incident
/ˈɪnsɪdənt/ · noun
Meaning
- An event or occurrence.
- A (relatively minor) event that is incidental to, or related to others.
- An event that causes or may cause an interruption or a crisis, such as a workplace illness or a software error.
- An event affecting an aircraft, usually a plane crash.
- Arising as the result of an event, inherent.
- Falling on or striking a surface.
- Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
- Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
- Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
- In a relation of incidence
Etymology / origin
Recorded since 1412, from Middle French incident, from Latin incidens, the present active participle of incidō (“to happen, befall”), itself from in- (“on”) + -cidō, the combining form of cadō (“to fall”).
- incidens(Latin)→
- incident(frm)→
- *ḱh₂d-(ine-pro)→
- incident (English)
- Relations: root, uder, uder
Related words
Descendant words
- インシデント(Japanese) (der)
- insiden(Malay) (bor)
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