license
/ˈlaɪ.səns/ · noun
Meaning
- A legal document giving official permission to do something; a permit.
- The legal terms under which a person is allowed to use a product, especially software.
- Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behaviour or speech).
- Excessive freedom; lack of due restraint.
- Ellipsis of driver's license.
- To authorize officially.
- (applied to a piece of intellectual property)
- To give formal authorization to use.
- To acquire authorization to use, usually in exchange for compensation.
- To give permission or freedom to; accept.
- To permit (as grammatically correct).
Etymology / origin
From Middle English licence, licens, lisence, lissens, licance, from Old French licence, from Latin licentia (“license”), from licens, present participle of licere (“to be allowed, be allowable”); compare linquere, Ancient Greek λείπω (leípō, “leave”).
- λείπω(Ancient Greek)→
- licentia(Latin)→
- licence(Old French)→
- licence(enm)→
- license (English)
- Relations: inh, der, der, cog
Related words
Descendant words
- 拉臣(Chinese) (bor)
- 라이선스(Korean) (bor)
- ലൈസൻസ്(Malayalam) (bor)
- leseni(Swahili) (bor)
- laisens(Tok Pisin) (der)
- ilayisensi(Xhosa) (bor)
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