survivor
/səˈvaɪvə/sur-VIGH-vur
/sɚˈvaɪvɚ/sur-VIGH-vur
Meaningone who survives
Common meaning: a person who lives on after danger
- surover, above
- vivto live, be aliveLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 2001 (approximate) · scan
- oragent ending: the doer, or the device that does it
‘over, above’ + ‘to live, be alive’ → survivor
Journey through time
- Latinvīvō, vīxī, vīctum‘to live, be alive’
- Frenchsurvivre
- Englishsurvive‘to stay alive through something’
- Englishformed in English from survivesurvivor‘a person who lives on after danger’ · 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.
- No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
- 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 survive + -or.
Dictionary: Skeat (1898), SURVIVE, p.614 · scan
Roots
- vīvō, vīxī, vīctum Latin “to live, be alive”
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