Etymology

website

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Today it means: A collection of interlinked web pages on the World Wide Web that are typically accessible from the same base URL and reside on the same server. Full definition →

English site ← Middle English site ← Anglo-Norman site
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website · noun1

  1. Proto-Indo-European*webʰ-
  2. Proto-Germanic*webaną
  3. Proto-Germanic*wabją
  4. Old Englishwebb
  5. Middle Englishweb
  6. Englishweb
  7. Proto-Indo-European*teḱ-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*tḱéytibf.
  9. Proto-Indo-European*tḱey-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*tḱinéti
  11. Proto-Italic*sinō
  12. Latinsinō
  13. Latinsitus
  14. Anglo-Normansite
  15. Middle Englishsite
  16. Englishsite
  17. English todaywebsite

From web + site.

Website · noun2

1990s on, as a variant of website.

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