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DimEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
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Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗dimEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English dim, dym, from Old English dim, dimm (“dim, dark, gloomy; wretched, grievous, sad, unhappy”), from Proto-West Germanic *dimm, from Proto-Germanic *dimmaz (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰem- (“to whisk, smoke; obscure”). Compare Faroese dimmur (“dark”), Icelandic dimmur (“dark”) and dimma (“darkness”).
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Mayhew–Skeat (1888)
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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
nounheadword prefix
dime
The United States ten-cent coin, named with an older English and French word for a tenth part or tithe.
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female
A sex-class term borrowed through French from Latin fēmella, a diminutive of fēmina, with its English spelling later remodeled under male.
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male
A sex-class term borrowed through Anglo-French from Latin masculus, a diminutive formation on mās.
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muscle
A body tissue or organ whose English name descends through French from Latin musculus, a diminutive of mūs “mouse.”
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salt
Common salt and the wider family of saline substances and figurative savor; an inherited Germanic word in a deep Indo-European salt family.
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
dime
a United States or Canadian coin worth ten cents
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- 1786–today
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- historical-form prefix
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Middle English / Indo-European
dime
a tenth part; tithe
- DATE
- Middle English, c. 1150–1500
- MATCH
- historical-form prefix
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- 1
Anglo-French / Indo-European
disme / dime
a tenth part; tithe
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- Anglo-French, c. 1066–1500
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- gloss
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- 1
Old English / Indo-European
sealt
salt, sodium chloride, condiment, or preservative
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- Old English
- MATCH
- gloss
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- 1
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SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 5
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Was dime invented as a coin name in 1786?
The coin sense is reported from 1786, but the word itself already existed in Middle English and Anglo-French for a tenth part or tithe.
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Is calculus securely a diminutive of calx “limestone”?
Not securely. The traditional analysis is morphologically and semantically irregular; an alternative links Latin calculus and Greek stone words through a possible shared substrate source.
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Is Latin calculus securely a diminutive of calx?
No. Festus accepted the traditional limestone derivation, but the phonology and meanings are problematic. The edge remains proposed.
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Are the family noun kin and diminutive suffix -kin the same morpheme?
No. Merriam-Webster gives the family noun through Middle English from Old English cynn, but derives the diminutive suffix through Middle English from Middle Dutch -kin and Old High German -chīn.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Is musculus really a “little mouse”?
Latin musculus is morphologically the diminutive of mūs “mouse.”
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 2
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A dime is literally a tenth.
The coin name reuses a medieval tenth-part word from Anglo-French and Latin decima. It sits in the same deep numeral family as decimal, decimate, December, and inherited English ten.
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A muscle was a “little mouse.”
Latin musculus is a diminutive of mūs “mouse.” The derivation is secure; the exact resemblance mechanism remains qualified.
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