journal

• journall (obsolete)

From Old French journal (“daily”), from Latin diurnālis, from diurnus (“of the day”), from diēs (“day”). Cognate with diurnal.

• enPR: jûrʹ-nəl, IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɜɹnəl/
  • (General Australian, UK) IPA^(key): [ˈdʒɜː.nəɫ]
  • (US) IPA^(key): [ˈdʒɝ.nəɫ], [ˈdʒɝ.nɫ̩]
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
• Hyphenation: jour‧nal

journal (plural journals)

1. A diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook.
2. A newspaper or magazine dealing with a particular subject.

   The university's biology department subscribes to half a dozen academic journals.

3. (accounting) A chronological record of payments.
4. (computing) A chronological record of changes made to a database or other system; along with a backup or image copy that allows recovery after a failure or reinstatement to a previous time; a log.
5. (engineering) The part of a shaft or axle that rests on bearings.

journal (third-person singular simple present journals, present participle journaling or journalling, simple past and past participle journaled or journalled)

1. To archive or record something.
2. To scrapbook.
3. To insert (a shaft, etc.) in a journal bearing.

journal (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Daily.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xi:

     his faint steedes watred in Ocean deepe, / Whiles from their iournall labours they did rest [...].

From Old French journal (“daily”), from Latin diurnālis, from diurnus (“of the day”), from diēs (“day”).

• IPA^(key): /ʒuʁ.nal/

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journal (feminine singular journale, masculine plural journaux, feminine plural journales)

1. That is relative to each day; journal.

journal m (plural journaux)

1. diary, journal
2. newspaper
3. periodical
4. newsbreak
   • Tu as regardé le journal ?
5. (computing) log

• journalisme
• journaliste

• Russian: журна́л (žurnál)

• “journal” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• jornal
• jornel
• journel
• jurnel

From Latin diurnālis, from diurnus (“of the day”), from diēs (“day”).

journal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular journale)

1. daily

• English: journal (borrowed)
• French: journal

Borrowed from French journal.

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journal c

1. a journal, a magazine, a periodical

• journal in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)