stickle

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Conceptos

argüir

defender

sostener

propugnar

Sinónimos

advocate

assert

champion

contend

defend

haggle

hesitate

maintain

scruple

stand up for

vindicate

have one’s doubts

Traducciones

verfechten

défendre

préconiser

professer

sostenere

propugnare

bepleiten

verdedigen

voorstaan

vorstaan

advogar

argumentar

apologizar

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈstɪk(ə)l/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: *stikel

Heredado de inglés antiguo: sticel

Cognado con neerlandés: stekel

Cognado con islandés: stikill

Cognado con gótico: 𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌺𐌻𐍃

Cognado con ruso: стекло́

Cognado con lituano: stìklas

Heredado de inglés medio: 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).