violent
Middle English
/ˌviːɔlˈɛnt/
adj
Definitions
- violent, forcible, injury-causing.
- Potent, mighty, damaging, forceful
- Severe, extreme; excessive in magnitude.
- Tending to cause injuries; likely to cause violence.
- Abrupt; happening without warning or notice.
- (rare) Despotic, authoritarian; ruling unfairly.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French violent derived from Latin violentus.
Origin
Latin
violentus
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antiviolent English
- hyperviolent English
- non-violent English
- nonviolent English
- overviolent English
- proviolent English
- superviolent English
- ultraviolent English
- violent English
- violently English
- violentness English
- violentus Latin
- vīs Latin
- violento Italian
- violent French
- violento Spanish, Castilian
- violento Portuguese
- violently Middle English
- violent Old French
- violent Catalan, Valencian
- violento Galician
- bayolente Tagalog
- violent Occitan
- violentu Asturian
- biolento Mirandese