exhibit English · revision 7185

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1447|origins=la exhibeo}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ɪɡˈzɪbɪt/, /ɛɡ-/ ''(UK)''; /ɪɡˈzɪbɪt/, /ɛɡ-/ ''(US)''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is Middle English exhibiten, [[bor|la|exhibitus]], the past participle of [[m|la|exhibeo|alt=exhibēre|t=to hold out, show, display]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) from [[m|la|ex|t=out]] and [[m|la|habeo|alt=habēre|t=to hold]] (see [[habit]]).^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) Barnhart considers it very likely a back-formation from the earlier [[exhibition]].^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ To offer or present to view: 1447 in Barnhart, the mid-15th century in Etymonline.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) NODE gives the first senses as to submit for consideration and to present a document as evidence in court.^(NODE 1998)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ To offer, furnish or administer is a 15th-century sense now obsolete, and to submit to view or display from the 16th century.^(Hoad 1986) The noun, a document or object produced as evidence in court, is from the 1620s (1626 in the OED),^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) and ''Exhibit A'', the first piece of evidence, from 1902, figuratively an important example by 1906.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) Something displayed publicly, as in a museum, is from 1862.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1447 – to present to view.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 16th century – to display.^(Hoad 1986)

+ * 1626 – evidence in court (noun).^(OED 1989)

+ * 1862 – an object on display.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1902 – Exhibit A.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To show publicly in an exhibition or competition.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To show or display a quality or symptom.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(law)'' To present as evidence.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # An object or collection displayed in a museum or gallery.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(law)'' A document or object produced in court as evidence.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(chiefly North American)'' An [[exhibition]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[exhibitor]]

+ * [[exhibitive]]

+ * [[exhibitory]]

+ * [[exhibitable]]

+ * [[unexhibited]]

+ * [[reexhibit]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[exhibition]]

+ * [[exhibitionist]]

+ * [[inhibit]]

+ * [[inhibitor]]

+ * [[prohibit]]

+ * [[habit]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}