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Re: question about gcc
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- To: apinski at apple dot com (Andrew Pinski)
- Cc: gcc at gnu dot org, kwall at kurtwerks dot com
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:39:28 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: question about gcc
> > Sure it is. "Traduct" means to translate or to transfer.
> >
> > $ dict -d web1913 traduct
> > 2 definitions found
> >
> >> From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
> >
> > Traduct \Tra*duct"\, v. t. [L. traducere, traductum. See
> > Traduce.]
> > To derive or deduce; also, to transmit; to transfer. [Obs.]
> > --Fotherby.
>
> But Obs. is an abbreviation for obsolete so that is why he did not
> understand what the word is.
Also notice that a dictionary from 1913 is calling the word obsolete.
90 years later, the word is *really* obsolete.
English has a lot of vocabulary that came from French, but in many cases
the words have shifted meaning or are no longer used.