differently

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁

Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-

Proto-Italic *dis-

Latin dis-

Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-

Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti

Proto-Italic *ferō

Latin ferō

Latin differō

Latin differēnsder.

Old French differentbor.

Middle English different

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

Middle English differently

English differently

From Middle English differently; equivalent to different +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪfɹəntli/, /ˈdɪfəɹəntli/

• Audio (US):

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Adverb

differently (comparative more differently, superlative most differently)

1. In a different way.

   Things turned out differently from what I'd envisaged.

   • 1815, “Critical Analysis of Recent Publications”, in The Medical and Physical Journal, volume 34:

     I was (says Mr. Highmore) forcibly struck with the violence of its pulsation, so much so, that, if it had been differently situated, I should have considered it an aneurism of considerable magnitude.

   • 1912, Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, The Brothers Karamazov:

     "You see, gentlemen, I couldn't bear the look of him, there was something in him ignoble, impudent, trampling on everything sacred, something sneering and irreverent, loathsome, loathsome. But now that he's dead, I feel differently."
     "How do you mean?"
     "I don't feel differently, but I wish I hadn't hated him so."
     "You feel penitent?"
     "No, not penitent, don't write that. I'm not much good myself; I'm not very beautiful, so I had no right to consider him repulsive. That's what I mean. Write that down, if you like."

   • 2007, Vanessa Leonardi, Gender and Ideology in Translation: Do Women and Men Translate Differently?:

     Recent research in the field of sociolinguistics and related fields has shown that women and men speak differently.

Derived terms

• differently able
• differently abled

Translations

in a different way

• Bulgarian: различно (bg) (različno), другояче (bg) (drugojače)
• Catalan: diferentment (ca)
• Czech: odlišně
• Danish: forskelligt, specielt, anderledes
• Dutch: verschillend (nl), anders (nl)
• Esperanto: diference, malsame
• Finnish: erilaisesti, eri lailla
• French: différemment (fr)
• German: anders (de)
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌸𐌰𐍂𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍉 (anþarleikō)
• Greek: αλλιώς (el) (alliós)

  Ancient Greek: ἑτέρως (hetérōs), ἀλλοίως (alloíōs)

• Hungarian: máshogyan (hu)
• Italian: differentemente (it), diversamente (it)
• Latin: aliter (la)
• Middle English: differently
• Norman: difféthemment
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forskjellig (no)

  Nynorsk: forskjellig

• Plautdietsch: aundasch
• Polish: inaczej (pl)
• Portuguese: diferentemente
• Russian: по-друго́му (ru) (po-drugómu)
• Serbo-Croatian: drugačije (sh), drukčije (sh)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: hynak

• Spanish: diferentemente
• Tocharian B: āläm

Middle English

Alternative forms

• differentliche

Etymology

From different +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdifɛrɛntliː/, /diˈfɛrɛntliː/, /-liːtʃ(ə)/

Adverb

differently

1. differently

Descendants

• English: differently
• Scots: differently

References

• “differentlī, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 31 July 2019.