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route
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, Ireland)
- IPA(key): /?u?t/
- Rhymes: -u?t
- (General American)
- IPA(key): /?u?t/, /?a?t/
- Rhymes: -u?t, -a?t
- (General Australian)
- IPA(key): /???t/
- Rhymes: -u?t
- (Canada)
- IPA(key): /?ut/
- Rhymes: -ut
- Homophones: root, rute (/?u?t/); rout (/?a?t/)
Etymology 1
From Middle English route, borrowed from Old French route, rote (“road, way, path”) (compare modern French route), from Latin (via) rupta (“(road) opened by force”), from rumpere viam "to open up a path". As a Chinese administrative division, a semantic loan from Chinese ? (lù).
Noun
route (plural routes)
- A course or way which is traveled or passed.
- A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.
- A road or path; often specifically a highway.
- (figuratively) One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
- 2010, Damien McLoughlin and David A. Aaker, Strategic Market Management: Global Perspectives, John Wiley & Sons, ?ISBN, pages 156-7:
- If such an option is to viable over time, it needs to be protected against competitors. Having patent protection is one route. […] Another route is to have a programmatic investment strategy […] . Rolex has taken this route […]
- 2010, Damien McLoughlin and David A. Aaker, Strategic Market Management: Global Perspectives, John Wiley & Sons, ?ISBN, pages 156-7:
- (historical) One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.
- (computing) A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives.
Synonyms
- (Chinese administrative division): lu, circuit, province
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
route (third-person singular simple present routes, present participle routing or (UK) routeing, simple past and past participle routed)
- (transitive) To direct or divert along a particular course.
- All incoming mail was routed through a single office.
- (Internet) to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.
- (computing, transitive) To send (information) through a router.
Derived terms
- reroute
- router
Translations
See also
- (Internet) bridge
- (Internet) LAN
- (Internet) WAN
Etymology 2
Verb
route
- Eye dialect spelling of root.
Further reading
- route in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- route in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Toure, outer, outre, outré, rouet, utero-
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French route, from Old French route, from Latin rupta (via).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ru.t?/
- Hyphenation: rou?te
- Rhymes: -ut?
Noun
route f (plural routes or routen, diminutive routetje n)
- route, course, way (particular pathway or direction one travels)
- road, route
Derived terms
- fietsroute
- marsroute
- routebeschrijving
- route-informatie
- routekaart
- routeplanner
- routenavigatie
- vaarroute
- wandelroute
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: rute
French
Etymology
From Middle French route, from Old French route, rote, from Latin rupta via.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ut/
- Rhymes: -ut
Noun
route f (plural routes)
- road (sometimes route like "Route 66")
- route, way, path
Derived terms
Further reading
- “route” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- outre, outré, troue, troué
Middle English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle French, Old French route, rote, Anglo-French rute "troop, band"
Noun
route (plural routes)
- route
- a group of people
- band, company
- '14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Miller's Prologue, 1-3
- Whan that the Knight hadde thus his tale ytold
- In all the route nas ther yong ne old
- That he ne saide it was a noble storye
- '14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Miller's Prologue, 1-3
- crowd, populace
- throng; gang, with connotation of illicit activity
- band, company
- the proper condition of something
Etymology 2
From Old English hrutan, "to make a noise; snore" Compare Old Norse or Middle Dutch ruten, ruyten, Old Swedish ruta. For senses 4 and 5 compare Old Icelandic hrjota "to burst, spring forth."
Verb
route
- first-person singular present indicative of routen
Etymology 3
Converted from the noun route. Compare Old French aroter.
Verb
route
- first-person singular present indicative of routen
Norman
Etymology
From Old French route, from Latin rupta (via).
Noun
route f (plural routes)
- (Jersey) road
- (Jersey, nautical, of a watercraft) course
Old French
Alternative forms
- rote
- route
Etymology
From Latin rupta (via).
Noun
route f (oblique plural routes, nominative singular route, nominative plural routes)
- route (course or way which is traveled or passed)
Synonyms
- chemin
- curs
- voie
Descendants
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area
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin area.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: âr'??, IPA(key): /????????/
- (US) enPR: ?r'??, IPA(key): /?æ?.i.?/, /???.i.?/
Noun
area (plural areas or areæ)
- (mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
- It is about 4.5 million square kilometers in area and holds the world’s third largest collection of ice after Antarctica and Greenland.
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
- A particular geographic region.
- Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
- The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.
- (Britain) An open space, below ground level, giving access to the basement of a house, and typically separated from the pavement by railings. [from 18th c.]
- 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge 2016, p. 95:
- A boy seized it, whom she bribed with a shilling to relinquish his prize, which she was taking home, when it escaped from her hand, and fell down the area of a house.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 4:
- This was so favourably received by the milkman and beadle that he would immediately have been pushed into the area if I had not held his pinafore while Richard and Mr. Guppy ran down through the kitchen to catch him when he should be released.
- 1908, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans":
- A minute later we were both in the area. Hardly had we reached the dark shadows before the step of the policeman was heard in the fog above. As its soft rhythm died away, Holmes set to work upon the lower door. I saw him stoop and strain until with a sharp crash it flew open. We sprang through into the dark passage, closing the area door behind us.
- 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge 2016, p. 95:
- (soccer) Penalty box; penalty area.
- (slang) Genitals.
Derived terms
Related terms
- areal
Translations
See also
- Imperial: square inches, square feet, square yards, square miles, acres
- Metric: square meters/square metres, square centimeters/square centimetres, square kilometers/square kilometres, hectares
Anagrams
- Aare, æra
Afrikaans
Noun
area (plural areas)
- area
Derived terms
- leerarea
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese ar?a, from Latin ar?n? (“sand”). Cognate with Portuguese areia and Spanish arena.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a??ea?/
Noun
area f (plural areas)
- sand (a grain)
- (figuratively) a grain of salt
- sand (collectively)
- Synonyms: xabre, saibro
- (dated) beach, cove
- Synonyms: areal, praia, arnela
Derived terms
See also
- área
References
- “area” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “area” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “area” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “area” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “area” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ?rea. Doublet of Italian aia (“threshing floor”).
Noun
area f (plural aree)
- area, surface
- land, ground
- field, sector
Related terms
- areale
Anagrams
- aera
Latin
Etymology
- Either from Proto-Italic *?ze?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?eHs-e-yeh?, from *h?eHs- (“to burn”) (whence ?re?, ?r?),
- Or from Proto-Italic *?re?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?eh?r-e-yeh?, from *h?eh?rh?- (“threshing tool”) (cognate with Hittite [script needed] (?a??ar, “rake, threshing tool”)), resultative reduplicated noun from verb *h?erh?- (“to plough”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?a?.re.a/, [?ä??eä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?a.re.a/, [??????]
Noun
?rea f (genitive ?reae); first declension
- a piece of level ground, a vacant place (esp. in the town)
- ground for a house, a building-spot
- (figuratively) a vacant space around or in a house, a court
- (figuratively) an open space for games, an open play-ground
- (figuratively) a threshing floor
- (figuratively) the halo around the sun or moon
- (figuratively) a bed or border in a garden
- (figuratively) a fowling-floor
- (figuratively) a burying-ground, church-yard
- (figuratively) a bald spot upon the head, baldness
- vocative singular of ?rea
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
- ?realis
- ?reola
Descendants
Borrowings:
Noun
?re? f
- ablative singular of ?rea
References
- area in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- area in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- area in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- area in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- area in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- area in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
Anagrams
- aera
Papiamentu
Etymology
From Spanish área and English area.
Noun
area
- area
Portuguese
Noun
area f (plural areas)
- Obsolete spelling of área
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin area (literally “vacant piece of level ground”)
Noun
area c
- (geometry) area; a measure of squared distance.
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