Other forms: editions
An edition is one version of a book as printed at a given time. A first edition, a revised edition, the second edition.
A new edition means the text was reset or changed, where a new impression is the same text printed again — collectors care about the difference and the print run of a first is what makes it valuable. In newspapers, editions change through the night. Note edit, from the Latin for putting out.
1nouneditionOne version of a book as printed at a given time.
“The second edition of the book includes a new chapter.”
edition is a version.
Latin editio comes from edere, to put out or publish — ex plus dare, to give. Date and add come from the same giving.
Proto-Indo-European
*deh₃-
Latin
ēditiō
French
édition
English, today
edition
Built from
From French édition, from Latin ēditiō, from ēdere (“to publish”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA