coercion
English
/koʊˈɝʒən/
noun
Definitions
- (not countable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
- (legal) Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will.
- (countable) A specific instance of coercing.
- (programming) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
- (linguistics) The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.
Etymology
Root from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk- (guard, protect, hold, shut in).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂erk-
Gloss
guard, protect, hold, shut in
Concept
Semantic Field
Warfare and hunting
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
💂 💂♀️ 💂♂️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- coerce English
- coercionary English
- coercionist English
- noncoercion English
- Orcus Latin
- arca Latin
- arcanus Latin
- arcera Latin
- arcānus Latin
- arx Latin
- coerceo Latin
- exerceo Latin
- exercitium Latin
- exercitāre Latin
- exercitātiōnem Latin
- porceo Latin
- ἀρκέω Ancient Greek
- *h₂erk- Proto-Indo-European
- ارگ Persian
- *arkeō Proto-Italic
- *pe-arkō, *pearkō Proto-Italic