English Online Dictionary. What means source? What does source mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English sours, from Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surgō (“to rise”), which is composed of sub- (“up from below”) + regō (“lead, rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root *h₃reǵ-. Doublet of surge.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɔːs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /sɔɹs/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /so(ː)ɹs/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /soəs/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /suːɹs/, /sʊɹs/
- Homophone: sauce (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
Noun
source (plural sources)
- The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
- Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
- A reporter's informant.
- (computing) Source code.
- (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- (graph theory) A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.
- (mathematics, category theory) The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from.
- Coordinate term: target
Synonyms
- wellspring
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “graph theory”): sink
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- resource
Translations
See also
- target
Verb
source (third-person singular simple present sources, present participle sourcing, simple past and past participle sourced)
- To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
- (transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for.
Derived terms
- (mainly US): sourcing
- (mainly US): insourcing
- (mainly US): outsourcing
Translations
References
Further reading
- “source”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “source”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Anagrams
- 'course, Couser, Crouse, Crusoe, cerous, coures, course, crouse
Chinese
Alternative forms
- 梳屎, 梳士
Etymology
From English source.
Pronunciation
Noun
source (Hong Kong Cantonese)
- source (person, place, thing)
- (university slang) source material used for copying or plagiarism
References
- English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surgere (“to rise”). See surge.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /suʁs/
Noun
source f (plural sources)
- source, spring (of water)
- source, origin (of anything)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Romanian: sursă
Verb
source
- inflection of sourcer:
- first-person singular/third-person singular present indicative/present subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “source”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- coeurs, cœurs
- coures
- course, coursé
- écrous
Middle English
Noun
source
- Alternative form of sours