source

Meaning

Noun

1. The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
2. Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
3. A reporter's informant.
4. Source code.
5. The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
6. A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.
7. The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from.

Verb

1. To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
2. To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɔːs/

Etymology

From Middle English sours, from Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surgō (“to rise”), which is composed of sub- (“up from below”) + regō (“lead, rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root *h₃reǵ-. See surge.