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English

Etymology

From Old French arester (“to stay, stop”), from Vulgar Latin *arrest?, from Latin ad- (“to”) + rest? (“to stop, remain behind, stay back”), from re- (“back”) + st? (“to stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh?- (“to stand”), equivalent to ad- +? rest. Compare French arrêter (“to stop”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????st/
• Hyphenation: ar?rest
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

arrest (countable and uncountable, plural arrests)

1. A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
2. The condition of being stopped, standstill.
3. (law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
4. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
5. A device to physically arrest motion.
6. (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
7. (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
   • 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]

     The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., […] were sad arrests to his troubled spirit.

8. (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse

Derived terms

• arrest warrant
• cardiac arrest
• house arrest

Translations

Verb

arrest (third-person singular simple present arrests, present participle arresting, simple past and past participle arrested)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To stop the motion of (a person or animal). [14th-19th c.]
   • 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther 1974, p. 86:

     Mr. Van Rensberg broke the spell by arresting Martha as she trailed past him on Billy's arm, by pointing his pipestem at her and saying, ‘Hey, Matty, come here a minute.’

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain. [14th-16th c.]

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

3. (transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.). [from 14th c.]
   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 707:

     To try to arrest the spiral of violence, I contacted Chief Buthelezi to arrange a meeting.

   • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ?ISBN

     Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …Western reason had entered the age of judgement.

4. (transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody. [from 14th c.]

   The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry.
5. (transitive) To catch the attention of. [from 19th c.]
   • 1919: P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves:

     There is something about this picture—something bold and vigorous, which arrests the attention. I feel sure it would be highly popular.

6. (intransitive, medicine) To undergo cardiac arrest.
   • 2004, Euan A. Ashley, Josef Niebauer, Cardiology Explained (page 66)

     Realizing the mistake immediately from the outline of the RCA on the fluoroscope screen, he rapidly removed the catheter – just as his patient arrested.

Synonyms

• (to stop the motion of): freeze, halt; See also Thesaurus:immobilize
• (to stay):
• (to stop or slow a process): cease, discontinue; See also Thesaurus:desist
• (to seize someone): apprehend, seize; See also Thesaurus:capture
• (to catch the attention of): attract, dazzle, engage, entice; See also Thesaurus:allure

Derived terms

• arrester, arrestor
• arrestment
• arresting
• arrestive

Related terms

• arrestation

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Arters, arrêts, rarest, raster, raters, retars, starer, starre, tarres, terras

Catalan

Noun

arrest m (plural arrests or arrestos)

1. arrest

Derived terms

• ordre d'arrest

Danish

Etymology

Via German Arrest from Middle French arrest (“arrest”) (French arrêt), derived from the verb arrester (“to hold back, arrest”) (arrêter), borrowed to Danish arrestere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a??asd?], [a???sd?]

Noun

arrest c (singular definite arresten, plural indefinite arrester)

1. arrest (the process of holding back a suspect)
2. confinement, detention (a short-time prison)

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch arrest, from Old French arest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r?st/
• Hyphenation: ar?rest
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

arrest n (plural arresten, diminutive arrestje n)

1. (law) sentence passed by a higher court
2. (law) confiscation ordered by a legal ruling
3. (law, historical) detention, confinement, especially after being arrested

Derived terms

• huisarrest
• kamerarrest
• stadsarrest

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: ares

Anagrams

• raster, terras

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old French arester

Noun

arrest m (definite singular arresten, indefinite plural arrester, definite plural arrestene)

1. arrest, custody, detention

Derived terms

• husarrest
• politiarrest

Related terms

• arrestasjon
• arrestere

References

• “arrest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old French arester

Noun

arrest m (definite singular arresten, indefinite plural arrestar, definite plural arrestane)

1. arrest, custody, detention

Derived terms

• husarrest
• politiarrest

Related terms

• arrestasjon
• arrestere

References

• “arrest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch zes, from Middle Dutch ses, from Old Dutch *ses, from Proto-Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Indo-European *swé?s.

Numeral

ses

1. six

Baure

Noun

ses

1. Sun

Catalan

Article

ses f pl

1. (dialectal, Balearics) feminine plural definite article; the

See also

• salat

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Contraction

ses

1. Contraction of jsi + se.

Usage notes

When using a reflexive verb in the second-person singular past form and in conditional, the auxiliary verb být (“to be”) is replaced with just -s appended to the reflexive pronoun se, si. The full form “jsi se”, “jsi si” is proscribed as hypercorrect.

Related terms

• sis

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?se?s]

Verb

ses

1. present tense passive of se
2. infinitive passive of se

Phrase

ses

1. Abbreviation of vi ses (“see you”).

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin sex.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ses/

Numeral

ses

1. six (6)

Derived terms

• sesangulo (“hexagon”)
• sesjara (“six-year”)
• seso (“set or group of six”)

Estonian

Pronoun

ses

1. inessive singular of see

French

Etymology

From Old French ses.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se/
• Homophones: cé, ces, cés

Determiner

ses pl

1. his, her (when referring to a plural noun)

Related terms

¹ Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel or mute h.

² Also used as the polite singular form.

Further reading

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

Lombard

Etymology

From sex.

Numeral

ses

1. six

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *ses, from Proto-West Germanic *sehs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zes/

Numeral

ses

1. six

Descendants

• Dutch: zes
  • Afrikaans: ses
• Limburgish: zès
• West Flemish: zèsse
• Zealandic: zes

Further reading

• “ses”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “sesse”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page sesse

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• sees

Verb

ses

1. passive of se

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• sest (sole current standard)

Verb

ses

(non-standard since 2012)

1. inflection of sjåas:
   1. present tense
   2. supine

Old French

Pronoun

ses

1. his/hers/its (third-person singular possessive pronoun)

Descendants

• French: ses

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin sine + -s. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ses/

Preposition

ses

1. without

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin sex, from Proto-Italic *seks. Cognates include Italian sei and French six.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ses/

Numeral

ses

1. six

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) sis
• (Surmiran) seis

Etymology

From Latin sex (compare Spanish seis), from Proto-Indo-European *swé?s.

Numeral

ses

1. (Puter, Vallader) six

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin sex, from Proto-Italic *seks, from Proto-Indo-European *swé?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?s/

Numeral

ses

1. six

Swedish

Verb

ses

1. infinitive passive of se.
2. present tense passive of se.
3. reciprocal form of se; infinitive, present or imperative tense: to see each other, to meet

Anagrams

• ess

Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ses. Cognate with Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Turkmen ses, Azerbaijani s?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ses/
• Hyphenation: ses

Noun

ses (definite accusative sesi, plural sesler)

1. voice, sound
2. letter

Declension

Synonyms

• harf

Derived terms

Zazaki

Alternative forms

• ?e?
• šest

Numeral

ses

1. six (the cipher, the cardinal number six)

See also

• Basic numbers (0-10):

  0 s?f?r, 1 zew, 2 d?d?, 3 hir?, 4 cehar, 5 phanc, 6 ses, 7 hewt, 8 h?st, 9 new, 10 des