threat

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

menace

intimidation

péril

terreur

terrorisme

dispositif comminatoire

chantage

décor menaçant

contrainte

Synonymes

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

Traductions

minaccia

amenaza

Bedrohung

Drohung

ameaça

amenaça

bedreiging

dreiging

απειλή

dreigement

Einschüchterung

تهديد

φοβέρα

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/θɹɛt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: threte

Hérité de ancien anglais: þrēat

Appartenant à Middle Low German: drōt

Appartenant à moyen haut-allemand: drōz

Appartenant à islandais: þraut

Appartenant à russe: труд

Appartenant à polonais: trud

Appartenant à latin: trūdō

Hérité de moyen anglais: threten

Hérité de ancien anglais: 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).