sojourn

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French sojor, sojorner (modern séjour, séjourner), from (assumed) Vulgar Latin *subdiurnāre, from Latin sub- (“under, a little over”) + Late Latin diurnus (“lasting for a day”), from Latin dies (“day”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɒdʒɜːn/, /ˈsɒdʒən/, /ˈsəʊdʒɜːn/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈsoʊdʒɚn/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n

Noun

sojourn (plural sojourns)

  1. A short stay somewhere.
    • 2006, Joseph Price Remington, Paul Beringer, Remington: The Science And Practice Of Pharmacy (page 1168)
      The use of vasoconstrictors to increase the sojourn of local anesthetics at the site of infiltration continues […]
  2. A temporary residence.
    • Milton
      Though long detained / In that obscure sojourn […]

Translations

Verb

sojourn (third-person singular simple present sojourns, present participle sojourning, simple past and past participle sojourned)

  1. (intransitive) To reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger.
    • Bible, Genesis xii. 30
      Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.
    • Hayward
      The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned three days.

Translations

References

  1. ↑ “sojourn” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2018.

Anagrams

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.