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Re: question about gcc
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: apinski at apple dot com, jbuck at synopsys dot com
- Cc: gcc at gnu dot org, kwall at kurtwerks dot com
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 22:21:54 -0400 (EDT)
- 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.
I can't believe it someone actually bothers to send this message.
A "Webster's" revised dictionary from 1913 that labels the word
as obsolete is a pretty pathetic source!
If you bother to look this up in a decent source (OED II volume XVIII, I
just lugged the 1000 page volume from the library :-), you will find that
the last recorded use of this word is in 1659.
Shall we write the OED and tell them they should renovate this word and
create a quote for 2002 from the gcc@gnu.org list :-)