alert

See also: Alert

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈlɜːt/
  • (General American) enPR: ə-lûrtʹ, IPA(key): /əˈlɝt/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
  • Hyphenation: a‧lert

Etymology 1

From French alerte (alert), from the phrase à l'erte (on the watch), from Italian all'erta (to the height), from erta (lookout, tower).[1]

Adjective

alert (comparative more alert, superlative most alert)

  1. Attentive; awake; on guard.
  2. (obsolete) brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
    • Addison
      an alert young fellow
Translations

Noun

alert (plural alerts)

  1. An alarm.
  2. A notification of higher importance than an advisory.
Translations

Etymology 2

Formed within English by conversion, from alert (adj). Compare French alerter.[2]

Verb

alert (third-person singular simple present alerts, present participle alerting, simple past and past participle alerted)

  1. To give warning to.
Translations

References

  1. "alert, adj. and n.", OED Online, revised Sep. 2012 for Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed.. Oxford University Press.
  2. "alert, v.", OED Online, revised Sep. 2012 for Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed.. Oxford University Press.

Anagrams


Dutch

Etymology

From French alerte.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aːˈlɛrt/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: alert
  • Rhymes: -ɛrt

Adjective

alert (comparative alerter, superlative alertst)

  1. alert

Inflection

Inflection of alert
uninflected alert
inflected alerte
comparative alerter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial alertalerterhet alertst
het alertste
indefinite m./f. sing. alertealerterealertste
n. sing. alertalerteralertste
plural alertealerterealertste
definite alertealerterealertste
partitive alertsalerters

Derived terms

  • alertheid

Anagrams


German

Etymology

From French alerte.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [aˈlɛʁt]
  • (file)

Adjective

alert (comparative alerter, superlative am alertesten)

  1. alert

Declension

Further reading


Swedish

Etymology

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈlæʈ/
  • Rhymes: -æʈː

Adjective

alert (comparative alertare, superlative alertast)

  1. alert

Declension

Inflection of alert
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular alert alertare alertast
Neuter singular alert alertare alertast
Plural alerta alertare alertast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 alerte alertare alertaste
All alerta alertare alertaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
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