different between extremity vs march

English

Etymology

From Middle English extremite, from Old French extremité, from Latin extr?mit?s (“extremity; border, perimeter; ending”), from extrem?s (“furthest, extreme”) + -it?s (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-teh?ts (“suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being”); see extreme. Extrem?s is derived from exter (“external, outward”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?e??s (“out”)) + -issimus (“suffix indicating a superlative”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-is- (“suffix indicating a comparative”) + *-(t)m?mo- (“suffix indicating the absolutive case”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?kstr?'m?t?, IPA^(key): /?k?st??m?ti/, /?k-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?st??m?ti/, /-?i/
• Hyphenation: ex?tre?mi?ty

Noun

extremity (countable and uncountable, plural extremities or extremitys) (obsolete)

1. The most extreme or furthest point of something. [from c. 1400]
2. An extreme measure.
3. A hand or foot. [from early 15th c.]
4. A limb (“major appendage of a human or animal such as an arm, leg, or wing”). [from early 15th c.]

Synonyms

• (furthest point): tip
• (major appendage of human or animal): appendage, limb

Derived terms

• extremital

Related terms

• extreme
• extremely
• extremeness
• extremism
• extremist

Translations

Further reading

• extremities on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• extremity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• extremity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??t?/
• (US) enPR: märch, IPA^(key): /m??t?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?

Etymology 1

From Middle English marchen, from Middle French marcher (“to march, walk”), from Old French marchier (“to stride, to march, to trample”), from Frankish *mark?n (“to mark, mark out, to press with the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *mark?n? (“area, region, edge, rim, border”), akin to Persian ???? (marz), from Proto-Indo-European *mer?- (“edge, boundary”). Akin to Old English mearc, ?emearc (“mark, boundary”). Compare mark, from Old English mearcian.

Noun

march (plural marches)

1. A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.
2. A political rally or parade

   Synonyms: protest, parade, rally

3. Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music)
4. Steady forward movement or progression.

   Synonyms: process, advancement, progression

5. (euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.

Derived terms

Related terms

• démarche
• volksmarch

Translations

Verb

march (third-person singular simple present marches, present participle marching, simple past and past participle marched)

1. (intransitive) To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
2. (transitive) To cause someone to walk somewhere.
3. To go to war; to make military advances.
4. (figuratively) To make steady progress.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English marche (“tract of land along a country's border”), from Old French marche (“boundary, frontier”), from Frankish *marku, from Proto-Germanic *mark?, from Proto-Indo-European *mer?- (“edge, boundary”).

Noun

march (plural marches)

1. (now archaic, historical) A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.

   Synonyms: frontier, marchland

2. (historical) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
3. Any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages.

   Synonyms: county palatinate, county palatine

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

march (third-person singular simple present marches, present participle marching, simple past and past participle marched)

1. (intransitive) To have common borders or frontiers

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English merche, from Old English mer?e, mere?e, from Proto-West Germanic *marik, from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea”). Cognate Middle Low German merk, Old High German merc, Old Norse merki (“celery”). Compare also obsolete or regional more (“carrot or parsnip”), from Proto-Indo-European *mork- (“edible herb, tuber”).

Noun

march (plural marches)

1. (obsolete) Smallage.

   Synonym: smallage

See also

• stanmarch (“Smyrnium olusatrum, alexanders”)

Translations

References

Anagrams

• charm

Atong (India)

Alternative forms

• mars

Etymology

From English March.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mart??/

Noun

march (Bengali script ?????)

1. March

Synonyms

• choi•etja

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 5.

Danish

Etymology

From French marche, derived from the verb marcher (“to march”), a Frankish loanword, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *mark?n? (“to mark, notice”). The interjection is borrowed form the French imperative of this verb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m???]

Noun

march c (singular definite marchen, plural indefinite marcher)

1. march

Interjection

march

1. march! (an order)

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *marx, from Proto-Celtic *markos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mar?/

Noun

march m (plural meirch)

1. horse, steed, stallion

Derived terms

• marchog (“knight, horserider”)

Compounds

• cadfarch (“steed”)
• corfarch (“pony”)
• dynfarch (“centaur”)
• marchddanhadlen (“horse nettle”)
• marchfacrell (“horse mackerel”)
• marchfintys (“horsemint”)
• marchfisglen (“horse mussel”)
• cacwn meirch (“hornets”)
• gwenyn meirch (“wasps”)

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