version

See also: Version, versión, and vèrsion

English

Etymology

From Middle French version, from Medieval Latin versiō, from Latin vertō (“I turn”). Used in English since 16th century.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɝʒən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɜːʒən/, /ˈvɜːʃən/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

version (countable and uncountable, plural versions)

1. A specific form or variation of something.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     ‘ […]  There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’

   • 2013 March, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 1 May 2013, page 114:

     An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.

2. A translation from one language to another.

   It's only in the King James Version of the Bible.

3. (education, archaic) A school exercise, generally of composition in a foreign language.
4. (obsolete) The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.
5. An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account.

   He gave another version of the affair.

6. (computing) A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).

   Upgrade to the latest version for new features and bug fixes.

7. (medicine) A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See anteversion and retroversion.
8. (ophthalmology) An eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously and symmetrically in the same direction.
9. (obsolete or medicine) A change of form, direction, etc.; transformation; conversion.

   External cephalic version is a process by which a breech baby can sometimes be turned from buttocks or foot first to head first.

   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     The version of air into water.

10. (music) An instrumental in sound system culture.
    • 2014, Richard James Burgess, The History of Music Production, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 168:

      Out of sound system culture came the instrumental “version” (ubiquitous in late 1960s Jamaica) […]

Synonyms

• ver, ver. (abbreviations)

Derived terms

• alpha version
• beta version
• Boston version
• CliffsNotes version
• cover version
• e-version
• instrumental version
• podalic version
• pre-alpha version
• Reader's Digest version
• release version
• version control
• version number
• zombie version

 

Translations

a specific form or variation of something

• Albanian: version (sq) m
• Arabic: رِوَايَة (ar) f (riwāya)
• Armenian: տարբերակ (hy) (tarberak)
• Azerbaijani: versiya
• Belarusian: ве́рсія f (vjérsija), варыя́нт f (varyjánt), вэ́рсія f (vérsija) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: সংস্করণ (bn) (śoṅskoron)
• Breton: handelv (br) f
• Bulgarian: ве́рсия (bg) f (vérsija), вариа́нт (bg) f (variánt)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: versió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 版本 (zh) (bǎnběn)

• Crimean Tatar: versiya
• Czech: provedení (cs) n, verze (cs) f, varianta (cs) f
• Danish: version c
• Dutch: versie (nl) f
• Esperanto: versio
• Estonian: versioon (et), variant (et)
• Finnish: versio (fi)
• French: version (fr) f
• Galician: versión (gl) f
• Georgian: ვერსია (versia), ვარიანტი (varianṭi)
• German: Version (de) f, Fassung (de) f, Ausgabe (de) f
• Greek: εκδοχή (el) f (ekdochí)
• Haitian Creole: vèsyon
• Hindi: संस्करण (hi) m (sanskaraṇ)
• Hungarian: változat (hu), verzió (hu), kivitel (hu)
• Icelandic: útgáfa (is) f
• Interlingua: version
• Italian: versione (it) f
• Japanese: 版 (ja) (ばん, ban), バージョン (ja) (bājon)
• Kazakh: нұсқа (nūsqa)
• Khmer: ច្បាប់ (km) (cbap), កំណែ (km) (kɑmnae)
• Korean: 버전 (ko) (beojeon), 판(版) (ko) (pan)
• Kyrgyz: версия (ky) (versiya), нуска (nuska)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: versija f, variants m
• Lithuanian: versija f, variantas m
• Macedonian: верзија f (verzija), варија́нта f (varijánta)
• Malay: versi
• Malayalam: പതിപ്പ് (ml) (patippŭ)
• Maori: rerenga
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хувилбар (mn) (xuvilbar)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: versjon (no) m

• Occitan: version (oc) f
• Persian: نسخه (fa) (nosxe), روایت (fa) (revâyat)
• Polish: wersja (pl) f
• Portuguese: versão (pt) f, variante (pt)
• Romanian: versiune (ro) f
• Russian: ве́рсия (ru) f (vérsija), вариа́нт (ru) m (variánt)
• Scottish Gaelic: dreach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вѐрзија f

  Roman: vèrzija (sh) f

• Slovak: verzia f
• Slovene: verzija f, različica f
• Spanish: versión (es) f
• Swahili: insha (sw)
• Swedish: variant (sv) c, version (sv) c
• Tajik: ривоят (tg) (rivoyat)
• Thai: ชุด (th) (chút), เวอร์ชัน
• Turkish: versiyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: ве́рсія (uk) f (vérsija), варіа́нт (uk) m (variánt), різно́вид (uk) m (riznóvyd)
• Uzbek: versiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: phiên bản (vi)
• Welsh: fersiwn (cy) m
• Yiddish: נוסח m (nusekh)

a translation from one language to another

• Arabic: تَرْجَمَة (ar) f (tarjama)
• Belarusian: перакла́д m (pjeraklád)
• Bulgarian: пре́вод (bg) m (prévod)
• Catalan: versió (ca) f
• Finnish: versio (fi)
• French: version (fr) f
• Georgian: ვერსია (versia), ვარიანტი (varianṭi), თარგმანი (targmani)
• Haitian Creole: vèsyon
• Hungarian: változat (hu), verzió (hu), fordítás (hu)
• Interlingua: version
• Italian: versione (it) f
• Japanese: 版 (ja) (ばん, ban)
• Korean: 버전 (ko) (beojeon), 판(版) (ko) (pan)
• Lithuanian: vertimas (lt) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: versjon (no) m

• Portuguese: versão (pt) f
• Russian: ве́рсия (ru) f (vérsija), перево́д (ru) m (perevód)
• Scottish Gaelic: dreach m
• Spanish: versión (es) f
• Swedish: version (sv) c
• Ukrainian: перекла́д (uk) m (pereklád)

an account or description from a particular point of view

• Armenian: տարբերակ (hy) (tarberak)
• Bulgarian: ве́рсия (bg) f (vérsija)
• Czech: verze (cs) f
• Finnish: versio (fi)
• French: version (fr) f
• Georgian: ვერსია (versia)
• Greek: εκδοχή (el) f (ekdochí)
• Hungarian: változat (hu), verzió (hu)
• Interlingua: version
• Italian: versione (it) f
• Japanese: 版 (ja) (ばん, ban)
• Latvian: versija f, variants m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: versjon (no) m

• Polish: wersja (pl) f
• Portuguese: versão (pt) f
• Russian: ве́рсия (ru) f (vérsija)
• Swedish: version (sv) c, perspektiv (sv) n

computing: particular revision

• Arabic: إِصْدَار m (ʔiṣdār), نُسْخَة f (nusḵa)
• Armenian: տարբերակ (hy) (tarberak)
• Belarusian: ве́рсія f (vjérsija), вэ́рсія f (vérsija) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: অনুবাদ (bn) (onubad)
• Breton: stumm (br) m
• Bulgarian: ве́рсия (bg) f (vérsija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 版本 (zh) (bǎnběn)

• Czech: verze (cs) f
• Esperanto: versio, eldono
• Estonian: versioon (et)
• Faroese: útgáva (fo) f
• Finnish: versio (fi)
• French: version (fr) f
• Georgian: ვერსია (versia), ვარიანტი (varianṭi)
• German: Version (de) f
• Greek: έκδοση (el) f (ékdosi)
• Hindi: संस्करण (hi) m (sanskaraṇ)
• Icelandic: útgáfa (is) f
• Indonesian: versi (id)
• Interlingua: version
• Italian: versione (it) f
• Japanese: バージョン (ja) (bājon)
• Korean: 버전 (ko) (beojeon)
• Latvian: versija f
• Lithuanian: versija f
• Macedonian: верзија f (verzija)
• Malay: versi
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хувилбар (mn) (xuvilbar)

• Persian: نسخه (fa) (nosxe), نشراک
• Polish: wersja (pl) f
• Portuguese: versão (pt) f
• Romanian: versiune (ro) f
• Russian: ве́рсия (ru) f (vérsija)
• Scottish Gaelic: dreach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ина̀чица f (Croatia), вѐрзија f

  Roman: inàčica f (Croatia), vèrzija (sh) f

• Slovak: verzia f
• Slovene: različica f, verzija f
• Spanish: versión (es)
• Swahili: toleo (sw)
• Swedish: version (sv) c, utgåva (sv) c
• Tajik: нусха (nusxa)
• Turkish: sürüm (tr), versiyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: ве́рсія (uk) f (vérsija)
• Vietnamese: phiên bản (vi)

Verb

version (third-person singular simple present versions, present participle versioning, simple past and past participle versioned)

1. (transitive, computing) To keep track of (a file, document, etc.) in a versioning system.

Translations

to keep track of in a versioning system

• German: versionieren (de)
• Portuguese: versionar

See also

• CVS
• revision control
• versioning
• bible

Anagrams

• Iverson, enviros, renvois

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

version

1. accusative singular of versio

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋersion/, [ˈʋe̞rs̠io̞n]
• Rhymes: -ersion
• Hyphenation^(key): ver‧si‧on

Noun

version

1. genitive singular of versio

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛʁ.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French version, from Medieval Latin versiōnem (“turning, rendition”), from Latin vertō (“turn”).

Noun

version f (plural versions)

1. version; model (a specific state, variant, or form of something)
2. translation (from a foreign language into one's mother tongue)

   Coordinate term: thème

3. a specific manner of reporting a fact or event

Derived terms

• gestion de versions
• rétroversion

 

Descendants

• → Romanian: versiune
• → Turkish: versiyon

Etymology 2

From verser.

Noun

version f (plural versions)

1. (medicine) an obstetric maneuver to change the fetus' position inside the uterus so as to facilitate childbirth

Further reading

• “version”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• renvois, rêvions, vin rosé

Interlingua

Noun

version (plural versiones)

1. version

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin versiō.

Noun

version f (plural versions)

1. translation

Occitan

Etymology

From Medieval Latin versiō.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn):

  (file)

Noun

version f (plural versions)

1. version

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• versiun

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛrˈsjuŋ/

Noun

version f (plural version)

1. version

Swedish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin versiō.

Noun

version c

1. version

Declension

Declension of version

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	version	versions
	definite	versionen	versionens
plural	indefinite	versioner	versioners
	definite	versionerna	versionernas

Related terms

• testversion
• versionshantering
• versionsnummer