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adroit (W3)
Auf die Wurzel ide. "*reg-" werden mehrere Wortfamilien zurück geführt. Grob sind dies die Beutungsfamilien 1) "färben", 2) "sehen", 3) "regnen" und 4) "richten", "lenken", "führen".
Für ide. "*reg-" wird die Bedeutung dt. "gerade", "richten", "lenken", "recken", "strecken", "Richtung", "Linie", postuliert. Die Wortfamilie die darauf bezogen wird ist immens. Man findet die Wurzel heute als "-rec-", "-rech-", "-reg-", "-reich-", "-rek-", "-ri-", "-ric-", "-rich-", "-rig-", "-rix-", "-rog-", "-roi-", "-roy-", und vielen weiteren Präfixen, Infixen und Suffixen, denen man die Herkunft teilweise nicht mehr ansieht. Umgekehrt gibt es natürlich auch einige Wörter, die den Eindruck erwecken, zur Wortfamilie zu gehören, aber letztlich eine andere Herkunft haben.
Das frz. "adroit" = dt. "passend", "gefällig" läßt sich zurückführen auf lat. "*addirectus" = dt. "ausgerichtet", "wohlgeführt", zu lat. "ad" = dt. "zu", "bei", "an", und lat. "directus" = dt. "gerade gerichtet", "in gerader Richtung laufend", zu lat. "dirigere" = dt. "richten", "lenken", "gerade richten", "gerade machen", "geradeaus laufen lassen".
Engl. "adroit" wurde von frz. "adroit", "à droit", "adroite" = dt. "geschickt", "gewandt" übernommen.
"adroit" (Adjective) = engl. "dexterous", "clever", "deft".
"Dexterous", "deft", "adroit", and "nimble" all refer to "skillfulness".
"Adroit" and "dexterous" are near synonyms though "adroit" refers more to agility than to skill.
"Deft" implies "dexterity" and lightness, e.g. whipping egg whites with deft strokes of the hand, while
"nimble" implies "quickness", such as nimble fingering at the piano.
The noun is "adroitness" and the antonym, "maladroit", means "clumsy", "awkward".
From French, from "=E0 droit" = "to the right", another example of the success of conservatives in creating the illusion that everything right is good and normal, e.g. "right", "righteous", "upright", "dexterous" ("right" in Latin), "adroit" (French)" and everything left odd if not evil, e.g. "left-wing", "gauche" ("left" in French), "sinister" ("left" in Latin)".
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"adroit"
ADJECTIVE:
- 1. "Dexterous"; "deft".
- 2. "Skillful" and "adept" under pressing conditions. See synonyms at "dexterous".
ETYMOLOGY: French, from "à droit" : "à" = "to" (from Latin "ad"; see "ad–") + "droit" = "right" (from Latin "directus"; see "direct").
OTHER FORMS: "adroitly", ADVERB "adroitness", NOUN
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"adroit", adjective ("more adroit" or "adroiter", "most adroit" or "adroitest")
"dexterous", "deft" or "skillful"
Translations: German: "geschickt", "gewandt"
Etymology: (í) "droit" ("right").
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"adroit", Adjective
Meaning: "Dexterous", "deft", "nimble-fingered", "artful"; 2having skills or talents that makes doing things seem easy".
Notes: Today's Good Word comes accompanied by an adverb, "adroitly", and a straightforward noun, "adroitness". No spelling traps so long as you remember the "OY" sound is spelled "oi" as in "Detroit".
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Word History: Today's Good Word comes from French "adroit", a word made from the Old French phrase "à" = "to" + "droit" = "right" (both senses of the word), "direct". "Droit" is a direct descendant from Late Latin "directum" = "right", "justice", the accusative case of "directus" = "straight". "Directus" is the past participle of the verb "dirigere", a variant of "deregere" = "to set or lay straight", comprising de "from" + "regere" = "to keep or lead straight", "to guide". This is the root of "rex" = "king", and "regal". It also produced "regular" which, after passing through French, was reduced to "rule". English, as is its wont, borrowed this word at every step of its development, even though it had its own Germanic version of the original PIE root, "right".
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ADREIT (s.xiiex)
adrait, adroit; adret
[ FEW: 3,90a directus; Gdf: 1,118a adroit 3; GdfC: 8,36a adroit; TL: 1,158 adroit; DEAF: Ø; DMF: adroit; TLF: adroit; OED: Ø; MED: ; DMLBS: Ø ]
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"adroit"
AWWY: "adroit"; "dexterity"; "gauche" ("left"); "left" (associations with evil); "left-handed" compliment (insult); Right and Left; "sinister" ("left")
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
"Adroit"
properly means "to the right" (French, "à droite"). The French call a person who is not adroit "gauche" ("left-handed"), meaning awkward, boorish.
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"adroit", adjective...
- expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.
- cleverly skillful, resourceful, or ingenious: an adroit debater.
ORIGIN OF "ADROIT"
First recorded in 1645–55; from French, Old French: "elegant", "skillful", equivalent to "a-" = "a-" (5) + "droit", "dreit" = "straight", "just", "correct", from Latin "directus"; see "direct"
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"adroit" (adj.)
1650s, "dexterous", originally "rightly", from French "adroit", which by Old French had senses "upright" (physically and morally); "able", "clever", "skillful"; "well-formed", "handsome"; "on the right-hand side"; "veritable", from adverbial phrase "à droit" = "according to right".
This is from Old French "à" = "to" (see "ad-") + "droit", "dreit" = "right", from Medieval Latin "directum" (contracted "drictum") = "right", "justice", "law", neuter or accusative of Latin "directus" = "straight", past participle of "dirigere" = "set straight", from "dis-" = "apart" (see "dis-") + "regere" = "to direct", "to guide", 2keep straight" (from PIE root "*reg-" = "move in a straight line", with derivatives meaning "to direct in a straight line", thus "to lead", "rule"). It expresses prominently the idea of a trained hand. Related: "Adroitly"; "adroitness".
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"*reg-": Proto-Indo-European root meaning "move in a straight line", with derivatives meaning "to direct in a straight line", thus "to lead", "rule".
It forms all or part of:
"abrogate"; "address"; "adroit"; "Alaric"; "alert"; "anorectic"; "anorexia"; "arrogant"; "arrogate"; "bishopric"; "correct"; "corvee"; "derecho"; "derogate"; "derogatory"; "Dietrich"; "direct"; "dress"; "eldritch"; "erect"; "ergo"; "Eric"; "Frederick"; "Henry"; "incorrigible"; "interregnum"; "interrogate"; "maharajah"; "Maratha"; "prerogative"; "prorogue"; "rack" (n.1) "frame with bars"; "rail" (n.1) "horizontal bar passing from one post or support to another"; "Raj"; "rajah"; "rake" (n.1) "toothed tool for drawing or scraping things together"; "rake" (n.2) "debauchee; idle, dissolute person"; "rakish"; "rank" (adj.) "corrupt, loathsome, foul"; "real" (n.) "small Spanish silver coin"; "realm"; "reck"; "reckless"; "reckon"; "rectangle"; "rectify"; "rectilinear"; "rectitude"; "recto"; "recto-"; "rector"; "rectum"; "regal"; "regent"; "regicide"; "regime"; "regimen"; "regiment"; "region"; "regular"; "regulate"; "Regulus"; "Reich"; "reign"; "resurgent"; "rex"; "rich"; "right"; "Risorgimento"; "rogation"; "royal"; "rule"; "sord"; "source"; "subrogate"; "subrogation"; "surge"; "surrogate"; "viceroy".
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by:
- Sanskrit "raj-" "a king, a leader", "rjyati" "he stretches himself", "riag" "torture" (by racking);
- Avestan "razeyeiti" "directs", "raštva-" "directed, arranged, straight";
- Persian "rahst" "right, correct";
- Latin "regere" "to rule, direct, lead, govern", "rex" (genitive "regis") "king", "rectus" "right, correct";
- Greek "oregein" "to reach, extend";
- Old Irish "ri",
- Gaelic "righ" "a king",
- Gaulish "-rix" "a king" (in personal names, such as "Vircingetorix"),
- Old Irish "rigim" "to stretch out";
- Gothic "reiks" "a leader", "raihts" "straight, right";
- Lithuanian "raižytis" "to stretch oneself";
- Old English "rice" "kingdom", "-ric" "king", "rice" "rich, powerful", "riht" "correct";
- Gothic "raihts",
- Old High German "recht",
- Old Swedish "reht",
- Old Norse "rettr" "correct".
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"Adroit" Schriftfamilie
Entworfen von Phil Martin (1981)
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1652: "adroit"
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"Adroit" goes back to an Old French word meaning "handsome or elegant" as well as "skilled in combat". The adjective is still used to imply skillfulness, but usually not of the physical kind. "Adroit" most often describes cleverness that achieves one's purpose in spite of difficulties.
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Limericks on "adroit"
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Limericks on "adroitly"
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Limericks on "adroitness"
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We found 35 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word "adroit":
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"adroit": Anything of exceptional or superlative quality. From the French word for right-handed.
"Adroit": Skilled, from french, meaning usage of right hand, also some moron named adroit zencyde comes to mind, i wanna kill that guy, but remember, adroit means skilled
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adroit
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The French have a very different way of pronouncing this word than speakers of English do, but it's the same word and it's originally their word. It means "elegant", "skillful", which is what it also means in English. Don't confuse it with "à droite" = "to the right" in French, which lumps semantically in "droit" what English lumps in "right". You might sleuthfully see in "adroit" the Latin ancestor that also gives us "direct".
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Etymology
Borrowed from French "adroit", from French "à" ("on the"; "to") (from Old French "a" ("to"; "towards"), from Latin "ad" ("to"; "towards"), from Proto-Indo-European "*ád" ("at"; "near")) + French "droit" ("right") (from Old French "droit", "dreit", from Vulgar Latin "*drectus", syncopated form of Latin "directus" ("laid straight"; "direct", "straight"; "level"; "upright"), perfective passive participle of "dirigo" ("to lay straight"), from "dis-" ("apart", "in two") (from Proto-Indo-European "*dwís" ("twice"; "in two")) + "rego" ("to govern", "rule"; "to guide", "steer") (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European "*hrégeti" ("to be straightening", "setting upright"))).
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'dexterous, clever, deft'; From French 'à droit' - 'to the right'
French from "à droit", "à" = "to" (from Latin "ad" = "ad–") "droit" = "right" (from Latin "directus" = "direct")
Borrowed from French "adroit".
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Abfrage im Google-Corpus mit 15Mio. eingescannter Bücher von 1500 bis heute.
Engl. "adroit" taucht in der Literatur um das Jahr 1570 / 1690 auf.
Erstellt: 2022-12