threat

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. An expression of intent to injure or punish another.
2. An indication of potential or imminent danger.
3. A person or object that is regarded as a danger; a menace.

Verb

1. (transitive) To press; urge; compel.
2. (archaic, transitive) To threaten.
3. (intransitive) To use threats; act or speak menacingly; threaten.

Conceptes

amenaça

avís

⚠️

terror

advertiment

⚠️

advertència

⚠️

amenaçament

Sinònims

menace

intimidation

danger

❗

threaten

threatening

peril

bluster

scourge

terror

hazard

intimidate

spectre

denunciation

risk

horror

host

order

promise

scarecrow

terrorism

terrorize

troop

vow

warning

⚠️

bad omen

fear

😨

alarm

threat of force

blackmail

bugaboo

coercion

command

commandment

commination

condition

duress

foreshadow

frown

harm

hectoring

hiss

Traduccions

menace

minaccia

amenaza

Bedrohung

Drohung

ameaça

bedreiging

dreiging

dreigement

απειλή

Einschüchterung

تهديد

φοβέρα

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/θɹɛt/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: threte

Heretat de anglès antic: þrēat

Cognat amb Middle Low German: drōt

Cognat amb alt alemany mitjà: drōz

Cognat amb islandès: þraut

Cognat amb rus: труд

Cognat amb polonès: trud

Cognat amb llatí: trūdō

Heretat de anglès mitjà: threten

Heretat de anglès antic: þrēatian

In summary

From Middle English threte, thret, thrat, thræt, threat, from Old English þrēat (“crowd, swarm, troop, army, press; pressure, trouble, calamity, oppression, force, violence, threat”), from Proto-Germanic *þrautaz, closely tied to Proto-Germanic *þrautą (“displeasure, complaint, grievance, labour, toil”), from Proto-Indo-European *trewd- (“to squeeze, push, press”), whence also Middle Low German drōt (“threat, menace, danger”), Middle High German drōz (“annoyance, disgust, horror, terror, fright”), Icelandic þraut (“struggle, labour, distress”), Russian труд (trud, “work, labour”), Polish trud (“hard work”), Latin trūdō (“push”, verb).