From en.wiktionary.org:
[fr.o.m.]
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
From [en], from [en], [ang], from [en], from [en]. Cognate with [osx] and
[goh], [da], [da], [sv], [sv], [nn], [nn], [is], [is], [sq], [sq]. More at
[en].
*** Pronunciation
- [stressed]
- [en]
- [frŭm] , [en]
- [unstressed] [frəm] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Preposition
[en-prep]
1. [Used to indicate source or provenance .]
2. * [chapter=II]
3. * [chapter=12]
4. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2013-06-29 | volume=407 | issue=8842 | page=72–3 | magazine=w:The Economist
|title=A punch in the gut (see
http://www.economist.com/news/international/science-and-technology/21580133-how-microbes-promote-liver-cancer-overweight-punch-gut)
|passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and
enables people to extract a lot more calories FROM their food than would
otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has
implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
1. Originating at (a year, time, etc.)
2. [Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference .]
3. * [chapter=8]
1. [Indicating a starting point in time.]
2. [Indicating a starting point on a range or scale .]
3. [Indicating a starting point on an array or gamut of conceptual variation s.]
4. With reference to the location or position of a speaker or other observer or vantage point.
5. [en] [Indicates a starting state of the predicament of the subject.] [en] .
6. * [en]
4. [Indicating removal or separation .]
1. [en] [Denoting a subtraction operation.]
5. [Indicating exclusion .]
6. [Indicating differentiation .]
7. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=2013 | month=May-June | author= Katrina G. Claw (see http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/katrina-g-claw)
|title=Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm (see
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2013/3/rapid-evolution-in-eggs-and-sperm)
|volume=101|issue=3|magazine=w:American Scientist |passage=In plants, the
ability to recognize self FROM nonself plays an important role in
fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse
offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}
1. Produced with or out of (a substance or material).
2. [Used to indicate causation] ; because of, as a result of.
**** Synonyms
- [with the source or provenance of or at] [en]
- [subtraction] [en]
**** Antonyms
- [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|abstract away from |appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober |bang
from the buck |buy out from under |come from below|manna from heaven |come in
from the cold |drink from the fire hydrant |from a distance |from all accounts
|from all reports|know someone from Eve |from a standing start |from A to Z
|from away |from behind |from cradle to grave |from day to day|Nina from
Carolina|from an early age |from father to son |from first to last |from here
on in |from here on out |from home |from memory |from moment to moment |from
off of |from that time on |from the first |from the river to the sea |from the
top |from this time on |fromward |fromwards |from week to week |get out from
under |grin from ear to ear |grow away from |hell from above |hencefrom
|herefrom |know one's arse from one's elbow |know one's head from one's ass
|let this cup pass from me |Nina from Pasadena |putt from the rough |raise
from the dead |roll from one's tongue |roll from the tongue |run away from
|run from the tongue |sell out from under |separate the men from the boys
|separation from bed and board |speech from the throne |take one's cue from
|thencefrom |therefrom |trip from the tongue |whencefrom |wherefrom |you can't
pour from an empty cup }}
**** Translations
[with the source or provenance of or at]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Ainu: [ain]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Aramaic:
- Assamese: [as]
- Bakhtiari: [bqi] , [bqi]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Belizean Creole: [bzj]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn]
- Bikol Central: [bcl]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my] [postposition] , [my]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chinese:
- Cornish: [kw]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Dalmatian: [dlm]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et] [elative case] , [et] [ablative case] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi] [elative case] , [fi] [ablative case]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] (from someone), [de] (from somewhere)
- Greek: [el]
- Guaraní: [gn]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] [elative case] , [hu] [ablative case]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Interlingua: [ia] , [ia]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Ladin: [lld]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manchu: [mnc] , [mnc] [colloquial]
- Mòcheno: [mhn]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Neapolitan: [nap] , [nap]
- Nepali: [ne]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Papiamentu: [pap]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Punjabi: [pa]
- Rapa Nui: [rap]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scots: [sco] , [sco]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl] , [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Sylheti: [syl] , [syl]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Tigrinya: [ti]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Venetan: [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- Wutunhua: [wuh]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[with the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Aramaic:
- Aromanian: [rup] , [rup]
- Belizean Creole: [bzj]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn]
- Bikol Central: [bcl]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo] , [eo] [beginning at the time of]
- Estonian: [et] [elative case] , [et] [ablative case]
- Finnish: [fi] [elative case] , [fi] [ablative case]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek:
- Guaraní: [gn]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] [elative case] , [hu] [ablative case]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Kapampangan: [pam]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manchu: [mnc] , [mnc] [colloquial]
- Mòcheno: [mhn]
- Mon: [mnw]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Nepali: [ne]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Rapa Nui: [rap]
- Romanian: [ro] [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scots: [sco] , [sco]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk] , [sk]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Tigrinya: [ti]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Venetan: [vec]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- Wutunhua: [wuh]
- Xibe: [sjo]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[with the separation, exclusion or differentiation of]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Aramaic:
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da] ; [da] [when used as protection from someone/something]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et] [elative case] , [et] [ablative case]
- Finnish: [fi] [elative case] , [fi] [ablative case]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] ( ablative case )
- Icelandic: [is] , [is]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Norwegian: [no] ; [no] [when used as protection from someone/something]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scots: [sco] , [sco]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk] , [sk]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Venetan: [vec]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[used to indicate causation]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Tamil: [ta]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Guaraní: [gn]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id] , [id]
- Kuna: [cuk]
- Mongolian: [mn] , [mn] , [mn] , [mn]
- Persian: [fa]
- Tupinambá: [tpn]
[trans-bottom]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
** Bislama
*** Etymology
From [bi].
*** Preposition
[bi]
1. [en]
2. Because of ; on account of
3. * {{ quote-book
|bi |year=2008 |author=Miriam Meyerhoff |title=Social lives in
language--sociolinguistics and multilingual speech |chapter=
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=pXkqNVW_eC4C&pg=PT353
|isbn=978-90-272-1863-6 |page=344 |passage=Bang i wantem mi faen FROM mi
ovaspen.}}
** Danish
*** Etymology
From [da], from [da], related to [de], [nl]. In Old Saxon and Old High
German, it is a noun meaning "use, benefit", but later it is used as an
adjective.
*** Pronunciation
- [da]
*** Adjective
[t]
1. pious , devout [religious in a serious way]
2. innocent
**** Inflection
[fromm]
**** Derived terms
- [da]
*** Further reading
- [R:DDO]
- [R:ODS online]
** Irish
*** Pronoun
[ga]
1. [ga]
*** Further reading
- [R:ga:Ó Dónaill]
** Middle English
*** Alternative forms
- [enm]
- [enm]
*** Etymology
From [enm] and [enm], both from [enm].
*** Preposition
[enm]
1. from
2. * {{ quote-book | enm | year=c. 1400 | title=w:The Canterbury Tales | author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer | section=General Prologue | lines=15–16
|text=And specially FROM every shires ende / Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they
wende, |t=And specially FROM every shire's end / Of England they to Canterbury
went, }}
**** Descendants
- [en]
- [bor=1]
- [yol]
*** References
- [from]
** Old English
*** Alternative forms
- [ang]
*** Etymology
Of [ang] origin, from [ang], from [ang].
Cognate with [goh] ([de], [yi]), [dum] ([nl]), [non].
*** Pronunciation
- [from]
*** Adjective
[sup=frommast]
1. bold , firm , resolute
2. abundant , excellent
**** Declension
[from]
** Plautdietsch
*** Etymology
From [pdt], from [pdt], ultimately from [pdt], related to [nl].
*** Adjective
[pdt]
1. pious , godly , devout , religious
**** Derived terms
- [pdt]
[pdt]
** Swedish
*** Etymology
From [sv], from [sv], from [sv], from [sv], related to [nl].
*** Pronunciation
- [sv]
*** Adjective
[frommare]
1. religious in a quiet and serious way, pious
2. charitable
**** Declension
[3=fromm]
**** Synonyms
- [pious] [sv] , [sv]
- [charitable] [sv] , [sv]
**** Derived terms
- [sv]
- [sv]
- [sv]
*** References
- [so]
- [saol]
- [saob]
- [svetym]
*** Anagrams
- [sv]