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relation
English
Etymology
From Middle English relacion, relacioun, from Anglo-Norman relacioun and Old French relacion (whence French relation), from Latin rel?ti?, noun of process form from perfect passive participle rel?tus (“related”), from verb refer? (“I refer, I relate”), from prefix re- (“again”) + fer? (“I bear, I carry”).
Morphologically relate +? -ion
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?-l?'sh?n, IPA(key): /???le???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
relation (countable and uncountable, plural relations)
- The manner in which two things may be associated.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
- A member of one's extended family; a relative.
- The act of relating a story.
- 1669, Letter from Dr. Merrett to Thomas Browne, in Simon Wilkin (ed.), Sir Thomas Browne’s Works including his Life and Correspondence, London: William Pickering, 1836, Volume I, p. 443,[1]
- Many of the lupus piscis I have seen, and have bin informed by the king’s fishmonger they are taken on our coast, but was not satisfied for some reasons of his relation soe as to enter it into my Pinax […]
- 1691, Arthur Gorges (translator), The Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon (1609), London, Preface,[2]
- […] seeing they are diversly related by Writers that lived near about one and the self-same time, we may easily perceive that they were common things, derived from precedent Memorials; and that they became various, by reason of the divers Ornaments bestowed on them by particular Relations […]
- 1669, Letter from Dr. Merrett to Thomas Browne, in Simon Wilkin (ed.), Sir Thomas Browne’s Works including his Life and Correspondence, London: William Pickering, 1836, Volume I, p. 443,[1]
- (set theory) A set of ordered tuples.
- […] Signs are, first of all, physical things: for example, chalk marks on a blackboard, pencil or ink marks on paper, sound waves produced in a human throat. According to Reichenbach, "What makes them signs is the intermediary position they occupy between an object and a sign user, i.e., a person." For a sign to be a sign, or to function as such, it is necessary that the person take account of the object it designates. Thus, anything in nature may or may not be a sign, depending on a person's attitude toward it. A physical thing is a sign when it appears as a substitute for, or representation of, the object for which it stands with respect to the sign user. The three-place relation between sign, object, and sign user is called the sign relation or relation of denotation.
- (set theory) Specifically, a set of ordered pairs; a binary relation.
- (databases) A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.
- (mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
- (category theory) A subobject of a product of objects.
- (usually collocated: sexual relation) The act of intercourse.
Synonyms
- (way in which two things may be associated): connection, link, relationship
- (member of one's family): relative
- (act of relating a story): recounting, telling
- (mathematics: set of ordered tuples): correspondence
- See also Thesaurus:relative
Hyponyms
- (set theory): function
Derived terms
Related terms
- relate
- relational
- relative
- relator
Translations
Anagrams
- Oriental, Tirolean, oriental, taileron, tenorial
French
Etymology
From Old French relacion, from Latin rel?ti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.la.sj??/
Noun
relation f (plural relations)
- relation
- relationship
Further reading
- “relation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- enrôlait, oriental
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin rel?ti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r?la??u?n/
Noun
relation c
- relation; how two things may be associated
- (mathematics) relation; set of ordered tuples
- (computing) relation; retrievable by a database
Declension
See also
- samband
Anagrams
- laotiern
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relative
English
Alternative forms
- rel. (abbreviation)
Etymology
From Middle French relatif, from Late Latin rel?t?vus, from Latin rel?tus, perfect passive participle of refer? (“to carry back, to ascribe”), from re- (“again”) + fer? (“to bear or carry”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???l.?.t?v/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): (flapped) [???l.?.??v], (enunciated) [???l.?.t??v]
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): (flapped) [???l.?.??v], (enunciated) [???l.?.t??v]
- Rhymes: -?l?t?v
Adjective
relative (not comparable)
- Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.
- 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, BBC Sport:
- For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.
- 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, BBC Sport:
- (computing, of a URL, URI, path, or similar) Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.
- (grammar) Depending on an antecedent; comparative.
- The words “big” and “small” are relative.
- (music) Having the same key but differing in being major or minor.
- Relevant; pertinent; related.
- Capable to be changed by other beings or circumstance; conditional.
Synonyms
- comparative
- conditional
- limited
Antonyms
- absolute
- unlimited
Derived terms
- relative to
Related terms
Translations
Noun
relative (plural relatives)
- Someone in the same family; someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption.
- (linguistics) A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective, in certain Bantu languages.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:relative
Related terms
Translations
See also
Notes
Anagrams
- levirate
Danish
Adjective
relative
- inflection of relativ:
- definite singular
- plural
Esperanto
Etymology
From relativa +? -e.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rela?tive/
- Hyphenation: re?la?ti?ve
- Rhymes: -ive
Adverb
relative
- relatively
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.la.tiv/
Adjective
relative
- feminine singular of relatif
Anagrams
- lèverait, lévitera, relevait, révélait
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
relative
- inflection of relativ:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Adjective
relative
- feminine plural of relativo
Anagrams
- evitarle, levitare, leviterà, rilevate, rivalete, rivelate, vietarle
Latin
Etymology 1
From rel?t?vus +? -?.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /re.la??ti?.u?e?/, [r???ä??t?i?u?e?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /re.la?ti.ve/, [r?l??t?i?v?]
Adverb
rel?t?v? (not comparable)
- (Late Latin) relatively
References
- r?l?t?v? in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- relative in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- r?l?t?v? in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1,335/2
Etymology 2
A regularly declined form of rel?t?vus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /re.la??ti?.u?e/, [r???ä??t?i?u??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /re.la?ti.ve/, [r?l??t?i?v?]
Adjective
rel?t?ve
- vocative masculine singular of rel?t?vus
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
relative
- inflection of relativ:
- definite singular
- plural
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
relative
- inflection of relativ:
- definite singular
- plural
Swedish
Adjective
relative
- absolute definite natural masculine form of relativ.
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