conscript
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English
[edit ]Etymology 1
[edit ]From Latin cōnscriptus , perfect passive participle of cōnscrībō ("write together; enroll").
Pronunciation
[edit ]- (noun, adjective):
- (verb):
Noun
[edit ]conscript (plural conscripts )
- One who is compulsorily enrolled, often into a military service; a draftee.
- The soldier was a conscript.
- 2004, David Mitchell, "Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery", in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 130:
- "[...] Isaac! You’re being conscripted." Fay Lie grabs Isaac Sachs’s elbow. "You’ll remember bumping into Luisa Rey the other day?"
"I’m one lucky conscript. Hi, Luisa, again."- Here conscript is used figuratively to refer to someone socially forced to join a conversation.
Translations
[edit ]draftee
- Arabic: مُجَنَّد m (mujannad)
- Armenian: զորակոչիկ (hy) (zorakočʻik)
- Azerbaijani: çağırışçı
- Belarusian: прызыўні́к m (pryzywník), рэ́крут m (rékrut)
- Bulgarian: на́борник m (nábornik)
- Chinese:
- Czech: branec (cs) m
- Dutch: dienstplichtige (nl)
- Esperanto: konskripto
- Estonian: ajateenija , kutsealune
- Finnish: asevelvollinen (fi) , varusmies (fi) , värvätty (fi)
- French: conscrit (fr) , appelé (fr)
- German: Wehrpflichtiger (de)
- Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
- Interlingua: conscripto
- Italian: coscritto (it) m, soldato di leva
- Japanese: 徴募兵 (ちょうぼへい, chōbohei)
- Korean: 징집병(徵集兵) (jingjipbyeong)
- Latvian: iesaucamais m
- Lithuanian: šauktinis m
- Luxembourgish: Zwangsrekrutéierten m
- Manx: co-screeuagh m, egintagh m
- Persian: سرباز وظیفه (sarbâz-e vazife)
- Polish: poborowy (pl) m, rekrut (pl) m, rekrutka (pl) f
- Portuguese: conscrito (pt) m, alistado (pt) m
- Romanian: recrut (ro) m
- Russian: призывни́к (ru) m (prizyvník), ре́крут (ru) m (rékrut)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: branec (sk) m
- Slovene: nabornik m
- Spanish: conscripto (es) m, recluta (es) m, colimba (es) m (River Plate), quinto (es) m, caloyo m
- Swedish: värnpliktig (sv)
- Turkish: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: призо́вник (uk) m (pryzóvnyk), призовни́к (uk) m (pryzovnýk), ре́крут m (rékrut), строкови́к m (strokovýk)
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
- Yiddish: פּריזיווניק m (prizivnik)
Adjective
[edit ]conscript (not comparable )
- Drafted into a military service or similar.
- Enrolled; written; registered.
Translations
[edit ]drafted
- Chinese:
- Dutch: dienstplichtig (nl)
- Finnish: asevelvollinen (fi) , värvätty (fi)
- German: verpflichtet (de) , einberufen (de)
- Manx: egintagh
- Polish: poborowy (pl)
- Portuguese: conscrito (pt) , alistado (pt)
- Russian: мобилизо́ванный (ru) (mobilizóvannyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: регрутиран , мобилизиран , уновачен
- Latin: regrutiran , mobiliziran , unovačen
- Slovene: naboren
- Spanish: reclutado (es) , enrolado (es) , alistado (es) , conscripto (es) m
Verb
[edit ]conscript (third-person singular simple present conscripts , present participle conscripting , simple past and past participle conscripted )
- (transitive ) To enroll compulsorily; to draft; to induct.
- 1996 March 15, Jonathan Mirsky, "Taiwan President visits islanders to bolster morale", in The Times [1] , number 65,528, →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas News, page 15, column 3:
- Other rich families are being accused of sending their sons abroad before they can be conscripted. Every Taiwanese man must spend three years in the army and another 20 in the reserves.
- 2004, David Mitchell, "Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery", in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 130:
- "[...] Isaac! You’re being conscripted." Fay Lie grabs Isaac Sach’s elbow. "You’ll remember bumping into Luisa Rey the other day?"
"I’m one lucky conscript. Hi, Luisa, again."- Here conscript is used figuratively to mean socially forcing someone to join a conversation.
Derived terms
[edit ]Related terms
[edit ]Translations
[edit ]to enroll compulsorily
- Finnish: värvätä (fi)
- Hebrew: גייס (giyés)
- Ido: en-armeigar (io) , konskriptar (io)
- Italian: arruolare (it)
- Japanese: 徴兵する
- Korean: 징병하다 (jingbyeonghada)
- Luxembourgish: zwangsrekrutéieren
- Manx: cur stiagh er egin
- Māori: māpere
- Polish: werbować (pl) impf, zwerbować (pl) pf, powoływać (pl) impf, powołać (pl) pf
- Portuguese: alistar (pt) , alistar (pt)
- Russian: мобилизова́ть (ru) (mobilizovátʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: gairm
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: мобили́зирати impf or pf
- Latin: mobilízirati (sh) impf or pf
- Slovene: vpoklicati
- Spanish: reclutar (es) , enrolar (es) , alistar (es) , conscribir
Related terms
[edit ]Etymology 2
[edit ]Etymology tree
English construct
English constructed
English con-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybh-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybheti
Proto-Italic *skreiβō
Latin scrībō
Latin scrīptum
Middle English scrit
English script
English conscript
From con- ("constructed") + script .
Noun
[edit ]conscript (plural conscripts )
- A constructed script or writing system, especially for use with a conlang or spelling reform.
- Synonym: neography
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