logion

Meanings

1. A traditional saying of a religious leader.
2. A saying that is attributed to Jesus in ancient or reconstructed texts that was (originally) handed down without narrative context.

Etymology

] From Ancient Greek λόγιον (lógion, “oracle”), from λόγος (lógos, “word; the word or wisdom of God”) (from λέγω (légō, “I say”), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather”)) + -ιον (-ion, suffix forming diminutive nouns).