Ert
name, noun, verb
name, noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Initialism of emergency response team. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 2 the coordinated universal time when an event is received on Earth wordnet
- 3 Initialism of enzyme replacement therapy. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Verb
- 1 To incite; urge on; encourage. UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive
- 2 To irritate; provoke. UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive
- 3 To be eager; hurry. UK, dialectal, intransitive, obsolete
- 4 To make as if to strike; argue (with). UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive
- 5 To strive after; try to obtain. UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive
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- 6 To strive onward and upward. UK, dialectal, intransitive, obsolete
Proper Noun
- 1 Ellenikí/Ellinikí Radiofonía Tileórasi (Hellenic (Greek) Broadcasting television), Greece
Synonyms
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From Middle English erten, ertin, from Old Norse erta (“to provoke, incite, tease”), from Proto-Germanic *artijaną (“to excite, tease”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erd- (“sharp point, stinger”). Cognate with Icelandic erta (“to irritate”), Norwegian erta (“to taunt”), Swedish ärta (“to tease, jibe”), Old Irish aird (“point, ord, end point”), Ancient Greek ἄρδις (árdis, “arrowhead”).