different between assistant vs minion

English

Alternative forms

• assistaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French assistant, from assister.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s?st?nt/

Adjective

assistant (not comparable) (attributive)

1. Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.

   an assistant surgeon

2. Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
   • 1790, James Beattie, Elements of Moral Science

     Genius and learning […] are mutually and greatly assistant to each other.

   • The person principally assistant on this occasion, indeed the only one who did any service, or seemed likely to do any, was the landlady […]

Translations

Noun

assistant (plural assistants)

1. (obsolete) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
2. A person who assists or helps someone else.
3. (Britain) Sales assistant.
4. A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program.

   Synonym: wizard

Translations

Related terms

• assist
• assistance

References

Anagrams

• Satanists, satanists, stanitsas

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sis.t??/

Verb

assistant

1. present participle of assister

Noun

assistant m (plural assistants, feminine assistante)

1. assistant

Derived terms

• assistant numérique personnel

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

assistant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of assist?

Middle French

Verb

assistant (feminine singular assistante, masculine plural assistans, feminine plural assistantes)

1. present participle of assister
2. (may be preceded by en, invariable) gerund of assister

Noun

assistant m (plural assistans)

1. assistant (person who is present)

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English assistant.

Noun

assistant m (plural assistants, feminine assistante)

1. (Jersey) assistant

English

Etymology

1490, from Middle French mignon (“lover, royal favourite, darling”), from Old French mignon (“dainty, pleasing, gentle, kind”), from Frankish *minnju (“love, friendship, affection, memory”), from Proto-Germanic *minþij?, *mindij? (“affectionate thought, care”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?nj?n/
• Homophone: minyan
• Rhymes: -?nj?n
• Hyphenation: min?ion

Noun

minion (countable and uncountable, plural minions)

1. A loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being.

   Synonyms: disciple, follower; see also Thesaurus:loyal follower

2. A sycophantic follower.
3. (obsolete) A loved one; one highly esteemed and favoured.
   • 1608, Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas his divine weekes and workes

     God's disciple and his dearest minion
4. (obsolete) An ancient form of ordnance with a calibre of about three inches.
5. (uncountable, typography, printing) The size of type between nonpareil and brevier, standardized as 7-point.
6. Obsolete form of minimum.

   • Of philosophers and scholars priscae sapientiae dictatores, I have already spoken in general terms, those superintendents of wit and learning, men above men, those refined men, minions of the muses.

Derived terms

• (type size): minionette
• miniondom
• minionhood
• minioning
• minionish
• minionlike
• minionly
• minionship

Translations

Adjective

minion (comparative more minion, superlative most minion)

1. (obsolete) Favoured, beloved; "pet".

   • These favours, with the commodities that follow minion Courtiers, corrupt […] his libertie, and dazle his judgement.

Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from English million.

Numeral

minion

1. million

Welsh

Etymology

From min +? -ion.

Noun

minion

1. plural of min

Mutation