respect

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English respect, from Old French respect, also respit ("respect, regard, consideration"; > respite), from Latin respectus (“a looking at, regard, respect”), perfect passive participle of respiciō (“look at, look back upon, respect”), from re- (“back”) + speciō (“look at”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈspɛkt/
• Rhymes: -ɛkt
• Hyphenation: re‧spect

NounEdit

respect (countable and uncountable, plural respects)

1. (uncountable) an attitude of consideration or high regard

   He is an intellectual giant, and I have great respect for him.

   we do respect people for their dignity and worth.

2. (uncountable) good opinion, honor, or admiration
3. (uncountable, always plural) Polite greetings, often offered as condolences after a death.

   The mourners paid their last respects to the deceased poet.

4. (countable) a particular aspect of something

   This year's model is superior to last year's in several respects.

Usage notesEdit

• Adjectives often applied to "respect": great, high, utmost, absolute

SynonymsEdit

• (attitude of consideration): deference, esteem, consideration, regard, fealty, reverence
• (good opinion): admiration, esteem, reverence, regard, recognition, veneration, honor
• (polite greetings, condolences):
• (aspect): aspect, facet, face, side, dimension

AntonymsEdit

• belittlement
• contempt
• contumely
• despect (noun) (archaic)
• disdain
• disparagement
• disrespect (noun)
• ignoring
• irreverence
• neglect
• scorn
• slight

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

• final respects
• in many respects
• last respects
• respectable

• respectful
• with all due respect
• with respect
• with respect to

Related termsEdit

• respective

TranslationsEdit

admiration for a person or entity because of perceived merit

• Arabic: اِحْتِرَام‎ (ar) m (iḥtirām)

  Egyptian Arabic: احترام‎ m (ʔeḥtraam)

• Armenian: հարգանք (hy) (hargankʿ)
• Breton: doujañs (br) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尊重 (zh) (zūnzhòng), 尊敬 (zh) (zūnjìng)

• Czech: respekt (cs) m, úcta (cs) f
• Dutch: respect (nl) m, achting (nl) f, eerbied (nl) f
• Esperanto: respekto
• Finnish: kunnioitus (fi)
• French: respect (fr) m
• Friulian: rispiet m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Achtung (de) f, Respekt (de) m
• Greek: σεβασμός (el) m (sevasmós)
• Hindi: सम्मान (hi) m (sammān), आदर (hi) m (ādar)
• Hungarian: tisztelet (hu)
• Icelandic: virðing (is) f
• Irish: meas m, urraim f, oirmhidin f
• Italian: rispetto (it) m
• Japanese: 尊敬 (ja) (sonkei), 崇敬 (ja) (sūkei), 尊重 (ja) (sonchō), 重視 (ja) (jushi)
• Khmer: សមានការ (sa’maanea’kaa), ស្តុតិ (km) (sto’te’)
• Korean: 존중 (jonjung) (尊重 (ko)), 경의 (ko) (gyeong-ui)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ڕێز‎

• Ladin: respet

• Latgalian: cīns
• Latin: observantia f, reverentia f
• Latvian: cieņa
• Lithuanian: pagarba f
• Macedonian: почит f (počit), респект m (respekt)
• Maori: kauanuanu
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: respekt m

  Nynorsk: respekt m

• Persian: احترام‎ (fa) (ehterâm), ادب‎ (fa) (adab)
• Polish: respekt (pl) m, szacunek (pl) m
• Portuguese: respeito (pt) m
• Romanian: respect (ro)
• Russian: уваже́ние (ru) n (uvažénije), почте́ние (ru) n (počténije)
• Scottish Gaelic: onair f, urram m, suim f
• Sicilian: rispettu (scn)
• Spanish: respeto (es) m
• Swahili: tii (sw), adabu (sw)
• Swedish: respekt (sv) c, aktning (sv) c
• Telugu: గౌరవం (te) (gauravaṃ)
• Thai: เคารพ (th) (cao rob)
• Turkish: saygı (tr), hürmet (tr)
• Urdu: آدر‎ m (ādar), احترام‎ m (ihtirām)
• Vietnamese: sự kính trọng (vi)
• Welsh: parch (cy) m

good opinion, honor, or admiration

• Japanese: 尊敬 (ja) (sonkei), 崇敬 (ja) (sūkei)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: respekt m

  Nynorsk: respekt m

• Turkish: saygınlık (tr), itibar (tr)

polite greetings

• Czech: vyjádření úcty n
• Finnish: kunnioitus (fi)
• Greek: σέβη m (sévi) (sevι)
• Icelandic: virðing (is) f
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ڕێزوسڵاو‎

• Portuguese: respeito (pt) m, reverência (pt) f
• Spanish: respeto (es) m
• Swahili: adabu (sw)

particular aspect of something

• Czech: ohled (cs) m
• Danish: henseende n
• Finnish: suhde (fi)
• Hungarian: vonatkozás (hu), szempont (hu)
• Icelandic: leyti (is) n
• Portuguese: respeito (pt) m

• Spanish: respeto (es) m
• Swahili: adabu (sw)
• Swedish: avseende (sv) n, hänseende n
• Thai: เคารพ (th) (cao rob)
• Turkish: bakım (tr), husus (tr), açı (tr), yön (tr)

VerbEdit

respect (third-person singular simple present respects, present participle respecting, simple past and past participle respected)

1. To have respect for.

   She is an intellectual giant, and I respect her greatly.

2. To have regard for something, to observe a custom, practice, rule or right.

   I respect your right to hold that belief, although I think it is nonsense.

3. To abide by an agreement.

   They failed to respect the treaty they had signed, and invaded.

4. To take notice of; to regard as worthy of special consideration; to heed.
   • Shakespeare

     Thou respectest not spilling Edward's blood.

   • Francis Bacon

     In orchards and gardens, we do not so much respect beauty as variety of ground for fruits, trees, and herbs.

5. (transitive, dated except in "respecting") To relate to; to be concerned with.
   • J. Lee

     Glandulation respects the secretory vessels, which are either glandules, follicles, or utricles.

   • 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House

     I hope I may never again be in a state of mind so unchristian as the mental frame in which I lived for some weeks, respecting the memory of Master B.

6. (obsolete) To regard; to consider; to deem.
   • Ben Jonson

     To whom my father gave this name of Gaspar, / And as his own respected him to death.

7. (obsolete) To look toward; to face.
   • Sir Thomas Browne

     Palladius adviseth, the front of his house should so respect the South […]

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

• disrespect (note: also has noun meaning)
• respectability
• respectable

• respected
• respectful

SynonymsEdit

• (to have respect for): honor, revere, venerate
• (to regard as worthy of special consideration): esteem, value

AntonymsEdit

• (to have respect for): contemn, despect (verb) (archaic), despise, dis, diss, disrespect (verb)
• (to regard as worthy of special consideration): belittle, ignore, neglect, slight

TranslationsEdit

to have respect for

• Arabic: اِحْتَرَمَ‎ (iḥtarama)

  Egyptian Arabic: احترم‎ (eḥtaram)

• Armenian: հարգել (hy) (hargel)
• Breton: doujañ (br)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尊重 (zh) (zūnzhòng), 尊敬 (zh) (zūnjìng)

• Czech: respektovat (cs), mít úctu
• Dutch: respecteren (nl)
• Esperanto: respekti
• Finnish: kunnioittaa (fi)
• French: respecter (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: respektieren (de)
• Greek: σέβομαι (el) (sévomai)
• Hebrew: כיבד‎ (he) (kibéd)
• Hungarian: tisztel (hu)
• Icelandic: virða (is), bera virðingu fyrir
• Irish: meas a bheith agat ar

• Japanese: 崇める (agameru), 敬う (uyamau), 尊敬する (sonkei suru), 崇敬する (sūkei suru)
• Khmer: គោរព (km) (koorup)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ڕێز گرتن‎

• Latin: respicio
• Maori: whakamiha, whakaute
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Ngazidja Comorian: uhishimu
• Persian: احترام گذاشتن‎ (fa) (ehterâm gozâštan)
• Portuguese: respeitar (pt)
• Romanian: respecta (ro)
• Russian: уважа́ть (ru) impf (uvažátʹ), почита́ть (ru) impf (počitátʹ)
• Spanish: respetar (es)
• Swahili: adabu (sw), heshimu, taadhima (sw)
• Swedish: att ha respekt (sv) för
• Telugu: గౌరవించు (te) (gauraviṃcu)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: kính trọng (vi)

to have regard for the rights of others

• Armenian: հարգել (hy) (hargel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遵守 (zh) (zūnshǒu)

• Czech: brát ohled
• Finnish: kunnioittaa (fi)
• German: respektieren (de)
• Greek: σέβομαι (el) (sévomai)
• Hungarian: elismer (hu)

• Icelandic: virða (is)
• Japanese: 重んじる (omonjiru), 尊重する (sonchō suru)
• Latin: respicio
• Portuguese: respeitar (pt)
• Russian: уважа́ть (ru) impf (uvažátʹ), соблюда́ть (ru) impf (sobljudátʹ)
• Swahili: adabu (sw), taadhima (sw), heshimu
• Swedish: att respektera (sv)

to regard as worthy of special consideration

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 重視 (zh) (zhòngshì)

• Japanese: 重んじる (omonjiru), 貴ぶ (tōtobu), 重視する (jūshi suru)

to abide by an agreement

• Armenian: հարգել (hy) (hargel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遵守 (zh) (zūnshǒu)

• Czech: uznávat
• Finnish: kunnioittaa (fi)
• German: respektieren (de)

• Hungarian: betart (hu)
• Icelandic: virða (is)
• Portuguese: respeitar (pt)
• Russian: уважа́ть (ru) impf (uvažátʹ), соблюда́ть (ru) impf (sobljudátʹ)
• Swahili: adabu (sw)
• Swedish: att respektera (sv)

InterjectionEdit

respect

1. (Jamaica) hello, hi

StatisticsEdit

Most common English words before 1923 in Project Gutenberg: greatest · property · started · #742: respect · that's · Christian · food

Further readingEdit

• respect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• respect in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

AnagramsEdit

• Sceptre, recepts, scepter, sceptre, specter, spectre

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PronunciationEdit

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EtymologyEdit

From French respect.

NounEdit

respect n (uncountable)

1. respect

SynonymsEdit

• eerbied

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

• respectabel
• respecteren

• respectloos
• respectvol

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Latin respectus. Doublet of répit.

PronunciationEdit

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• IPA^(key): /ʁɛs.pɛ/

NounEdit

respect m (plural respects)

1. respect

Derived termsEdit

• respecter
• respectueux

AnagramsEdit

• spectre

Further readingEdit

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

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RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from French respect, Latin respectus.

NounEdit

respect n (uncountable)

1. respect, consideration, deference, esteem, regard

DeclensionEdit

declension of respect (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) respect	respectul
genitive/dative	(unui) respect	respectului
vocative	respectule

SynonymsEdit

• stimă

Related termsEdit

• respecta
• respectabil