alert

From French alerte (“alert”), from the phrase à l'erte (“on the watch”), from Italian all'erta (“to the height”), from erta (“lookout, tower”).^[1]

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈlɜːt/
• (General American) enPR: ə-lûrtʹ, IPA^(key): /əˈlɝt/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
• Hyphenation: a‧lert

Etymology 1

Adjective

alert (comparative more alert, superlative most alert)

2. Attentive; awake; on guard.
3. (obsolete) brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
   • 1712 June 23 (Gregorian calendar)​, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele [et al.], “THURSDAY, June 12, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 408; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:

     I saw an alert young fellow that cocked his hat upon a friend of his who entered just at the same time with myself

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

alert (plural alerts)

1. An alarm.
2. A notification of higher importance than an advisory.
3. (military) A state of readiness for potential combat.

   an airborne alert; ground alert

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Formed within English by conversion, from alert (adj). Compare French alerter.^[2]

Verb

alert (third-person singular simple present alerts, present participle alerting, simple past and past participle alerted)

1. To give warning to.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• alter, alter-, altre, artel, later, ratel, taler, telar

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French alerte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aːˈlɛrt/

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• Hyphenation: alert
• Rhymes: -ɛrt

Adjective

alert (comparative alerter, superlative alertst)

1. alert

Inflection

Inflection of alert
uninflected	alert
inflected	alerte
comparative	alerter
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		alert	alerter	het alertst het alertste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	alerte	alertere	alertste
	n. sing.	alert	alerter	alertste
	plural	alerte	alertere	alertste
definite		alerte	alertere	alertste
partitive		alerts	alerters	—

Derived terms

• alertheid

Descendants

• Negerhollands: allert

Anagrams

• later, ratel

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German

Etymology

Borrowed from French alerte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aˈlɛʁt]

• Audio

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Adjective

alert (strong nominative masculine singular alerter, comparative alerter, superlative am alertesten)

1. alert

Declension

Further reading

• “alert” in Duden online
• “alert” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French alerte or English alert, from Italian all'erta.^[1][2] First attested in the second half of the 20th century.^[2]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.lɛrt/

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• Rhymes: -alɛrt
• Syllabification: a‧lert

Noun

alert m inan

1. alert (device used to alarm people)

   Synonym: alarm

   antyterrorystyczny alert ― a terrorist alert

2. alert (sound used to alarm people)

   Synonym: alarm

3. alert (state of being alerted)

   pomarańczowy alert ― orange alert

   czerwony alert ― red alert

   alert ekologiczny ― an ecological alert

   ogłaszać/ogłosić alert ― to declare alert

   alert obowiązuje ― alert holds form/applies to

4. (military) alert (state of readiness for potential combat)
5. (technology) alert

   Synonym: powiadomienie

Declension

Derived terms

References

• Pęzik, Piotr; Przepiórkowski, A.; Bańko, M.; Górski, R.; Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B (2012) Wyszukiwarka PELCRA dla danych NKJP. Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego [National Polish Language Corpus, PELCRA search engine]‎^[2], Wydawnictwo PWN

Further reading

• alert in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• alert in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romanian

Etymology

From French alerte.

Adjective

alert m or n (feminine singular alertă, masculine plural alerți, feminine and neuter plural alerte)

1. wide-awake

Declension

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Swedish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈlæʈ/
• Rhymes: -æʈː

Adjective

alert (comparative alertare, superlative alertast)

1. alert

Declension

Inflection of alert
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	alert	alertare	alertast
Neuter singular	alert	alertare	alertast
Plural	alerta	alertare	alertast
Masculine plural3	alerte	alertare	alertast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	alerte	alertare	alertaste
All	alerta	alertare	alertaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

Anagrams

• artel, later, letar, realt