different between rubicon vs sport

English

Etymology

The noun is derived from the phrase cross the Rubicon (“to make an irreversible decision or to take an action with consequences”). Julius Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon, a small river in northeastern Italy, on 10 January 49 B.C.E., indicated his intention to start a civil war with Pompey. Rubicon is derived from Latin Rubic?, Rubic?n (“the Rubicon”), possibly from rubeus (“red, reddish”), from rube? (“to be red”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?rewd?- (“red”), an allusion to the colour of the river caused by mud deposits.

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??u?b?k?n/, /-k(?)n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??ub??k?n/
• Hyphenation: ru?bi?con

Noun

rubicon (plural rubicons)

1. A limit that when surpassed cannot be returned from, or an action that when taken cannot be reversed.

   Synonym: point of no return
2. (card games) Especially in bezique and piquet: a score which, if not achieved by a losing player, increases the player's penalty.

Alternative forms

• Rubicon

Related terms

• cross the Rubicon

Translations

Verb

rubicon (third-person singular simple present rubicons, present participle rubiconing, simple past and past participle rubiconed)

1. (transitive, card games) Especially in bezique and piquet: to defeat a player who has not achieved the rubicon.

Translations

References

Further reading

• Rubicon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Middle English sporten (verb) and sport, spoort, sporte (noun), apheretic shortenings of disporten (verb) and disport, disporte (noun). More at disport.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /sp??t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sp??t/
• (Tasmanian) IPA^(key): /sp??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /spo(?)?t/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /spo?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Noun

sport (countable and uncountable, plural sports)

1. (countable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
2. (countable) Something done for fun, regardless of its design or intended purpose.

3. (countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.

4. (countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.

5. (obsolete) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
   • a. 1765, year of origin unknown, Hey Diddle Diddle (traditional rhyme)

     The little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hobby

6. (obsolete) Mockery, making fun; derision.
7. (countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.

   • flitting leaves, the sport of every wind

   • a. 1676, John Clarke, On Governing the Temper

     Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions.

8. (uncountable) Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.
9. (biology, botany, zoology, countable) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.
10. (slang, countable) A sportsman; a gambler.
11. (slang, countable) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
12. (obsolete, uncountable) An amorous dalliance.

13. (informal, usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:friend

14. (obsolete) Play; idle jingle.
    • 1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey

      An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage […] would meet with small applause.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (sup?tsu) (from sports)
• ? Korean: ??? (seupocheu) (from sports)

Translations

Verb

sport (third-person singular simple present sports, present participle sporting, simple past and past participle sported)

1. (intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.

2. (intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
   • 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious

     He sports with his own life.

3. (transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.

4. (reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.

   • Against whom do ye sport yourselves?

5. (transitive) To represent by any kind of play.

   • Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth.

6. To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
7. To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
   • 1860, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication

     more than one kind of rose has sported into a moss

8. (transitive) To close (a door).
   • 1904, M. R. James, The Mezzotint

     There he locked it up in a drawer, sported the doors of both sets of rooms, and retired to bed.

Translations

Anagrams

• -prost, -prost-, Ports, Prost, ports, strop, torps, trops.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sport]

Noun

sport m inan

1. sport

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• sportovat
• sportovec m

Further reading

• sport in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• sport in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?rt/
• Hyphenation: sport
• Rhymes: -?rt

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English sport, from Middle English sport, from Middle English sport, from older disport, from Old French desport. First attested in the 19th century. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

sport f (plural sporten, diminutive sportje n)

1. (countable) A sport; (uncountable) sports.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch sporte, metathesised form of sprote. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

sport f (plural sporten, diminutive sportje n)

1. rung, step on a ladder

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

sport

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of sporten
2. imperative of sporten

Anagrams

• sprot, strop

Estonian

Noun

sport (genitive spordi, partitive sporti)

1. sport, sports

Declension

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English sport.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp??/

Noun

sport m (plural sports)

1. sport

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??port]
• Hyphenation: sport
• Rhymes: -ort

Noun

sport (plural sportok)

1. sport

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• sport in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Pronunciation

Noun

sport m (invariable)

1. sport (activity that uses physical skills, often competitive)
2. hobby, pastime

Derived terms

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Borrowed from English sport.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?rt/

Noun

sport m

1. sport (athletic activity that uses physical skills)

Declension

References

• sport in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Norman

Noun

sport m (plural sports)

1. (Jersey) sport (physical activity pitting two or more opponents against each other)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From English sport

Noun

sport m (definite singular sporten, uncountable)

1. sport

   Synonym: idrett

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Alternative forms

• spora, sporet

Verb

sport

1. past participle of spore

References

• “sport” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English sport

Noun

sport m (definite singular sporten, uncountable)

1. sport

   Synonym: idrett

Derived terms

• hestesport
• kampsport

References

• “sport” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English sport.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?rt/

Noun

sport m inan

1. sport

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• sport in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French sport.

Noun

sport n (plural sporturi)

1. sport

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• šp?rt (Croatia)

Etymology

Borrowed from English sport.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spôrt/

Noun

sp?rt m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. sport

Declension

Derived terms

Swedish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English sport, first used in 1857.

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /?sp??/

Noun

sport c

1. sport

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• idrott

References

• sport in Nationalencyklopedin (needs an authorization fee).

• sport in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /?sp??/

Verb

sport

1. supine of spörja.

Anagrams

• ports, prost, torps

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch sport, from English sport.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?(r)t/

Noun

sport c (plural sporten)

1. sport (physical activity)

Further reading

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