different between herd vs abactor

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English herde, heerde, heorde, from Old English hierd, heord (“herd, flock; keeping, care, custody”), from Proto-Germanic *herd? (“herd”), from Proto-Indo-European *?erd?- (“file, row, herd”). Cognate with German Herde, Swedish hjord. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian herdhe (“nest”) and Serbo-Croatian krdo.

Noun

herd (plural herds)

1. A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper. [from 11th c.]
   • 1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,

     The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea.

2. Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company. [from 13th c.]
   • 2007, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma, National Geographic (March 2007), 47,

     Zakouma is the last place on Earth where you can see more than a thousand elephants on the move in a single, compact herd.

3. (now usually derogatory) A crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative: a rabble. [from 15th c.]
   • 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk, 8 June 1833

     You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question.

Derived terms

• herd immunity
• herd instinct

Translations

Verb

herd (third-person singular simple present herds, present participle herding, simple past and past participle herded)

1. (intransitive) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.

   Sheep herd on many hills.
2. (transitive) To unite or associate in a herd
3. (transitive) To manage, care for or guard a herd

4. (intransitive) To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.

   • I’ll herd among his friends, and seem
     One of the number.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English herde, from Old English hirde, hierde, from Proto-West Germanic *hird?, from Proto-Germanic *hirdijaz. Cognate with German Hirte, Swedish herde, Danish hyrde.

Noun

herd (plural herds)

1. (now rare) Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals; a herdsman.
   • 2000, Alasdair Grey, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury 2002, page 38:

     Any talent which gives a good new thing to others is a miracle, but commentators have thought it extra miraculous that England's first known poet was an illiterate herd.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

herd (third-person singular simple present herds, present participle herding, simple past and past participle herded)

1. (intransitive, Scotland) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
2. (transitive) To form or put into a herd.
3. (transitive) To move or drive a herd.

Translations

See also

• Appendix:English collective nouns
• drove
• gather
• muster
• round up
• ride herd on

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

herd

1. imperative of herde

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *herþ.

Noun

herd m

1. hearth

Descendants

• Middle High German: hert
  • German: Herd
  • Luxembourgish: Häerd

English

Alternative forms

• abacter

Etymology

From Late Latin abactor (“cattle rustler”), from abig? (“drive away”); from ab (“from, away from”) + ag? (“drive”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æ?bæk.t?/, /æ?bæk.t?/

Noun

abactor (plural abactors)

1. (law, obsolete) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves; a cattle rustler. [Attested from the mid 17^th century until the early 19^th century.]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:rustler

Hyponyms

• horse thief, sheepstealer, napper (obsolete)

Translations

References

Anagrams

• CATOBAR, acrobat

Latin

Etymology

From abig? (“drive away”), from ab (“from, away from”) + ag? (“drive”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a?ba?k.tor/, [ä?bä?kt??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?bak.tor/, [??b?kt??r]

Noun

ab?ctor m (genitive ab?ct?ris); third declension

1. A cattle thief; abactor or rustler.
2. A man who abducts.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (cattle thief): abige?tor, abigeus

Related terms

Descendants

• ? English: abactor
• ? Portuguese: abactor

References

• abactor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• abactor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin abactor.

Pronunciation

• (Caipira) IPA^(key): /a?bak(i)?to?/
• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /a?bak(i)?to?/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /a?bak(i)?to?/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?b?kt?o?/
• Hyphenation: a?bac?tor

Noun

abactor m (plural abactores, feminine abactora, feminine plural abactoras)

1. abactor (cattle thief)

   Synonym: abígeo

Related terms

• abacto