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logia

logia is the plural of logion.

Meaning of logion

Noun

logion (plural logia)

  1. A traditional saying of a religious leader.
    • It is clear from Origen's wording that he is not referring to a logion of the original Montanist leaders, but to a statement made by later adherents of the New Prophecy. […] The logion is probably authentic.2006, William Tabbernee, “‘Recognizing the Spirit’: Second-generation Montanist Oracles”, in F. Young, M. Edwards, P. Parvis, editors, Studia Patristica: Papers Presented at the Fourteenth...
  2. (specifically) A saying that is attributed to Jesus in ancient or reconstructed texts that was (originally) handed down without narrative context.
    • The Q materials are often thought to have almost exclusively consisted of logia.
    Synonyms:
    agraphon

Questions about logia

What is logia the plural of?
Logia is the plural of logion.

Words near logia in the dictionary

  1. loghouses
  2. Loghry
  3. Loghrys
  4. Loghtan
  5. Logi
  6. logia
  7. logic
  8. logic analyzer
  9. logic analyzers
  10. logic board
  11. logic boards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: logia (page history and authors); logion (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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