wrath

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

Noun

1. Great anger; (countable) an instance of this.
2. Punishment, retribution, or vengeance resulting from anger; (countable) an instance of this.
3. (obsolete) Great ardour or passion.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To anger (someone); to enrage.
2. (obsolete) To become angry with (someone).
3. (obsolete) To become angry.

Adj

Synonym of wroth (“full of anger; wrathful”)

Phát âm là (IPA)

/ɹɒθ/

Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

The noun is derived from Middle English wraththe, wreththe (“anger, fury, rage; animosity, hostility; deadly sin of wrath; distress, vexation; punishment; retribution (?)”) [and other forms], from Old English wrǣþþu (“ire, wrath”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *wraiþiþu (“anger, fury, wrath”), from *wraiþ (“angry, furious, wroth; hostile, violent; bent, twisted”) (from Proto-Germanic *wraiþaz (“angry, furious, wroth; hostile, violent; bent, twisted”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to twist”)) + *-iþu (suffix forming abstract nouns). Effectively analysable as wroth + -th.
The verb is derived from Middle English wratthen (“to be or become angry, to rage; to quarrel; to cause wrath, offend; to become troubled or vexed; to cause grief or harm, grieve, vex”) [and other forms], from wraththe, wreththe (noun) (see above) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs).
cognates
* Danish vrede (“anger”)
* Dutch wreedte (“cruelty”)
* Icelandic reiði (“anger”)
* Swedish vrede (“anger, ire, wrath”)