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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=back-formation, borrowing|attested=1791|origins=la ēdere}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ˈed.ɪt/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is partly a back-formation from [[editor]], and partly [[bor|fr|éditer|t=to publish, edit]],^(Hoad 1986)^(NODE 1998)^(SOED 2002)^(Etymonline) itself formed on [[m|fr|édition]] (see [[edition]]),^(SOED 2002)^(Etymonline) and perhaps also from [[la|ēditus]], the past participle of [[m|la|ēdere|t=to bring forth, produce, publish]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) from [[m|la|ē-|t=out]] and the combining form of [[m|la|dare|t=to give, put]].^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ To publish a literary work: 1791,^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) a sense now obsolete.^(SOED 2002)^(Hoad 1986)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ To prepare a work for publication, or to act as the editor of a newspaper or periodical, is from 1793, probably formed from editor.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) To make revisions to a manuscript is from 1885.^(Etymonline) To prepare a film for the cinema or recordings for broadcasting by cutting and rearranging is from 1917.^(OED 1989) The noun, an act or spell of editing, especially of a recording, is from 1960 in the OED and by 1960 in Etymonline.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) The AHD cites edit as a standard example of back-formation: editor did not come from edit, as diver came from dive, but the reverse.^(AHD) [[editor|alt=Editor]] meant a publisher in 1649,^(Barnhart 1988) and [[edition]] is older still, probably before 1425.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1649 – editor, a publisher.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1791 – to publish.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1793 – to prepare for publication.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1885 – to revise a manuscript.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1917 – to edit film.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1960 – the noun, an edit.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To prepare written material for publication by correcting, [[revise|alt=revising]] or adapting it.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To be in charge of a newspaper, magazine or other publication.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To prepare film, tape or recordings by selecting, cutting and arranging material.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To change or correct data or text, as on a computer.^(Collins 2023)^(SOED 2002)

+ # ''(edit out)'' To remove in editing.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # An act or instance of editing.^(AHD)^(SOED 2002)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[editable]]

+ * [[coedit]]

+ * [[misedit]]

+ * [[overedit]]

+ * [[preedit]]

+ * [[edition]]

+ * [[editor]]

+ * [[editorial]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[date]]

+ * [[donation]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}