prompt
/pˈɹɒmpt/PROMPT
/pˈɹɑmpt/PRAHMPT
Meaningtaken forth; ready
Common meaning: quick to act
Other meanings: to urge on
- proforward; forth
- mptto take; to buyLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 643 · scan
‘forward’ + ‘to take’ → prompt
Journey through time
- Aryan root · reconstructed√AM‘take’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 15, p. 731 · scan
- Latinemō, ēmī, ēmptum‘to take’
- Frenchprompt
- Englishprompt‘quick to act’ · today
pro- also in: propelproblemproceedprocessprocure
mpt also in: exemptredeempremiumperemptoryredemption
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: Built on Latin emō ‘to take; to buy’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry emō, p. 643 · dictionary scan
Roots
- emō, ēmī, ēmptum Latin “to take; to buy”
Related words
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