bandit
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian bandito (“outlawed”), a derivative of Italian bandire (“to ban”), from Late Latin bandīre, an alteration (due to Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bandwjan, “to signal”)) of Late Latin bannīre (“to ban”), from Frankish *bannan (“to ban”).[1] Doublet of bandito.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈbændɪt/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
editbandit (plural bandits or (archaic) banditti)
- One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 173:
- Do you recollect a story my nurse told us of a Sicilian bandit, the terror of the country?—how he saved a young child from a cottage on fire, brought it up delicately, and far removed from his own pursuits; while, at his execution, his chief regret was the future provision for that boy?
- An outlaw.
- One who cheats others.
- (military, aviation) An aircraft identified as an enemy, but distinct from "hostile" or "threat" in that it is not immediately to be engaged.
- (sports, slang) A runner who covertly joins a race without having registered as a participant.
Synonyms
edit- (one who robs others): See Thesaurus:thief
- (outlaw): criminal, fugitive, outlaw
- (one who cheats others): cheater
Derived terms
edit- arse bandit
- ass bandit
- back-door bandit
- bail bandit
- banditism
- banditry
- Beltway bandit
- blue light bandit
- booty bandit
- botty bandit
- communist bandit
- dumpster bandit
- garbage bandit
- gas meter bandit
- make out like a bandit
- multi-armed bandit
- one-arm bandit
- one-armed bandit
- pussy bandit
- shag-bandit
- shag bandit
- squeegee bandit
- time bandit
- trash bandit
Translations
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Verb
editbandit (third-person singular simple present bandits, present participle banditing, simple past and past participle bandited)
- (transitive, intransitive) To rob, or steal from, in the manner of a bandit.
- 1921, Munsey's Magazine, volume 74, page 38:
- First, she read the bandit news in the paper, and was rather disappointed to learn that her man had evidently taken a night off from banditing. An imitator of the bandit had made an unsuccessful attempt to hold up a drug-store, and had backed out and run when the nervy proprietor reached for a gun; but that was all.
- 1937, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 160, page 7:
- As the sanctuary was bandited at least once, it may be that the silver wine cups I have are from the treasure.
References
editAnagrams
editAzerbaijani
editCyrillic | бандит | |
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Abjad | باندیت |
Etymology
editBorrowed from Russian банди́т (bandít), ultimately from Italian bandito.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbandit (definite accusative banditi, plural banditlər)
Declension
editDeclension of bandit | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | bandit |
banditlər | ||||||
definite accusative | banditi |
banditləri | ||||||
dative | banditə |
banditlərə | ||||||
locative | banditdə |
banditlərdə | ||||||
ablative | banditdən |
banditlərdən | ||||||
definite genitive | banditin |
banditlərin |
Further reading
edit- “bandit” in Obastan.com.
Catalan
editEtymology
editFrom bandir.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbandit m (plural bandits, feminine bandida)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “bandit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
editPronunciation
editNoun
editbandit m (plural bandits)
- bandit
- des procédés de bandit ― dishonest practices
- 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXXV, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et Cie, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:
- « Arrête, larron ! s’écriait-il ; arrête, félon, bandit, détrousseur de passants ; je te tiens ici, et ton cimeterre ne te sera bon à rien. »
- "Stop, thief!" cried he; "Stop, traitor, bandit, robber of passers-by; I hold thee here, and thy scimitar will be of no use to thee."
Derived terms
editDescendants
editFurther reading
edit- “bandit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
editEtymology
editFrom Dutch bandiet, from Middle French bandit, from Italian bandito.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbandit (first-person possessive banditku, second-person possessive banditmu, third-person possessive banditnya)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “bandit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Norman
editEtymology
editNoun
editbandit m (plural bandits)
Romanian
editEtymology
editNoun
editbandit m (plural bandiți)
Declension
editsingular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | bandit | banditul | bandiți | bandiții | |
genitive-dative | bandit | banditului | bandiți | bandiților | |
vocative | banditule | bandiților |
Serbo-Croatian
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editbàndīt m (Cyrillic spelling ба̀ндӣт)
Declension
editReferences
edit- “bandit”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
Swedish
editNoun
editbandit c
- (somewhat dated) a career criminal living outside society; a robber, a bandit
Declension
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