arrest

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English arest (noun) and aresten (verb), from Old French areste (noun) and arester (“to stay, stop”, verb), from Vulgar Latin *arrestō, from Latin ad- (“to”) + restō (“to stop, remain behind, stay back”), from re- (“back”) + stō (“to stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”), equivalent to ad- +‎ rest. Compare French arrêter (“to stop”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /əˈɹɛst/ Hyphenation: ar‧rest Rhymes: -ɛst === Noun === arrest (countable and uncountable, plural arrests) A check; a stop; an act or instance of arresting something. (Can we add an example for this sense?) The condition of being stopped, standstill. (law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest. (Can we add an example for this sense?) A device to physically arrest motion. (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators. (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise. (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === arrest (third-person singular simple present arrests, present participle arresting, simple past and past participle arrested) (obsolete, transitive) To stop the motion of (a person, animal, or body part). [14th–19th c.] (obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain. [14th–16th c.] (transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.). [from 14th c.] 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …Western reason had entered the age of judgement. (transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody. [from 14th c.] (transitive) To catch the attention of. [from 19th c.] 1919: P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves: There is something about this picture—something bold and vigorous, which arrests the attention. I feel sure it would be highly popular. (intransitive, medicine) To undergo cardiac arrest. ==== Synonyms ==== (to stop the motion of): freeze, halt; See also Thesaurus:immobilize (to stay): (to stop or slow a process): cease, discontinue; See also Thesaurus:desist (to seize someone): apprehend, seize; See also Thesaurus:capture (to catch the attention of): attract, dazzle, engage, entice; See also Thesaurus:allure ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== arrestation ==== Translations ==== === References === === Anagrams === Arters, arrêts, rarest, raster, raters, retars, starer, starre, tarres, terras == Catalan == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [əˈrest] IPA(key): (Valencia) [aˈrest] === Noun === arrest m (plural arrests or arrestos) arrest ==== Derived terms ==== ordre d'arrest === Further reading === “arrest”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007 “arrest”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026 “arrest” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. “arrest” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. == Danish == === Etymology === Via German Arrest from Middle French arrest (“arrest”) (French arrêt), derived from the verb arrester (“to hold back, arrest”) (arrêter), borrowed to Danish arrestere. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [aˈʁasd̥], [aˈʁɑsd̥] === Noun === arrest c (singular definite arresten, plural indefinite arrester) arrest (the process of holding back a suspect) confinement, detention (a short-time prison) ==== Declension ==== == Dutch == === Etymology === From Middle Dutch arrest, from Old French arest. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɑˈrɛst/ Hyphenation: ar‧rest Rhymes: -ɛst === Noun === arrest n (plural arresten, diminutive arrestje n) (law) sentence passed by a higher court (law) confiscation ordered by a legal ruling (law, historical) detention, confinement, especially after being arrested ==== Derived terms ==== huisarrest kamerarrest stadsarrest ==== Descendants ==== → Indonesian: ares Negerhollands: arrest === Anagrams === raster, terras == Maltese == === Etymology === Borrowed from Italian arresto. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /arˈrɛst/ Rhymes: -ɛst === Noun === arrest m (plural arresti) arrest, detention ==== Related terms ==== == Norwegian Bokmål == === Etymology === From Old French arester. === Noun === arrest m (definite singular arresten, indefinite plural arrester, definite plural arrestene) arrest, custody, detention ==== Derived terms ==== husarrest politiarrest ==== Related terms ==== arrestasjon arrestere === References === “arrest” in The Bokmål Dictionary. == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Etymology === From Old French arester. === Noun === arrest m (definite singular arresten, indefinite plural arrestar, definite plural arrestane) arrest, custody, detention ==== Derived terms ==== husarrest politiarrest ==== Related terms ==== arrestasjon arrestere === References === “arrest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. == Swedish == === Noun === arrest c a location with holding cells or the like for temporarily detaining people (usually at a police station) Synonym: (slang) kurra arrest, custody, detention ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== arrestera ==== See also ==== häkte === References === arrest in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL) arrest in Svensk ordbok (SO) arrest in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) === Anagrams === arters, estrar, raster, tsarer