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vicinage

Meaningneighbour

Common meaning: neighbouring area, especially in historical legal use

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√WIK‘come, come to, enter’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 369, p. 743 · scan
  2. Latinuicinus‘neighbour’source
  3. Frenchvoisin‘neighbourhood’source
  4. Englishmeaning shiftsneighbourhood → neighbouring area, especially in historical legal usevicinage‘neighbouring area, especially in historical legal use’ · 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: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin uicinus ‘neighbour’.

Roots

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