journal
See also: Journal
English
Alternative forms
- journall (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old French journal (“daily”), from Latin diurnālis, from diurnus (“of the day”), from diēs (“day”). Cognate with diurnal.
Pronunciation
- enPR: jûrʹ-nəl, IPA(key): /ˈdʒɜɹnəl/
- (General Australian, UK) IPA(key): [ˈdʒɜː.nəɫ]
- (US) IPA(key): [ˈdʒɝ.nəɫ], [ˈdʒɝ.nɫ̩]
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
- Hyphenation: jour‧nal
Noun
journal (plural journals)
- A diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook.
- A newspaper or magazine dealing with a particular subject.
- The university's biology department subscribes to half a dozen academic journals.
- (accounting) A chronological record of payments.
- (computing) A chronological record of changes made to a database or other system; along with a backup or image copy that allows recovery after a failure or reinstatement to a previous time; a log.
- (engineering) The part of a shaft or axle that rests on bearings.
Derived terms
- after image journal
- before image journal
- e-journal
- item journal
- journalise, journalize
- journalism
- journalist
- mirror server journal
- purchase journal
- sale journal
- shadow server journal
- transaction journal
Translations
diary or daily record
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newspaper or magazine
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computing: a chronological record of changes made to a database or other system
engineering: part of a shaft or axle that rests on bearings
Verb
journal (third-person singular simple present journals, present participle journaling or journalling, simple past and past participle journaled or journalled)
Adjective
journal (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Daily.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xi:
- his faint steedes watred in Ocean deepe, / Whiles from their iournall labours they did rest [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xi:
French
Etymology
From Old French journal (“daily”), from Latin diurnālis, from diurnus (“of the day”), from diēs (“day”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʒuʁ.nal/
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Adjective
journal (feminine singular journale, masculine plural journaux, feminine plural journales)
Noun
journal m (plural journaux)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Russian: журна́л (žurnál)
Further reading
- “journal” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Alternative forms
- jornal
- jornel
- journel
- jurnel
Swedish
Pronunciation
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Declension
Declension of journal | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | journal | journalen | journaler | journalerna |
Genitive | journals | journalens | journalers | journalernas |
Related terms
- patientjournal
- sjukhusjournal
- sjukjournal
References
- journal in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
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