Etymograph

English

WordPress

From word + press.

A compound of word + press

Proto-Indo-European *werh₁- ‘to say’

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Proto-Germanic *wurdą

Proto-West Germanic *word

Old English word

Middle English word ‘a word’

English word

Latin premō ‘to press’

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Latin pressō ‘to press’

Old French presser ‘to press’

Old French presse

Middle English presse ‘throng, crowd, clothespress’

English press

The story

He pointed out that he really liked the idea of it being somehow related to the printing press, because the printing press, so many years ago, revolutionized the power of the people because books became accessible, they were no longer so expensive and he truly believed in the power of blogging and this blogging software that he was working on… and really, out of nowhere, it suddenly hit me. I was like, WordPress!

Today it means

name A content management system used to create websites of all kinds, especially blogs.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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