to threaten (to make a threat against someone; to use threats) · to endanger, menace · to portend, threaten
çekim: geçmiş ameacei · ortaç ameaçado · şimdiki ameaça
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese amẽaçar, a variant of mẽaçar, either from mẽaça (“threat”) + -ar, or from a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *admināciāre (“to threaten”) < *mināciāre (“threaten”), from minācia (“threat”), from Latin mināciae. Cognate with English menace. Compare Catalan and Occitan amenaçar, French menacer, Galician ameazar, Italian minacciare, Romanian amenința, Sicilian amminazzari,…
köken: From Byzantine Greek ἀγελάδα (ageláda), from the singular accusative of rare Koine Greek ἀγελάς (agelás, “grazing with the herd”), from ἀγέλη (agélē, “herd”).
köken: First attested in the Dongguk sinsok samgang haengsildo (東國新續三綱行實圖 / 동국신속삼강행실도), 1617, as Early Modern Korean 암쇼 (Yale: am-sywo). Equivalent to 암 (am-, “female”) + 소 (so, “cow”).
köken: From Old Norse hóta, derived from the noun hót n pl (“threat”) (cf. Swedish hot). It has replaced an older (now obsolete) verb, höta, from Old Norse hœta, from Proto-Germanic *hwōtijaną, cognate with Danish høde (archaic), Gothic 𐍈𐍉𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (ƕōtjan).
çekim: geçmiş amenințat · ortaç amenințat · şimdiki amenință
köken: From a Vulgar Latin root *ammināciāre, *admināciāre, < *mināciō (“threaten”), from minācia (“threat”), from the neuter plural of mināx (“threatening”), from minārī (“threaten”). Compare Catalan amenaçar, French menacer, Italian minacciare, Occitan amenaçar, Portuguese ameaçar, Sicilian amminazzari, Spanish amenazar.