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behavior

noun
/bɪˈheɪ.vjə(ɹ)/UK/bɪˈheɪ.vjɚ/CA/bɪˈhæɪ.vjə(ɹ)/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi Proto-Germanic *bider. Proto-Germanic *bi- Proto-West Germanic *bi- Proto-Indo-European *kap-der. Proto-Germanic *habjaną Proto-West Germanic *habbjan Proto-West Germanic *bihabbjan Old English behabban Middle English behaven Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *gʰh₁bʰéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *haβēō Latin habeō Old French avoirbor. Middle English havour Middle English behavoure English behavior From Middle English behavoure, behaver, from behaven (modern behave), morphologically equivalent to behave + -ior. The suffix was adopted in imitation of havour (modern haviour, havior), an etymologically unrelated word that was corrupted from Anglo‐Norman Anglo-Norman aveir and Old French Old French avoir (“property, wealth”) through false association with the native English verb have. The French term derives ultimately from Latin Latin habēre (“to have, hold”). Compare Scots havings (“behavior”), from have (“to behave”). Replaced Old English ġebǣru.

  1. derived from habeō — “to have, hold”
  2. derived from avoir — “property, wealth”
  3. derived from aveir
  4. inherited from behavoure

Definitions

  1. Human conduct relative to social norms.

    • Teachers will probably be on their best behaviour for your visit – but don't be upset if they don't even notice you; they've got enough going on.

  2. The way or manner a living creature behaves or acts generally.

  3. A state of probation about one's conduct.

    • He was on his best behavior when her family visited.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. An observable response produced by an organism.

    2. The way a device or system operates.

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Derived

behavioral, behavioralism, behavioralist, behavioral science, behavioreme, behaviorism, behaviorist, behavioristic, behaviormetric, behaviormetrics, behavior pattern, behaviorwise, body-focused repetitive behavior disorder, dialectical behavior therapy, disordered money behavior, eigenbehavior, health behavior, human behavior, ideal-seeking behavior, macrobehavior, misbehavior, neurobehavior, photobehavior, routine response behavior

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for behavior. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA