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)
• SAMPA: /sOr\s/ or 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.
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).

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 Hungarian: forrás (hu), eredet (hu)

Irish: foinse (ga) f. Italian: fonte (it) Japanese: 源泉 (ja) (げんせん, gensen), 本源 (ja) (ほんげん, hongen) Kurdish: Sorani: کانگه (ku) (kAnga), سه‌رچاوه (ku) (sarchAwa) Latvian: avots (lv) m. Lithuanian: šaltinis (lt) m. Luxembourgish: Quell (lb) f., Quellen (lb) f. pl. 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. 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) Latvian: avots (lv) m. Lithuanian: šaltinis (lt) m. Luxembourgish: Quell (lb) f. Portuguese: nascente (pt) f., cabeceira (pt) f., exsurgência (pt) f. Russian: источник (ru) (istóčnik) m., ключ (ru) (ključ) m.

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.

(computing) source code

Arabic: كود مصدري (ar) French: code source (fr) m., source (fr) m. and f., sources (fr) m. 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. Portuguese: código-fonte (pt) m., fonte (pt) f. Russian: исходный код (ru), (infomal) исходник (ru) Swedish: källkod (sv) c. Turkish: kaynak kodu (tr)

(electronics) name of one terminal of a transistor

French: source (fr) f.

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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