different between assume vs president

English

Etymology

From Latin ass?m? (“accept, take”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + s?m? (“take up, assume”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, North America) IPA^(key): /??sju?m/
• (UK)
• (US)
• (US, Canada) (yod dropping) IPA^(key): /??su?m/
• (yod coalescence) IPA^(key): /???u?m/
• (Nigeria) IPA^(key): /??zu?m/
• Rhymes: -u?m

Verb

assume (third-person singular simple present assumes, present participle assuming, simple past and past participle assumed)

1. To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:assume.
2. To take on a position, duty or form
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:assume.
3. To adopt a feigned quality or manner; to claim without right; to arrogate
   • a. 1809,Beilby Porteus, sermon

     ambition assuming the mask of religion.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:assume.
4. To receive, adopt (a person)
5. To adopt (an idea or cause)

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:suppose

Related terms

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “assume”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• Seamus, amuses

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sym/

Verb

assume

1. first-person singular present indicative of assumer
2. third-person singular present indicative of assumer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of assumer
4. second-person singular imperative of assumer

Anagrams

• amuses, amusés, massue, muasse, suâmes, usâmes

Italian

Verb

assume

1. third-person singular present indicative of assumere

Latin

Verb

ass?me

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ass?m?

Portuguese

Verb

assume

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of assumir
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of assumir

English

Alternative forms

• President (honorifically)
• præsident (archaic)

Etymology

From Old French president, from Latin praesid?ns (“presiding over; president, leader”) (accusative: praesidentem). The Latin word is the substantivized present active participle of the verb praeside? (“preside over”). The verb is composed from prae (“before”) and sede? (“sit”). The original meaning of the verb is 'to sit before' in the sense of presiding at a meeting. A secondary meaning of the verb is 'to command, to govern'. So praesid?ns means 'the presiding one on a meeting' or 'governor, commander'.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??z?d?nt/
• Hyphenation: pre?si?dent

Noun

president (plural presidents, feminine presidentess)

1. The head of state of a republic.
   • 2007, Benjamin Camins, Hillary Is the Best Choice, Page 144

     […] to change the pattern of the last 220 years of only voting for a white male president, and elect a woman president […]

2. In presidential republics, the head of government and head of state.
3. Primary leader of a corporation. Not to be confused with CEO, which is a related but separate position that is sometimes held by a different person.
4. A person presiding over a meeting, chair, presiding officer, presider.
5. Obsolete form of precedent.

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

Synonyms

• (American head of state): POTUS
• (head of a college or university): provost (UK)
• (head of various specific bodies): prepositus
• (informal, jocular): prexy, prez

Translations

Adjective

president (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Occupying the first rank or chief place; having the highest authority; presiding.

References

• president at OneLook Dictionary Search
• president in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Noun

president m (plural presidents)

1. president

Related terms

• presidència
• presidencial
• presidir

Further reading

• “president” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “president” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “president” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “president” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Noun

president m

1. Alternative spelling of prezident

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pre?si?dent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

president m (plural presidenten, diminutive presidentje n)

1. president

Derived terms

• vicepresident

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: presiden

Ladin

Alternative forms

• presidënt

Noun

president m (plural presidenc)

1. president

Middle French

Noun

president m (plural presidens)

1. president (leader of an organization)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin praesidens

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pre?si?dent

Noun

president m (definite singular presidenten, indefinite plural presidenter, definite plural presidentene)

1. a president

Derived terms

• presidentvalg

References

• “president” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin praesidens

Noun

president m (definite singular presidenten, indefinite plural presidentar, definite plural presidentane)

1. a president

References

• “president” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Noun

president m (plural presidents)

1. president

Spanish

Etymology

Catalan president. Doublet of presidente.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?esi?dent/, [p?e.si?ð??n?t?]

Noun

president m (plural presidents)

1. president of Catalonia

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

president c

1. a chairman, presiding member of an assembly, e.g. a court of law
2. a president, head of state in a republic

Declension

Related terms

References

• president in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)