English
classification
Classification comes from French classification.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentclassification
- Englishearliest quotation 1937-1952same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Frenchc. 1600–presentclassification
- Englishearliest quotation 1937-1952same form
Earliest quotation: 1937-1952, Jorge Luis Borges: “On those remote pages it is written that animals…”
A compound of classe ‘class, type, group’ + classifier ‘to classify’
Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- ‘to call out to’
Proto-Italic *klāssis
Latin classi
French classe ‘class, type, group’
Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- ‘to call out to’
Proto-Italic *klāssis
Latin classi
French classe ‘class, type, group’
French classifier ‘to classify’
Every English word from French classification
Today it means
noun The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French classification / classification