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source
English
Etymology
From Middle English sours, from Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surg? (“to rise”). See surge.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /s??s/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /s??s/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /so(?)?s/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /so?s/
- Rhymes: -??(?)s
- Homophone: sauce (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
Noun
source (plural sources)
- The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
- Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
- A reporter's informant.
- (computing) Source code.
- (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
Synonyms
- wellspring
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- resource
Translations
See also
- target
Verb
source (third-person singular simple present sources, present participle sourcing, simple past and past participle sourced)
- (chiefly US) To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
- (transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for.
Derived terms
- (mainly US): sourcing
- (mainly US): insourcing
- (mainly US): outsourcing
Translations
Further reading
- source in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- source in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- 'course, Couser, Crouse, Crusoe, cerous, coures, course, crouse
French
Etymology
From Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surgere (“to rise”). See surge.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /su?s/
Noun
source f (plural sources)
- source, spring (of water)
Derived terms
- code source
- couler de source
- eau de source
- langue source
Descendants
- ? Romanian: surs?
Verb
source
- inflection of sourcer:
- first-person singular/third-person singular present indicative/present subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “source” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- coeurs, cœurs
- coures
- course, coursé
- écrous
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genesis
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin genesis (“generation, nativity”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (génesis, “origin, source, beginning, nativity, generation, production, creation”), from Proto-Indo-European *?énh?tis (“birth, production”), from *?enh?-. Related to Ancient Greek ???????? (gígnomai, “to be produced, become, be”). Doublet of kind, gens, and jati.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d???n.?.s?s/
Noun
genesis (plural geneses)
- The origin, start, or point at which something comes into being.
- Some point to the creation of Magna Carta as the genesis of English common law.
Translations
Further reading
- genesis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- genesis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Giesens, seeings, signees
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ??????? (génesis, “origin, source, beginning, nativity, generation, production, creation”), from Proto-Indo-European *?énh?tis (“birth, production”), from *?enh?-.
Noun
genesis f (genitive genesis or genese?s or genesios); third declension
- generation, creation, nativity
- birth
Declension
Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).
1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.
Descendants
- Catalan: gènesi
- English: genesis
- Spanish: génesis
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ??????? (génesis, “origin, creation, beginning”), from Proto-Indo-European *?énh?tis (“birth, production”), from *?enh?-.
Noun
genesis m (definite singular genesisen, indefinite plural genesisar, definite plural genesisane)
- creation, genesis, origin
References
- “genesis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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