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fathom
English
Etymology
From Middle English fathome, fadome, from Old English fæþm, fæþme (“outstretched or encircling arms, embrace, grasp, protection, interior, bosom, lap, breast, womb, fathom, cubit, power, expanse, surface”), from Proto-Germanic *faþmaz (“embrace”), from Proto-Indo-European *pet- (“to spread out, extend”). Cognate with Low German fadem, faem (“a cubit, thread”), Dutch vadem, vaam (“fathom”), German Faden (“thread, filament, fathom”), Danish favn (“embrace, fathom”), Norwegian Bokmål favn (“embrace, fathom”), Swedish famn (“the arms, bosom, embrace”), Icelandic faðmur (“embrace”), Latin pate?, Ancient Greek ????????? (petánnumi), Ancient Greek ??????? (pétalos) [whence English petal].
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fæð?m/
Noun
fathom (plural fathoms)
- (obsolete) Grasp, envelopment, control.
- (units of measure, now usually nautical) An English unit of length for water depth notionally based upon the width of grown man's outstretched arms but standardized as 6 feet (about 1.8 m).
- Synonyms: brace, (obsolete) stade, (Greek) orguia
- (units of measure) Various similar units in other systems.
- 1611, Bible (KJV), Acts 27:28:
- And sounded, and found it twentie fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded againe, and found it fifteene fathoms.
- 1611, Bible (KJV), Acts 27:28:
- (figuratively) Depth of insight, mental reach or scope.
Translations
Verb
fathom (third-person singular simple present fathoms, present participle fathoming, simple past and past participle fathomed)
- (transitive, archaic) To encircle with outstretched arms, especially to take a measurement; to embrace.
- (transitive) To measure the depth of, take a sounding of.
- (transitive, figuratively) To get to the bottom of; to manage to comprehend; understand (a problem etc.).
- Synonyms: fathom out, figure out, puzzle out, work out
Translations
Derived terms
- fathomable
- fathometer
- fathomless
- fathom out
- unfathomable
See also
- deep six
Further reading
- fathom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- fathom in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- fathom at OneLook Dictionary Search
- fathom on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
fathom From the web:
- = 1.8288 meters
- what fathom means
unfathomed
English
Etymology
un- +? fathomed
Adjective
unfathomed (not comparable)
- Of unknown depth.
- Not explored or understood.
See also
- fathom
unfathomed From the web:
- unfathomed meaning
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