Wikipedia
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Polynesian *witi
Hawaiian wiki
Hawaiian wikiwikider.
English wiki
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Ancient Greek ἐν (en)
Ancient Greek ἐν- (en-)
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos
Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos)
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)
Ancient Greek ἐγκύκλῐος (enkúklĭos)
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pā́wits
Ancient Greek παῖς (paîs)
Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús)
Ancient Greek -εύω (-eúō)
Ancient Greek παιδεύω (paideúō)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek παιδείᾱ (paideíā)
Ancient Greek ἐγκύκλιος παιδείᾱ (enkúklios paideíā)bor.
New Latin encyclopaedīalbor.
English encyclopedia
blend
English Wikipedia
Blend of wiki + encyclopedia, coined by Larry Sanger in 2001. By surface analysis, wiki + -pedia.
Inflected forms:
form: Wikipedias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wikipedia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Wikipaedia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
form: Wikipedias
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Wikipediaing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Wikipediaed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Wikipediaed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: wikipedia
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: Wikipaedia
pos: verb
tags: alternative
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: A version of the encyclopedia Wikipedia in a particular language.
pos: noun
examples: There are over five million articles on the English Wikipedia.
Work in the open-source software community or contribute to wikipedias on your favourite subjects.
gloss: A wiki or similar collaborative database, especially one that is also an encyclopaedia.
pos: noun
examples: His new project is to create a Wikipedia for UFO sightings from all around the world.
Likewise, it is much more important to build a complete set of libraries for all aspects of computing, a Wikipedia of free code, than to worry that further language innovation is the gating factor towards any future progress in software.
The library will function something like a Wikipedia of drug discovery, where scientists around the world can contribute to the database and even provide samples or screen drugs themselves, thereby saving millions of dollars on R&D.
And when interesting ideas arose, such as creating a Wikipedia of top-secret content for the intelligence community, he provided cover for those ideas to develop.
gloss: An article or page on Wikipedia.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: He learned a lot of things according to his Wikipedia / and demonstrates his ample intellect on social media.
We spent our days off huddled in blankets and fleeces on our awful bony couch, listening to the radio and writing in our notebooks or sending emails or ‘doing research’, which for me meant reading the Wikipedias of lesser-known serial killers[…]
gloss: A source of abundant encyclopedic knowledge.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
figuratively
examples: Her mind was a Wikipedia of useless information.
We had no illusions of providing a 360° coverage of the sociology of religion, or of confusing a Handbook with a wikipedia.
And it is so entertaining when he shares his stories about the other great traders he knows. He is a Wikipedia of trading anecdotes.
While time had given Britney nothing but a befuddling choice for a (now ex-) husband, children, and headaches, my friend had emerged with a Wikipedia of online dating information.
Her brain was a Wikipedia of songs, and she could give anybody a run for the money with music trivia.
God does not call us to be spiritual Wikipedias. If we do not know the answers to questions asked, we should say so and offer to research the topic. Our honesty is as important as an excellent answer and reveals that we are still learners.
gloss: To consult Wikipedia for information.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
examples: Did a bit of Wikipediaing: […]
Is everybody in this group incapable of arithmetic, Googling, and Wikipediaing?
A little Wikipediaing could've told him that—sometimes it feels like I'm the only one willing to do the research.
I mean, honestly, it was me doing some Wikipediaing.
gloss: To search Wikipedia for information on a specific subject.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: I mean, it's true, if Katie Holmes had not become engaged to Tom Cruise, we'd all still be Wikipeidaing her, looking her up, trying to figure out exactly why do I know her, what was she in, is she famous?
He made me curious enough that I Wikipediaed Bob Satterfield and found out, yes, he was a real fighter, nicknamed the Bombadier, and was KO'd by the Raging Bull himself in a 1946 fight in Wrigley Field.
That’s a true fact, you can Wikipedia that shizz.
[…] her mother was "homeschooling" her via the Internet (basically, Wikipediaing the Important Facts from the History of the World, and ordering appropriate-level math textbooks from Amazon) […]
If you wikipedia "dead", it says that it is the permanent termination of all biological functions that sustain living organisms. What it doesn't tell you is how to cope with that.
Honestly, I had to Wikipedia him, but he seems all right.
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