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+ Stat, immediately, is a shortened Latin word; stat, a statistic, is a clipping of statistic.^(Barnhart 1988)^(NODE 1998)^(OED 1989)
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA: /stæt/^(Wiktionary)
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+ {{homograph|1|immediately}}
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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing, clipping|attested=late 19th century|origins=la statim}}
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+ ==Etymology==
+ The medical word is [[bor|la|statim|t=immediately]] in shortened form,^(Barnhart 1988)^(NODE 1998)^(Collins 2023) an adverb that first meant “to a standstill”, a fossilized accusative of a lost noun related to [[grc|στάσις|tr=stásis|t=a standing still]] (see [[station]] and [[stead]]).^(Barnhart 1988)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Immediately, in medical use: the late 19th century in the NODE, before 1970 in Barnhart.^(NODE 1998)^(Barnhart 1988) Collins notes it in prescriptions.^(Collins 2023)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * late 19th century – stat, immediately.^(NODE 1998)
+ * before 1970 – stat (Barnhart's date).^(Barnhart 1988)
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+ ==Modern meaning==
+ ===Adverb===
+ # ''(medicine)'' At once; without delay.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)
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+ ===Adjective===
+ # ''(medicine)'' [[immediate|alt=Immediate]].^(AHD)
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+ {{homograph|2|statistic}}
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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=clipping|attested=1961}}
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+ ==Etymology==
+ The statistic is a colloquial clipping of [[statistic]] or [[statistics]].^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)^(AHD)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ A statistic: 1961.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 1961 – a statistic.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Modern meaning==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A statistic; in the plural, ''stats'', statistics.^(AHD)^(OED 1989)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[statistic]]
+ * [[static]]
+ * [[state]]
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+ ==Usage notes==
+ Etymonline's stat, an instrument that keeps something stationary (before 1970), is from the ending -stat of instrument names such as [[heliostat]];^(Etymonline)^(NODE 1998) stat is also short for [[photostat]] (1960).^(OED 1989) In north-west Devon dialect stat was a form of [[stoat]], and also a clot, with a verb to clot.^(Wright 1898)
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}