contexte

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin contextus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔ̃.tɛkst/
  • (file)
  • Homophone: contextes
  • Hyphenation: con‧texte

Noun

contexte m (plural contextes)

  1. context
    Near-synonym: environnement
  2. (linguistics) context

Derived terms

  • cotexte

Descendants

  • Turkish: kontekst

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From contexō (join, weave).

Pronunciation

Adverb

contextē (comparative contextius, superlative contextissimē)

  1. in close connection

References

  • contexte”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)
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