## Meanings
1. To find out something exactly, by looking at the facts or calculating.
2. To control or decide what something will be like.
3. To decide firmly to do something.

## Examples
- Doctors are trying to determine the cause of the illness.
- Your effort will determine your final grade.
- She determined to leave home at once.

## Derived Forms
- codetermine
- determinability
- determinable
- determinably
- determinant
- determination
- determinative
- determiner
- determinise
- determinism
- determinist
- deterministic

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: determinen
- Root: determiner
- Root: determino

## Etymology
From Middle English determinen, from Old French determiner, French déterminer, from Latin determināre (“to bound, limit, prescribe, fix, determine”), from de + termināre (“to limit”), from terminus (“bound, limit, end”).

## AI Etymology
determine comes from Middle English determinen, from Old French determiner, French déterminer, from Latin determināre (“to bound, limit, prescribe, fix, determine”), from de + termināre (“to limit”), from terminus (“bound, limit, end”). The historical chain includes Middle English determinen, Old French determiner, Latin determino. Current senses include to find out something exactly, by looking at the facts or calculating and to control or decide what something will be like. English relatives and later formations include codetermine, determinability, determinable.

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