version

See also:Version,versión,andvèrsion

English

Etymology

FromMiddle Frenchversion,fromMedieval Latinversiō,fromLatinvertō(“I turn”).Used in English since 16th century.

Pronunciation

• (General American)IPA^(key):/ˈvɝʒən/
• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ˈvɜːʒən/,/ˈvɜːʃən/
• Rhymes:-ɜː(ɹ)ʒən

• Audio(US):

  (file)

Noun

version(countableanduncountable,pluralversions)

1. A specificformorvariationof something.
   • 1963,Margery Allingham,chapter 3, inThe China Governess: A Mystery,London:Chatto & Windus,→OCLC:

     ‘[…]There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare secondversionof Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’

   • 2013March, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, inAmerican Scientist‎^[1],volume101,number 2, archived fromthe originalon1 May 2013,page114:

     An extremeversionof vorticity is avortex.The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.

2. Atranslationfrom one language to another.

   It's only in the King JamesVersionof the Bible.

3. (education,archaic)A school exercise, generally ofcompositionin a foreign language.
4. (obsolete)The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.
5. An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account.

   He gave anotherversionof the affair.

6. (computing)A particularrevision(ofsoftware,firmware,CPU,etc.).

   Upgrade to the latestversionfor new features and bug fixes.

7. (medicine)A condition of theuterusin which itsaxisis deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. Seeanteversionandretroversion.
8. (ophthalmology)Aneyemovementinvolving both eyes movingsynchronouslyandsymmetricallyin the same direction.
9. (obsoleteormedicine)A change of form, direction, etc.;transformation;conversion.

   External cephalicversionis a process by which a breech baby can sometimes be turned from buttocks or foot first to head first.

   • 1631,Francis [Bacon],“(please specify |century=I to X)”,inSylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries.[…],3rd edition, London:[…]William Rawley;[p]rinted by J[ohn]H[aviland]for William Lee[…],→OCLC:

     Theversionof air into water.

10. (music)Aninstrumentalinsound systemculture.
    • 2014,Richard James Burgess,The History of Music Production,Oxford University Press,→ISBN,page168:

      Out of sound system culture came the instrumental “version”(ubiquitous in late 1960s Jamaica)[…]

Synonyms

• ver,ver.(abbreviations)

Derived terms

• alpha version
• beta version
• Boston version
• CliffsNotes version
• cover version
• e-version
• instrumental version
• podalic version
• pre-alpha version
• Reader's Digest version
• release version
• version control
• version number
• zombie version

Translations

a specific form or variation of something

• Albanian:version(sq)m
• Arabic:رِوَايَة(ar)f(riwāya)
• Armenian:տարբերակ(hy)(tarberak)
• Azerbaijani:versiya
• Belarusian:ве́рсіяf(vjérsija),варыя́нтf(varyjánt),вэ́рсіяf(vérsija)(Taraškievica)
• Bengali:সংস্করণ(bn)(śoṅskoron)
• Breton:handelv(br)f
• Bulgarian:ве́рсия(bg)f(vérsija),вариа́нт(bg)f(variánt)
• Burmese:please add this translation if you can
• Catalan:versió(ca)f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Bản bổn(zh)(bǎnběn)

• Czech:provedení(cs)n,verze(cs)f,varianta(cs)f
• Danish:versionc
• Dutch:versie(nl)f
• Esperanto:versio
• Estonian:versioon(et),variant(et)
• Finnish:versio(fi)
• French:version(fr)f
• Galician:versión(gl)f
• Georgian:ვერსია(versia),ვარიანტი(varianṭi)
• German:Version(de)f,Fassung(de)f,Ausgabe(de)f
• Greek:εκδοχή(el)f(ekdochí)
• Haitian Creole:vèsyon
• Hindi:संस्करण(hi)m(sanskaraṇ)
• Hungarian:változat(hu),verzió(hu),kivitel(hu)
• Icelandic:útgáfa(is)f
• Interlingua:version
• Italian:versione(it)f
• Japanese:Bản(ja)(ばん, ban),バージョン(bājon)
• Kazakh:нұсқа(nūsqa)
• Khmer:ច្បាប់(km)(cbap),កំណែ(km)(kɑmnae)
• Korean:버전(ko)(beojeon),판( bản )(ko)(pan)
• Kyrgyz:версия(ky)(versiya),нуска(nuska)
• Lao:please add this translation if you can
• Latvian:versijaf,variantsm
• Lithuanian:versijaf,variantasm
• Macedonian:верзијаf(verzija),варија́нтаf(varijánta)
• Malay:versi
• Malayalam:പതിപ്പ്(ml)(patippŭ)
• Maori:rerenga
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic:хувилбар(mn)(xuvilbar)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:versjon(no)m

• Occitan:version(oc)f
• Persian:نسخه(fa)(nosxe),روایت(fa)(revâyat)
• Polish:wersja(pl)f
• Portuguese:versão(pt)f,variante(pt)
• Romanian:versiune(ro)f
• Russian:ве́рсия(ru)f(vérsija),вариа́нт(ru)m(variánt)
• Scottish Gaelic:dreachm
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:вѐрзијаf

  Roman:vèrzija(sh)f

• Slovak:verziaf
• Slovene:verzijaf,različicaf
• Spanish:versión(es)f
• Swahili:insha(sw)
• Swedish:variant(sv)c,version(sv)c
• Tajik:ривоят(tg)(rivoyat)
• Thai:ชุด(th)(chút),เวอร์ชัน
• Turkish:versiyon(tr)
• Ukrainian:ве́рсія(uk)f(vérsija),варіа́нт(uk)m(variánt),різно́вид(uk)m(riznóvyd)
• Uzbek:versiya(uz)
• Vietnamese:phiên bản(vi)
• Welsh:fersiwn(cy)m
• Yiddish:נוסחm(nusekh)

a translation from one language to another

• Arabic:تَرْجَمَة(ar)f(tarjama)
• Belarusian:перакла́дm(pjeraklád)
• Bulgarian:пре́вод(bg)m(prévod)
• Catalan:versió(ca)f
• Finnish:versio(fi)
• French:version(fr)f
• Georgian:ვერსია(versia),ვარიანტი(varianṭi),თარგმანი(targmani)
• Haitian Creole:vèsyon
• Hungarian:változat(hu),verzió(hu),fordítás(hu)
• Interlingua:version
• Italian:versione(it)f
• Japanese:Bản(ja)(ばん, ban)
• Korean:버전(ko)(beojeon),판( bản )(ko)(pan)
• Lithuanian:vertimas(lt)m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:versjon(no)m

• Portuguese:versão(pt)f
• Russian:ве́рсия(ru)f(vérsija),перево́д(ru)m(perevód)
• Scottish Gaelic:dreachm
• Spanish:versión(es)f
• Swedish:version(sv)c
• Ukrainian:перекла́д(uk)m(pereklád)

an account or description from a particular point of view

• Armenian:տարբերակ(hy)(tarberak)
• Bulgarian:ве́рсия(bg)f(vérsija)
• Czech:verze(cs)f
• Finnish:versio(fi)
• French:version(fr)f
• Georgian:ვერსია(versia)
• Greek:εκδοχή(el)f(ekdochí)
• Hungarian:változat(hu),verzió(hu)
• Interlingua:version
• Italian:versione(it)f
• Japanese:Bản(ja)(ばん, ban)
• Latvian:versijaf,variantsm
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:versjon(no)m

• Polish:wersja(pl)f
• Portuguese:versão(pt)f
• Russian:ве́рсия(ru)f(vérsija)
• Swedish:version(sv)c,perspektiv(sv)n

computing: particular revision

• Arabic:إِصْدَارm(ʔiṣdār),نُسْخَةf(nusḵa)
• Armenian:տարբերակ(hy)(tarberak)
• Belarusian:ве́рсіяf(vjérsija),вэ́рсіяf(vérsija)(Taraškievica)
• Bengali:অনুবাদ(bn)(onubad)
• Breton:stumm(br)m
• Bulgarian:ве́рсия(bg)f(vérsija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Bản bổn(zh)(bǎnběn)

• Czech:verze(cs)f
• Esperanto:versio,eldono
• Estonian:versioon(et)
• Faroese:útgáva(fo)f
• Finnish:versio(fi)
• French:version(fr)f
• Georgian:ვერსია(versia),ვარიანტი(varianṭi)
• German:Version(de)f
• Greek:έκδοση(el)f(ékdosi)
• Hindi:संस्करण(hi)m(sanskaraṇ)
• Icelandic:útgáfa(is)f
• Indonesian:versi(id)
• Interlingua:version
• Italian:versione(it)f
• Japanese:バージョン(bājon)
• Korean:버전(ko)(beojeon)
• Latvian:versijaf
• Lithuanian:versijaf
• Macedonian:верзијаf(verzija)
• Malay:versi
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic:хувилбар(mn)(xuvilbar)

• Persian:نسخه(fa)(nosxe),نشراک(fa)
• Polish:wersja(pl)f
• Portuguese:versão(pt)f
• Romanian:versiune(ro)f
• Russian:ве́рсия(ru)f(vérsija)
• Scottish Gaelic:dreachm
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:ина̀чицаf(Croatia),вѐрзијаf

  Roman:inàčicaf(Croatia),vèrzija(sh)f

• Slovak:verziaf
• Slovene:različicaf,verzijaf
• Spanish:versión(es)
• Swahili:toleo(sw)
• Swedish:version(sv)c,utgåva(sv)c
• Tajik:нусха(nusxa)
• Turkish:sürüm(tr),versiyon(tr)
• Ukrainian:ве́рсія(uk)f(vérsija)
• Vietnamese:phiên bản(vi)

Verb

version(third-person singular simple presentversions,present participleversioning,simple past and past participleversioned)

1. (transitive,computing)To keep track of (a file, document, etc.) in aversioningsystem.

Translations

to keep track of in a versioning system

• German:versionieren(de)
• Portuguese:versionar

See also

• CVS
• revision control
• versioning
• bible

Anagrams

• Iverson,enviros,renvois

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

version

1. accusative singular ofversio

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈʋersion/,[ˈʋe̞rs̠io̞n]
• Rhymes:-ersion
• Syllabification^(key):ver‧si‧on

Noun

version

1. genitivesingularofversio

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/vɛʁ.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Etymology 1

InheritedfromMiddle Frenchversion,fromMedieval Latinversiōnem(“turning, rendition”),fromLatinvertō(“turn”).

Noun

versionf(pluralversions)

1. version;model(a specific state, variant, or form of something)
2. translation(from a foreign language into one'smother tongue)

   Coordinate term:thème

3. a specific manner ofreportinga fact orevent

Derived terms

• gestion de versions
• rétroversion

Descendants

• →Romanian:versiune
• →Turkish:versiyon

Etymology 2

Fromverser.

Noun

versionf(pluralversions)

1. (medicine)an obstetricmaneuverto change thefetus' position inside theuterusso as tofacilitatechildbirth

Further reading

• “version”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Anagrams

• renvois,rêvions,vin rosé

Interlingua

Noun

version(pluralversiones)

1. version

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed fromLatinversiō.

Noun

versionf(pluralversions)

1. translation

Occitan

Etymology

FromMedieval Latinversiō.

Pronunciation

• Audio(Béarn):

  (file)

Noun

versionf(pluralversions)

1. version

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• versiun

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/vɛrˈsjuŋ/

Noun

versionf(pluralversion)

1. version

Swedish

Etymology

FromMedieval Latinversiō.

Noun

versionc

1. version

Declension

Declension ofversion
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	version	versionen	versioner	versionerna
Genitive	versions	versionens	versioners	versionernas

Related terms

• testversion
• versionshantering
• versionsnummer