survival
/səˈvaɪvəl/sur-VIGH-vuhl
/sɚˈvaɪvəl/sur-VIGH-vuhl
Meaningthe act of surviving
Common meaning: staying alive
- surover, above
- vivto live, be aliveLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 2001 (approximate) · scan
- aladjective ending: relating to
‘over, above’ + ‘to live, be alive’ → survival
Journey through time
- Latinvīvō, vīxī, vīctum‘to live, be alive’
- Frenchsurvivre
- Englishsurvive‘to stay alive through something’
- Englishformed in English from survivesurvival‘staying alive’ · 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 survive + -al.
Dictionary: Skeat (1898), SURVIVE, p.614 · scan
Roots
- vīvō, vīxī, vīctum Latin “to live, be alive”
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