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I have a dictionary app that lists “Word Origin” in the entry. The word origin values I’ve seen have been XXXAX, XXXBX and XXXCX. What do those letters represent?



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  • Welcome to the site! More details would help here: What app is it? Is it a Latin dictionary? Can we see a sample dictionary entry? It's much easier to judge when one sees a bigger picture.

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I have a dictionary app that lists “Word Origin” in the entry. The word origin values I’ve seen have been XXXAX, XXXBX and XXXCX. What do those letters represent?



Update: a screenshot for reference



The app:
enter image description here



You can also see a number of examples here.










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  • Welcome to the site! More details would help here: What app is it? Is it a Latin dictionary? Can we see a sample dictionary entry? It's much easier to judge when one sees a bigger picture.

    – Joonas Ilmavirta
    4 hours ago











  • Good idea, thanks!

    – AaronM
    4 hours ago














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I have a dictionary app that lists “Word Origin” in the entry. The word origin values I’ve seen have been XXXAX, XXXBX and XXXCX. What do those letters represent?



Update: a screenshot for reference



The app:
enter image description here



You can also see a number of examples here.










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I have a dictionary app that lists “Word Origin” in the entry. The word origin values I’ve seen have been XXXAX, XXXBX and XXXCX. What do those letters represent?



Update: a screenshot for reference



The app:
enter image description here



You can also see a number of examples here.







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  • Welcome to the site! More details would help here: What app is it? Is it a Latin dictionary? Can we see a sample dictionary entry? It's much easier to judge when one sees a bigger picture.

    – Joonas Ilmavirta
    4 hours ago











  • Good idea, thanks!

    – AaronM
    4 hours ago



















  • Welcome to the site! More details would help here: What app is it? Is it a Latin dictionary? Can we see a sample dictionary entry? It's much easier to judge when one sees a bigger picture.

    – Joonas Ilmavirta
    4 hours ago











  • Good idea, thanks!

    – AaronM
    4 hours ago

















Welcome to the site! More details would help here: What app is it? Is it a Latin dictionary? Can we see a sample dictionary entry? It's much easier to judge when one sees a bigger picture.

– Joonas Ilmavirta
4 hours ago





Welcome to the site! More details would help here: What app is it? Is it a Latin dictionary? Can we see a sample dictionary entry? It's much easier to judge when one sees a bigger picture.

– Joonas Ilmavirta
4 hours ago













Good idea, thanks!

– AaronM
4 hours ago





Good idea, thanks!

– AaronM
4 hours ago










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I'm going to take a shot in the dark and guess that you're using Whitaker's Words, since those look like Whitaker's origin codes.



Each letter in the code indicates something about the word: in order, they're AGE, AREA, GEO, FREQ, and SOURCE. The first indicates how early or late the word is attested; the second indicates what general topic it's related to; the third indicates where in the world the word was found; the fourth indicates how frequently the word appears in corpora; the fifth indicates which source Whitaker took the word from.



For all of them, a value of X means "not known" or "not applicable". So none of the words you've been looking at are associated with a specific time period, area of interest, or region, and Whitaker didn't note his sources for them. But the fourth letter tells you roughly how common the stem in question is: A is more common than B, B than C, and so on.



A full description of all the abbreviations and their meaning can be found here.






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I'm going to take a shot in the dark and guess that you're using Whitaker's Words, since those look like Whitaker's origin codes.



Each letter in the code indicates something about the word: in order, they're AGE, AREA, GEO, FREQ, and SOURCE. The first indicates how early or late the word is attested; the second indicates what general topic it's related to; the third indicates where in the world the word was found; the fourth indicates how frequently the word appears in corpora; the fifth indicates which source Whitaker took the word from.



For all of them, a value of X means "not known" or "not applicable". So none of the words you've been looking at are associated with a specific time period, area of interest, or region, and Whitaker didn't note his sources for them. But the fourth letter tells you roughly how common the stem in question is: A is more common than B, B than C, and so on.



A full description of all the abbreviations and their meaning can be found here.






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I'm going to take a shot in the dark and guess that you're using Whitaker's Words, since those look like Whitaker's origin codes.



Each letter in the code indicates something about the word: in order, they're AGE, AREA, GEO, FREQ, and SOURCE. The first indicates how early or late the word is attested; the second indicates what general topic it's related to; the third indicates where in the world the word was found; the fourth indicates how frequently the word appears in corpora; the fifth indicates which source Whitaker took the word from.



For all of them, a value of X means "not known" or "not applicable". So none of the words you've been looking at are associated with a specific time period, area of interest, or region, and Whitaker didn't note his sources for them. But the fourth letter tells you roughly how common the stem in question is: A is more common than B, B than C, and so on.



A full description of all the abbreviations and their meaning can be found here.






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I'm going to take a shot in the dark and guess that you're using Whitaker's Words, since those look like Whitaker's origin codes.



Each letter in the code indicates something about the word: in order, they're AGE, AREA, GEO, FREQ, and SOURCE. The first indicates how early or late the word is attested; the second indicates what general topic it's related to; the third indicates where in the world the word was found; the fourth indicates how frequently the word appears in corpora; the fifth indicates which source Whitaker took the word from.



For all of them, a value of X means "not known" or "not applicable". So none of the words you've been looking at are associated with a specific time period, area of interest, or region, and Whitaker didn't note his sources for them. But the fourth letter tells you roughly how common the stem in question is: A is more common than B, B than C, and so on.



A full description of all the abbreviations and their meaning can be found here.






share|improve this answer













I'm going to take a shot in the dark and guess that you're using Whitaker's Words, since those look like Whitaker's origin codes.



Each letter in the code indicates something about the word: in order, they're AGE, AREA, GEO, FREQ, and SOURCE. The first indicates how early or late the word is attested; the second indicates what general topic it's related to; the third indicates where in the world the word was found; the fourth indicates how frequently the word appears in corpora; the fifth indicates which source Whitaker took the word from.



For all of them, a value of X means "not known" or "not applicable". So none of the words you've been looking at are associated with a specific time period, area of interest, or region, and Whitaker didn't note his sources for them. But the fourth letter tells you roughly how common the stem in question is: A is more common than B, B than C, and so on.



A full description of all the abbreviations and their meaning can be found here.







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