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tonass
Jul 18, 2009, 01:17 PM
The origin of the word "package" that is what language does the word package come from

tickle
Jul 18, 2009, 01:39 PM
I googled the word 'package' and got everything from meatballs to vagina. I would assume, don't quote me, that it is french origin,as in act of packing.

Good question.

Tick 'confused as usual'.

tonass
Jul 19, 2009, 01:07 PM
I want the language it originate from,and what it means in that language

firmbeliever
Jul 19, 2009, 01:18 PM
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Online Etymology Dictionary (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=p)
"pack (v.)
c.1300, "to put together in a pack," from pack (n.), possibly influenced by Anglo-Fr. Empaker (1294) and M.L. paccare "pack." Some senses suggesting "make secret arrangement" are from an Elizabethan mispronunciation of pact. Sense of "to carry or convey in a pack" (1805) led to general sense of "to carry in any manner;" hence to pack heat "carry a gun," underworld slang from 1940s; "to be capable of delivering" (a punch, etc.) is from 1921.
pack-rat
Common name for the N.Amer. Bushytailed woodrat (Neotoma cinerea) is attested from 1885, from pack (v.), from the rodent's habit of dragging objects off to their holes. Used figuratively or allusively of persons who won't discard anything from c.1850, which means either the rat's name is older than that or the human sense is the original one.
package
1540, "the act of packing," from pack (n.) or from cognate Du. pakkage "baggage." The main modern sense of "bundle, parcel" is first attested 1722. The verb is 1922, from the noun. Package deal is from 1952.
packet
1530, from M.E. pak "bundle" (see pack (n.)) + dim. Suffix -et; perhaps modified on Anglo-Fr. pacquet (M.Fr. pacquet), which is ult. A dim. Of M.Du. Pak. A packet boat (1641) was originally one that carried mails."
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