Was die in der KategorieENGLISH - PRONUNCIATION
Informationen zum Thema
English - Pronunciation
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈbæn.dn̩/
* (General American) IPA(key): /əˈbæn.dn̩/
* (InE) IPA(key): /əˈbæn.ɖən/
Was die in der KategorieENGLISH - ETYMOLOGY 1
Informationen zum Thema
English - Etymology 1
* From Middle English _abandounen_, from Old French _abandoner_, formed from _a_ (“at, to”) + _bandon_ (“jurisdiction, control”), from Late Latin _bannum_ (“proclamation”), _bannus_, _bandum_, from Frankish _*ban_, _*bann_, from Proto-Germanic _*bannaną_ (“to proclaim, command”) (compare English _ban_), from Proto-Indo-European _*bʰeh₂-_, _*bʰa-_ (“to speak”). See also ban, banal.
* Displaced Middle English _forleten_ ("to abandon"; from Old English _forlǣtan_, _anforlǣtan_; see forlet) and Middle English _forleven_ ("to leave behind, abandon"; from Old English _forlǣfan_; see forleave).
VERB
ABANDON (_third-person singular simple present_ ABANDONS, _present participle_ ABANDONING, _simple past and past participle_ ABANDONED)
* (transitive, obsolete) To subdue; to take control of. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 16th century.]
* (transitive) To give up control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]
* Macaulay
He ABANDONED himself […] to his favourite vice.
* (transitive) To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]
* (transitive) To leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility. [First attested in the late 15th century.]
* (Can we date this quote?) I. Taylor:
Hope was overthrown, yet could not be ABANDONED.
_Many baby girls have been ABANDONED on the streets of Beijing._
* (transitive, obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the mid 17th century.]
* 1594, William Shakespeare, _The Taming of the Shrew_, act I, scene ii:
Being all this time ABANDONED from your bed.
* Udall
that he might […] ABANDON them from him
* (transitive) To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]
* (transitive) To surrender to the insurer the insured item, so as to claim a total loss.
SYNONYMS
DERIVED TERMS
RELATED TERMS
* abandonment
* abandonware
TRANSLATIONS
-
From Middle English abandounen, from Old French abandoner, formed from a (“at, to”) + bandon (“jurisdiction, control”), from Late Latin bannum (“proclamation”), bannus, bandum,
from Frankish *ban, *bann, from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“to proclaim, command”) (compare English ban),
from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-, *bʰa- (“to speak”). See also ban, banal.
-
Displaced Middle English forleten ("to
abandon"; from Old English forlǣtan, anforlǣtan; see forlet) and Middle English forleven
("to leave behind, abandon"; from Old English forlǣfan; see forleave).
abandon (third-person
singular simple present abandons, present participle abandoning, simple past and past participle abandoned)
-
(transitive, obsolete) To subdue; to take control of. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 16th century.]
-
(transitive) To give up control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]
-
(transitive) To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue. [First
attested from around (1350 to 1470)]
-
(transitive) To leave behind; to desert as in a
ship or a position, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility. [First attested in the late 15th century.]
-
Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing.
-
(transitive, obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the mid 17th century.]
-
(transitive) To no
longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish. [First attested
in the mid 18th century.]
-
(transitive) To surrender to the insurer the insured item, so as to claim a total loss.
Was die in der KategorieENGLISH - ETYMOLOGY 2
Informationen zum Thema
English - Etymology 2
* From French, from Old French _abandon_, from _abondonner_.
NOUN
ABANDON (_plural_ ABANDONS)
* A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. [Early 19th century.]
* 1954, Gore Vidal, _Messiah_:
I envy those chroniclers who assert with reckless but sincere ABANDON: 'I was there. I saw it happen. It happened thus.'
* 2007, Akiva Goldsman and Mark Protosevich, _I am Legend_:
They needed to have an ABANDON in their performance that you just can’t get out of people in the middle of the night when they’re barefoot.
* (obsolete) abandonment; relinquishment.
SYNONYMS
* (giving up to impulses): wantonness, unrestraint, libertinism, abandonment, profligacy, unconstraint
TRANSLATIONS
ADVERB
ABANDON (_comparative_ MORE ABANDON, _superlative_ MOST ABANDON)
* (obsolete, not comparable) Freely; entirely.
* 1330, _Arthour and Merlin_:
His ribbes and scholder fel adoun,/Men might se the liver ABANDOUN.
REFERENCES
* ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Lesley Brown (editor), _The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary_, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7), page 2
* ^ Christine A. Lindberg (editor), _The Oxford College Dictionary_, 2nd edition (Spark Publishing, 2007 [2002], ISBN 978-1-4114-0500-4), page 1
* ^ Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), _Chambers Dictionary of Etymology_ (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998], ISBN 0550142304), page 2.
abandon (plural abandons)
-
A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint,
with loss of appreciation of consequences. [Early 19th century.]
-
(obsolete) abandonment; relinquishment.
abandon (comparative more abandon, superlative most abandon)
-
(obsolete, not comparable) Freely; entirely.
-
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7), page 2
- ^ Christine A. Lindberg (editor), The Oxford College Dictionary, 2nd edition (Spark Publishing, 2007 [2002], ISBN 978-1-4114-0500-4), page 1
- ^ Elliott K. Dobbie, C.
William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998], ISBN 0550142304), page 2.
Was die in der KategorieFRENCH - PRONUNCIATION
Informationen zum Thema
French - Pronunciation
* (FR) IPA(key): /a.bã.dõ/
* abandon (France, Paris) IPA: [a.bã.dõ]
* Rhymes: -dõ
Was die in der KategorieFRENCH - NOUN
Informationen zum Thema
Was die in der KategorieFRENCH - EXTERNAL LINKS
Informationen zum Thema
French - External Links
* “abandon” in _le Trésor de la langue française informatisé_ (_The Digitized Treasury of the French Language_).
Was die in der KategorieROMANIAN - ETYMOLOGY
Informationen zum Thema
Was die in der KategorieROMANIAN - NOUN
Informationen zum Thema