disturbance
/dɪˈstɜːbəns/dih-STUR-buhns
/dɪˈstɝbəns/dih-STUR-buhns
Meaningthe act of throwing into disorder
Common meaning: a disruption
- disapart, away; not
- turba crowd, uproar; to stir upLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1916 · scan
- ancenoun ending: doing, or the condition that results
‘apart, away’ + ‘a crowd, uproar’ → disturbance
Journey through time
- Latinturba; turbō‘a crowd, uproar’
- Englishdisturb‘to interrupt or unsettle’
- Englishformed in English from disturbdisturbance‘a disruption’ · 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 disturb + -ance.
Dictionary: Skeat (1898), DISTURB, p.173 · scan
Roots
- turba; turbō Latin “a crowd, uproar; to stir up”
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