dialect

dialect
\ \ [16] The notion underlying dialect and its relatives dialectic [14] and dialogue [13] is of ‘conversation’. They come ultimately from Greek dialégesthaiconverse’, a compound verb formed from the prefix dia- ‘with each other’ and légeinspeak’ (source of English lecture and a wide range of related words). This formed the basis of two derived nouns. First diálektosconversation, discourse’, hence ‘way of speaking’ and eventually ‘local speech’, which passed into English via Latin dialectus and Old French dialecte (from it was produced the adjective dialektikósof conversation, discussion, or debate’, which was eventually to become English dialectic). Secondly diálogosconversation’, which again reached English via Latin and Old French.
\ \ Cf.LECTURE

Word origins - 2ed. . 2005.

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