directory

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈɹɛktəɹi/, /daɪˈɹɛktəɹi/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Etymology 1

From Middle English directorie, dyrectorye, from Medieval Latin dīrectōrium.[1] By surface analysis, direct +‎ -ory. Doublet of directorium. The political sense is a semantic loan from French directoire.

Noun

directory (plural directories)

  1. A list of names, addresses etc, of specific classes of people or organizations, often in alphabetical order or in some classification.
    Hypernyms: list, reference work
    Hyponym: telephone directory
    look up an address in the directory
  2. (computing) A structured listing of the names and characteristics of the files on a storage device.
  3. (computing) A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other directories may be stored. The files and subdirectories in a directory are usually related.
    Synonym: folder
    Hyponyms: home directory, subdirectory
    Coordinate terms: label, pseudodirectory, tag
  4. (politics) A form of government with a collegial executive whose members jointly exercise power; the executive of such a government.
    Synonym: directorate
    • 2015, Jonathan D. Smele, Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926, →ISBN, Union for the Return to the Motherland, page 1243:
      […] at the Ufa State Conference it was it was the union's conception of a directory (rather than a dictatorship) to rule anti-Bolshevik Russia that won the day.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English directorye, from Latin dīrectōrius.[2] By surface analysis, direct +‎ -ory.

Adjective

directory (comparative more directory, superlative most directory)

  1. Containing directions; instructing; directorial.
  2. (law) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References

  1. ^ “directory, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  2. ^ “directory, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English directory.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /diˈrɛk.to.ri/[2]
  • Rhymes: -ɛktori
  • Hyphenation: di‧rèc‧to‧ry

Noun

directory f (invariable)

  1. (computing) directory
  2. (computing, uncommon) folder
    Synonym: cartella

References

  1. ^ directory in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  2. ^ directory in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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