different between rival vs assailant

English

Etymology

From Latin r?v?lis (literally “person using the same stream as another”), from r?vus (“small stream, brook”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?v?l/
• Rhymes: -a?v?l

Noun

rival (plural rivals)

1. A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.

2. Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.

3. (obsolete) One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.

Hyponyms

• rivaless

Derived terms

• rivaless
• rivalry
• archrival, arch-rival

Related terms

• rivulet

Translations

Adjective

rival (not comparable)

1. Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.

   rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions

Translations

Verb

rival (third-person singular simple present rivals, present participle rivalling or rivaling, simple past and past participle rivalled or rivaled)

1. (transitive) To oppose or compete with.

   to rival somebody in love

2. To be equal to, or match, or to surpass another.
3. To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.

   • to rival thunder in its rapid course

Translations

Anagrams

• Avril, arvil, viral

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ri?val/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ri?bal/

Adjective

rival (masculine and feminine plural rivals)

1. rival

Derived terms

• rivalitzar

Related terms

• rivalitat

Noun

rival m or f (plural rivals)

1. rival

Further reading

• “rival” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “rival” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “rival” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “rival” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin r?v?lis, literally ‘person using the same stream as another’, from r?vus (“small stream, brook”). Unrelated to rive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i.val/

Adjective

rival (feminine singular rivale, masculine plural rivaux, feminine plural rivales)

1. rival (attributively)

Noun

rival m (plural rivaux, feminine rivale)

1. rival

Descendants

• Norwegian Bokmål: rival

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• avril, livra, viral

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?i?va?l]
• Hyphenation: ri?val

Adjective

rival (not comparable)

1. (economics, of a good) rivalrous
   • 2012, Michael Goldhammer, Geistiges Eigentum und Eigentumstheorie, Mohr Siebeck, page 196:

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French rival (“rival”), from Latin r?v?lis (“of or pertaining to a brook”), from r?vus (“brook; channel”), from Proto-Italic *r?wos, from Proto-Indo-European *h?riH-wó-s, from *h?reyH- (“to move, flow”).

Noun

rival m (definite singular rivalen, indefinite plural rivaler, definite plural rivalene)

1. a rival

Derived terms

• erkerival

References

• “rival” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin rivalis, via French rival

Noun

rival m (definite singular rivalen, indefinite plural rivalar, definite plural rivalane)

1. a rival

Derived terms

• erkerival

References

• “rival” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Noun

rival m, f (plural rivais)

1. rival (competitor with the same objective)

   Synonyms: adversário, oponente

Adjective

rival m or f (plural rivais, comparable)

1. rival (standing in competition)

Related terms

• rio

Romanian

Etymology

From French rival, from Latin rivalis.

Noun

rival m (plural rivali)

1. rival

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??a?l/
• Hyphenation: ri?val

Noun

rìv?l m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. rival, adversary

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin r?v?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?bal/, [ri???al]

Adjective

rival (plural rivales)

1. adverse, rival

Noun

rival m or f (plural rivales)

1. rival

   Synonyms: adversario, antagonista, competidor, contrario, oponente

Derived terms

• archirrival

Related terms

• rivalidad
• rivalizar

Further reading

• “rival” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin rivalis, via French rival.

Pronunciation

Noun

rival c

1. rival

Declension

Anagrams

• vilar

English

Etymology

From Old French asaillant, from the verb asaillir (“to jump on”), from Latin assali?, itself from ad (“to, towards”) + sali? (“to jump”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??se?l?nt/

Noun

assailant (plural assailants)

1. Someone who attacks or assails another violently, or criminally.

   Synonym: attacker

   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act I, Scene 3,^[1]

     I’ll put myself in poor and mean attire,

     And with a kind of umber smirch my face;

     The like do you; so shall we pass along,

     And never stir assailants.

   • 1789, Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, London: for the author, Volume 1, Chapter 2, p. 47,^[2]

     […] commonly some of us used to get up a tree to look out for any assailant, or kidnapper, that might come upon us; for they sometimes took those opportunities of our parents absence to attack and carry off as many as they could seize.

   • 1935, Christopher Isherwood, Mr. Norris Changes Trains, Penguin, 1961, Chapter 8, p. 89,^[3]

     In the middle of a crowded street a young man would be attacked, stripped, thrashed, and left bleeding on the pavement; in fifteen seconds it was all over and the assailants had disappeared.

   • 2018, Edo Konrad, "Living in the constant shadow of settler violence", +972 Magazine:

     In the village of Aqraba, the Sheikh Saadeh Mosque was set on fire before the assailants graffitied the words “price tag” and “revenge” on its walls.

2. (figuratively, by extension) A hostile critic or opponent.
   • 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne and Son and T. Cadell, Volume 5, Book 9, Chapter 3, p. 41,^[4]

     […] the assailants of the quill have their honour as much at heart as the assailants of the sword.

Translations

Adjective

assailant (not comparable)

1. Assailing; attacking.
   • 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes, lines 1687 to 1696.

Anagrams

• Alsatians, alsatians