Edited

How to spell edited

6 letters · 3 syllables

How to pronounce edited

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What does edited mean?

1. verbPrepared written, audio, or visual material for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise revising it.
2. adjectiveHaving been revised, corrected, or condensed for publication or release.

Edited in a sentence

• verb

  The producer edited the documentary down to ninety minutes.

• adjective

  The edited version of the film was far shorter than the original.

• verb

  She edited the report carefully before sending it to the board.

• adjective

  Readers preferred the edited manuscript to the rambling first draft.

Where does edited come from?

Language of origin: Latin

This is the past tense of the verb 'edit', which English coined in the late 1700s as a back-formation from the noun 'editor'. 'Editor' itself came directly from Latin editor, meaning 'one who puts forth' or 'one who produces', from the verb edere, 'to give out' or 'to bring forth', built from the prefix e- (a form of ex-, 'out') and dare, 'to give'. So at root an editor is literally a person who 'gives out' a work to the public, and to edit is to do the preparing that makes that possible. The same dare 'to give' root sits behind a surprising family of English words, including 'date' (a thing given, as on a letter) and 'tradition' (something handed over). The single 't' and single 'd' of the modern spelling trip people up because the word sounds as if it might double a letter, but it never does.

How the word is built

• edit (to prepare text for publication)
• -ed (past tense / past participle suffix)