analysis English · revision 2697

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1581|origins=grc ἀναλύω}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /əˈnæl.ə.sɪs/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la-med|analysis]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) from Greek [[grc|ἀνάλυσις|tr=análusis|t=a breaking up, a loosening, a releasing]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) from [[m|grc|ἀναλύω|tr=analúō|t=to unloose, release]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) from ana- “up, back” and [[m|grc|λύω|tr=lúō|t=to loosen, untie]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) which Etymonline takes to [[ine-pro|*lewh₁-|alt=*leu-|t=to loosen, divide]].^(Etymonline) In Aristotle the verb meant “to analyze”, and it was also used of loosing a ship from its moorings.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The resolution of anything complex into simple elements, the opposite of synthesis: 1581, in Kirke's preface to Spenser's ''Shepheardes Calender'',^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)^(MWU 2024) the 1580s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ English also formerly had a noun ''analyse'', from French, from the 1630s.^(Etymonline) In literature, the investigation of a poem or other work is from 1644,^(OED 1989) and in chemistry the resolution of a compound into its elements from before 1655.^(OED 1989) A statement of the results of an analysis is from the 1660s.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) ''In the last analysis'' or ''the final analysis'' translates French en dernière analyse and is from 1791^(OED 1989) or 1844.^(Etymonline) The psychological sense, short for psychoanalysis, is from 1890.^(Etymonline) ''Analyst'' is from 1656, in Hobbes,^(Barnhart 1988) ''analytic'' from 1601,^(Barnhart 1988) and ''analyze'' from 1601, in Ben Jonson, probably a back-formation from analysis.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1581 – resolution into simple elements.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1601 – ''analyze'', ''analytic''.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1644 – literary analysis.^(OED 1989)

+ * before 1655 – chemical analysis.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1656 – ''analyst''.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1660s – a statement of results.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1791 – ''in the last analysis''.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1890 – psychoanalysis.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The detailed study of something by separating it into its parts.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # ''(chemistry)'' The separation of a substance into its elements to find out its composition.^(AHD)^(OED 1989)

+ # A statement of the results of such a study.^(AHD)^(Etymonline)

+ # [[psychoanalysis|alt=Psychoanalysis]].^(AHD)^(Etymonline)

+ # ''(mathematics)'' The branch dealing with limits, including [[calculus]].^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[autoanalysis]]

+ * [[cryptanalysis]]

+ * [[cryptoanalysis]]

+ * [[electroanalysis]]

+ * [[hypnoanalysis]]

+ * [[meta-analysis]]

+ * [[metanalysis]]

+ * [[microanalysis]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[analyse]]

+ * [[analyze]]

+ * [[analyst]]

+ * [[analyte]]

+ * [[analytic]]

+ * [[paralysis]]

+ * [[catalysis]]

+ * [[dialysis]]

+ * [[lose]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}