc|λογιστική}}, an ellipsis of {{m|grc|[[λογιστικὴ]] [[τέχνη]]}};
From {{m|fr|loger|t=to lodge}} or {{m|fr|logis|t=lodging place}} + {{affix|fr|-istique}}.
* Or from {{m|fr|loger|t=to lodge}} or {{m|fr|logis|t=lodging place}} + {{affix|fr|-istique}}.


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Revision as of 20:23, 23 April 2019

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek λογιστικός (logistikós, practiced in arithmetic, rational), from λόγος (lógos). Sense of “logistic function” by Pierre François Verhulst (1845).[1]

Adjective

logistique (plural logistiques)

  1. (mathematics) Relating to symbolic logic; logistic.
  2. (statistics) Relating to the logistic function; logistic.
Descendants

Etymology 2

Noun

logistique f (plural logistiques)

  1. logistics

Adjective

logistique (plural logistiques)

  1. relating to logistics
Derived terms
Descendants

References

  1. ^ Verhulst, Pierre-François (1845) “Recherches mathématiques sur la loi d'accroissement de la population [Mathematical Researches into the Law of Population Growth Increase]”, in Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles[1], volume 18, retrieved 2013-02-18, page 8 of 1–42:Nous donnerons le nom de logistique à la courbe // We will give the name logistic to the curve

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