contexte

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French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin contextus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔ̃.tɛkst/
  • Audio (Toulouse, France):(file)
  • Homophone: contextes
  • Hyphenation: con‧texte

Noun

contexte m (plural contextes)

  1. context
    Near-synonym: environnement
  2. (linguistics) context

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Descendants

  • → Turkish: kontekst

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From contexō (“join, weave”).

Pronunciation

Adverb

contextē (comparative contextius, superlative contextissimē)

  1. in close connection

Related terms

References

  • “contexte”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)
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