different between prison vs santa

English

Etymology

From Middle English prisoun, prison, a borrowing from Old French prison, from Latin prehensi?nem, accusative singular of prehensi?, from the verb prehend?. Doublet of prehension.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??z?n/, [p?????zn?]
• Rhymes: -?z?n

Noun

prison (countable and uncountable, plural prisons)

1. A place or institution of confinement, especially of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government.

   Synonyms: bridewell, big house; see also Thesaurus:prison

   Coordinate terms: gaol, jail, slammer, hoosegow

   Hypernyms: correctional facility, correctional institution

   Hyponyms: panopticon, dungeon

2. (uncountable) Confinement in prison.

   Synonym: imprisonment

3. (colloquial, figuratively) Any restrictive environment, such as a harsh academy or home.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

prison (third-person singular simple present prisons, present participle prisoning, simple past and past participle prisoned)

1. (transitive) To imprison.

Translations

Further reading

• prison at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• porins, prions, proins, ripons, spinor

French

Etymology

From Old French prison, inherited from Latin prehensi?, prehensi?nem, from prehend?. Doublet of préhension.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?i.z??/

Noun

prison f (plural prisons)

1. prison

Derived terms

• aimable comme une porte de prison
• emprisonner
• prison dorée
• prisonnier

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• prions, ripons

Norman

Etymology

From Old French prison, from Latin prehensi?, prehensi?nem (“seizing, apprehending, arresting, capturing”).

Noun

prison f (plural prisons)

1. (Jersey) prison

Related terms

• emprisonner, mettre en prison (“to imprison”)

Old French

Alternative forms

• prisoun (less common)
• prisun (less common)

Etymology

From Latin prehensi?, prehensi?nem, from prehend?.

Noun

prison f (oblique plural prisons, nominative singular prison, nominative plural prisons)

1. prison

Noun

prison m (oblique plural prisons, nominative singular prisons, nominative plural prison)

1. prisoner

Derived terms

• prisonnier

Descendants

• ? Middle English: prisoun
  • English: prison
  • Scots: preeson
• French: prison
• Norman: prison (Jersey)

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n?t?/

Noun

santá f 

1. bag, sack

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Asturian

Noun

santa f (plural santes)

1. saint (woman proclaimed as saint)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?san.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?san.ta/

Adjective

santa

1. feminine singular of sant

Noun

santa f (plural santes)

1. female equivalent of sant

Finnish

(index sa)

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish sand.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?nt?/, [?s??n?t??]
• Rhymes: -?nt?
• Syllabification: san?ta

Noun

santa

1. sand (usually meaning slightly wet sand)

   Synonym: hiekka

Declension

Anagrams

• ansat, nasta, natsa, sanat, tasan

Galician

Adjective

santa

1. feminine singular of santo

Noun

santa f (plural santas)

1. female equivalent of santo

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto sankta, English saint, French saint, German Sankt, Italian santo, Spanish santo..

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?santa/

Adjective

santa

1. holy

Derived terms

• santeso

Indonesian

Etymology

From Portuguese santa (“female saint”), from Old Portuguese santa, from Latin s?nctus, perfect passive participle of sanci? (“consecrate, appoint as sacred”), from Proto-Indo-European *s?n- (“healthy, happy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?san.ta]
• Hyphenation: san?ta

Noun

santa (first-person possessive santaku, second-person possessive santamu, third-person possessive santanya)

1. saint (female)

Related terms

Further reading

• “santa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Adjective

santa

1. feminine singular of santo (“holy”)

Noun

santa f (plural sante)

1. saint
2. (before a name of a saint or in place names, as Santa ) Saint

Anagrams

• stana

Ladin

Adjective

santa

1. feminine singular of sant

Pali

Alternative forms

Adjective

santa

1. present active participle of atthi (“to be”)
2. true
3. good

Declension

Usage notes

In the locative absolute, the locative singular form is sati irrespective of gender.

References

Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli Language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?s??.t?/

Adjective

santa

1. feminine singular of santo

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

s?nta f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. iceberg

Sicilian

Noun

santa f (plural santi)

1. female equivalent of santu

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish sancta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?santa/, [?sãn?.t?a]

Adjective

santa

1. feminine singular of santo

Related terms

• Semana Santa

Noun

santa f (plural santas)

1. female equivalent of santo

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese santa or less probably Spanish santa.

Adjective

santa

1. holy

Derived terms

• Santa Yeye

Noun

santa

1. saint