autocomplete

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew

Proto-Indo-European *tó-

Proto-Hellenic *autós

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.

Ancient Greek αὖ (aû)

Ancient Greek τόν (tón)

Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós)

Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-)

Proto-Indo-European *men-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *mn̥tós

Proto-Hellenic *mətós

Ancient Greek αὐτόμᾰτος (autómătos)

Ancient Greek αὐτόμᾰτον (autómăton)der.

Classical Latin automatum

New Latin automaticusbor.

English automaticclip.

English auto-

Middle English compleet

English complete

English autocomplete

From auto- + complete.

Verb

autocomplete (third-person singular simple present autocompletes, present participle autocompleting, simple past and past participle autocompleted)

1. (computing) To complete automatically.

Related terms

• autocompletion

Translations

complete automatically

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自動完成 / 自动完成 (zìdòng wánchéng)

• Finnish: täyttää automaattisesti
• French: autocompléter (fr)
• Galician: autocompletar
• Italian: completamento automatico m
• Portuguese: autocompletar
• Spanish: autocompletar (es)

Noun

autocomplete (uncountable)

1. (computing) A software feature that predicts the rest of a word a user is typing.
   • 2019, Gretchen McCulloch, chapter 2, in Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Riverhead Books, →ISBN:

     Tools like spellcheck, autocomplete, and speech-to-text impose someone's ideas of the rules of English automatically—invisible authorities that we can defy but not avoid.

Hyponyms

• find as you type
• predictive text
• search as you type

Translations

feature

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自動完成 / 自动完成 (zìdòng wánchéng)

• Finnish: automaattinen täyttö
• French: autocomplétion (fr) m
• Galician: autocompletado m
• German: Textvervollständigung f, Autovervollständigung f
• Greek: αυτοσυμπλήρωση (el) f (aftosymplírosi)
• Italian: completare automaticamente
• Russian: автодополнение (ru) n (avtodopolnenije)
• Spanish: autocompletado f
• Swedish: prediktiv textinmatning c

See also

• autocorrect

Further reading

• autocomplete on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Galician

Verb

autocomplete

1. inflection of autocompletar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

autocomplete

1. inflection of autocompletar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

autocomplete

1. inflection of autocompletar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative