combat
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French, from Old French combatre, from Vulgar Latin *combattere, from Latin com- (“with”) + battuere (“to beat, strike”).
PronunciationEdit
- Noun:
- Verb:
- Rhymes: -æt
NounEdit
combat (countable and uncountable, plural combats)
- A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used).
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
- "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]."
- 1950 September 1, Truman, Harry S., MP72-73 Korea and World Peace: President Truman Reports to the People[1], Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162, 0:56 from the start:
- In less than eight weeks, five divisions of United States troops have moved into combat, some of them from bases more than 6,000 miles away. More men are on the way. Fighting in difficult country under every kind of hardship, American troops have held back overwhelming numbers of the communist invaders.
- 2012 March 1, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87:
- Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.
- a struggle for victory
Derived termsEdit
- armored combat
- close combat
- combatant
- combat armor suit
- combat armour suit
- combat boot
- combat box
- combat drone
- combat engineer
- combat fatigue
- combat fatigues
- combative
- combat loading
- combat log
- combat pants
- combat pay
- combat sport
- combat stress reaction
- combat trousers
- combat zone
- mortal combat
- mutual combat
- postcombat
- post-combat
- pre-combat
- single combat
- stage combat
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
a battle; a fight
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VerbEdit
combat (third-person singular simple present combats, present participle combatting or combating, simple past and past participle combatted or combated)
- (transitive) To fight; to struggle against.
- It has proven very difficult to combat drug addiction.
- (intransitive) To fight (with); to struggle for victory (against).
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes
- To combat with a blind man I disdain.
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes
TranslationsEdit
to fight; to struggle for victory
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From combatre, attested from 1490.[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
combat m (plural combats)
VerbEdit
combat
- third-person singular present indicative form of combatre
- second-person singular imperative form of combatre
ReferencesEdit
- ^ “combat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
Further readingEdit
- “combat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “combat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “combat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From combattre.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
combat m (plural combats)
- combat (hostile interaction)
- (figuratively) combat (contest; competition)
- (in the plural) battle; military combat
Derived termsEdit
VerbEdit
combat
Further readingEdit
- “combat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
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NounEdit
combat m (plural combats)
RomanianEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
combat
- inflection of combate: