tunnus
Pronunciation: /ˈtunːus/
“tunnus” is a Finnish word. Its 10 meanings in English:
noun
- insignia (symbol or token of power, status, or office)
- seal (design or insignia associated with organization or official role)
- symbol, emblem (thing considered the embodiment or cardinal exemplar of a concept, theme, or other thing)
- mark (indication for reference or measurement)
- motto (sentence, phrase, or word by which one is recognized, and which is suggestive of its subject matter)
- marker (free or bound morpheme indicating a grammatical function)
- identification (anything that identifies a specific object)
- credentials (data used to authenticate oneself to a system, e.g. username and password)
- ident (brief audio or audiovisual sequence serving to identify the broadcaster)
- identifier (formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.)
Etymology
tuntea (“to know (well)”) + -us, as if “that by which something is known well, recognized”
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