Register for the Daily Good Word E-Mail! - You can get our daily Good Word sent directly to you via e-mail in either HTML or Text format. (If we kept a dossier on George Kovac, it would be thick with excellent Good Word suggestions like today's.) No other Indo-European language shows any evidence of it. Dorsum underlies dorsalis "of/on the back", the origin of English dorsal. Learn more in the Cambridge French-English Dictionary. ![]() The word was based on dos "back", the residual of Vulgar Latin dossum, a variant of Latin dorsum "back". (n.) 'bundle of documents referring to some matter,' 1880 (by 1868 as a French word in English), from French dossier 'bundle of papers,' from dos 'back' (12c.), from Vulgar Latin dossum, variant of Latin dorsum 'back' (see dorsal ). dossier translate: backrest, file, dossier, pack, case, issue, matter, record, brief, dossier, file, file. Word History: Today's Good Word was plain out swiped from French dossier "bundle of papers labeled on the back". The dossier on the missing person case was almost empty because next to nothing was known. Drinks.'" Other times they are so well organized they could be published: "Rhoda Book's first novel was more or less a dossier about herself." Even those who mean well often do not have the experience or expertise to advise properly. In Play: Sometimes dossiers contain so little information as to require little organization: "Bulldog Drummond's dossier contained the following rather sketchy note: 'Good speaker clever unscrupulous. This word has not spawned any derivational offspring, except a plural: dossiers. Dossier implies an ordered, perhaps secret, file. ![]() Since dossiers are usually filed, it is often replaced by file. This word preserves the French spelling but not the accent on the final syllable. Notes: Look out for the spelling of today's Good Word. Tech giants Google, Microsoft and Facebook are all applying the lessons of machine learning to translation, but a small company called DeepL has outdone them. ![]() Meaning: A file containing documents about a particular person, event, or subject.
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