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class (
n.)
c.1600, "
group of students," from
Fr. classe (14c.), from
L. classis "
class, division, army, fleet," especially any one of the six orders into which Servius Tullius divided the Roman people for the purpose of taxation; traditionally originally "
the people of Rome under arms," and thus akin to
calare "
to call (to arms)," from
PIE root *kele- (2) "
to shout" (see
CLAIM (
Cf. claim) (
v.)). School and university sense of "
course, lecture" (1650s) is from the notion of a form or lecture reserved to scholars who had attained a certain level. Natural history sense is from 1753. Meaning "
a division of society according to status" (upper, lower,
etc.) is from 1772.
Class-consciousness (1903) is from
Ger. klassenbewusst.
{{12}}class (v.) 1705, "to divide into classes," from CLASS (Cf. class) (n.). Sense of "to place into a class" is from 1776. Related: Classed; classing.
Etymology dictionary.
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