English

class

/klɑːs/
A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.

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    Origin

    From Middle French classe, from Latin classis (“a class or division of the people, assembly of people, the whole body of citizens called to arms, the army, the fleet, later a class or division in general”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, shout”). Doublet of clas and classis.

    Displaced Old English ġecynd.

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    • borrowedMiddle Frenchclasse
      • derivedLatinclassis “a class or division of the people, assembly of people, the whole body of citizens called to arms, t…”
        • derivedProto-Indo-European*kelh₁- “to call”

    Related: English clas (doublet), English classis (doublet)

    Words built on it: in-class, back-class

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