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START / NODE 465Present-Day English13th century–today
dialogue
Conversation, represented speech, or an exchange of ideas; inherited through medieval French and Latin from a Greek speaking-family.
“Dialogue does not etymologically mean speech between exactly two people. Greek dia- means through or across; the two-person restriction is a later false parsing.”OPEN COMPLETE WORD DOSSIER ↗
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Present-Day Englishdialogue
conversation, represented speech, or exchange of ideas
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Middle English · Middle English, circa 1200 onwarddialogea literary work representing conversation
- SOUND CHANGE
- Middle English dialoge develops the modern -ue spelling and later English pronunciation.
- SEMANTIC CHANGE
- The literary conversation sense broadens to ordinary exchange, dramatic speech, and institutional discussion.
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- Merriam-Webster · Etymonline editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established
- CHRONOLOGY
- English evidence begins around 1200 or in the thirteenth century.
2 CITATIONSDialogue — Definition, Word History, and First Known UseWord History and First Known Use Dialogue — Origin and historyHeadword chronology and semantic development AUDIT CANONICAL EDGE 432 ↗
Documents the Middle English form, modern continuation, and thirteenth-century horizon.
ORIGINAL ↗Dates the noun to circa 1200 and the conversational extension by circa 1400.
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