subscriber
/səbˈskɹaɪbə/suhb-SKRIGH-bur
UK form converted from the US by rule · unchecked/səbˈskɹaɪbɚ/suhb-SKRIGH-bur
Meaningone who subscribes
Common meaning: a person who signs up for something
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- subunder; from below
- scribto write; to mark with linesLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1647 · scan
- eragent ending: one who
‘under’ + ‘to write’ → subscriber
Journey through time
- Latinscrībō, scrīpsī, scrīptum‘to write’
- Englishsubscribe‘to sign up and pay for something regularly’
- Englishformed in English from subscribesubscriber‘a person who signs up for something’ · 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.
- No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.
Origin: Formed in English from subscribe + -er.
Dictionary: Skeat (1898), SUBSCRIBE, p.607 · scan
Roots
- scrībō, scrīpsī, scrīptum Latin “to write; to mark with lines”
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