different between alert vs apert

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)

2. Attentive; awake; on guard.
3. (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)

1. An alarm.
2. A notification of higher importance than an advisory.
3. (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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. wide-awake

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?læ?/
• Rhymes: -æ??

Adjective

alert (comparative alertare, superlative alertast)

1. alert

Declension

Anagrams

• artel, later, letar, realt

English

Etymology

From Middle English apert, from Old French apert and Latin apertus, past participle of aperire. Doublet of overt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p??(?)t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Adjective

apert

1. (archaic) open; uncovered; revealed

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fotherby to this entry?)

Anagrams

• Peart, Petra, apter, parte, pater, peart, petar, petra, prate, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, trape, treap

French

Etymology

From Latin apertus (“open”). Doublet of ouvert.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.p??/
• Homophone: aperts

Adjective

apert (feminine singular aperte, masculine plural aperts, feminine plural apertes)

1. (archaic, literary) clear, manifest, obvious

Further reading

• “apert” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).