nonresistance
Meaningnot standing against
Common meaning: the practice of not resisting authority by force
- nonnot
- reagain; back
- sistto stand, be upright or stillLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1762 · scan
- ancenoun ending: doing, or the condition that results
‘not’ + ‘again’ + ‘to stand, be upright or still’ → nonresistance
Journey through time
- Latinstō, stetī, statum‘to stand, be upright or still’
- Frenchresister
- Englishnonresistance‘the practice of not resisting authority by force’ · today
non- also in: nonverbalnonchalantnontrivialnonphysicalnonresident
re- also in: reactrebelrelaxrepelreply
sist also in: stanzastatussubstancethermostatsubstandard
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: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Latin stō ‘to stand, be upright or still’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry stō, p. 1762 · dictionary scan
Roots
- stō, stetī, statum Latin “to stand, be upright or still”
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