detection
/dɪˈtekʃən/dih-TEK-shuhn
/dɪˈtɛkʃən/dih-TEK-shuhn
Meaningthe act of detecting
Common meaning: discovery
- dedown, away, off; undoing
- tectto coverLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1845 · scan
- ionnoun ending: act or result
‘down, away, off’ + ‘to cover’ → detection
Journey through time
- Latintegō, tēxī, tēctum‘to cover’
- Englishdetect‘to discover’
- Englishformed in English from detectdetection‘discovery’ · 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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Origin: Formed in English from detect + -ion.
Dictionary: Skeat (1898), DETECT, p.163 · scan
Roots
- tegō, tēxī, tēctum Latin “to cover”
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