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French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin contextus.
Pronunciation
Noun
contexte m (plural contextes)
- context
- Near-synonym: environnement
- (linguistics) context
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
From contexō (“join, weave”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
contextē (comparative contextius, superlative contextissimē)
- in close connection
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)