stickle

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

A sharp point; prickle; a spine

Adj

1. Steep; high; inaccessible.
2. (UK, dialectal) High, as the water of a river; swollen; sweeping; rapid.

Verb

1. (British, dialectal, obsolete) To act as referee or arbiter; to mediate.
2. (British, archaic, dialectal) To argue or struggle for.
3. (British, dialectal) To raise objections; to argue stubbornly, especially over minor or trivial matters.
4. (British, dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
5. (British, dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening.
6. (British, dialectal, intransitive, obsolete) To separate combatants by intervening.
7. (British, dialectal, intransitive, obsolete) To contend, contest, or altercate, especially in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.

Sinònims

advocate

assert

champion

contend

defend

haggle

hesitate

maintain

scruple

stand up for

vindicate

have one’s doubts

Traduccions

verfechten

défendre

préconiser

professer

sostenere

propugnare

bepleiten

verdedigen

voorstaan

vorstaan

advogar

argumentar

apologizar

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈstɪk(ə)l/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: *stikel

Heretat de anglès antic: sticel

Cognat amb neerlandès: stekel

Cognat amb islandès: stikill

Cognat amb gòtic: 𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌺𐌻𐍃

Cognat amb rus: стекло́

Cognat amb lituà: stìklas

Heretat de anglès mitjà: stikel

In summary

From Middle English *stikel, *stykyl (in compounds), from Old English sticel (“a prickle, sting, goad”), from Proto-Germanic *stiklaz, *stikilaz (“sting, stinger, peak, cup, goblet”), related to the verb *stikaną (“to stick”). Cognate with Dutch stekel, Icelandic stikill, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌺𐌻𐍃 (stikls) (whence Russian стекло́ (stekló, “glass”), Polish szkło (“glass”), Lithuanian sti̇̀klas, Romanian sticlă).