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insult
English
Etymology
The verb is derived from Middle French insulter (modern French insulter (“to insult”)) or its etymon Latin ?nsult?re, present active infinitive of ?nsult? (“to spring, leap or jump at or upon; to abuse, insult, revile, taunt”), the frequentative form of ?nsili? (“to bound; to leap in or upon”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside, within’) + sali? (“to bound, jump, leap; to spring forth; to flow down”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to spring”)).
The noun is derived from Middle French insult (modern French insulte (“insult”)) or its etymon Late Latin insultus (“insult, reviling, scoffing”), from ?nsili? (“to bound; to leap in or upon”); see above.
Pronunciation
- Verb:
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: ?ns?lt?, IPA(key): /?n?s?lt/
- Noun:
- enPR: ?n?s?lt, IPA(key): /??ns?lt/
- Rhymes: -?lt
- Hyphenation: in?sult
Verb
insult (third-person singular simple present insults, present participle insulting, simple past and past participle insulted)
- (transitive) To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone). [from 17th c.]
- Synonyms: disrespect, affront, disgrace, slander, discourtesy, offense
- Antonym: compliment
- (transitive, also figuratively, obsolete) To assail, assault, or attack; (specifically, military) to carry out an assault, attack, or onset without preparation.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (against or over someone). [16th–19th c.]
- (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To leap or trample upon.
Conjugation
Related terms
- insolence
- insultation
Translations
Noun
insult (countable and uncountable, plural insults)
- (uncountable) Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; (countable) a particular act or statement having this effect.
- Synonyms: affront, (slang) diss, (obsolete) insultation, (Britain) offence, (US) offense, pejorative, (US, colloquial) slam, slight, slur; see also Thesaurus:offense
- Antonym: compliment
- (countable) Something that causes offence (for example, by being of an unacceptable quality).
- Synonyms: disgrace, outrage
- (countable, medicine) Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes; the injury so caused.
- (countable, also figuratively, archaic) An assault or attack; (specifically, military, obsolete) an assault, attack, or onset carried out without preparation.
- (countable, obsolete) An act of leaping upon.
Derived terms
- add insult to injury
Translations
References
Further reading
- insult on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- insult (medical) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- insult (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- sunlit, unlist, unslit
Catalan
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /in?sul(t)/
Noun
insult m (plural insults)
- insult
Related terms
- insultar
Further reading
- “insult” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [in?sult]
Verb
insult
- first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of insulta
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scandal
English
Etymology
From Middle French scandale (“indignation caused by misconduct or defamatory speech”), from Ecclesiastical Latin scandalum (“that on which one trips, cause of offense”, literally “stumbling block”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (skándalon, “a trap laid for an enemy, a cause of moral stumbling”), from Proto-Indo-European *skand- (“to jump”). Cognate with Latin scand? (“to climb”). First attested from Old Northern French escandle, but the modern word is a reborrowing. Doublet, via Old French esclandre, of slander.
Sense evolution from "cause of stumbling, that which causes one to sin, stumbling block" to "discredit to reputation, that which brings shame, thing of disgrace" is possibly due to early influence from other similar sounding words for infamy and disgrace (compare Old English scand (“ignominity, scandal, disgraceful thing”), Old High German scanda (“ignominy, disgrace”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (skanda, “shame, disgrace”)). See shand, shend.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?skænd?l/
- Rhymes: -ænd?l
Noun
scandal (countable and uncountable, plural scandals)
- An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.
- 1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 1:
- Well, yes, a couple of leaks are all very well, but it takes more than that... A big scandal perhaps. A political scandal. Or a scandal about something people really understand: Sex... or money.
- 1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 1:
- Damage to one's reputation.
- Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency.
- (theology) Religious discredit; an act or behaviour which brings a religion into discredit.
- (theology) Something which hinders acceptance of religious ideas or behaviour; a stumbling-block or offense.
- Defamatory talk; gossip, slander.
- 1855, Anthony Trollope, The Warden, chapter 1
- Scandal at Barchester affirmed that had it not been for the beauty of his daughter, Mr. Harding would have remained a minor canon; but here probably Scandal lied, as she so often does; for even as a minor canon no one had been more popular among his reverend brethren in the close, than Mr. Harding; and Scandal, before she had reprobated Mr. Harding for being made precentor by his friend the bishop, had loudly blamed the bishop for having so long omitted to do something for his friend Mr. Harding.
- 1855, Anthony Trollope, The Warden, chapter 1
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Korean: ??? (seukaendeul)
Translations
Verb
scandal (third-person singular simple present scandals, present participle scandalling or scandaling, simple past and past participle scandalled or scandaled)
- (obsolete) To treat opprobriously; to defame; to slander.
- (obsolete) To scandalize; to offend.
- 1855, Robert Potts, Liber Cantabrigiensis
- A propensity to scandal may partly proceed from an inability to distinguish the proper objects of censure
- 1855, Robert Potts, Liber Cantabrigiensis
Romanian
Etymology
From French scandale, from Latin scandalum.
Noun
scandal n (plural scandaluri)
- scandal
Declension
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