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historical dictionaryahd-figure
Figure — American Heritage Dictionary
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- YEAR
- 2022
- PUBLISHER
- HarperCollins
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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resolvedcontextestablished
Did figure begin as a word only for numbers?
No. Its Latin and medieval fields include shape, form, likeness, symbol, and representation; numerical use is one branch of a wider history.
Modern sense inventory and Latin figūraConfirms that numerical meaning is one member of a much wider family.
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EDGE 936contextestablished
figūra → *dhigh-ūrā-
Latin → Proto-Indo-European · morphological derivation
- SOUND
- Latin figūra reflects the suffixed zero-grade formation *dhigh-ūrā-.
- MEANING
- A result of forming or kneading becomes shape, form, and representation.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Calvert Watkins and American Heritage Dictionary Editors
Etymology: Old French figure from Latin figūra; see dheigh-Independently places the word in the same deep family.
EDGE 942supportsproposed
figure → figūra
Old French → Latin · competing borrowing
- SOUND
- American Heritage labels the French intermediary Old French, while Merriam-Webster labels it Anglo-French.
- MEANING
- The shape and form noun passes from Latin through medieval French into English.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- American Heritage Dictionary Editors
Etymology: Middle English from Old French from Latin figūraPublishes the alternate medieval French label.
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Modern headword and sense inventory · global070
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