proportionally

English

Etymology

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English proportional

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English proportionally

From proportional + -ly.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈpɔɹʃənəli/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈpɔːʃənəli/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: pro‧por‧tion‧al‧ly

Adverb

proportionally (comparative more proportionally, superlative most proportionally)

1. In proportion; in due degree; adapted relatively.
   • 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, “Duty to Parents”, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC, page 358:

     The will of those who never allow their will to be disputed, unless they happen to be in a good humour, when they relax proportionally, is almost always unreasonable.

   • 1999, Karen van Rheede van Oudtshoorn, Margaretha W. van Rooyen, Dispersal Biology of Desert Plants, page 23:

     The spiny-cheeked honeyeater has a more generalized diet and the gastrointestinal tract is similar structurally and proportionally to other honyeaters.

Derived terms

• overproportionally
• unproportionally

Translations

in proportion

• Catalan: proporcionalment (ca)
• French: proportionnellement (fr), proportionnément (fr)
• Galician: proporcionalmente (gl)
• German: proportional (de)
• Greek: ανάλογα (el) (análoga)
• Hungarian: arányosan (hu)
• Italian: proporzionalmente (it)
• Macedonian: сразмерно (srazmerno)
• Portuguese: proporcionalmente (pt)
• Russian: пропорциона́льно (ru) (proporcionálʹno)
• Spanish: proporcionalmente (es)

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “proportionally”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “proportionally”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.