purpose

Significado

Noun

1. The end for which something is done, is made or exists.
2. Function, role.
3. meaning for existing or doing something.
4. Resolution; determination.
5. (obsolete) The subject of discourse; the point at issue.

Verb

1. To have or set as one's purpose or aim; resolve to accomplish; intend; plan.
2. To have (an) intention, purpose, or design; to intend; to mean.
3. (obsolete) To discourse.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈpɝpəs/

Etimoloxía

From Middle English purpos, from Old French purposer (“to propose”) (with conjugation altered based on poser), from Latin prō- (“forth”) + pōnere (“place, put”), hence Latin prōpōnō, prōpōnere.

Oracións

Scholars are divided on the purpose of this and other barays.