"substraction" meaning in English

See substraction in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: substractions [plural]
Etymology: From Middle French substraction (compare modern French soustraction), from Old French substraction, from Medieval Latin substractio, derived from Late Latin substractus. Ultimately from Latin subtraho (“to pull out from under; to remove, to subtract”). The use by non-native speakers arises by analogy with words such as French soustraction and Spanish sustracción. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|frm|substraction}} Middle French substraction, {{cog|fr|soustraction}} French soustraction, {{der|en|fro|substraction}} Old French substraction, {{cog|ML.|substractio}} Medieval Latin substractio, {{cog|LL.|substractus}} Late Latin substractus, {{cog|la|subtraho|t=to pull out from under; to remove, to subtract}} Latin subtraho (“to pull out from under; to remove, to subtract”), {{cog|fr|soustraction}} French soustraction, {{cog|es|sustracción}} Spanish sustracción Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} substraction (countable and uncountable, plural substractions)
  1. (obsolete or non-native speakers' English) Subtraction. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-substraction-en-noun-X~-5N547 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Non-native speakers' English

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for substraction meaning in English (2.4kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "substraction"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French substraction",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "soustraction"
      },
      "expansion": "French soustraction",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "substraction"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French substraction",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ML.",
        "2": "substractio"
      },
      "expansion": "Medieval Latin substractio",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "LL.",
        "2": "substractus"
      },
      "expansion": "Late Latin substractus",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "subtraho",
        "t": "to pull out from under; to remove, to subtract"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin subtraho (“to pull out from under; to remove, to subtract”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "soustraction"
      },
      "expansion": "French soustraction",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "sustracción"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish sustracción",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle French substraction (compare modern French soustraction), from Old French substraction, from Medieval Latin substractio, derived from Late Latin substractus. Ultimately from Latin subtraho (“to pull out from under; to remove, to subtract”).\nThe use by non-native speakers arises by analogy with words such as French soustraction and Spanish sustracción.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "substractions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "substraction (countable and uncountable, plural substractions)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Non-native speakers' English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, A. Quinquis, C. Ioana, H. Thomas, “Noise substraction for improving the localisation of an underwater mobile”, in Oceans '99: Riding the Crest into the 21st Century. IEEE Conference Proceedings",
          "text": "[in title]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Subtraction."
      ],
      "id": "en-substraction-en-noun-X~-5N547",
      "links": [
        [
          "non-native speaker",
          "non-native speaker"
        ],
        [
          "Subtraction",
          "subtraction"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "obsolete or non-native speakers' English",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete or non-native speakers' English) Subtraction."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "substraction"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "substraction"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French substraction",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "soustraction"
      },
      "expansion": "French soustraction",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "substraction"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French substraction",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ML.",
        "2": "substractio"
      },
      "expansion": "Medieval Latin substractio",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "LL.",
        "2": "substractus"
      },
      "expansion": "Late Latin substractus",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "subtraho",
        "t": "to pull out from under; to remove, to subtract"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin subtraho (“to pull out from under; to remove, to subtract”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "soustraction"
      },
      "expansion": "French soustraction",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "sustracción"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish sustracción",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle French substraction (compare modern French soustraction), from Old French substraction, from Medieval Latin substractio, derived from Late Latin substractus. Ultimately from Latin subtraho (“to pull out from under; to remove, to subtract”).\nThe use by non-native speakers arises by analogy with words such as French soustraction and Spanish sustracción.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "substractions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "substraction (countable and uncountable, plural substractions)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Middle French",
        "English terms derived from Middle French",
        "English terms derived from Old French",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Non-native speakers' English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, A. Quinquis, C. Ioana, H. Thomas, “Noise substraction for improving the localisation of an underwater mobile”, in Oceans '99: Riding the Crest into the 21st Century. IEEE Conference Proceedings",
          "text": "[in title]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Subtraction."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "non-native speaker",
          "non-native speaker"
        ],
        [
          "Subtraction",
          "subtraction"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "obsolete or non-native speakers' English",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete or non-native speakers' English) Subtraction."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "substraction"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (ae36afe and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.