source

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Etymology

From Middle English sours, from Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surgere (“to rise”); see surge. Compare sourd

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sɔɹs/ or IPA: /soʊɹs/ (US)
• X-SAMPA: /sOr\s/ or X-SAMPA: /soUr\s/ (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)s
• Homophone: sauce (in some non-rhotic dialects)

Noun

source (plural sources)

1. The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, Internal Combustion^[1]:

     More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.

2. Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
3. A reporter's informant.
4. (computing) Source code.
5. (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

Synonyms

• wellspring

Derived terms

• sourceless
• source code
• primary source
• secondary source
• tertiary source

Related terms

• resource

Translations

person, place or thing from which something comes or is acquired

• Arabic: مصدر (ar) (maSdar) m, مصادر (ar) (maSaadir) pl
• Armenian: աղբյուր (hy) (aġbyur) 
• Azeri: qaynaq (az)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 根源 (cmn) (gēnyuán), 來源 (cmn), 来源 (cmn) (láiyuán), 本源 (cmn) (běnyuán)

• Danish: kilde (da) c, udspring (da) n
• Dutch: bron (nl) f
• Esperanto: fonto (eo)
• Finnish: lähde (fi)
• French: source (fr)
• German: Quelle (de) f, Ursprung (de) m
• Greek: πηγή (el) (pigí) f 
• Haitian Creole: sous
• Hindi: स्रोत (hi)
• Hungarian: forrás (hu), eredet (hu)
• Indonesian: sumber (id)
• Irish: foinse (ga) f

• Italian: fonte (it)
• Japanese: 源泉 (ja) (げんせん, gensen), 本源 (ja) (ほんげん, hongen)
• Korean: 출처 (ko) (chulcheo)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: کانگه (ku) (kAnga), سه‌رچاوه (ku) (sarchAwa)

• Latgalian: olūts
• Latvian: avots (lv) m
• Lithuanian: šaltinis (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Quell (lb) f, Quellen (lb) f pl
• Malay: sumber (ms)
• Polish: źródło (pl) n
• Portuguese: origem (pt) f, fonte (pt) f
• Russian: источник (ru) (istóčnik) m , исток (ru) (istók) m , ключ (ru) (ključ) m 
• Scots: soorce
• Scottish Gaelic: stòr (gd) m
• Spanish: fuente (es) m
• Swedish: källa (sv) c, ursprung (sv) n
• West Frisian: boarne (fy) n

spring; fountainhead; collection of water

• Armenian: աղբյուր (hy) (aġbyur) , ակ (hy) (ak) , ակունք (hy) (akunk’) 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 源泉 (cmn) (yuánquán)

• Czech: zdroj (cs) m
• Dutch: bron (nl) c
• Esperanto: fonto (eo)
• French: source (fr) f
• Greek: πηγή (el) (pigí) f 
• Haitian Creole: sous
• Hungarian: forrás (hu)
• Irish: foinse (ga) f

• Italian: sorgente (it) f, fonte (it) f
• Japanese: 泉 (ja) (いずみ, izumi)
• Latgalian: olūts
• Latvian: avots (lv) m
• Lithuanian: šaltinis (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Quell (lb) f
• Polish: źródło (pl) n, zdrój (pl) m
• Portuguese: nascente (pt) f, cabeceira (pt) f, exsurgência (pt) f
• Russian: источник (ru) (istóčnik) m , ключ (ru) (ključ) m 
• Spanish: fuente (es) f, fontana (es) f (poetic)
• Swedish: källa (sv) c, fontän (sv) c

reporter's informant

• Arabic: مَصْدَر (ar) (masDar) m
• Armenian: աղբյուր (hy) (aġbyur) 
• Czech: zdroj (cs) m
• Danish: kilde (da) c
• Dutch: bron (nl) c
• Finnish: lähde (fi)
• French: source (fr) f
• German: Quelle (de) f

• Greek: πηγή (el) (pigí) f 
• Hungarian: forrás (hu)
• Italian: fonte (it) f
• Polish: źródło (pl) n
• Portuguese: fonte (pt) f
• Russian: источник (ru) (istóčnik) m 
• Scottish Gaelic: stòr (gd) m
• Swedish: källa (sv) c

(computing) source code

• Arabic: كود مصدري (ar)
• French: code source (fr) m, source (fr) m and f, sources (fr) m pl and f pl
• German: Quellcode (de) m, Quellkode (de) m
• Greek: πηγαίος κώδικας (el) (pigéos kódikas) m 
• Hungarian: forráskód (hu), (informally) forrás (hu)
• Italian: sorgente (it) m, codice sorgente (it) m

• Norwegian: kildekode (no) m
• Polish: kod źródłowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: código-fonte (pt) m, fonte (pt) f
• Russian: исходный код (ru) (isxodnyj kod), (infomal) исходник (ru) (isxodnik)
• Spanish: código fuente (es) m
• Swedish: källkod (sv) c
• Turkish: kaynak kodu (tr)

(electronics) name of one terminal of a transistor

• French: source (fr) f

• Spanish: fuente (es) f

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: bron
• Hebrew: מקור m
• Ido: fonto
• Italian: sorgente f (1), fonte f (2)
• Latin: fons m

• Slovak: zdroj m, prameň m
• Spanish: origen
• Romanian: sursă (1,2)
• Swedish: källa c (1,2)
• Turkish: kaynak (1,2)
• Malayalam: shrotahs

See also

• target

Verb

source (third-person singular simple present sources, present participle sourcing, simple past and past participle sourced)

1. (chiefly US) To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
2. (transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for.

Derived terms

• (mainly US): sourcing
• (mainly US): insourcing
• (mainly US): outsourcing

Translations

to obtain or procure; used especially of a business resource

• Finnish: hankkia (fi)
• German: belegen (de), beziehen (de)
• Hungarian: beszerez (hu)

• Italian: tirare fuori (it)
• Spanish: fuente (es) f

to find a citation for

External links

• source in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• source in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• cerous, 'course, course

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Pronunciation

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Noun

source f (plural sources)

1. source, spring

Anagrams

• coeurs, cœurs
• coures
• course, coursé
• écrous