## Etymology
From strategic + -ally, ultimately from Ancient Greek stratēgia ('generalship'), from stratēgos ('general'), from stratos ('army') + agein ('to lead').

## AI Etymology
Strategically comes from strategic + -ally, ultimately from Ancient Greek stratēgia ('generalship'), from stratēgos ('general'), from stratos ('army') + agein ('to lead'). The historical chain includes Ancient Greek stratēgos, Ancient Greek stratos, and Ancient Greek agein. The quoted older senses, "generalship", "general", "army", and "to lead", supply the semantic anchors for strategically. The formation is best read as suffixal, compound, and borrowed: the word strategically carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a adv, "in a way that relates to or shows strategy". Related English forms include strategy, strategic, strategist, and stratagem. The result is a adv whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

## Topics
- Business & Commerce
- Word Formation & Derivatives

markdown

strategically

Meanings

Thesaurus

Etymology

Topics

External links

Keyboard Shortcuts

General

Send feedback