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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *komterosder. Proto-Italic *komterād Latin contrāder. Old French contre- Anglo-Norman countre-bor. Middle English counter- English counter- Latin terrorbor. Old French terreur Middle French terreurbor. Middle English terrour English terror Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English terrorist English counterterrorist From counter- + terrorist.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Intended to combat terrorism
Henry Kissinger was there; so was Robert Komer, the CIA officer who ran the counterterrorist "pacification" program in 1967 and '68[…].
1988 January 29, Michael Miner, “Art of Our Arrogance/Rethinking Vietnam”, in Chicago Reader:
Translations (8)
uk антитерористи́чний (intended to combat terrorism) · kk лаңкестікке қарсы (intended to combat terrorism) · be контртэрарысты́чны (intended to combat terrorism) · pl antyterrorystyczny (intended to combat terrorism) · uk контртерористи́чний (intended to combat terrorism) · de konterterroristisch (intended to combat terrorism) · fr contreterroriste (intended to combat terrorism) · ru контртеррористи́ческий (intended to combat terrorism)