borne

See also: Borne and borné

English

Etymology

From Old English boren, ġeboren, past participle of beran.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɔːn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɔɹn/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /bo(ː)ɹn/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /boən/

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• Homophone: born (accents with the horse–hoarse merger); bawn (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n

Verb

borne

1. past participle of bear
   • 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Miranda: I ſhould ſinne / To thinke but Noblie of my Grand-mother, / Good wombes haue borne bad ſonnes.

   • 1907, Harold Bindloss, The Dust of Conflict, chapter 21:

     “Can't you understand that love without confidence is a worthless thing—and that had you trusted me I would have borne any obloquy with you. […] ”

Adjective

borne (not comparable)

1. carried, supported.
   • 1901, Joseph Conrad, Falk: A Reminiscence:

     In the last rays of the setting sun, you could pick out far away down the reach his beard borne high up on the white structure, foaming up stream to anchor for the night.

   • 1881 Oscar Wilde, "Rome Unvisited", Poems, page 44:

     When, bright with purple and with gold,
     Come priest and holy cardinal,
     And borne above the heads of all
     The gentle Shepherd of the Fold.

   • c. 2000, David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt, II:

     Irving is further required, as a matter of practice, to spell out what he contends are the specific defamatory meanings borne by those passages.

Derived terms

Terms derived from borne

• airborne
• bloodborne
• cartborne
• railborne
• seaborne
• shipborne
• spaceborne
• trainborne
• wainborne
• waterborne

Translations

carried, supported

• Catalan: cargat
• Dutch: gedragen (nl), ondersteund (nl)
• French: porté (fr), supporté (fr)

• Indonesian: dibawa (id)
• Occitan: cargat (oc), portat (oc), suportat
• Spanish: soportado (es), aguantado (es)

Anagrams

• Boner, Breon, Ebron, boner

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French

Etymology

From Old French bontie, bodne, from Medieval Latin (Merovingian) bodina, butina (“limit, boundary”), a Celtic/Transalpine Gaulish borrowing, from Proto-Celtic *bonnicca (“boundary”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔʁn/

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Noun

borne f (plural bornes)

1. bollard such as those used to restrict automobiles off a pedestrian area
2. territorial boundary marker
3. territorial or geographical border
4. milestone such as those alongside a roadway
5. (slang) a kilometre
6. mark

   dépasser les bornes

   cross the mark

7. machine

   borne libre service

   self-service machine

Derived terms

• borné
• borner
• borne-fontaine
• borne-abreuvoir
• dépasser les bornes
• radioborne

Further reading

• “borne” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

References

• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

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Norman

Etymology

From Late Latin bodina, butina, from Transalpine Gaulish.

Noun

borne f (plural bornes)

1. (Jersey) boundary stone