combat
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French, from Old French combatre, from Vulgar Latin *combattere, from Latin com- (“with”) + battuere (“to beat, strike”).
Pronunciation
Noun
combat (countable and uncountable, plural combats)
- A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
- "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]."
- 2012 March 1, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87:
- Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.
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Derived terms
Translations
a battle; a fight; a struggle for victory
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Verb
combat (third-person singular simple present combats, present participle combatting or combating, simple past and past participle combatted or combated)
Translations
to fight; to struggle for victory
Catalan
French
Etymology
From combattre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.ba/
Audio (file) - Homophone: combats
Noun
combat m (plural combats)
Further reading
- “combat” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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