different between original vs now

English

Etymology

From Middle English original, from Old French original, from Late Latin or?gin?lis (“primitive, original”), from Latin or?g? (“beginning, source, origin”); see origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????d??n?l/, /????d??n?l/, /????d?n?l/
• Hyphenation: ori?gi?nal, orig?inal

Adjective

original (comparative more original, superlative most original)

1. (not comparable) relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others
2. (not comparable) first in a series or copies/versions

   Synonym: initial

3. (not comparable) newly created

4. (comparable) fresh, different

5. (not comparable) pioneering

6. (not comparable) having as its origin

Synonyms

• autograph
• prototype

Antonyms

• (first in a series):
  • copy, reproduction, simile (imitation)
  • derivative (branch)
  • ultimate (last, extreme)

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

original (plural originals)

1. An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived.

   Synonym: prototype

   Hyponym: autograph

   Antonyms: copy, derivative, remake, reproduction, ultimate

2. A person with a unique and interesting personality or creative talent.
   • 1700, Tom Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London, page 5:

     I have a great mind to be in Print; but above all, I would fain be an Original, and that is a true Comical Thought: When all the Learned Men in the World are but Tran?lators, is it not a Plea?ant Je?t, that you ?hould ?trive to be an Original! You ?hould have ob?erved your Time, and have come into the World with the Ancient Greeks for that purpo?e; for the Latines them?elves are but Copies.

3. (archaic) An eccentric person.

Translations

Further reading

• original in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• original in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin or?gin?lis, attested from the 14th century.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /o.?i.?i?nal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /u.?i.?i?nal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o.?i.d??i?nal/

Adjective

original (masculine and feminine plural originals)

1. original

Derived terms

• originalitat
• originalment

Related terms

• origen

References

Further reading

• “original” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “original” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “original” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Adjective

original (neuter originalt, plural and definite singular attributive originale)

1. original

Noun

original c (singular definite originalen, plural indefinite originaler)

1. an original

Declension

Further reading

• “original” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “original” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin or?gin?lis. Doublet of originel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.?i.?i.nal/
• Homophones: originale, originales

Adjective

original (feminine singular originale, masculine plural originaux, feminine plural originales)

1. original

   Antonyms: banal, copié, reproduit, vulgaire

Related terms

Noun

original m (plural originaux)

1. an unusual or eccentric person
2. an original manuscript

   Synonym: autographe

Further reading

• “original” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French original, from Old French original, from Late Latin or?gin?lis (“primitive, original”), from Latin or?g? (“beginning, source, origin”). Doublet of originell.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?i?i?na?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

original (comparative originaler, superlative am originalsten)

1. original

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

• “original” in Duden online

Middle English

Alternative forms

• oryginall, origynall, orygynal, orygynall, origynal, oryginal, oregynall, originalle, originall

Etymology

From Old French original, from Late Latin or?gin?lis; equivalent to origyne +? -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ri?i?na?l/, /?ri?i?nal/, /?ri??i?nal/

Adjective

original (plural and weak singular originale)

1. original, primordial; preceding everything else
2. connected to the origin or beginning of something

Derived terms

• originali

Descendants

• English: original
• Scots: original, oreeginal

References

• “or???in??l(e, adj.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-26.

Noun

original (plural originals) (Late Middle English)

1. the origin, lineage, or provenance of something
2. the authoritative, authorial, or primordial version of a work or source
3. (rare) something that isn't living or artificial; a primordial element
4. (rare) a reason, factor, or generator of something
5. (rare) the root or etymological ancestor of a word
6. (rare, religion) the making of the universe
7. (rare, law) a legal document beginning legal action

Derived terms

• originali

Descendants

• English: original
• Scots: original, oreeginal

References

• “or???in??l(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-26.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin or?gin?lis; the noun being derived from the adjective.

Adjective

original (neuter singular originalt, definite singular and plural originale)

1. original

Noun

original m (definite singular originalen, indefinite plural originaler, definite plural originalene)

1. an original

References

• “original” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin or?gin?lis; the noun being derived from the adjective.

Adjective

original (neuter singular originalt, definite singular and plural originale)

1. original

Noun

original m (definite singular originalen, indefinite plural originalar, definite plural originalane)

1. an original

References

• “original” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin or?gin?lis.

Adjective

original m (feminine singular originala, masculine plural originals, feminine plural originalas)

1. original

Derived terms

• originalitat
• originalament

Related terms

• origina

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin or?gin?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /o?i?i?naw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /u???i?na?/, /??i?i?na?/
• Hyphenation: o?ri?gi?nal

Adjective

original m or f (plural originais, comparable)

1. original (relating to the origin or beginning)
2. original (being the first in a series)
3. original (different; unique)

Derived terms

• originalidade
• originalmente

Related terms

• origem

Further reading

• “original” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “original” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ori??na?l/
• Hyphenation: o?ri?gi?nal

Noun

origìn?l m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. original

   Antonym: falsifikat

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin or?gin?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?ixi?nal/, [o.?i.xi?nal]
• Hyphenation: o?ri?gi?nal

Adjective

original (plural originales)

1. original

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “original” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

From Middle English now, nou, nu, from Old English n?, from Proto-West Germanic *n?, from Proto-Germanic *nu, from Proto-Indo-European *n? (“now”).

Adjective

now (not comparable)

1. Present; current.
2. (informal) Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.
3. (archaic, law) At the time the will is written. Used in order to prevent any inheritance from being transferred to a person of a future marriage. Does not indicate the existence of a previous marriage.

See also

• happening

Adverb

now (not comparable)

1. At the present time.

2. (sentence) Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.
3. Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
4. Differently from the situation before a stated event or change of circumstance.
5. At the time reached within a narration.

6. In the context of urgency.

7. (obsolete) As 'but now': Very recently; not long ago; up to the present.
   • c. 1656, Edmund Waller, Of a War with Spain, and Fight for Sea

     They that but now, for honour and for plate, / Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate.

Derived terms

Translations

Conjunction

now

1. Since, because, in light of the fact; often with that.

Translations

Interjection

now!

1. Indicates a signal to begin.

Translations

Noun

now (usually uncountable, plural nows)

1. (uncountable) The present time.

2. (often with "the") The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.

   Synonyms: here and now; see also Thesaurus:the present

3. (countable, chiefly in phenomenology) A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.

Derived terms

• eternal now

Translations

References

• now at OneLook Dictionary Search

Etymology 2

See know.

Verb

now

1. Misspelling of know.

Anagrams

• NWO, own, won