relate English · revision 6570

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1530|origins=la fero}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ɹɪˈleɪt/, /ɹiˈleɪt/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|frm|relater|t=to refer, report]] and directly [[bor|la|relātus]], the form serving as past participle of [[m|la|refero|alt=referre|t=to bring back; to report]] (see [[refer]]),^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986) from [[m|la|re-|t=back]] and [[m|la|lātus|t=carried]].^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ To tell or narrate: 1530, in Palsgrave's ''Lesclarcissement''.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ To have reference to is first recorded in Shakespeare's ''Troilus and Cressida'' (1606),^(Barnhart 1988) and to stand in some relation from the 1640s (1646 in Barnhart).^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) To bring something into relation with something else is from the 1690s, and to establish a relation between things from 1771.^(Etymonline) The sense of feeling sympathy or connection with someone, as in ''I can relate to that'', is from 1950, originally in the jargon of psychology.^(Etymonline) [[relation|alt=Relation]] is older, from about 1378.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1530 – to narrate.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1606 – to have reference to.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1646 – to be connected.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1950 – to feel sympathy with.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To tell or [[narrate]] a story or events.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To show or make a connection between things.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To be connected with or have reference to: ''laws relating to trade''.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To feel sympathy with or understand someone or something.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[relatable]]

+ * [[relater]]

+ * [[relatability]]

+ * [[correlate]]

+ * [[interrelate]]

+ * [[misrelate]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[relation]]

+ * [[relationship]]

+ * [[relative]]

+ * [[refer]]

+ * [[reference]]

+ * [[translate]]

+ * [[collate]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}