stickle

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

sostenere

propugnare

sinonimi

advocate

assert

champion

contend

defend

haggle

hesitate

maintain

scruple

stand up for

vindicate

have one’s doubts

Traduzioni

verfechten

défendre

préconiser

professer

bepleiten

verdedigen

voorstaan

vorstaan

advogar

argumentar

apologizar

argüir

defender

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈstɪk(ə)l/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: *stikel

Ereditato da inglese antico: sticel

Affine olandese: stekel

Affine islandese: stikill

Affine gotico: 𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌺𐌻𐍃

Affine russo: стекло́

Affine lituano: stìklas

Ereditato da inglese 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).