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connect

/kəˈnekt/kuh-NEKT
/kəˈnɛkt/kuh-NEKT

Meaningto tie together

Common meaning: to join together

‘with, together’ + ‘to tie, bind’ → connect

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√NAGH‘bind, connect’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 179, p. 736 · scan
  2. Latinnectō, nexum‘to tie, bind’
  3. Englishconnect‘to join together’ · today

con- also in: convexconveyconcaveconcealconcede

nect also in: annex

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: Built on Latin nectō ‘to tie, bind’.

Roots

Related words

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