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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]16th century,borrowedfromMiddle Frenchcombat,deverbal fromOld Frenchcombatre,fromVulgar Latin*combattere,fromLatincom-(“with”)+battuere(“to beat, strike”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- Noun:
- Verb:
- Rhymes:-æt
Noun
[edit]combat(countableanduncountable,pluralcombats)
- Abattle,afight(often one in whichweaponsare used).
- 1907August,Robert W[illiam] Chambers,chapter VIII, inThe Younger Set,New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company,→OCLC:
- "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her tocombat:"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;[…]."
- 1950September 1,Harry S. Truman,0:56 from the start, inMP72-73 Korea and World Peace: President Truman Reports to the People[2],Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum,National Archives Identifier:595162:
- In less than eight weeks, five divisions of United States troops have moved intocombat,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.
- 2012March, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”,inAmerican Scientist,volume100,number 2, page87:
- 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, includingcombat.
- astruggleforvictory
Derived terms
[edit]- anticombat
- armored combat
- armoured combat
- close combat
- combatable
- combat air patrol
- combatant
- combat armor suit
- combat armour suit
- combatative
- 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
- combatworthy
- combat zone
- intercombat
- mortal combat
- mutual combat
- noncombat
- postcombat
- post-combat
- precombat
- pre-combat
- single combat
- stage combat
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]a battle; a fight
Verb
[edit]combat(third-person singular simple presentcombats,present participlecombattingorcombating,simple past and past participlecombattedorcombated)
- (transitive)To fight; to struggle against.
- It has proven very difficult tocombatdrug addiction.
- (intransitive)Tofight(with); tostruggleforvictory(against).
- 1671,John Milton,Samson Agonistes:
- Tocombatwith a blind man I disdain.
Translations
[edit]to fight; to struggle for victory
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References
[edit]- ↑1.01.1Jespersen, Otto(1909)A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles(Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)[1],volumes I: Sounds and Spellings,London:George Allen & Unwin,published1961,§ 3.442,page85.
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[edit]Catalan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Deverbalfromcombatre.First attested in 1490.[1]
Noun
[edit]combatm(pluralcombats)
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]combat
References
[edit]- ^“combat”,inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2024
Further reading
[edit]- “combat”inDiccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició,Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “combat”inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “combat”inDiccionari català-valencià-balear,Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Fromcombattre.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]combatm(pluralcombats)
- combat(hostile interaction)
- (figuratively)combat(contest; competition)
- (in theplural)battle;military combat
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]combat
Further reading
[edit]- “combat”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.
Norman
[edit]Etymology
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Noun
[edit]combatm(pluralcombats)
Romanian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]combat
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