develop
Definitions
General English
- verb to get an illness
- verb to plan and produce something
General Science
- verb to come into being, or cause something to come into being
Commerce
- verb to plan and build an area
Economics
- To experience a sustained and substantial increase in per capita income; thus to undergo economic development.
Media Studies
- verb to use chemical treatments to produce visible images from photographic film that has previously been exposed to light
Medical
- verb to make something start to grow or become larger, stronger or more complex
Publishing
- verb to apply a chemical process to exposed photographic film and paper to produce an image
Real Estate
- verb to make land available for human purposes, e.g. housing
- verb to plan and construct buildings, roads or other technological structures
Travel
- verb to grow and change, or to change something so that it becomes larger or more complicated
Origin & History of “develop”
The history of develop and its close relative envelop is hazy. English acquired it from développer, the modern French descendant of Old French desveloper. this was a compound verb formed from the prefix des- ‘un-’ and voloper ‘wrap’. But where did voloper come from? some have proposed a hypothetical Celtic base *vol- ‘roll’, while others have pointed to similarities, formal and semantic, with Italian viluppo ‘bundle’ and viluppare ‘wrap’, which come from an assumed late Latin *faluppa ‘husk’. beyond that, however, the trail has gone cold.
