different between lackey vs subordinate
lackey
English
Alternative forms
- lacquey, lacky
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French laquais, which is probably (via Old Occitan lacai?) from Spanish lacayo, itself perhaps from Italian lacchè and Greek ????? (lakés), from Turkish ulak. Another possibility is through French, from Catalan alacay, from Arabic ??????????? (al-q???, “magistrate”). See French laquais.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?læ.ki/
- Rhymes: -æki
Noun
lackey (plural lackeys)
- A footman, a liveried male servant.
- 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 198:
- My dearest father,—I say nothing of them,—but I dare to speak of myself,—I can never be a monk,—if that is your object—spurn me,—order your lacqueys to drag me from this carriage,—leave me a beggar in the streets to cry “fire and water,”—but do not make me a monk.
- 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 198:
- A fawning, servile follower.
- Synonyms: lickspittle; see also Thesaurus:loyal follower
Derived terms
- lackey caterpillar
- lackey moth
Translations
Verb
lackey (third-person singular simple present lackeys, present participle lackeying, simple past and past participle lackeyed)
- (transitive) To attend, wait upon, serve obsequiously.
- ca. 1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act I, sc. 3:
- [T]he ebbed man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love,
- Comes deared by being lacked. This common body,
- Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream,
- Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide,
- To rot itself with motion.
- 1634, John Milton. Comus:
- So dear to Heav'n is Saintly chastity,
- That when a soul is found sincerely so,
- A thousand liveried Angels lacky her ...
- ca. 1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act I, sc. 3:
- (intransitive, obsolete) To toady, play the flunky.
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “lackey”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- Ackley
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subordinate
English
Etymology
From Middle English subordinat, from Medieval Latin sub?rdin?tus, past participle of sub?rdin?re, from sub- + ?rdin?re (“to order”).
Pronunciation
- Adjective and Noun
- (UK) enPR: s?-bô?d?n-?t, IPA(key): /s??b??d?n?t/
- (US) enPR: s?-bôr?d?n-?t, IPA(key): /s??b??d?n?t/
- Verb
- (UK) enPR: s?-bô?d?n-?t, IPA(key): /s??b??d?ne?t/
- (US) enPR: s?-bôr?d?n-?t, IPA(key): /s??b??d?ne?t/
Adjective
subordinate (comparative more subordinate, superlative most subordinate)
- Placed in a lower class, rank, or position.
- 1695, John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies, especially Minerals, &c
- The several kinds […] and subordinate species of each are easily known.
- Synonym: lesser
- Antonyms: superior, superordinate
- 1695, John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies, especially Minerals, &c
- Submissive or inferior to, or controlled by authority.
- November 9, 1662, Robert South, Of the Creation of Man in the Image of God
- It was subordinate, not enslaved, to the understanding.
- Antonym: insubordinate
- November 9, 1662, Robert South, Of the Creation of Man in the Image of God
- (grammar, of a clause, not comparable) dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause
- Synonym: dependent
- Antonyms: independent, main
- Descending in a regular series.
Translations
Noun
subordinate (plural subordinates)
- (countable) One who is subordinate.
- Synonyms: inferior, junior, report, underling, understrapper
- Antonyms: boss, commander, leader, manager, superior, supervisor
Translations
Verb
subordinate (third-person singular simple present subordinates, present participle subordinating, simple past and past participle subordinated)
- (transitive) To make subservient.
- (transitive) To treat as of less value or importance.
- Synonyms: belittle, denigrate
- (transitive, finance) To make of lower priority in order of payment in bankruptcy.
Translations
See also
- inferior
Anagrams
- turbinadoes
Italian
Adjective
subordinate
- feminine plural of subordinato
Verb
subordinate
- second-person plural present indicative of subordinare
- second-person plural imperative of subordinare
- feminine plural past participle of subordinare
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /su.bo?r.di?na?.te/, [s??bo?rd???nä?t??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /su.bor.di?na.te/, [sub?rd?i?n??t??]
Verb
sub?rdin?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of sub?rdin?
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