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confuse

/kənfˈjuːz/kuhn-FYOOZ
/kənfˈjuz/kuhn-FYOOZ

Meaningto pour together

Common meaning: to mix up

Other meanings: to bewilder

‘with, together’ + ‘to pour out’ → confuse

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√GHU‘pour’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 121, p. 734 · scan
  2. Latinfundō, fūdī, fūsum‘to pour out’
  3. Frenchconfuter
  4. Englishconfuse‘to mix up’ · today

con- also in: convexconveyconcaveconcealconcede

fus also in: fusefusioninfuserefunddiffuse

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin fundō ‘to pour out; to melt and cast’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry fundō, p. 792 · dictionary scan

Roots

Related words

diffusefoundryfusefusioninfuseprofuserefund

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