different between logos vs tao

English

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ????? (lógos, “speech, oration, discourse, quote, story, study, ratio, word, calculation, reason”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l???s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?lo??o?s/, /?lo???s/

Noun

logos (plural logoi)

1. (rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses logic as the main argument.
2. Alternative letter-case form of Logos

Coordinate terms

• (form of rhetoric): ethos, pathos

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

logos

1. plural of logo

Anagrams

• slogo

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *llugod, plural of *llug, from Proto-Celtic *lukoss.

Noun

logos f (singulative logosen or logojen)

1. mice

Derived terms

• (Revived Late Cornish) logos broas

Czech

Etymology

Ancient Greek ????? (lógos)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lo?os]

Noun

logos m

1. Logos

Related terms

Further reading

• logos in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• logos in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Esperanto

Verb

logos

1. future of logi

French

Noun

logos m

1. plural of logo

Italian

Noun

logos m (invariable)

1. logos

Anagrams

• sgolo, sgolò
• slogo, slogò

Latvian

Noun

logos m

1. locative plural form of logs

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (lógos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lô??os/
• Hyphenation: lo?gos

Noun

l?gos m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. (philosophy, religion) logos

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lo?os/, [?lo.??os]

Noun

logos

1. plural of logo

Swedish

Noun

logos

1. indefinite genitive singular of logo

Anagrams

• slogo

English

Alternative forms

• dao

Etymology

From the Wade-Giles romanization of Chinese ? (Dào, literally “the Way”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da?/, /ta?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Proper noun

tao

1. (Chinese philosophy) Alternative letter-case form of Tao: the way of nature, or way to live one's life.

Noun

tao (usually uncountable, plural taos)

1. (by extension) The art or skill of doing something in harmony with the essential nature of the thing.

   Synonym: zen

   the tao of archery

2. (historical, obsolete) Synonym of circuit: various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China.

See also

• ananke

Anagrams

• AOT, ATO, OTA, Ota, To'a, oat, toa

Bikol Central

Verb

taó

1. to give

Butuanon

Noun

tao

1. person; human

Finnish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?o?/, [?t??o?(?)]
• Rhymes: -?o
• Syllabification: ta?o

Verb

tao

1. inflection of takoa:
   1. indicative present connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative present/present connegative

Etymology 2

From Chinese ? (dào).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?o/, [?t??o?]
• Rhymes: -?o
• Syllabification: ta?o

Noun

tao

1. tao

Declension

Anagrams

• oat, ota

French

Noun

tao m (plural taos)

1. (philosophy) Tao

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?o?]
• Hyphenation: tao
• Rhymes: -o?

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Mandarin ? (dào, “way, path”).

Noun

tao

1. tao

Declension

Derived terms

• taoista
• taoizmus

Etymology 2

Abbreviation from the name of the act on társasági adó és osztalékadó (“corporate tax and dividend tax”).

Noun

tao

1. Acronym of társasági adó és osztalékadó.

Declension

Derived terms

• taózás
• taózik

References

Ilocano

Noun

tao

1. person
2. human

Italian

Alternative forms

• dao

Etymology

From the Wade-Giles romanization of Chinese ? (Dào, literally “the Way”) or (dào, "circuit")

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.o/
• Rhymes: -ao
• Hyphenation: tà?o

Noun

tao m (invariable)

1. (philosophy) Tao

Derived terms

• taoismo
• taoista

Japanese

Romanization

tao

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Malagasy

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ta?uq. Compare Indonesian taruh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [to]

Noun

tao

1. act, action
2. preparation

Verb

tao

1. to do
2. to prepare, arm, take precautions

Related terms

Mandarin

Romanization

tao

1. Nonstandard spelling of t?o.
2. Nonstandard spelling of táo.
3. Nonstandard spelling of t?o.
4. Nonstandard spelling of tào.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Maori

Noun

tao

1. spear

Samoan

Noun

tao

1. spear

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

tao (ma class, plural matao)

1. arch

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• tauo, tau (obsolete)
• tawo (obsolete)

Etymology

From Tagalog tawo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau, from Proto-Austronesian *Cau. Cognate with Thao caw, Ilocano tao, Cebuano tawo, and Motu tau.

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /?ta.?o/
• Hyphenation: ta?o

Noun

tao

1. human, human being, person, man
2. one of the faces of a coin

   Synonym: tihaya

3. husband
4. a person left alone in a place as a guard or caretaker

   Synonyms: bantay, tanod

Related terms

Derived terms

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /ta.??o/

Adjective

taó

1. (archaic) mortal

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• (North Central Vietnam) tau

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *so? (“I; me”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [ta?w??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [ta?w??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ta?w??]

Pronoun

tao • (?, ?, ????)

1. (impolite, familiar, disrepectful or hostile) I/me

   Antonyms: mày, mi

Yami

Noun

tao

1. person; human