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diaries

[dahy-uh-ree] Origin

di·a·ry

[dahy-uh-ree]
noun, plural -ries.
1.
a daily record, usually private, especially of the writer's own experiences, observations, feelings, attitudes, etc.
2.
a book for keeping such a record.
3.
a book or pad containing pages marked and arranged in calendar order, in which to note appointments and the like.

Origin:
1575–85; < Latin diārium daily allowance, journal, equivalent to di(ēs) day + -ārium -ary

dairy, diary.


1, 2. journal, daybook, log, chronicle.

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Word Origin & History

diary
1581, from L. diarium, "daily allowance," later "a journal," neut. of diarius "daily," from dies "day." Earliest sense was a daily record of events; sense of the book in which such are written is first attested in Ben Jonson's "Volpone" (1605).
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