Related
adjectiveConnected or associated with something else, or belonging to the same family.
How to spell related
7 letters · 3 syllables
How to pronounce related
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does related mean?
- adjectiveConnected or associated with something else, or belonging to the same family.
- verbPast tense of relate: told or recounted an account, or established a connection.
Related in a sentence
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adjective
The two projects are closely related and share the same budget.
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verb
Over dinner she related the whole story of the trip.
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adjective
She discovered that she was related to the author through her grandmother.
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verb
The witness related the events to the officer in careful detail.
Where does related come from?
Language of origin: Latin
The word traces back to the Latin verb referre, meaning 'to carry back' or 'to bring back', whose past participle was relatus. That participle was built from re-, meaning 'back' or 'again', and latus, meaning 'carried' or 'borne', which served as the supine form of ferre, 'to bear'. From relatus came the later Latin verb relatare and the sense of 'recounting' or 'reporting' something, literally carrying a story back to a listener. English took 'relate' in through French and directly from Latin in the 1500s, first in the sense of telling or narrating, and the meaning of being connected or belonging to the same family grew naturally from the idea of things being brought together. The 'lat' spelling, which looks nothing like the pronunciation, is the buried clue to that ancient latus root, and the same element surfaces in 'translate' (to carry across) and 'relation'.
How the word is built
- re- (back, again)
- lat (from latus, 'carried' or 'borne')
- -ed (past participle / adjective suffix)
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