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rustic
English
Alternative forms
- (obsolete) rustick, rusticke, rustique
Etymology
From Latin r?sticus. Doublet of roister.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???st?k/
- Rhymes: -?st?k
Adjective
rustic (comparative more rustic, superlative most rustic)
- Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
- 1800, William Wordsworth, We are Seven
- She had a rustic, woodland air.
- late 1700s — Robert Burns, Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves
- The Princely revel may survey
Our rustic dance wi' scorn.
- The Princely revel may survey
- 1818 — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus Ch. I
- With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her. They were fond of the sweet orphan. Her presence had seemed a blessing to them, but it would be unfair to her to keep her in poverty and want when Providence afforded her such powerful protection.
- 1820 — Washington Irving, Rural Life in England in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon
- To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature.
- 1800, William Wordsworth, We are Seven
- Unfinished or roughly finished.
- Crude, rough.
- Simple; artless; unaffected.
- 1704, Alexander Pope, A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry
- the manners not too polite nor too rustic
- 1704, Alexander Pope, A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry
Derived terms
- rustic moth
- rustic work
- rusticity
Translations
Noun
rustic (plural rustics)
- A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
- 1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, p. 226
- The cause of these stampedes was generally undiscoverable; but sometimes, when the birds stayed some time down on the water, the figure of a rustic would at length appear, walking behind a hedge, along a path bounding the little meadow.
- 1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel, Ch IX
- The King looked at the motionless figure, at the little crowd of hushed expectant rustics beyond the bridge, and finally at the face of Chandos, which shone with amusement.
- 1927-29, Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, Part V, The Stain of Indigo, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai
- Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics.
- 1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, p. 226
- A noctuoid moth.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.
Translations
Anagrams
- Citrus, Curtis, Turcis, citrus, rictus
Romanian
Etymology
From French rustique, from Latin rusticus.
Adjective
rustic m or n (feminine singular rustic?, masculine plural rustici, feminine and neuter plural rustice)
- rustic
Declension
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violent
English
Etymology
From Middle English violent, from Old French violent, from Latin violentus, from v?s (“strength”). For the verb, compare French violenter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?va?.?.l?nt/, /?va?.l?nt/
- Rhymes: -a?l?nt
- Hyphenation: vi?o?lent, vio?lent
Adjective
violent (comparative violenter or more violent, superlative violentest or most violent)
- Involving extreme force or motion.
- Involving physical conflict.
- Likely to use physical force.
- Intensely vivid.
- We have already observed, that he was a very good-natured fellow, and he hath himself declared the violent attachment he had to the person and character of Jones […]
- Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural.
- 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
- and no violent state by his own Maxim, can be perpetual,
- 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
Antonyms
- peaceful
Related terms
- violence
Translations
Verb
violent (third-person singular simple present violents, present participle violenting, simple past and past participle violented)
- (transitive, archaic) To urge with violence.
- a great adversary , stepping in , so violented his Majesty to a trial
Noun
violent (plural violents)
- (obsolete) An assailant.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dr. H. More to this entry?)
Anagrams
- LOVEINT
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin violentus.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /vi.o?lent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /bi.u?len/
Adjective
violent (feminine violenta, masculine plural violents, feminine plural violentes)
- violent
Derived terms
- violentament
Related terms
- violència
Further reading
- “violent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “violent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “violent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “violent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology 1
Borrowed into Old French from Latin violentus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vj?.l??/
Adjective
violent (feminine singular violente, masculine plural violents, feminine plural violentes)
- violent
- severe
Etymology 2
Inflected forms.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vj?l/
- Homophones: viole, violes
Verb
violent
- inflection of violer:
- third-person plural present indicative
- third-person plural present subjunctive
Anagrams
- ventilo, voilent
Further reading
- “violent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Verb
violent
- third-person plural present active subjunctive of viol?
Middle English
Alternative forms
- vyolent, wyolent, vilent
Etymology
From Old French violent, from Latin violentus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?vi??l??nt/, /?vi??l??nt/, /vi?l??nt/, /?vi??l?nt/
Adjective
violent (plural and weak singular violente)
- Violent, forcible, injury-causing.
- Potent, mighty, damaging, forceful
- Severe, extreme; excessive in magnitude.
- Tending to cause injuries; likely to cause violence.
- Abrupt; happening without warning or notice.
- (rare) Despotic, authoritarian; ruling unfairly.
Related terms
- violence
- violently
Descendants
- English: violent
References
- “v??olent, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-05-30.
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin violentus.
Adjective
violent m (feminine singular violenta, masculine plural violents, feminine plural violentas)
- violent
Related terms
- violéncia
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin violentus.
Adjective
violent m (oblique and nominative feminine singular violent or violente)
- violent (using violence)
Descendants
- ? Middle English: violent, vyolent, wyolent, vilent
- English: violent
- French: violent
Piedmontese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vju?l??t/
Adjective
violent
- violent
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French violent, Latin violentus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vi.o?lent/
Adjective
violent m or n (feminine singular violent?, masculine plural violen?i, feminine and neuter plural violente)
- violent
Declension
Related terms
- violen??
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