different between arse vs arsenic

English

Alternative forms

• ass (US)

Etymology

From Middle English ars, ers, from Old English ærs, ears, from Proto-West Germanic *ars, from Proto-Germanic *arsaz (compare Dutch aars and German Arsch), from Proto-Indo-European *h?érsos (“backside, buttocks”) (according to Julius Pokorny and Carl Darling Buck).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??s/
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /??s/
• (Ireland, US) IPA^(key): /??s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s

Noun

arse (plural arses)

1. (current in South Africa, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, dated in New England, now vulgar) The buttocks or more specifically, the anus.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks, Thesaurus:anus

   • 2011, James Smart, The Guardian, 12 March:

     As the novel progresses, he is shot in the hand with his own gun, shot in the arse with someone else's and lacerated by a prosthetic weed trimmer.
2. (chiefly Britain, derogatory slang) A stupid, mean or despicable person.
   • 2007, Martin Harrison, The Judgement of Paris, p.282:

     “You're an arse,” Ellen said. ¶ “Please? You must like something about me …?” ¶ “I do. You're an arse. I just told you that. I feel comfy with you, because you're such an arse.”

   • 2007, L. A. Wilson, The Silurian: Book One: The Fox and the Bear, p.103:

     He looked at me, was just about to call me an arse, when I told him, “You throw it too hard. Try and think of the javelin hitting the target before you throw it. Let it all go through your mind first, see it, feel it, then throw it.” ¶ “Good advice, you arse,” he said and tried again.

   • 2011, Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes, unnumbered page:

     Felnigg. What a suppurating arse. Look at him. Arse.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:arse.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: lasi

Translations

Verb

arse (third-person singular simple present arses, present participle arsing, simple past and past participle arsed)

1. (slang, intransitive) To be silly, act stupid or mess around.

   Stop arsing around!

   • 1985, Sam McAughtry, McAughtry's War, page 10,

     He was university material, just arsing about as a rigger, arsing about, killing time with bohunks like me […] .

   • 2005, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, page 291,

     Pi, upset, roars, "Quit arsing around there and get cracking," and a dozen heads turn their way.

   • 2011, Jaine Fenn, Bringer of Light, unnumbered page,

     He was half-expecting a call from the lingua, telling him to stop arsing around, but his com stayed silent, so it looked like a certain amount of arsing around was allowed.

Derived terms

• arse about (verb)
• arse around (verb)
• half-arsed (adjective)
• can't be arsed

Anagrams

• AREs, Ares, EARs, ERAs, Ersa, SERA, Sear, ares, ears, eras, rase, reas, sare, sear, sera

Italian

Adjective

arse f pl

1. feminine plural of arso

Verb

arse

1. third-person singular indicative past historic of ardere

Participle

arse

1. feminine plural of the past participle of ardere

Anagrams

• ersa, rase, resa, sera

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ar.se/, [?ärs??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ar.se/, [??rs?]

Participle

arse

1. vocative masculine singular of arsus

Old Irish

Etymology

Univerbation of airi (“for the sake of it; therefore”) +? se (“this”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ar??s?e/

Adverb

arse

1. therefore, for this/that reason

   Synonym: airi

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12^a22

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• ársis

Noun

arse f (plural arses)

1. (poetry, music) arsis (the stronger part of a measure or foot)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?arse]

Adjective

arse

1. genitive/dative feminine singular of ars
2. nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of ars
3. genitive/dative feminine/neuter plural of ars

Verb

arse

1. third-person singular simple perfect indicative of arde

English

Alternative forms

• arsenick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English arsenik, borrowed from Middle French arsenic, from Latin arsenicum, from Ancient Greek ????????? (arsenikón, “yellow arsenic”) (influenced by ????????? (arsenikós, “potent, virile”)), from Semitic (compare Classical Syriac ??????? (zarn???), Aramaic ????????????????????????? (zrnyk? /zarn???/)), from Middle Iranian *zarn?k (compare Persian ????? (zarn?, “arsenic”)), from Old Iranian *zarniya-ka- (compare Avestan ????????????????????????????????? (zaraniia, “golden”), Old Persian ???????????????????? (d-r-n-i-y /daraniya-/, “gold”), Sanskrit ?????? (híra?ya, “gold”), Persian ??? (zar, “gold”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *??elh?-. More at yellow.

Pronunciation

Noun

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???(?).s?.n?k/
• (US) enPR: är?s?n-?k, IPA^(key): /???s?n?k/

Adjective

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??(?)?s?n?k/
• (US) enPR: är-s?n??k, IPA^(key): /???s?n?k/

Noun

arsenic (countable and uncountable, plural arsenics)

2. A nonmetallic chemical element (symbol As) with an atomic number of 33.
3. (countable) A single atom of this element.
4. Arsenic trioxide.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

arsenic (not comparable)

1. Of or containing arsenic with a valence of 5.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• Cairnes, Racines, Serican, arcsine, carines, carnies, cerasin, sarcine, scarine

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?.s?.nik/

Noun

arsenic m (uncountable)

1. arsenic (chemical element)

Derived terms

• oxyde blanc d'arsenic

Descendants

• Lingala: aseni

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• cernais, enciras, encrais, racines, ricanes, ricanés

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin arsenicum.

Noun

arsenic m (uncountable)

1. arsenic

Romanian

Etymology

From French arsenic, from Latin arsenicum.

Noun

arsenic n (uncountable)

1. arsenic

Declension