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represent
Represent comes from Old French représenter, from Latin repraesentō ‘to show, exhibit’, from praesentō ‘to present’, ultimately from sum ‘to be’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsum‘to be’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpraesum‘to be before, preside’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpraesens‘present’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpraesentō‘to present’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErepraesentō‘to show’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400représenter
- Englishearliest quotation 1983represent
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsum‘to be’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpraesum‘to be before, preside’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpraesens‘present’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpraesentō‘to present’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErepraesentō‘to show’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400représenter
- Englishearliest quotation 1983represent
Earliest quotation: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks: “A person climbs a mountain, not only "because it…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- ‘to be, become, grow, appear’
be, been, build, physical, bond, bush, bound, contribution, physician, booth, probability, favorable, distribute, fiat, contributor, bun, favourable, bouquet, attribution, retribution, imp, bower, rebuke, beamer, bosque, physic, phylum, phylogeny, aren, approbation, boor, bist, futur, 75 more
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt ‘to become’
power, possible, bondage, impossibility, impotent, busk, 12 more
through Old Latin esum
through Latin sum ‘to be, exist’
future, improve, proud, pride, absence, essential, approve, entity, absent, prowess, prude, prow, 12 more
through Latin praesens
through Latin praesentō ‘to present, exhibit or show’
Today it means
verb To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin sum / represent