succour

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (uncountable) Aid, assistance, or relief given to one in distress; ministration.
2. (uncountable) Aid or assistance in the form of military equipment and soldiers, especially reinforcements sent to support military action.
3. (uncountable) Protection, refuge, shelter; (countable) a place providing such protection, refuge or shelter.

Verb

1. (transitive) To give aid, assistance, or help.
2. (transitive) To provide aid or assistance in the form of military equipment and soldiers; in particular, for helping a place under siege.
3. (transitive) To protect, to shelter; to provide a refuge.

Concepts

secourir

aide

secours

assistant

assistance

soutien

appui

auxiliaire

relief

Opposé de

alleviate, analgesize, comfort, dave, ease, heal, relieve, soothe, benumb, numb

Synonymes

succor

help

aid

relief

assist

assistance

rescue

ministration

succor

avail

relieve

support

subserve

deliver

help out

helping

lift

do good

hand

✋

hospitalization

patronage

profit

promote

protection

pull through

remedy

salvation

save

serve

succorer

be of use

do good to

Help

helping hand

side with

delivering from sin

nursing

save one’s life

witness for

benefact

succourer

leg up

be of assistance

aidance

aid money

ancilla

assistant

attention

auxiliary

backing

Traductions

Hilfe

Beistand

socorro

socorrer

βοήθεια

αρωγή

assistenza

helpen

aiuto

socors

hulp

ajuda

beistehen

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈsʌkə/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: socour

Appartenant à français: secours

Hérité de moyen anglais: socouren

Appartenant à français: secourir

In summary

The noun is derived from Middle English socour, interpreted as the singular form of socours (“help; encouragement; remedy; protection; helper, protector”), which is from Anglo-Norman socurs, sucurs and Old French secors, secours (modern French secours), from Medieval Latin succursus (participle), from Latin succurrēre (“to run to the help of”), from Latin sub- (“from below”) + Latin currere (“run”).
The verb is derived from Middle English socouren (“to help”), from Anglo-Norman socure (compare modern French secourir), also from Latin succurrēre.