From en.wiktionary.org:
[Severe]
** English
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], from [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Adjective
[er]
1. Very bad or intense .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1934 | title=Your Germs and Mine | page=295
|passage=In the SEVERER cases of hookworm the patient sometimes has an
appetite for soil, paper, hair, clay, chalk, starch, and other unpalatables.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1973 | author=w:Oliver Sacks | title=w:Awakenings
|passage=Parkinsonism, at its SEVEREST, presents itself as an akinetic amimia
(as opposed to certain cortical disorders which are amimic akinesias).}}
1. * {{ quote-journal
|1=en |date=2012-01 |author=Donald Worster |title=A Drier and Hotter Future
|volume=100 |issue=1 |page=70 |magazine=w:American Scientist
|url=http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/a-drier-and-hotter-future
|passage=Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in SEVERE drought, and it is
going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades
ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and
intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene,
the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
|accessdate=12 May 2013
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120126223603/http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/a-drier-and-hotter-future
|archivedate=26 January 2012 }}
1. Strict or harsh .
2. Sober , plain in appearance , austere .
**** Derived terms
{{col3|en|severe combined immunodeficiency|severe gale |severely<pos:adv>
|severity<pos:n>|severe clear |severeness<pos:n>|severe tea |severe acute
respiratory syndrome|severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome|severe
myoclonic epilepsy of infancy}}
**** Translations
[very bad or intense]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da] , [da]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Maori: [mi] [of pain or discomfort] , [mi] [of pain] , [mi] [Of weather, terrain etc. ]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc]
- Old East Slavic: [orv]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Thai: [th] , [th] , [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[strict or harsh]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el] , [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Maori: [mi]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc]
- Old English: [ang]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa] , [sa]
- Spanish: [es]
- Thai: [th] , [th] , [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Volapük: [vo]
[trans-bottom]
[austere]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Dutch: [nl]
- French: [fr]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Korean: [ko]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
[trans-bottom]
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
- [R:OneLook]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
** Esperanto
*** Pronunciation
[eo-IPA]
*** Adverb
[eo-head]
1. severely
**** Related terms
- [eo]
** Italian
*** Pronunciation
[sevère]
*** Adjective
[it]
1. [it]
** Latin
*** Pronunciation
- [ann=1]
- [ann=1]
*** Adjective
[la]
1. [la]
*** Verb
[la]
1. [la]
*** References
- [R:L&S]
- [R:Elementary Lewis]
- [R:Gaffiot]
** Serbo-Croatian
*** Noun
[sh-noun form]
1. [sh]