Etymograph

English

panlogism

Panlogism comes from New Latin Panlogismus, from Ancient Greek λόγος ‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech,…’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ‘to collect (words)’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-1‘to collect (words)’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógos1reconstructed
  3. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγος2‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech, story, debate, utterance, argument’
  4. New Latinc. 1500–1900Panlogismus2
  5. Englishtodaypanlogism2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Ancient Greek λόγος
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English panlogism

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-Wiktionary, Ancient Greek λόγος‘to collect (words)’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*lógosWiktionary, Ancient Greek λόγοςreconstructed
  3. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλόγοςWiktionary, English panlogism‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech, story, debate, utterance, argument’
  4. New Latinc. 1500–1900PanlogismusWiktionary, English panlogism
  5. EnglishtodaypanlogismWiktionary, English panlogism

The story

Coined by Johann Eduard Erdmann as New Latin Panlogismus in Die Entwicklung der deutschen Speculation seit Kant.

Full etymology on Wiktionary

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ‘to collect (words)’

election, collection, technology, lesson, select, elite, collect, eligible, elect, elegant, coil, legion, negligence, catalogue, negligent, leach, negligible, diligent, lexicon, astrology, lexical, cull, epilogue, dialectic, legation, cosmology, alexia, lignite, lignin, gynecologist, lexis, ineligibility, dialogic, 148 more

through Proto-Hellenic *lógos

archaeological, pathological, etymology, homologous, astrological, pathophysiology, psychopathology, neurophysiology, bacteriological, histopathology, 100 more

through Ancient Greek λόγος ‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech,…’

logic, apology, trilogy, sociology, terminology, physiology, analogy, logos, pathology, monologue, prologue, eulogy, archaeologist, entomology, epistemology, pathologist, logistic, etiology, bacteriology, apologia, bacteriologist, syllogism, 109 more

Today it means

noun The Hegelian doctrine that the universe is the act or realization of Logos, and therefore logic and ontology are the same study.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “panlogism”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Ancient Greek λόγος. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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