different between original vs wake

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

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /we?k/
• Homophone: Wake
• Rhymes: -e?k

Etymology 1

A merger of two verbs of similar form and meaning:

• Middle English waken, Old English wacan, from Proto-Germanic *wakan?.
• Middle English wakien, Old English wacian, from Proto-West Germanic *wak?n, from Proto-Germanic *wak?n?.

Verb

wake (third-person singular simple present wakes, present participle waking, simple past woke or waked, past participle woken or waked)

1. (intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     How long I slept I cannot tell, for I had nothing to guide me to the time, but woke at length, and found myself still in darkness.

2. (transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.

3. (transitive, figuratively) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
   • 1880, John Richard Green, History of the English People

     Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm.

4. (intransitive, figuratively) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
5. To lay out a body prior to burial in order to allow family and friends to pay their last respects.
   • Section 14(1)(a), Infectious Diseases Act (Cap. 137, R. Ed. 2003)

     Where any person has died whilst being, or suspected of being, a case or carrier or contact of an infectious disease, the Director may by order prohibit the conduct of a wake over the body of that person or impose such conditions as he thinks fit on the conduct of such wake...

6. To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
7. To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
   • , Book II, Chapter I

     I cannot think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.

8. (obsolete) To be alert; to keep watch

9. (obsolete) To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel.

Derived terms

• bewake
• wake up and smell the ashes
• wake up and smell the coffee
• wake up and smell the roses

Related terms

• wacken

Translations

Noun

wake (plural wakes)

1. (obsolete, poetic) The act of waking, or state of being awake.
   • 1677, John Dryden, All for Love

     Singing her flatteries to my morning wake.

2. The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.

   • The warlike wakes continued all the night, / And funeral games played at new returning light.

Derived terms

• wakeful
• wakeless
• wakesome

Etymology 2

From Old English wacu, from Proto-Germanic *wak?.

Noun

wake (plural wakes)

1. A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party and/or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.
2. (historical, Church of England) A yearly parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.
   • 1523–1525, Jean Froissart, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles

     Great solemnities were made in all churches, and great fairs and wakes throughout all England.

   • And every village smokes at wakes with lusty cheer.

3. A number of vultures assembled together.

Synonyms

• death watch

Translations

See also

• arval, arvel
• shiva, shivah

Etymology 3

Probably from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch wake, from or akin to Old Norse v?k (“a hole in the ice”) ( > Danish våge, Icelandic vök), from Proto-Germanic *wakw? (“wetness”), from Proto-Indo-European *weg?- (“moist, wet”).

Noun

wake (plural wakes)

1. The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
2. The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
3. (figuratively) The area behind something, typically a rapidly moving object.
   • 1826, Thomas De Quincey, Lessing (published in Blackwood's Magazine)

     This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions.

   • 1857-1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians

     Several humbler persons […] formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels.

Translations

Derived terms

• wakeboarding
• wakeskater
• wakeskating
• wake turbulence
• wake vortex

See also

• in the wake of
• wakes

Related terms

• wait
• watch

Anagrams

• weak, weka

Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *waka, from Proto-Germanic *wak?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?.k?/

Noun

wake f (plural waken)

1. A wake (a gathering to remember a dead person).

Verb

wake

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of waken

Japanese

Romanization

wake

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Middle English

Adjective

wake

1. Alternative form of woke

Swahili

Noun

wake

1. plural of mke

Adjective

wake

1. M class inflected form of -ake.
2. U class inflected form of -ake.
3. Wa class inflected form of -ake.

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From Meriam wakey.

Noun

wake

1. (eastern dialect) thigh, upper leg

Synonyms

• dokap (western dialect)