English
Wiktionary
Blend of wiki + dictionary.
A compound of wiki + dictionary
Proto-Polynesian *witi
Hawaiian wiki ‘to be swift, to be speedy, to be quick’
Hawaiian wikiwiki ‘quick’
English wiki
Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- ‘to point out’
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Latin dictiō ‘a speaking’
Latin dictiōnārius
Medieval Latin dictiōnārium
Middle English dixionare
English dictionary
Today it means
name A collaborative project run by the Wikimedia Foundation to produce a free and complete dictionary in every language; the dictionaries, collectively, produced by that project.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Wiktionary