886: logistics May 12, 2017

A significant amount of words, including a number of fairly recent ones, have come from initially being only used in the military, such as 'beleaguer'. The word 'logistics' now can refer to pretty much anything relating to coordinating people or things irrespective of purpose, but originally the word had the sense of 'conveying troops and equipment'. The word is also related to 'lodge' as something logistic (or in French, 'logistique') would have related to housing people and supplies. The word was adopted in the 19th century, and eventually took on a more domestic meaning.