Wiktionary

A collaborative project run by the Wikimedia Foundation to produce a free and complete dictionary in every language; the dictionaries, collectively, produced by that project.

Proper noun

  1. A collaborative project run by the Wikimedia Foundation to produce a free and complete dictionary in every language; the dictionaries, collectively, produced by that project.
    • He had logged in to Wiktionary two months ago.
    • [Hamish Mackintosh:] So is Google officially a verb now? / [William Gibson:] When I wrote Pattern Recognition, it occurred to me that I could use it as a verb and it also occurred to me that someone might already have...
    • [page 428] Wiktionary is a multilingual dictionary (also thesaurus and phrase-book) and has distinctive content policies. Words must be attested and idiomatic (that is, words should be in use, and phrases should be...
  2. A particular version of this dictionary project, written in a certain language, such as the English-language Wiktionary (often known simply as the English Wiktionary).
    • The site was brought online in English on December 12, 2002; on March 29, 2004, the first non-English Wiktionaries were initiated in French and Polish. Wiktionaries in over 200 languages now exist, and more than 100...

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Polynesian *witi Hawaiian wiki Hawaiian wikiwikider. English wiki Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- Proto-Indo-European *déyḱeti Proto-Italic *deikō Latin dīcō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin dictiō Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -ārius Latin -ārium ▲ Latin dictiō ▲ Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Medieval Latin dictiōnārius? Medieval Latin dictiōnāriumlbor. Middle English dixionare English dictionary blend English Wiktionary Blend of wiki + dictionary.

Forms

Wiktionaries wiktionary Wikitionary

Synonyms

Wikt

Derived

Wiktionarian