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English

Etymology 1

The noun is derived from Middle English rout, route (“group of people associated with one another, company; entourage, retinue; army; group of soldiers; group of pirates; large number of people, crowd; throng; group of disreputable people, mob; riot; group of animals; group of objects; proper condition or manner”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman route, rute, Middle French rote, route, Old French rote, route, rute (“group of people, company; group of armed people; group of criminals; group of cattle”) (modern French route (obsolete)), from Latin rupta (compare Late Latin ruta, rutta (“group of marauders; riot; unlawful assembly”)), the feminine of ruptus (“broken; burst, ruptured”), the perfect passive participle of rump? (“to break, burst, rupture, tear; to force open; (figurative) to annul; to destroy; to interrupt”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- (“to break; to tear (up)”). The English word is a doublet of route.

The verb is derived from Middle English routen (“to assemble, congregate; of animals: to herd together; to regroup, make a stand against; to be riotous, to riot”) [and other forms], from rout, route (noun); see above.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?a?t/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [???t]
• Homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
• Rhymes: -a?t

Noun

rout (countable and uncountable, plural routs)

1. (countable, obsolete) A group of people; a crowd, a throng, a troop; in particular (archaic), a group of people accompanying or travelling with someone.

   Synonyms: company, gathering
2. (countable, archaic) A group of animals, especially one which is lively or unruly, or made up of wild animals such as wolves; a flock, a herd, a pack.
3. (countable) A group of disorganized things.
4. (countable) A group of (often violent) criminals or gangsters; such people as a class; (more generally) a disorderly and tumultuous crowd, a mob; hence (archaic, preceded by the), the common people as a group, the rabble.
5. (countable, dated) A fashionable assembly; a large evening party, a soirée.
6. (countable, archaic) A noisy disturbance; also, a disorderly argument or fight, a brawl; (uncountable) disturbance of the peace, commotion, tumult.
7. (countable, law, historical) An illegal assembly of people; specifically, three or more people who have come together intending to do something illegal, and who have taken steps towards this, regarded as more serious than an unlawful assembly but not as serious as a riot; the act of assembling in this manner.

Derived terms

• routous
• routously

Translations

Verb

rout (third-person singular simple present routs, present participle routing, simple past and past participle routed)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.

Etymology 2

The noun is derived from Middle French route (“military defeat; retreat”), from rout, archaic past participle of Middle French, Old French rompre (“to break; to break up, disperse”) (modern French rompre (“to break, snap; to break up (with someone)”)), from Latin rumpere, the present active infinitive of rump? (“to break, burst, rupture, tear; to force open; (figurative) to annul; to destroy; to interrupt”); see further at etymology 1.

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?a?t/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [???t]
• Homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
• Rhymes: -a?t

Noun

rout (plural routs)

1. (originally military) The act of completely defeating an army or other enemy force, causing it to retreat in a disorganized manner; (by extension) in politics, sport, etc.: a convincing defeat; a thrashing, a trouncing.
2. (military, also figuratively) The retreat of an enemy force, etc., in this manner; also (archaic, rare), the army, enemy force, etc., so retreating.

Translations

Verb

rout (third-person singular simple present routs, present participle routing, simple past and past participle routed) (originally military)

1. (transitive) To completely defeat and force into disorderly retreat (an enemy force, opponent in sport, etc.).
2. (intransitive, archaic) To retreat from a confrontation in disorder.

Translations

Etymology 3

The verb is derived from Middle English routen (“to snore; to grunt, snort; to sleep; to dwell; to settle permanently”), [and other forms], from Old English hr?tan (“to snore; to make a noise”), from Proto-West Germanic *hr?tan (“to snore”), from Proto-Germanic *hr?tan?, *hreutan? (“to snore”), from *hrutt?n? (“to snore; to roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *kor-, *kr- (“to croak, crow”), *krut- (“to snore; to roar”), probably ultimately imitative. The English word is cognate with Icelandic rjóta, hrjóta (“to snore; to rattle, roar”), rauta (“to roar”), Middle Dutch ruyten (“to make a noise; to chatter, chirp”), Middle High German r?ssen, r?zen (“to make a noise; to buzz; to rattle; to snore”), Norwegian Nynorsk ruta (“to make a loud noise; to roar, rumble”), Swedish ryta (“to bellow, roar; to scream or shout angrily”). Compare Old English r?otan, *hr?otan (“to make a noise; to make a noise in grief, lament, wail; to shed tears, weep”), from Proto-Germanic *reutan?; see further at etymology 4.

The noun is derived from the verb. It is cognate with Southern Norwegian rut (“loud noise, din, roar”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?a?t/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): (verb sense 3, noun sense) /???t/, /?ut/
• Homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
• Rhymes: -a?t

Verb

rout (third-person singular simple present routs, present participle routing, simple past and past participle routed)

1. (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To snore, especially loudly.
2. (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To make a noise; to bellow, to roar, to snort.
3. (intransitive, Scotland, archaic) Especially of the sea, thunder, wind, etc.: to make a loud roaring noise; to howl, to roar, to rumble.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• root (“to cheer”)

Translations

Noun

rout (plural routs)

1. (chiefly Scotland) A loud, resounding noise, especially one made by the sea, thunder, wind, etc.; a roar.

Translations

Etymology 4

The verb is derived from Middle English routen (“to cry out, bellow, roar”) [and other forms], from Old Norse rauta (“to roar”), from Proto-Germanic *reutan? (“to cry, wail”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *HrewdH- (“to weep”), probably imitative. The English word is cognate with Danish ryde (“to low, moo”), Latin rudere, r?dere (“to bray; to cry”), Lithuanian raudóti (“to wail; to lament; to sob”), Norwegian raute (“to bellow; to low, moo”), Old Church Slavonic ?????? (rydati, “to wail, weep”), Old High German riozan (“to roar; to wail”) (Middle High German riezen (“to wail”)), Old Norse rjóta (“to roar”), Old Swedish riuta, ryta (“to howl, wail; to roar”) (modern Swedish ruta, ryta (“to howl; to roar”) (regional)), Old Swedish röta (“to bellow, roar”) (modern Swedish rauta, råta, rota, röta (“to bellow, roar”) (regional)), Sanskrit ???? (rud, “to cry, wail, weep; to howl, roar; to bewail, deplore, lament”).

The noun is derived from the verb, or from a noun derived from Old Norse rauta (“to roar”) (see above).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Ireland) IPA^(key): /?a?t/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /???t/, /?ut/
• Homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
• Rhymes: -a?t

Verb

rout (third-person singular simple present routs, present participle routing, simple past and past participle routed) (chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland)

1. (transitive) Of a person: to say or shout (something) loudly.
2. (intransitive) Of a person: to speak loudly; to bellow, roar, to shout.
3. (intransitive) Of an animal, especially cattle: to low or moo loudly; to bellow.

Translations

Noun

rout (plural routs) (chiefly Scotland)

1. A lowing or mooing sound by an animal, especially cattle; a bellow, a moo.
2. A loud shout; a bellow, a roar; also, an instance of loud and continued exclamation or shouting; a clamour, an outcry.

Translations

Etymology 5

A variant of wrout, itself a variant of wroot (“to search or root in the ground”) (obsolete), from Middle English wroten (“to search or root in the ground; of a person: to dig earth; of a worm: to slither, wriggle; to corrode; of a worm: to irritate by biting the skin; to destroy (a fortification) by digging or mining”) [and other forms] (whence root), from Old English wr?tan (“to root up or rummage with the snout”). from Proto-Germanic *wr?tan? (“to dig with the nose or snout, to root”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps related to Proto-Indo-European *wréh?ds (“a root”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?a?t/
• Homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
• Rhymes: -a?t

Verb

rout (third-person singular simple present routs, present participle routing, simple past and past participle routed)

1. (transitive) To dig or plough (earth or the ground); to till.
2. (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: of a person: to search for and find (something); also (transitive) to completely empty or clear out (something).
3. (transitive, chiefly US) Usually followed by from: to compel (someone) to leave a place; specifically (usually followed by out or up), to cause (someone) to get out of bed.
4. (transitive, intransitive) Of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to root.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To use a gouge, router, or other tool to scoop out material (from a metallic, wooden, etc., surface), forming a groove or recess.
6. (intransitive) Of a person: to search through belongings, a place, etc.; to rummage.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• router

Translations

Etymology 6

Possibly a variant of root (“to dig or pull out by the roots; to abolish, exterminate, root out”), from Middle English wroten; see further at etymology 5. Some recent uses are difficult to tell apart from rout (“of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to search for and find (something)”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?a?t/
• Homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
• Rhymes: -a?t

Verb

rout (third-person singular simple present routs, present participle routing, simple past and past participle routed)

1. (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: to dig or pull up (a plant) by the roots; to extirpate, to uproot.
2. (transitive, figuratively) Usually followed by out: to find and eradicate (something harmful or undesirable); to root out.

Conjugation

Translations

Etymology 7

The verb is derived from Middle English routen (“to move quickly, rush; of waters: to churn, surge; to drag, pull; to throw; to agitate, shake; to beat, strike;”) [and other forms], from Old English hr?tan, from or cognate with Old Norse hrjóta (“to be flung; to fall; to fly”), from Proto-Germanic *hr?tan?, *hreutan? (“to fall; to fly; to move quickly”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kreu- (“to fall, plunge; to rush; to topple”). The English word is cognate with Middle High German rûzen (“to move quickly, storm”), and is also related to Old English hr?osan (“to fall; to collapse; to rush”).

The noun is derived from Middle English rout, route (“a blow; suffering, woe (?); a jerk, sharp pull”) [and other forms], from routen; see above.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?a?t/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /???t/, /?ut/
• Homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
• Rhymes: -a?t

Verb

rout (third-person singular simple present routs, present participle routing, simple past and past participle routed)

1. (transitive, intransitive, chiefly Scotland, archaic) To beat or strike (someone or something); to assail (someone or something) with blows.

Related terms

• atrout

Noun

rout (plural routs)

1. (chiefly Scotland, archaic) A violent movement; a heavy or stunning blow or stroke.

Etymology 8

Origin uncertain; either imitative of the bird’s call, or possibly from Icelandic hrota (“brant; brent goose”), also probably imitative though perhaps influenced by hrot (“a snore; act of snoring”), from hrjóta (“to snore”), from Old Norse hrjóta (“to snore”), from Proto-Germanic *hr?tan? (“to snore”); see further at etymology 3.

Noun

rout (plural routs)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) The brant or brent goose (Branta bernicla).

   Synonyms: brant goose, road-goose, rood goose, rot-goose

References

Further reading

• rout (military) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• router (woodworking) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Tour, tour, trou

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• rot, ruat, ròt, röts

Etymology

From Middle High German r?t (“red, red-haired”), from Old High German r?t (“red, scarlet, purple-red, brown-red, yellow-red”), from Proto-Germanic *raudaz. Cognate with German rot, Dutch rood, English red, West Frisian read, Danish rød.

Adjective

rout

1. (Carcoforo) red

References

• “rout” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German r?t, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Adjective

rout (masculine rouden, neuter rout, comparative méi rout, superlative am routsten)

1. red

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

See also

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, Geordie) IPA^(key): /?m??st?/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /?mast?/
• (General American) enPR: m?s?t?r, IPA^(key): /?mæst?/
• Rhymes: -??st?(?), -æst?(?)
• Hyphenation: mas?ter

Etymology 1

From Middle English maister, mayster, meister, from Old English m?ster, mæ?ster, mæ?ester, mæ?ister, magister (“master”), from Latin magister (“chief, teacher, leader”), from Old Latin magester, from Proto-Indo-European *mé?h?s, (as in magnus (“great”)) + -ester/-ister (compare minister (“servant”)). Reinforced by Old French maistre, mestre from the same Latin source. Compare also Saterland Frisian Mäster (“master”), West Frisian master (“master”), Dutch meester (“master”), German Meister (“master”). Doublet of maestro and magister.

Alternative forms

• mester (dialectal), mister (dialectal)
• mastre (obsolete)
• Master
• Massa, massa, massah, masta, Mastah, mastah, mastuh (eye dialect)

Noun

master (plural masters, feminine mistress)

1. Someone who has control over something or someone.
   • 1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides

     We are masters of the sea.
2. The owner of an animal or slave.
3. (nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.

   Synonyms: skipper, captain

4. (dated) The head of a household.
5. Someone who employs others.
6. An expert at something.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:skilled person

   • No care is taken to improve young men in their own language, that they may thoroughly understand and be masters of it.

7. A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
8. (dated) A schoolmaster.
9. A skilled artist.
10. (dated) A man or a boy; mister. See Master.
    • 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants

      Where there are little Ma?ters and Mi??es in a Hou?e, they are u?ually great Impediments to the Diver?ions of the Servants;

11. A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.

    Synonyms: masters, master's, (Quebec English) magistrate

12. A person holding such a degree.

13. The original of a document or of a recording.

14. (film) The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.

    Synonyms: establishing shot, long shot

15. (law) A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.

16. (engineering, computing) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source.

    Synonym: primary

    Antonyms: secondary, slave

17. (freemasonry) A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.
18. (by extension) A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.

Hyponyms

• mistress (feminine-specific form)

Derived terms

Pages starting with “master”.

Descendants

Related terms

• mistress (feminine form of "master")

Translations

See also

• journeyman
• apprentice

Adjective

master (not comparable)

1. Masterful.

2. Main, principal or predominant.
3. Highly skilled.

4. Original.

Translations

Verb

master (third-person singular simple present masters, present participle mastering, simple past and past participle mastered)

1. (intransitive) To be a master.
2. (transitive) To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue.

   • Obstinacy and willful neglects must be mastered, even though it cost blows.

   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     Then Elzevir cried out angrily, 'Silence. Are you mad, or has the liquor mastered you? Are you Revenue-men that you dare shout and roister? or contrabandiers with the lugger in the offing, and your life in your hand. You make noise enough to wake folk in Moonfleet from their beds.'

3. (transitive) To learn to a high degree of proficiency.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To own; to possess.
5. (transitive, especially of a musical performance) To make a master copy of.
6. (intransitive, usually with in) To earn a Master's degree.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

mast +? -er

Noun

master (plural masters)

1. (nautical, in combination) A vessel having a specified number of masts.

Translations

Anagrams

• 'maters, Amster, METARs, Stream, armest, armets, mastre, maters, matres, metras, ramets, ramset, remast, stream, tamers, tremas, trémas

Finnish

Noun

master

1. (BDSM) (male) dom

Declension

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English master. Doublet of maître, inherited from Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mas.t??/

Noun

master m (plural masters)

1. master's degree, master's (postgraduate degree)
2. master (golf tournament)
3. master, master copy

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• trames, trémas

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch master, from English master, from Middle English maister, mayster, meister, from Old English m?ster, mæ?ster, mæ?ester, mæ?ister, magister (“master”), from Latin magister (“chief, teacher, leader”), from Old Latin magester, from Proto-Indo-European *mé?h?s, (as in magnus (“great”)) + -ester/-ister (compare minister (“servant”)). Doublet of magister and mester.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mast??r]
• Hyphenation: mas?têr

Noun

master (plural master-master, first-person possessive masterku, second-person possessive mastermu, third-person possessive masternya)

1. master:
   1. someone who has control over something or someone.
   2. an expert at something.
   3. the original of a document or of a recording.
   4. (education) a master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.

      Synonym: magister

Affixed terms

Compounds

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

master m or f

1. indefinite plural of mast

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From English master. Doublet of magister.

Noun

master m (definite singular masteren, indefinite plural masterar, definite plural masterane)

1. a master's degree
2. a master's thesis
3. a person that has a master's degree
4. original document or recording

Etymology 2

Noun

master f (definite singular mastra or mastri, indefinite plural mastrer, definite plural mastrene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by mast

Etymology 3

Noun

master f

1. indefinite plural of mast

References

• “master” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• m?ster
• m?stere, m?stere

Etymology

Borrowed from Vulgar Latin *maester, from Latin magister. Cognates include Old English mæ?ester and Old Saxon m?star.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?ster/

Noun

m?ster m

1. master
2. leader
3. commissioner

Inflection

Descendants

• Saterland Frisian: Mäster
• West Frisian: master

Derived terms

• M?ster

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN, page 28

Swedish

Noun

master

1. indefinite plural of mast

Anagrams

• smarte, smetar

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

master c (plural masters, diminutive masterke)

1. master

Derived terms

• boargemaster

Further reading

• “master”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011