coerce
English
/koʊˈɝs/, /kəʊˈɜːs/
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
- (transitive) To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will.
- (transitive) To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.
Etymology
Root from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk- (guard, protect, hold, shut in).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂erk-
Gloss
guard, protect, hold, shut in
Concept
Semantic Field
Warfare and hunting
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
💂 💂♀️ 💂♂️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- anticoercive English
- cocoercive English
- coercee English
- coercer English
- coercibility English
- coercible English
- coercibleness English
- coercibly English
- coercion English
- coercive English
- coercively English
- coerciveness English
- coercivity English
- hypocoercive English
- incoercible English
- noncoercive English
- semicoercive English
- uncoercive English
- Orcus Latin
- arca Latin
- arcanus Latin
- arcera Latin
- arcānus Latin
- arx Latin
- coerceo Latin
- exerceo Latin
- exercitium Latin
- exercitāre Latin
- exercitātiōnem Latin
- porceo Latin
- ἀρκέω Ancient Greek
- *h₂erk- Proto-Indo-European
- ارگ Persian
- *arkeō Proto-Italic
- *pe-arkō, *pearkō Proto-Italic