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borne

See also: Borne and borné

English edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English boren, iborne, from Old English boren, ġeboren, past participle of Old English beran (“to carry, bear”).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

borne

  1. past participle of bear
    • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [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, chapter 21, in The Dust of Conflict‎[1]:
      “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 edit

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”, in 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, section 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.

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French edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old French bontie, bodne, from Medieval Latin (Merovingian) bodina, butina (“limit, boundary”), a Celtic/Transalpine Gaulish borrowing, from Proto-Celtic *bonnicca (“boundary”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom, base”), see also *bundos.[1]

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Noun edit

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. limit of a list or of an interval
    Prenez un nombre entre 0 et 100 (bornes incluses)
    Pick a number between 0 and 100, inclusive
    les lettres comprises entre A et D (bornes incluses)
    alphabetic characters from A to D
  8. machine
    borne libre service
    self-service machine

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References edit

  • Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
  1. ^ Mann, S. E. (1963). Armenian and Indo-European: Historical Phonology. United Kingdom: Luzac, p. 73

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Norman edit

Etymology edit

From Late Latin bodina, butina, from Transalpine Gaulish.

Noun edit

borne f (plural bornes)

  1. (Jersey) boundary stone

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

From French borne,[1] from Medieval Latin (Merovingian) bodina, butina (“limit, boundary”), a Celtic/Transalpine Gaulish borrowing, from Proto-Celtic *bonnicca (“boundary”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom, base”), see also *bundos.[2]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈboɾne/ [ˈboɾ.ne]
  • Rhymes: -oɾne
  • Syllabification: bor‧ne

Noun edit

borne m (plural bornes)

  1. each of the metallic terminals of certain electrical machines and apparatus, intended for the connection of conductive wires
  2. special end of the spear used in jousting

References edit

  1. ^ Diccionario de la RAE: borne
  2. ^ Mann, S. E. (1963). Armenian and Indo-European: Historical Phonology. United Kingdom: Luzac, p. 73

Further reading edit

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