violent
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English violent, from Old French violent, from Latin violentus, from vīs (“strength”). Displaced native Old English stræc. For the verb, compare French violenter.
PronunciationEdit
- vio‧lent
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AdjectiveEdit
violent (comparative violenter or more violent, superlative violentest or most violent)
- Involving extreme force or motion.
- A violent wind ripped the branch from the tree.
- Involving physical conflict.
- We would rather negotiate, but we will use violent means if necessary.
- Likely to use physical force.
- The escaped prisoners are considered extremely violent.
- Intensely vivid.
- The artist expressed his emotional theme through violent colors.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:
- 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.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene vi]:
- These violent delights have violent ends.
- 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
- and no violent state by his own Maxim, can be perpetual,
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- Ease would recant / Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
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VerbEdit
violent (third-person singular simple present violents, present participle violenting, simple past and past participle violented)
- (transitive, archaic) To urge with violence.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, James Nichols, editor, The Church History of Britain, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), new edition, London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, OCLC 913056315:
- a great adversary , stepping in , so violented his Majesty to a trial
NounEdit
violent (plural violents)
- (obsolete) An assailant.
- 1667, Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety:
- Did the Covetous extortioner observe that he is involv'd in the same sentence, [and] remember that such Violents shall take not heaven, but hell, by force.
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CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin violentus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
violent (feminine violenta, masculine plural violents, feminine plural violentes)
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Further readingEdit
- “violent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “violent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “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.
FrenchEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Inherited from Old French violent, borrowed from Latin violentus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
violent (feminine violente, masculine plural violents, feminine plural violentes)
Etymology 2Edit
Inflected forms.
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /vjɔl/
- Homophones: viole, violes
VerbEdit
violent
Further readingEdit
- “violent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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LatinEdit
VerbEdit
violent
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Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French violent, from Latin violentus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
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.
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DescendantsEdit
- English: violent
ReferencesEdit
- “vī̆olent, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-05-30.
OccitanEdit
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AdjectiveEdit
violent m (feminine singular violenta, masculine plural violents, feminine plural violentas)
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Old FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin violentus.
AdjectiveEdit
violent m (oblique and nominative feminine singular violent or violente)
- violent (using violence)
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violent
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French violent, Latin violentus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
violent m or n (feminine singular violentă, masculine plural violenți, feminine and neuter plural violente)
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | violent | violentă | violenți | violente | ||
definite | violentul | violenta | violenții | violentele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | violent | violente | violenți | violente | ||
definite | violentului | violentei | violenților | violentelor |