correspondent
/ˌkɔːɹəˈspɒndənt/kaw-ruh-SPAHN-duhnt
/ˌkɔɹəˈspɑndənt/kaw-ruh-SPAHN-duhnt
Meaningone who answers together
Common meaning: a letter writer
Other meanings: a news reporter
- corwith, together (form of con-)
- reagain; back
- spondto pledge, promiseLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1745 · scan
- entadjective ending: being or doing
‘with, together (form of con-)’ + ‘again’ + ‘to pledge, promise’ → correspondent
Journey through time
- Latinspondeō, spopondī, spōnsum‘to pledge, promise’
- Englishcorrespond‘to match’
- Englishformed in English from correspondcorrespondent‘a letter writer’ · today
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
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Formed in English from correspond + -ent.
Dictionary: Skeat (1898), CORRESPOND, p.135 · scan
Roots
- spondeō, spopondī, spōnsum Latin “to pledge, promise”
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