opponent
/əˈpəʊnənt/uh-POH-nuhnt
/əˈpoʊnənt/uh-POH-nuhnt
Meaningsetting against
Common meaning: a person on the other side
- opagainst (form of ob-)
- ponto put down, set in placeLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1396 · scan
- entadjective ending: being or doing
‘against (form of ob-)’ + ‘to put down, set in place’ → opponent
Journey through time
- Latinopponens‘setting against’source
- Englishopponent‘a person on the other side’ · 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.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Latin pōnō ‘to put down, set in place’.
Roots
- pōnō, posuī, positum Latin “to put down, set in place”
Related words
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