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crucial
English
Etymology
1706, from French crucial, a medical term for ligaments of the knee (which cross each other), from Latin crux, crucis (“cross”) (English crux), from the Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, to bend”).
The meaning “decisive, critical” is extended from a logical term, Instantias Crucis, adopted by Francis Bacon in his influential Novum Organum (1620); the notion is of cross fingerboard signposts at forking roads, thus a requirement to choose.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?u?.??l/
- Rhymes: -u???l
Adjective
crucial (comparative more crucial, superlative most crucial)
- Essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important; vital.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:important
- (archaic) Cruciform or cruciate; cross-shaped.
- (slang, especially Jamaican, Bermuda) Very good; excellent; particularly applied to reggae music.
Derived terms
- crucial experiment
Related terms
- cross
- crux
Translations
References
French
Etymology
From a root of Latin crux (“cross”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?y.sjal/
Adjective
crucial (feminine singular cruciale, masculine plural cruciaux, feminine plural cruciales)
- cruciform
- crucial, critical, vital
Further reading
- “crucial” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: cru?ci?al
Adjective
crucial m or f (plural cruciais, comparable)
- crucial
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:crucial.
Romanian
Etymology
From French crucial
Adjective
crucial m or n (feminine singular crucial?, masculine plural cruciali, feminine and neuter plural cruciale)
- pivotal
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From English crucial.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /k?u??jal/, [k?u??jal]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /k?u?sjal/, [k?u?sjal]
Adjective
crucial (plural cruciales)
- crucial
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insistent
English
Etymology
From Latin insistens, participle of insisto.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?s?st?nt/
Adjective
insistent (comparative more insistent, superlative most insistent)
- (obsolete) Standing or resting on something.
- Urgent in dwelling upon anything; persistent in urging or maintaining.
- Extorting attention or notice; coercively staring or prominent; vivid; intense.
- (ornithology) Standing on end: specifically said of the hind toe of a bird when its base is inserted so high on the shank that only its tip touches the ground: correlated with incumbent.
Derived terms
- insistently
Related terms
- insist
- insistence
Translations
References
- insistent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- tintiness
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin ?nsist?ns.
Adjective
insistent (masculine and feminine plural insistents)
- insistent
Derived terms
- insistència
- insistentment
Related terms
- insistir
Further reading
- “insistent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “insistent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “insistent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “insistent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Verb
insistent
- third-person plural present indicative of insister
- third-person plural present subjunctive of insister
Anagrams
- intestins
Latin
Verb
?nsistent
- third-person plural future active indicative of ?nsist?
Romanian
Etymology
From French insistente.
Adjective
insistent m or n (feminine singular insistent?, masculine plural insisten?i, feminine and neuter plural insistente)
- insistent
Declension
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