Friday, April 24, 2015

A-to-Z Challenge: U

Today’s word: utility.



Utility first showed up in the late fourteenth century, meaning “fact of being useful”. It comes from the Old French utilite, usefulness, and classical Latin utilitatem, which has varied meanings, like useful and beneficial. Utilitatem comes from utilis, useful, and uti, use. And I mean it super comes from use because the word use comes from uti, too.

TL;DR: Utilities are useful things.

Sources
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14 comments:

  1. All I can think of is utility food. Fills you up but it's not really good.

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  2. At least the etymology of this one makes sense!

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  3. Another one that hasn't evolved all that much. I guess it was useful.

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  4. Utilities are definitely useful, let one break down and everybody complains!

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  5. This one does make sense ;) I don't like when our utilities go out!

    betty

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  6. This one makes a lot of sense. I'm useless without my utilities….

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  7. A frequently used word in science, technology and various kind of work (e.g. utility managment, SUV) I was quite surprised that it was such an old word >:)

    Cold As Heaven

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  8. Makes sense. It hasn't changed too much.

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  9. Pretty straightforward. Now I'm reminded of the pile of laundry in my utility room though.

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