version

English edit

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version

Etymology edit

From Middle French version, from Medieval Latin versiō, from Latin vertō (“I turn”). Used in English since 16th century.

Pronunciation edit

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɝʒən/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɜːʒən/, /ˈvɜːʃən/
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən
Audio (US) (file)

Noun edit

version (countable and uncountable, plural versions)

A specific form or variation of something.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
  ‘ […] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’
- 2013 March, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 1 May 2013, page 114:
  An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.
A translation from one language to another.
It's only in the King James Version of the Bible.
(education, archaic) A school exercise, generally of composition in a foreign language.
(obsolete) The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.
An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account.
He gave another version of the affair.
(computing) A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).
Upgrade to the latest version for new features and bug fixes.
(medicine) A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See anteversion and retroversion.
(ophthalmology) An eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously and symmetrically in the same direction.
(obsolete or medicine) A change of form, direction, etc.; transformation; conversion.
External cephalic version is a process by which a breech baby can sometimes be turned from buttocks or foot first to head first.
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
  The version of air into water.
(music) An instrumental in sound system culture.
- 2014, Richard James Burgess, The History of Music Production, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 168:
  Out of sound system culture came the instrumental “version” (ubiquitous in late 1960s Jamaica) […]

Synonyms edit

ver, ver. (abbreviations)

Derived terms edit

Translations edit

a specific form or variation of something

Albanian: version (sq) m
Arabic: رِوَايَة (ar) f (riwāya)
Armenian: տարբերակ (hy) (tarberak)
Azerbaijani: versiya
Belarusian: ве́рсія f (vjérsija), варыя́нт f (varyjánt), вэ́рсія f (vérsija) (Taraškievica)
Bengali: সংস্করণ (bn) (śoṅskoron)
Breton: handelv (br) f
Bulgarian: ве́рсия (bg) f (vérsija), вариа́нт (bg) f (variánt)
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: versió (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 版本 (zh) (bǎnběn)
Czech: provedení (cs) n, verze (cs) f, varianta (cs) f
Danish: version c
Dutch: versie (nl) f
Esperanto: versio
Estonian: versioon (et), variant (et)
Finnish: versio (fi)
French: version (fr) f
Galician: versión (gl) f
Georgian: ვერსია (versia), ვარიანტი (varianṭi)
German: Version (de) f, Fassung (de) f, Ausgabe (de) f
Greek: εκδοχή (el) f (ekdochí)
Haitian Creole: vèsyon
Hindi: संस्करण (hi) m (sanskaraṇ)
Hungarian: változat (hu), verzió (hu), kivitel (hu)
Icelandic: útgáfa (is) f
Interlingua: version
Italian: versione (it) f
Japanese: 版 (ja) (ばん, ban), バージョン (bājon)
Kazakh: нұсқа (nūsqa)
Khmer: ច្បាប់ (km) (cbap), កំណែ (km) (kɑmnae)
Korean: 버전 (ko) (beojeon), 판(版) (ko) (pan)
Kyrgyz: версия (ky) (versiya), нуска (nuska)
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: versija f, variants m
Lithuanian: versija f, variantas m
Macedonian: верзија f (verzija), варија́нта f (varijánta)
Malay: versi
Malayalam: പതിപ്പ് (ml) (patippŭ)
Maori: rerenga
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хувилбар (mn) (xuvilbar)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: versjon (no) m
Occitan: version (oc) f
Persian: نسخه (fa) (nosxe), روایت (fa) (revâyat)
Polish: wersja (pl) f
Portuguese: versão (pt) f, variante (pt)
Romanian: versiune (ro) f
Russian: ве́рсия (ru) f (vérsija), вариа́нт (ru) m (variánt)
Scottish Gaelic: dreach m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вѐрзија f

Roman: vèrzija (sh) f
Slovak: verzia f
Slovene: verzija f, različica f
Spanish: versión (es) f
Swahili: insha (sw)
Swedish: variant (sv) c, version (sv) c
Tajik: ривоят (tg) (rivoyat)
Thai: ชุด (th) (chút), เวอร์ชัน
Turkish: versiyon (tr)
Ukrainian: ве́рсія (uk) f (vérsija), варіа́нт (uk) m (variánt), різно́вид (uk) m (riznóvyd)
Uzbek: versiya (uz)
Vietnamese: phiên bản (vi)
Welsh: fersiwn (cy) m
Yiddish: נוסח m (nusekh)

a translation from one language to another

Arabic: تَرْجَمَة (ar) f (tarjama)
Belarusian: перакла́д m (pjeraklád)
Bulgarian: пре́вод (bg) m (prévod)
Catalan: versió (ca) f
Finnish: versio (fi)
French: version (fr) f
Georgian: ვერსია (versia), ვარიანტი (varianṭi), თარგმანი (targmani)
Haitian Creole: vèsyon
Hungarian: változat (hu), verzió (hu), fordítás (hu)
Interlingua: version
Italian: versione (it) f
Japanese: 版 (ja) (ばん, ban)
Korean: 버전 (ko) (beojeon), 판(版) (ko) (pan)
Lithuanian: vertimas (lt) m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: versjon (no) m
Portuguese: versão (pt) f
Russian: ве́рсия (ru) f (vérsija), перево́д (ru) m (perevód)
Scottish Gaelic: dreach m
Spanish: versión (es) f
Swedish: version (sv) c
Ukrainian: перекла́д (uk) m (pereklád)

an account or description from a particular point of view

Armenian: տարբերակ (hy) (tarberak)
Bulgarian: ве́рсия (bg) f (vérsija)
Czech: verze (cs) f
Finnish: versio (fi)
French: version (fr) f
Georgian: ვერსია (versia)
Greek: εκδοχή (el) f (ekdochí)
Hungarian: változat (hu), verzió (hu)
Interlingua: version
Italian: versione (it) f
Japanese: 版 (ja) (ばん, ban)
Latvian: versija f, variants m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: versjon (no) m
Polish: wersja (pl) f
Portuguese: versão (pt) f
Russian: ве́рсия (ru) f (vérsija)
Swedish: version (sv) c, perspektiv (sv) n

computing: particular revision

Arabic: إِصْدَار m (ʔiṣdār), نُسْخَة f (nusḵa)
Armenian: տարբերակ (hy) (tarberak)
Belarusian: ве́рсія f (vjérsija), вэ́рсія f (vérsija) (Taraškievica)
Bengali: অনুবাদ (bn) (onubad)
Breton: stumm (br) m
Bulgarian: ве́рсия (bg) f (vérsija)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 版本 (zh) (bǎnběn)
Czech: verze (cs) f
Esperanto: versio, eldono
Estonian: versioon (et)
Faroese: útgáva (fo) f
Finnish: versio (fi)
French: version (fr) f
Georgian: ვერსია (versia), ვარიანტი (varianṭi)
German: Version (de) f
Greek: έκδοση (el) f (ékdosi)
Hindi: संस्करण (hi) m (sanskaraṇ)
Icelandic: útgáfa (is) f
Indonesian: versi (id)
Interlingua: version
Italian: versione (it) f
Japanese: バージョン (bājon)
Korean: 버전 (ko) (beojeon)
Latvian: versija f
Lithuanian: versija f
Macedonian: верзија f (verzija)
Malay: versi
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хувилбар (mn) (xuvilbar)
Persian: نسخه (fa) (nosxe), نشراک (fa)
Polish: wersja (pl) f
Portuguese: versão (pt) f
Romanian: versiune (ro) f
Russian: ве́рсия (ru) f (vérsija)
Scottish Gaelic: dreach m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ина̀чица f (Croatia), вѐрзија f

Roman: inàčica f (Croatia), vèrzija (sh) f
Slovak: verzia f
Slovene: različica f, verzija f
Spanish: versión (es)
Swahili: toleo (sw)
Swedish: version (sv) c, utgåva (sv) c
Tajik: нусха (nusxa)
Turkish: sürüm (tr), versiyon (tr)
Ukrainian: ве́рсія (uk) f (vérsija)
Vietnamese: phiên bản (vi)

Verb edit

version (third-person singular simple present versions, present participle versioning, simple past and past participle versioned)