Noun: member
| Singular | member |
| Plural | members |
Sample Sentences
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“Were it not for the fancy French and Latin in it, I'd have swore it was the sort of thing I do not print as a rule, but being as how the order was from one of the members upstairs...” [2014 January 14, Roberta Rogow, The Problem of the Surly Servant, →ISBN, page 109:]
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The I-beams were to become structural members of a pedestrian bridge.
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The member intertongues and grades laterally with the lower sandstone member of the Pocahontas Formation of Early Pennslyvanian age [1979, Kenneth J. Englund, "The Mississippian and Pennsylvanian (Carbonfierous) Systems in the United States - Virginia", Page C-14, in Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 1110]
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For as we haue many members in one body, and all members haue not the same office: [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 12:4:]
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If your wife is old and your member is exhausted, eat onions in plenty. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 168:]
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The zip file holding the source code of this application has 245 members.
Nouns inflected like member
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English membre, from Old French membre, from Latin membrum (“limb, body part”), from Proto-Italic *memzrom, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗms, *mēms-rom (“flesh”). Akin to Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌼𐌶 (mimz, “meat, flesh”), Crimean Gothic menus.
2. Coexists with native limb, from Old English lim (“limb, joint, main branch”). Mostly displaced lith (“limb, joint, member”), from Old English liþ (“limb, member, join, tip”), which still survives in British dialect. See: Middle English Nouns '
membre', Latin Nouns '
membrum', Gothic Nouns '
𐌼𐌹𐌼𐌶'.