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escort

/esˈkɔːt/eh-SKAWRT
/ɛsˈkɔɹt/eh-SKAWRT

Meaningto guide, to set right

Common meaning: a guard or companion travelling alongside someone

‘out’ + ‘to set right, to correct’ → escort

Journey through time

  • es — Latin ex- “out” (path traced)
  • cort — Latin corrigere “to set right, to correct” (path traced)

Parts join in Latin as excorrigere.

  1. Latinex- + corrigere‘out + to set right, to correct’source
  2. Latinexcorrigere‘to set right’source
  3. Italianscorta‘an escort, guide, convoy’source
  4. Englishmeaning shiftsto set right → a guard or companion travelling alongside someoneescort‘a guard or companion travelling alongside someone’ · 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: Built on Latin excorrigere, which Skeat (Concise Dictionary, 1911) analyses as ex- ‘out’ + corrigere ‘to set right, to correct’.

Roots

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