different between danger vs viaticum

English

Etymology

From Middle English daunger (“power, dominion, peril”), from Anglo-Norman dangier, from Old French dangier, alteration of Old French dongier (due to association with Latin damnum (“damage”)) from Vulgar Latin *domin?rium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”). Displaced native Old English fr?cennes.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?de?n.d??(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?de?nd??/
• Hyphenation: dan?ger
• Rhymes: -e?nd??(?)

Noun

danger (countable and uncountable, plural dangers)

1. Exposure to likely harm; peril.
   • 1821-1822, William Hazlitt, Table-Talk

     Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars.

2. An instance or cause of likely harm.
   • September 1, 1884, William Gladstone, Second Midlothian Speech

     Two territorial questions […] unsettled […] each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe.

3. (obsolete) Mischief.
4. (mainly outside US, rail transport) The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").

5. (obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.
   • 1551, Ralph Robinson More's Utopia

     Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in danger of this statute.

6. (obsolete) Liability.
   • 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew V:

     Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.

7. (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.
8. (obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.

   • With daunger oute we al oure chaffare; / Greet prees at market maketh deere ware, / And to greet cheep is holde at litel prys: / This knoweth every womman that is wys.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:danger

Derived terms

• danger signal
• kicking in danger

Translations

Verb

danger (third-person singular simple present dangers, present participle dangering, simple past and past participle dangered)

1. (obsolete) To claim liability.
2. (obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
3. (obsolete) To run the risk.

Quotations

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

Related terms

• dangerous
• at danger
• SPAD
• dungeon
• domain
• dame
• endanger

References

• Oxford English Dictionary

Anagrams

• Gander, Garden, gander, garden, grande, graned, nadger, ranged

French

Etymology

From Old French dangier, alteration of Old French dongier (due to association with Latin damnum (“damage”)) from Vulgar Latin *domni?rium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??.?e/

Noun

danger m (plural dangers)

1. danger
2. jeopardy (danger of loss, harm, or failure)

Derived terms

• danger public
• dangereux
• en danger
• hors de danger
• non-assistance à personne en danger

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• de rang, grande

English

Etymology

From Latin vi?ticum (“travelling-money, provisions for a journey”), from vi?ticus (“of a road or journey”), from via (“road”). Doublet of voyage.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /v???at?k?m/

Noun

viaticum (plural viaticums or viatica)

1. The Eucharist, when given to a person who is dying or one in danger of death.
2. (often figuratively) Provisions, money, or other supplies given to someone setting off on a long journey.
3. A portable altar.

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Translations

Further reading

• viaticum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

Substantivization of the neuter form of the adjective vi?ticus (“pertaining to a journey or traveling”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u?i?a?.ti.kum/, [u?i?ä?t??k???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vi?a.ti.kum/, [vi???t?ikum]

Noun

vi?ticum n (genitive vi?tic?); second declension

1. travelling-money; provision for a journey
2. (figuratively) a journey
3. resources; means
4. money made abroad, especially as a soldier, or used to travel abroad

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Derived terms

• vi?tic?tus
• vi?ticulum

Related terms

• via
• vi?ticus
• vi?tor, viatrix
• vi?t?rius

Descendants

References

• viaticum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• viaticum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• viaticum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• viaticum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• viaticum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• viaticum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin