depletion
/dɪˈpliʃən/dih-PLEE-shuhn
/dɪˈpliʃən/dih-PLEE-shuhn
Meaningan emptying
Common meaning: a fall in the amount of something
- dedown, away, off; undoing
- pletfull; to fillLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1386 · scan
- ionnoun ending: act or result
‘down, away, off’ + ‘full’ → depletion
Journey through time
- Latindeplere‘to empty’source
- Englishdepletion‘a fall in the amount of 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.
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Origin: Built on Latin plēnus; pleō ‘full’.
Roots
- plēnus; pleō Latin “full; to fill”
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