vergattern

Significat (Anglès)

1. (transitive, weak) to officially commit a soldier to sentry duty and to the respective regulations
2. (colloquial, transitive, weak) to impose a duty or punishment on someone

Sinònims

abkommandieren

anhalten

🛑

bestimmen

einspannen

🗜️

erzwingen

forcieren

verpflichten

zwingen

einfordern

verdonnern

in die Pflicht nehmen

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/fɛɐ̯ˈɡatɐn/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de alt alemany mitjà: vergatern

Cognat amb Middle Low German: gāderen

Cognat amb neerlandès: vergaderen

Cognat amb anglès: forgather

In summary

From Middle High German vergatern (“to assemble”), a chiefly Central German word alongside Middle Low German gāderen. Cognate to Dutch vergaderen, English forgather. In a military context the word originally meant “to line up troops and issue the orders”. It may later have been associated with Gatter (“grating, fence”), thus “to give someone a boundary that must not be transgressed”. Compare etymology 2 below.