dehydration
Meaningthe act or result of taking away water
Common meaning: the act or result of dehydrating
- dedown, away, off; undoing
- hydrwaterLiddell & Scott, Greek-English Lexicon (1883), p. 1724 · scan
- atverb or adjective ending: to make, having
- ionnoun ending: act or result
‘down, away, off’ + ‘water’ → dehydration
Journey through time
- Greekὕδωρ‘water’
- Latinkydra
- Englishdehydrate‘to remove water from’
- Englishformed in English from dehydratedehydration‘the act or result of dehydrating’ · today
Sources & notes
Inferred source: no dictionary we use has an entry for this exact word. Its history is worked out from closely related, listed words in the same family, and we are trusting that link, so bear that in mind. Inferred meaning: the act or result of taking away water. It can be inferred from any of: dehydrate.
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.
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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 dehydrate + -ion (inferred: this exact word is not listed in our dictionaries).
Roots
- ὕδωρ Greek “water”
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