objectionable
/əbˈdʒekʃənəbəl/uhb-JEK-shuh-nuh-buhl
/əbˈdʒɛkʃənəbəl/uhb-JEK-shuh-nuh-buhl
Meaningopen to objection
Common meaning: unpleasant or offensive
- obtowards, againstSkeat, Concise Etymological Dictionary (1911), p. 354 · scan
- jectto throw, hurlLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1009 · scan
- ionnoun ending: act or result
- ableable to be
‘towards, against’ + ‘to throw, hurl’ → objectionable
Journey through time
- Latinob- + iacere‘towards, against + to throw, hurl’source
- Latinobiectare‘to throw against’source
- Old Frenchobiectersource
- Englishobject‘to argue against’
- Englishformed in English from objectobjection‘a reason given against something’
- Englishformed in English from objectionobjectionable‘unpleasant or offensive’ · 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
- 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 objection + -able.
Dictionary: Skeat (1898), OBJECT, p.399 · scan
Roots
- iaciō (jaciō), iēcī, iactum Latin “to throw, hurl”
- obiectare Latin “to throw against”
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