samples

noun

all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class

items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population

a small part of something intended as representative of the whole

verb

take a sample of

Roots

exemplumsampl- · Latin · example, sample

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Where does samples come from?

The word samples breaks down into one root of Latin origin: the root sampl-, from Latin exemplum (“example, sample”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.