different between hardy vs puissant

English

Etymology

From Middle English hardy, hardi, from Old French hardi (“hardy, daring, stout, bold”). Old French hardi is usually regarded as the past participle of hardir ("to harden, be bold, make bold"; compare Occitan ardir, Italian ardire), from Frankish *hardijan; but it may also have come directly from Frankish *hardi, a secondary form of Frankish *hard (compare Old High German harti, herti, secondary forms of Old High German hart (“hard”)); or even yet from Frankish *hardig (compare Middle Low German herdich (“persevering”), Old Danish hærdig, Norwegian herdig, Swedish härdig (“vigorous, courageous”)). Cognate with hard. May have at some point also been surface analysed as hard + -y.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h??di/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??di/
• Rhymes: -??(?)di

Adjective

hardy (comparative hardier, superlative hardiest)

1. Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.
2. (botany) Able to survive adverse growing conditions.

   A hardy plant is one that can withstand the extremes of climate, such as frost.

   • 2012, David L. Culp, The Layered Garden: Design Lessons for Year-Round Beauty from Brandywine Cottage, Timber Press, page 503:

     By watching where the snow melted first, I discovered warmer spots that I knew would be possible locations for late-winter bloomers or borderline hardy plants.

3. Brave and resolute.
4. Impudent.

Synonyms

• robust
• rugged
• strong

Derived terms

• half-hardy
• hardily
• hardiness
• cold hardy
• hardihead
• hardihood

Related terms

• foolhardy

Translations

Noun

hardy (plural hardies)

1. (usually in the plural) Anything, especially a plant, that is hardy.
2. A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.

Anagrams

• Hydra, hydra

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French hardi.

Adjective

hardy m (feminine singular hardye, masculine plural hardys, feminine plural hardyes)

1. hardy (having rugged physical strength)

Descendants

• French: hardi

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *g?rd?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xar.d?/

Adjective

hardy (comparative bardziej hardy, superlative najbardziej hardy, adverb hardo)

1. haughty, supercilious, arrogant

   Synonyms: dumny, butny

Declension

Derived terms

• (noun) hardo??

Further reading

• hardy in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• hardy in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Etymology

From Middle English puissaunt, from Middle French puissant, poissant, Anglo-Norman puissant, Old French pussant, et al., present participle of pooir (“to be able”), ultimately from Latin posse (“be able”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pw?s(?)nt/, /?pju??s(?)nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pju?s?nt/, /?pw?s?nt/

Adjective

puissant (comparative more puissant, superlative most puissant)

1. (archaic or literary) Powerful, mighty, having authority.
   • 1599 — William Shakespeare, Hen V i 2

     Awake remembrance of these valiant dead, / And with your puissant arm renew their feats.

   • 1667 — John Milton, Paradise Lost Book I

     For who can yet believe, though after loss,
     That all these puissant legions, whose exile
     Hath emptied Heaven, shall fail to re-ascend,
     Self-raised, and repossess their native seat?

   • I cried in a loud voice, "Long live the most puissant king of Lilliput!"

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 24

     How comes all this, if there be not something puissant in whaling?

   • 1961 - Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

     In fact the titles could be anything-or (with some of the most puissant) no title at all...

Related terms

• puissance

Translations

Anagrams

• snapsuit, uitspans

French

Etymology

Old present participle of the verb pouvoir (formed with the stem puis-; compare the modern form pouvant), from Old French puissant, pussant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?i.s??/

Adjective

puissant (feminine singular puissante, masculine plural puissants, feminine plural puissantes)

1. powerful; mighty

Related terms

• pouvoir
• puissance

Further reading

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

Old French

Alternative forms

• poissant
• pussant

Etymology

From the present participle of pooir, povoir, formed with the stem puis- in conjugated forms of the verb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pui?.?sant/

Adjective

puissant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular puissant or puissante)

1. powerful; mighty

Declension

Related terms

• puissance

Descendants

• ? English: puissant
• Middle French: puissant
  • French: puissant