condition

/kənˈdɪʃən/kuhn-DIH-shuhn

Meaningan agreement

Common meaning: a state

Other meanings: a term agreed

conwith, together; thoroughlySkeat, Concise Etymological Dictionary (1911), p. 105 · scan
ditionto say, speakLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 570 · scan

‘with, together’ + ‘to say, speak’ → condition

Journey through time

con — Latin com- “with, together; thoroughly” (path traced)
dition — Latin dīcō, dīxī, dictum “to say, speak” (path traced)

Parts join in Latin as conditionem.

Aryan root · reconstructed√DA‘know’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 145, p. 735 · scan
Latincom- + dicere‘with, together; thoroughly + to say, speak’source
Latinconditionemsource
Old Frenchcondicionsource
Englishcondition‘a state’ · 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

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Origin: Built on Latin conditionem, which Skeat (Concise Dictionary, 1911) analyses as com- ‘with, together; thoroughly’ + dicere ‘to say, speak’.

Roots

conditionem Latin “an agreement”
dīcō, dīxī, dictum Latin “to say, speak”

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