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style="min-width:728px;min-height:90px"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa"><div><div class="" style="position:relative"><h1 title="Origin and meaning of jamb" class="word__name--TTbAA">jamb<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)</h1><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH"><p>side-piece of an opening of a door, window, etc., early 14c., from Old French <span class="foreign notranslate">jambe</span> "pier, side post of a door," originally "a leg, shank" (12c.), from Late Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">gamba</span> "leg, (horse's) hock," which is from Greek <span class="foreign notranslate">kampē</span> "a bending," (on notion of the bending of the joint), from verbal stem <span class="foreign notranslate">*kamp-</span> (source also of also Lithuanian <span class="foreign notranslate">kampas</span> "corner," <span class="foreign notranslate">kumpti</span> "to bend," <span class="foreign notranslate">kumpas</span> "curved," and also Germanic words for "lame, mutilated" such as Gothic <span class="foreign notranslate">hamfs</span> "mutilated, lame," Old High German <span class="foreign notranslate">hamf</span>). Beekes considers this a Pre-Greek or other substrate word. The Greek word also was borrowed in Albanian as <span class="foreign notranslate">këmbë</span> "leg, foot."</p></section><div class="word__firstRecorded--3lZB8">also from<!-- --> <a rel="nofollow" class="word__firstRecorded_time--28qNE" href="/search?sort=a&q=from:early%2014c.">early 14c.</a></div></div></div></div><div class="related--32LCi"><h3 class="h3_title" title="words related to jamb">Entries linking to <i>jamb</i></h3><div class="related__details--2kumU"><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of campus" href="/word/campus#etymonline_v_644">campus<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>"college grounds," 1774, from Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">campus</span> "flat land, field," from Proto-Italic <span class="foreign notranslate">*kampo-</span> "field," a word of uncertain origin. De Vaan finds cognates in Greek <span class="foreign notranslate">kampē</span> "a bending, bow, curvature," etc., if the original sense of <span class="foreign notranslate">campus</span> was "depression, curve" (see <a href="/word/jamb" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of jamb " class="crossreference notranslate">jamb</a>), and concludes the source in PIE <span class="foreign notranslate">*kamp-</span> "could well be a European substratum word from agricultural terminology." First used in college sense at Princeton.</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of enjambment" href="/word/enjambment#etymonline_v_8689">enjambment<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>also <span class="foreign notranslate">enjambement</span>, 1837, from French <span class="foreign notranslate">enjambement</span> or from <span class="foreign notranslate">enjamb</span> (c. 1600), from French <span class="foreign notranslate">enjamber</span> "to stride over," from <span class="foreign notranslate">en-</span> (see <a href="/word/en-#etymonline_v_8621" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of en- " class="crossreference notranslate">en-</a> (1)) + <span class="foreign notranslate">jambe</span> "leg" (see <a href="/word/jamb" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of jamb " class="crossreference notranslate">jamb</a>).</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div><ul class="related__container--22iKI"><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of gambol" href="/word/gambol"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">gambol</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of jambalaya" href="/word/jambalaya"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">jambalaya</li></a><a class="related__more--1gm0U related__word--3Si0N" href="/word/jamb/related"><li>See all related words (<!-- -->4<!-- -->) <!-- -->></li></a></ul></div><div data-ad-container="true" class="adContainer--6CVz1 vertical" style="margin-top:1em"><span class="adLabel--35hfi">Advertisement</span><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7093273770345366" style="display:block;width:100%" data-ad-slot="8757723469" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins></div><div class="ngram--SmXCf"><h3 class="h3_title" title="Trends of jamb">Trends of <i>jamb</i></h3><div class="ngram__container--NwjaG" style="height:180px"><canvas id="ngram-chart"></canvas></div><div class="ngram__footer--3-9dX">adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/. 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a riddle; a scientific topic for investigation," from Old French problème (14c.) and directly from Latin problema, from Greek problēma "a task, that which is proposed, a question;" also "anything proj</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="complete" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of baptize" href="/word/baptize"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">baptize<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">"to administer the rite of baptism to," c. 1300, from Old French batisier "be baptized; baptize; give a name to" (11c.), from Latin baptizare, from Greek baptizein "immerse, dip in water," also figuratively, "be over one's head" (in debt, etc.), "to be soaked (in wine);" in Chris</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="complete" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of hamburger" href="/word/hamburger"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">hamburger<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">1610s, Hamburger "native of Hamburg." Also used of ships from Hamburg. From 1838 as a type of excellent black grape indigenous to Tyrolia; 1857 as a variety of hen. 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