Για την
ετυμολογία του
logistics και πώς έχει σχέση με το γαλλικό
logis (σπίτι· κατάλυμα) — και όχι με την ελληνική
λογική/
λογιστική.
The term logistics is attested in English from 1846, and is from French: logistique, where it was either coined or popularized by military officer and writer Antoine-Henri Jomini, who defined it in his Summary of the Art of War (Précis de l'Art de la Guerre). The term appears in the 1830 edition, then titled Analytic Table (Tableau Analytique), and Jomini explains that it is derived from French: logis, lit. 'lodgings' (cognate to English lodge), in the terms French: maréchal des logis, lit. 'marshall of lodgings' and French: major-général des logis, lit. 'major-general of lodging':
Autrefois les officiers de l’état-major se nommaient: maréchal des logis, major-général des logis; de là est venu le terme de logistique, qu’on emploie pour désigner ce qui se rapporte aux marches d’une armée.
Formerly the officers of the general staff were named: marshall of lodgings, major-general of lodgings; from there came the term of logistics [logistique], which we employ to designate those who are in charge of the functioning of an army.
The term is credited to Jomini, and the term and its etymology criticized by Georges de Chambray in 1832, writing:
Logistique: Ce mot me paraît être tout-à-fait nouveau, car je ne l'avais encore vu nulle part dans la littérature militaire. … il paraît le faire dériver du mot logis, étymologie singulière …
Logistic: This word appears to me to be completely new, as I have not yet seen it anywhere in military literature. … he appears to derive it from the word lodgings [logis], a peculiar etymology …
Chambray also notes that the term logistique was present in the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française as a synonym for algebra.
The French word: logistique is a homonym of the existing mathematical term, from Ancient Greek: λογῐστῐκός, romanized: logistikós, a traditional division of Greek mathematics; the mathematical term is presumably the origin of the term logistic in logistic growth and related terms. Some sources give this instead as the source of logistics, either ignorant of Jomini's statement that it was derived from logis, or dubious and instead believing it was in fact of Greek origin, or influenced by the existing term of Greek origin.
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Logistique στο γαλλοελληνικό λεξικό του Ηπίτη:
Ο αντισυνταγματάρχης του πυροβολικού και καθηγητής της Σχολής Ευελπίδων, Αντώνιος Ηπίτης, είναι ο συγγραφέας του εγκυκλοπαιδικού έργου Λεξικόν Ελληνογαλλικόν και Γαλλοελληνικόν της λαλουμένης ελληνικής γλώσσης.Πρόκειται κατ’ ουσίαν για ένα έργο σταθμό. Κάθε λέξη της ομιλούμενης ελληνικής γλώσσας...
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