footer

C2+ Topic:Word Formation & Derivatives

US /ˈfʊtər/ UK /ˈfʊtə/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
text or a band at the bottom of a page or screen

The copyright notice sits in the page footer.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · text or a band at the... footnote captionbaselinetagline

Opposites

header

Word family

Related forms foot footing

Etymology

From foot plus the agent/object suffix -er, originally denoting something at the foot (bottom) of a page; the typographic sense arose in modern printing and computing usage. Foot is from Old English fot.

fot Middle English *fōts Proto-Germanic

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Topics

Word Formation & Derivatives General Vocabulary

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# footer

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈfʊtər/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈfʊtə/

## Meanings
1. text or a band at the bottom of a page or screen

## Examples
- The copyright notice sits in the page footer.

## Synonyms
- footnote
- caption
- baseline
- tagline

## Antonyms
- header

## Related Forms
- foot
- footing

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: fot
- Root: *fōts

## Etymology
From foot plus the agent/object suffix -er, originally denoting something at the foot (bottom) of a page; the typographic sense arose in modern printing and computing usage. Foot is from Old English fot.

## AI Etymology
Footer is from foot plus the agent/object suffix -er, originally denoting something at the foot (bottom) of a page; the typographic sense arose in modern printing and computing usage. Foot is from Old English fot. Important recorded forms include fot (Old English) and *fōts (Proto-Germanic). Morphologically, the word is a built form whose named elements carry part of the historical sense. The current sense covers text or a band at the bottom of a page or screen. The wider family includes related words such as foot and footing.

## Topics
- Word Formation & Derivatives
- General Vocabulary

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