Etymology

comparison

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Today it means: The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared. Full definition →

Middle English comparisoun ← Old French comparison ← Latin comparātiōnem
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  3. Proto-Italic*kom
  4. Proto-Italic*kom-
  5. Latincon-
  6. Latinpār
  7. Latincompār
  8. Latincomparō
  9. Latincomparātiōnem
  10. Old Frenchcomparison
  11. Middle Englishcomparisoun
  12. English todaycomparison

Inherited from Middle English comparisoun, borrowed from Old French comparison, a learned borrowing from Latin comparātiōnem.

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