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acrobat en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈæk.ɹə.bæt/ (US)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱrós Proto-Hellenic [Term?] Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́κρος (ắkros) Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti Proto-Hellenic *gʷəňňō Proto-Indo-European *gʷeh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *égʷēn Ancient Greek βαίνω (baínō) Ancient Greek βᾰτός (bătós) Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs) Ancient Greek -βάτης (-bátēs) Ancient Greek ἀκροβάτης (akrobátēs)bor. French acrobateder. English acrobat From French acrobate, from Ancient Greek ἀκροβάτης (akrobátēs, “walking on tiptoe, climbing aloft”), from ἀκροβατέω (akrobatéō, “to walk on tiptoe”), from ἄκρον (ákron, “highest or farthest point, mountain top, peak”) + βαίνω (baínō, “to walk, step”).

Meanings

  1. An athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination, often as part of a circus performance.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
acrobats Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

acrobat ant · acrobatics · philobat · acrobatic · acrobatess · acrobatism

Hyponyms

tightrope walker · trapeze artist · contortionist · tumbler

Relateds

Acrobates · Acrobatidae · acro-

Translations (75)

sh акробат (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · bg акроба́тка (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · pl akrobata (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · nn akrobat (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · ar بَهْلَوَان (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · la petaurista (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · sl akrobatka (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · bg акроба́т (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · ro acrobată (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · la petauristēs (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · pt acrobata (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · grc κυβιστητήρ (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · el ακροβάτης (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · fa بندباز (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · ka ჯამბაზი (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · grc ἀκροβάτης (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · tr cambaz (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · mr डोंबारी (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · ru акроба́тка (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · cs akrobat (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · he לולין (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · hy ակրոբատ (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · tl sirkero (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · ota جانباز (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · de Akrobatin (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · la fūniambulus (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · fi tasapainotaiteilija (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · sh akrobat (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · sq akrobat (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · eo ekvilibristo (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · ja アクロバット (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · uz muallaqchi (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · fr acrobate (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · la cernuus (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · nb akrobat (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · sk akrobatka (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · da akrobat (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · hi कलाबाज़ (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · sk akrobat (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · cs akrobatka (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · it acrobata (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · cmn 馬戲演員 /马戏演员 (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · eo ekvilibristino (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · eo akrobatino (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · ru акроба́т (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · ca equilibrista (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · hu akrobata (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · sh akrobata (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · la fūnambulus (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · nrf acrobate (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · th นักโลดโผน (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · es saltimbanqui (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · ko 곡예사 (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · pl akrobatka (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · es equilibrista (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · tl akrobata (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · el ακροβάτισσα (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · sv akrobat (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · sl akrobat (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · sh акробата (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · eo akrobato (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · tr akrobat (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · cmn 雜技演員 /杂技演员 (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · de Akrobat (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · nl acrobate (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · ro acrobat (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · ca acròbata (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · nl acrobaat (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · es acróbata (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · eu akrobata (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · sa जायाजीव (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · fi akrobaatti (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · tl magsisirko (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · gu કળાબાજ઼ (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination) · et akrobaat (athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination)

acrobat en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈæk.ɹə.bæt/ (US)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱrós Proto-Hellenic [Term?] Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́κρος (ắkros) Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti Proto-Hellenic *gʷəňňō Proto-Indo-European *gʷeh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *égʷēn Ancient Greek βαίνω (baínō) Ancient Greek βᾰτός (bătós) Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs) Ancient Greek -βάτης (-bátēs) Ancient Greek ἀκροβάτης (akrobátēs)bor. French acrobateder. English acrobat From French acrobate, from Ancient Greek ἀκροβάτης (akrobátēs, “walking on tiptoe, climbing aloft”), from ἀκροβατέω (akrobatéō, “to walk on tiptoe”), from ἄκρον (ákron, “highest or farthest point, mountain top, peak”) + βαίνω (baínō, “to walk, step”).

Meanings

  1. To practise acrobatics.
    • They seem to think as clowning and acrobating is a downright paradise, and comes as naturally to anybody as the measles. 1882, “Floey and the Angels”, in The Quiver, volume 17, page 31:
    • Mother was teaching me the tight-rope; I’d learned a bit of acrobating, too. 1914, Owen Johnson, chapter 21, in The Salamander, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, page 317:
    • The others were fairly hulking teenagers in terrible costumes and makeup, who tapped, acrobated, sang, recited, played saxoophones, and did bad magic […] 1988, Phyllis Newman, chapter 2, in Just In Time, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 32:
    • Tumbling is different from posturing, and means throwing summersets and walking on your hands; and acrobating means the two together […] 1861, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 3, London: Griffin, Bohn, page 98:
  2. (figuratively) To move like an acrobat (with agility, balance, long leaps, etc.).
    • Here [in the stage show] was all the paraphernalia I longed for—slit skirts, suntanned thighs, boleros, sequins, saucy looks, legs askew and whole bevies of girls acrobating gracefully while covering their more pertinent parts with fans or gigantic powder puffs. 1976, Edna O’Brien, chapter 6, in Mother Ireland,, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 127:
    • We have known […] veteran reporters, so dumbfounded and confounded by the first fire of Ralph, and his grand and lofty acrobating in elocution, that they up, seized their hat and paper, and sloped, horrified at the prospect of an attempt to “take down” Mr. Emerson. 1856, Jonathan F. Kelley, “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, in Humors of Falconbridge,, Philadelphia: T.B.Peterson, page 155:
    • He acrobated into a shirt, pulled up the pants of his good suit, arching to draw them high […] 1952, Bernard Malamud, “Pre-Game”, in The Natural, New York: Dell, published 1965, page 8:
    • […] I laughed at the very idea of one of those heavy-pouched, blue-clad fellows catching hold of an agile fellow like I was, who had on more than one occasion acrobated from the engine’s tender back to the rear end of the caboose, by swinging and vaulting from truck to truck, underneath long freight trains running at top speed, with no member of the ever-alert train crew having discovered him. 1912, Leon Ray Livingston, chapter 2, in The Curse of Tramp Life, Cambridge: Springs, PA: The A-N. 1 Publishing Co, page 17:
    • the blood-red cardinal acrobating about in his holly bush 2011, Bradford Morrow, “Gardener of Heart”, in The Uninnocent,, New York: Pegasus Books, page 31:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
acrobating Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
acrobated Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
acrobated Tense=Past lexicographic
acrobats Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic