incarceration
Meaningthe act or result of incarcerating
Common meaning: the act or result of incarcerating (inferred)
- inin, into; (before adjectives) not
- carcera prisonLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 290 · scan
- atverb or adjective ending: to make, having
- ionnoun ending: act or result
‘in, into’ + ‘a prison’ → incarceration
Journey through time
- Latincarcer, -eris‘a prison’
- Englishincarcerate‘to lock up in jail’
- Englishformed in English from incarcerateincarceration‘the act or result of incarcerating (inferred)’ · 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 incarcerating. It can be inferred from any of: incarcerate.
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 incarcerate + -ion (inferred: this exact word is not listed in our dictionaries).
Roots
- carcer, -eris Latin “a prison”
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