Wordwyrt

dangerous

/ˈdeɪndʒəəs/DAYN-jur-uhs
/ˈdeɪndʒɚəs/DAYN-jur-uhs

Meaningfull of danger

Common meaning: likely to cause harm

Journey through time

  1. Old Frenchdangiersource
  2. Middle Englishdaungersource
  3. Englishdanger‘risk of harm’
  4. Englishformed in English from dangerdangerous‘likely to cause harm’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Formed in English from danger + -ous.

Dictionary: Skeat (1898), DANGER, p.152 · scan

Source words

  • dangier Old French · source word “power, control”

Building blocks are an automatic split · open in app