logistique
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Ancient Greek λογιστικός (logistikós, “practiced in arithmetic, rational”), from λόγος (lógos). Sense of “logistic function” by Pierre François Verhulst (1845).[1]
Adjective edit
logistique (plural logistiques)
- (mathematics) Relating to symbolic logic; logistic
- (statistics) Relating to the logistic function; logistic
Descendants edit
- English: logistic
Etymology 2 edit
- From Ancient Greek λογιστική (logistikḗ), an ellipsis of λογιστικὴ τέχνη (logistikḕ tékhnē);[2]
- Or from loger (“to lodge”) or logis (“lodging place”) + -istique.[3]
Noun edit
logistique f (plural logistiques)
Adjective edit
logistique (plural logistiques)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ 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”
- ^ “logistique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- ^ “logistics, n2.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Further reading edit
- “logistique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.