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version
Version comes from Middle French version ‘translation’, from Latin vertō ‘to turn’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wert-‘to turn’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wertō‘to turn’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvertō‘to turn’
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500versiō‘a turning’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600version‘translation’
- Englishearliest quotation 1627version
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wert-‘to turn’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wertō‘to turn’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvertō‘to turn’
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500versiō‘a turning’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600version‘translation’
- Englishearliest quotation 1627version
Earliest quotation: 1627, (please specify the page, or |century=I to X): “The version of air into water.”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *wert- ‘to turn, to rotate, spin’
word, worth, weird, ridiculous, universe, ridicule, invert, deride, derision, wurst, derisive, 61 more
through Proto-Italic *wertō ‘to turn’
adverse, inverse, transverse, perverse, averse, vertebra, evert, vertiginous, 43 more
through Latin vertō ‘to turn’
university, divorce, conversation, vertical, versus, diverse, diversity, advertisement, vortex, verse, versatile, convertible, advert, divert, revert, pervert, vertex, vertigo, adversity, avert, vertebrate, introvert, subvert, diversification, vert, verso, perversity, 50 more
Today it means
noun A specific form or variation of something.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *wert- / version