duration English · revision 7363

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1380|origins=la duro}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /dəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, /djəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/ ''(US)''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is Middle English duracioun, [[bor|fro|duration]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986) from Medieval Latin [[m|la-med|duratio|t=duration]], from the past participle stem of Latin [[m|la|duro|alt=dūrāre|t=to harden; to last, endure]] (see [[endure]]), from [[m|la|durus|t=hard]].^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986)^(NODE 1998)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Continuance in time: about 1380, in Chaucer's ''House of Fame'';^(Barnhart 1988) about 1384 in the OED.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lasting in use, durability, is an obsolete sense of 1637,^(OED 1989) and hardening an obsolete sense of 1612.^(OED 1989) In phonetics, the length of a sound is from 1888.^(OED 1989) The old legal phrase ''for the duration'' was popularized in 1916 of British enlistments in the First World War.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1380 – continuance in time.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1612 – hardening (obsolete).^(OED 1989)

+ * 1888 – in phonetics.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1916 – for the duration.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The length of time that something continues or lasts.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(for the duration)'' Until the end of a period or situation.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[durational]]

+ * [[durative]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[durable]]

+ * [[endure]]

+ * [[during]]

+ * [[duress]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}