From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
From [en], from [en], from [en], from [la]. Displaced native [ang]. For the
verb, compare [fr].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Adjective
[er]
1. Involving extreme force or motion .
2. Involving physical conflict.
3. * [en]
4. Likely to use physical force .
5. Intensely vivid.
6. * {{ RQ:Fielding Tom Jones
|passage=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 [...]}}
1. Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural.
2. * [act=II]
3. * 1684-1690 , [Thomas Burnet] , _Sacred Theory of the Earth_
4. *: and no VIOLENT state by his own Maxim, can be perpetual,
5. * [book=4]
6. [acute] , extreme , sharp .
7. * [en]
**** Antonyms
- [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col3|en |non-violent|silent-but-violent|violent storm |violentism |violent
presumption |violent profits |violent relaxation }}
**** Related terms
- [en]
**** Translations
[involving extreme force or motion]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Latin: [la]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi] [of wind] , [mi] [of wind] , [mi]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old English: [ang]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[involving physical conflict]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- Greek: [el]
- Hawaiian: [haw] , [haw] , [haw]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Latin: [la]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old English: [ang]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[likely to use physical force]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Maore Comorian: [swb]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Old English: [ang]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[intensely vivid]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kabuverdianu: [kea] , [kea]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- French: [fr]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Korean: [ko]
- Manx: [gv]
- Persian: [fa]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To urge with violence .
2. * {{ RQ:Fuller Church History
|passage=a great adversary , stepping in , so VIOLENTED his Majesty to a
trial}}
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] An assailant .
2. * [en]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Catalan
*** Etymology
[ca].
*** Pronunciation
- [ca-IPA]
- [ca]
*** Adjective
[#a]
1. [en]
**** Derived terms
- [ca]
**** Related terms
- [ca]
*** Further reading
- [R:ca:IEC2]
- [R:ca:GDLC]
- [R:ca:DNV]
- [R:ca:DCVB]
** French
*** Etymology 1
[fr], borrowed from [fr].
**** Pronunciation
- [fr-IPA]
- [fr]
- [fr]
**** Adjective
[fr-adj]
1. [en]
2. severe
*** Etymology 2
[nonlemma]
**** Pronunciation
- [pos=v]
- [fr]
**** Verb
[fr]
1. [fr]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
*** Anagrams
- [fr] , [fr]
[fr] [fr]
** Latin
*** Verb
[la]
1. [la]
** Middle English
*** Alternative forms
- [enm]
*** Etymology
From [enm], from [enm].
*** Pronunciation
- [enm]
*** Adjective
[violente]
1. [en] , forcible , injury -causing.
2. Potent , mighty , damaging , forceful
3. Severe, extreme ; excessive in magnitude.
4. Tending to cause injuries; likely to cause violence.
5. Abrupt; happening without warning or notice .
6. [enm] Despotic , authoritarian ; ruling unfairly.
**** Related terms
- [enm]
- [enm]
**** Descendants
- [en]
**** References
- [entry= vī̆olent ]
[enm]
** Occitan
*** Etymology
From [oc].
*** Pronunciation
- [oc]
*** Adjective
[oc-adj]
1. [en]
**** Related terms
- [oc]
** Old French
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [fro].
*** Adjective
[mf]
1. [en] [using violence]
**** Descendants
- [enm]
- [fr]
** Piedmontese
*** Pronunciation
- [pms]
*** Adjective
[pms]
1. [en]
** Romanian
*** Etymology
[ro], [ro].
*** Pronunciation
- [ro]
*** Adjective
[ro-adj]
1. [en]
**** Declension
[ro-decl-adj]
**** Related terms
- [fur]