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hasty
English
Etymology
From Middle English hasty, of unclear origin. Likely a new formation in Middle English equivalent to haste +? -y, found as in other Germanic languages (Old Frisian hastig, Middle Dutch haestigh (> Dutch haastig (“hasty”)), Middle Low German hastich (“hasty”), German hastig, Danish hastig, Swedish hastig (“hasty”)); otherwise possibly representing an assimilation to the foregoing of Middle English hastive, hastif (> English hastive), from Old French hastif (Modern French hâtif), from Frankish *haifst (“violence”), of same ultimate origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?he?sti/
- Rhymes: -e?sti
Adjective
hasty (comparative hastier, superlative hastiest)
- Acting in haste; being too hurried or quick
- 1610, Alexander Cooke, Pope Joane, in William Oldys, editor, The Harleian Miscellany: or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library: Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes: With a Table of the Contents, and an Alphabetical Index, volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, 1744, OCLC 5325177; republished as John Maltham, editor, The Harleian Miscellany; or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes, volume IV, London: Printed for R. Dutton, 1808–1811, OCLC 30776079, page 95:
- If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.
- 1610, Alexander Cooke, Pope Joane, in William Oldys, editor, The Harleian Miscellany: or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library: Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes: With a Table of the Contents, and an Alphabetical Index, volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, 1744, OCLC 5325177; republished as John Maltham, editor, The Harleian Miscellany; or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes, volume IV, London: Printed for R. Dutton, 1808–1811, OCLC 30776079, page 95:
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- sayth, yasht
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alert
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??l??t/
- (General American) enPR: ?-lûrt?, IPA(key): /??l?t/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
- Hyphenation: a?lert
Etymology 1
From French alerte (“alert”), from the phrase à l'erte (“on the watch”), from Italian all'erta (“to the height”), from erta (“lookout, tower”).
Adjective
alert (comparative more alert, superlative most alert)
- Attentive; awake; on guard.
- (obsolete) brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
- I saw an alert young fellow that cocked his hat upon a friend of his who entered just at the same time with myself
Translations
Noun
alert (plural alerts)
- An alarm.
- A notification of higher importance than an advisory.
- (military) A state of readiness for potential combat.
- an airborne alert; ground alert
Translations
Etymology 2
Formed within English by conversion, from alert (adj). Compare French alerter.
Verb
alert (third-person singular simple present alerts, present participle alerting, simple past and past participle alerted)
- To give warning to.
Translations
References
Anagrams
- alter, alter-, altre, artel, later, ratel, taler, telar
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French alerte.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a??l?rt/
- Hyphenation: alert
- Rhymes: -?rt
Adjective
alert (comparative alerter, superlative alertst)
- alert
Inflection
Derived terms
- alertheid
Anagrams
- later, ratel
German
Etymology
From French alerte.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [a?l??t]
Adjective
alert (comparative alerter, superlative am alertesten)
- alert
Declension
Further reading
- “alert” in Duden online
Romanian
Etymology
From French alerte
Adjective
alert m or n (feminine singular alert?, masculine plural aler?i, feminine and neuter plural alerte)
- wide-awake
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a?læ?/
- Rhymes: -æ??
Adjective
alert (comparative alertare, superlative alertast)
- alert
Declension
Anagrams
- artel, later, letar, realt
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