Wiktionary

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A free, collaboratively edited online dictionary covering many languages, run by the Wikimedia Foundation
2. An internet-based multilingual reference work written by volunteers, offering free definitions, translations and etymologies for words in many languages
3. A community-built online lexicon in which contributors from around the world write free entries defining words across numerous languages

Etymology: "Wiki" comes from Hawaiian, where "wiki wiki" means quick or hurried, and descends from a Proto-Polynesian root with the same sense. The doubled phrase was adopted for WikiWikiWeb, a collaborative website, and "wiki" became the general term for such sites. "Dictionary" has a longer路 path. It traces to Latin "dictiō", a saying or expression, from "dīcō", to say, which goes back to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning to show. Medieval Latin "dictionarium" reached English as the Middle English "dixionare" before taking its modern form, and the Latin "-ārius" suffix marks a thing connected with the base. The first word is then joined to the second in English, producing a single compound: wiktionary.