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English

Alternative forms

• potatoe (obsolete)
• p'tater, tater (dialectal or informal)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??te?.t??/, [p???t?e?t???]
• (General American) enPR: p?-t??t?, IPA^(key): /p??te?.to?/, [p???t?e??o?], [p???t?e???]
• Rhymes: -e?t??

Noun

potato (plural potatoes)

1. The tuber of a plant, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe; this plant.
2. (informal, Britain) A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking
3. Metaphor for a person or thing of little value.
   1. (slang, offensive) A mentally handicapped person.
   2. (humorous) A camera that takes poor-quality pictures.
   3. (humorous, slang, computing) An underpowered computer or other device, especially when small in size.

Synonyms

• (plant): p'tater (dialectal), spud (slang), tater (Britain, US, informal), tatie (Scotland, Cumbria, dialect), tator (eye dialect)
• (vegetable): Donovan (archaic slang), earthapple (rare), murphy, bog orange (obsolete slang), Irish apricot (obsolete slang), Irish fruit (obsolete slang), mickey

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

potato (comparative more potato, superlative most potato)

1. (computing, slang, humorous, of a computing device) Underpowered; low-end.

Anagrams

• patoot, topato

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English potato.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?ta.to/, /p??ta.t?/

Noun

potato (plural potati)

1. potato

   Synonym: terpomo

Italian

Verb

potato m (feminine singular potata, masculine plural potati, feminine plural potate)

1. past participle of potare

Anagrams

• optato

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /po??ta?.to?/, [po??t?ä?t?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /po?ta.to/, [p??t???t??]

Verb

p?t?t?

1. second-person singular future active imperative of p?t?
2. third-person singular future active imperative of p?t?

Quotations

English

Alternative forms

• Universe

Etymology

From Middle English universe, from Old French univers, from Latin universum (“all things, as a whole, the universe”), neuter of universus (“all together, whole, entire, collective, general, literally turned or combined into one”), from uni-, combining form of unus (“one”) + versus (“turned”), perfect passive participle of vert? (“to turn”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ju?n??v??s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ju?n??v?s/

Proper noun

universe

1. Alternative letter-case form of Universe; Our universe.

Noun

universe (plural universes)

2. The sum of everything that exists in the cosmos, including time and space itself.

   I think that the universe was created by a life force rather than a deity.

3. An entity similar to our universe; one component of a larger entity known as the multiverse.
4. Everything under consideration.

   In all this universe of possibilities, there is only one feasible option.

5. (marketing, economics) A sample taken from the population.
6. An imaginary collection of worlds.

   The universe in this comic book series is richly imagined.

7. (literature, films) A collection of stories with characters and settings that are less interrelated than those of sequels or prequels.
   • 2019, June 26, Daniel Menegaz, "Tracking Annabelle's confusing journey through the Conjuring universe", Entertainment Weekly:

     Annabelle Comes Home (the 7th and most recent movie in the Conjuring universe, and the 3rd to focus on Annabelle) is a direct sequel to both previous Annabelle movies, which occurred before the events of The Conjuring – but take place after the events of the 2013 franchise-starter.

8. A whole world, in the sense of perspective or social setting.

   That didn’t just rock my world, it rocked my universe.

Derived terms

Related terms

• universal
• universal set
• university

Translations

See also

• om
• universe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• universe (economics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• universe (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

From ?niversus +? -? (adverbial suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u?.ni?u?er.se?/, [u?n??u??rs?e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /u.ni?ver.se/, [uni?v?rs?]

Adverb

?nivers? (not comparable)

1. Generally; in general.

References

• universe in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• universe in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• universe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French univers, from Latin ?niversus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?iu?niv?rs/

Noun

universe

1. (Late Middle English, rare) The universe; the stars.

Related terms

• universite
• universal

Descendants

• English: universe
• Scots: universe

References

• “?niverse, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-31.