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- c. 1200, "literary work consisting of a conversation between two or more persons," from Old French dialoge and directly from Latin dialogus, from Greek dialogos "conversation, dialogue," related to dialogesthai "converse," from dia "across, between" (see dia-) + legein "to speak" (from PIE root *leg- (1) "to collect, gather," with derivatives meaning "to speak (to 'pick out words')").
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Jul 4, 2024 · c. 1200, "literary work consisting of a conversation between two or more persons," from Old French dialoge and directly from Latin dialogus, from Greek dialogos "conversation, dialogue," related to dialogesthai "converse," from dia "across, between" (see dia-) + legein "to speak" (from PIE root *leg-(1) "to collect, gather," with derivatives ...
- Français (French)
Comparer également quadrilogue "dialogue de quatre...
- Deutsch (German)
Bedeutung von dialogue: Dialog; Um 1200, "literarisches...
- Dialogue 뜻
dialogue 뜻: 대화; 약 1200년, "두 명 이상의 사람들 간의 대화로 이루어진 문학 작품"은 고대...
- Diamante
mid-14c., diamaunt, diamond, "extremely hard and refractive...
- Dialling
early 15c., "sundial, instrument for indicating the hour of...
- Dialogic
Middle English -ik, -ick, word-forming element making...
- Dialectical
1580s, earlier dialatik (late 14c.), "critical examination...
- Middleman
In minstrel shows, "the man who sits in the middle of the...
- Français (French)
World Press Freedom Day. (3rd May 2016). The term dialogue stems from the Greek διάλογος (dialogos, 'conversation'); its roots are διά (dia, 'through') and λόγος (logos, 'speech, reason'). The first extant author who uses the term is Plato, in whose works it is closely associated with the art of dialectic. [3]
Where does the noun dialogue come from? Earliest known use. Old English. The earliest known use of the noun dialogue is in the Old English period (pre-1150). dialogue is of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin.
Where does the verb dialogue come from? Earliest known use. late 1500s. The earliest known use of the verb dialogue is in the late 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for dialogue is from 1595, in a text by ‘J. Dando’ and ‘H. Runt’. It is also recorded as a noun from the Old English period (pre-1150). dialogue is formed within English, by conversion.
The roots of the word dialogue come from the Greek words dia and logos . Dia mean 'through'; logos translates to 'word' or 'meaning'. In essence, a dialogue is a flow of meaning .
The genre survived up through the early scholastic period, with Peter Abelard composing his Dialogue with a Jew, a Christian and a Philosopher in the early twelfth century C.E., but later, in the wake of the powerful influence of writings by Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas, the scholastic tradition adopted the more formal and concise genre of ...
Dialect and dialectic come from dialecktos (“conversation” or “dialect”) and ultimately back to the Greek word dialegesthai, meaning “to converse.” Conversation or dialogue was indeed at the heart of the “Socratic method,” through which Socrates would ask probing questions which cumulatively revealed his students’ unsupported ...
