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alacrity
English
Etymology
Coined between 1500 and 1510 from Latin alacrit?s, from alacer (“brisk”) + -itas (“-ity”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) enPR: ?-l?'cr?-t?, IPA(key): [??læk??ti]
Noun
alacrity (countable and uncountable, plural alacrities)
- Eagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm.
- Synonyms: avidity, eagerness, enthusiasm, willingness
- Antonyms: apathy, disinclination, hesitance, indifference, reluctance
- 1553 (posth.), Thomas More, A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation, Book I, Chapter 19:
- Besides, a wealthy man, well at ease, may pray to God quietly and merrily with alacrity and great quietness of mind, whereas he who lieth groaning in his grief cannot endure to pray nor can he hardly think upon anything but his pain.
- 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act V, sc. 3:
- I have not that alacrity of spirit
- Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.
- 1920, Edward Arlington Robinson, The Three Taverns, "Tasker Norcross":
- You have an overgrown alacrity
- For saying nothing much and hearing less […]
- Promptness; speed.
- Synonyms: briskness, celerity, haste, promptness, quickness, swiftness
- 1849, Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience":
- Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
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alert
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??l??t/
- (General American) enPR: ?-lûrt?, IPA(key): /??l?t/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
- Hyphenation: a?lert
Etymology 1
From French alerte (“alert”), from the phrase à l'erte (“on the watch”), from Italian all'erta (“to the height”), from erta (“lookout, tower”).
Adjective
alert (comparative more alert, superlative most alert)
- Attentive; awake; on guard.
- (obsolete) brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
- I saw an alert young fellow that cocked his hat upon a friend of his who entered just at the same time with myself
Translations
Noun
alert (plural alerts)
- An alarm.
- A notification of higher importance than an advisory.
- (military) A state of readiness for potential combat.
- an airborne alert; ground alert
Translations
Etymology 2
Formed within English by conversion, from alert (adj). Compare French alerter.
Verb
alert (third-person singular simple present alerts, present participle alerting, simple past and past participle alerted)
- To give warning to.
Translations
References
Anagrams
- alter, alter-, altre, artel, later, ratel, taler, telar
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French alerte.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a??l?rt/
- Hyphenation: alert
- Rhymes: -?rt
Adjective
alert (comparative alerter, superlative alertst)
- alert
Inflection
Derived terms
- alertheid
Anagrams
- later, ratel
German
Etymology
From French alerte.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [a?l??t]
Adjective
alert (comparative alerter, superlative am alertesten)
- alert
Declension
Further reading
- “alert” in Duden online
Romanian
Etymology
From French alerte
Adjective
alert m or n (feminine singular alert?, masculine plural aler?i, feminine and neuter plural alerte)
- wide-awake
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a?læ?/
- Rhymes: -æ??
Adjective
alert (comparative alertare, superlative alertast)
- alert
Declension
Anagrams
- artel, later, letar, realt
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