oath
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English ooth, oth, ath, from Old English āþ, from Proto-West Germanic *aiþ, from Proto-Germanic *aiþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óytos.
Pronunciation Nounoath (plural oaths)
- A solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
- take an oath
- swear an oath
- break one's oath
- A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge.
- After taking the oath of office, she became the country's forty-third premier.
- The generals swore an oath of loyalty to the country.
- A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
- A curse, a curse word.
- 1981, Bernard Asbell, The Senate Nobody Knows:
- The farther from the Senator's office, the darker and older the furniture, the freer fly four-letter oaths, the higher the heaps of unfiled and unattended papers culminating in a frenzy of pulp in the press section […]
- affirmation, solemn affirmation
- bloody oath (Australian slang)
- fucking oath (Australian slang)
- statutory declaration
- French: serment
- German: Eid, Schwur
- Italian: giuramento
- Portuguese: juramento, jura, promessa
- Russian: прися́га
- Spanish: juramento
- German: Eid
- Italian: giuramento
- Portuguese: juramento
- Russian: кля́тва
- French: juron
- German: Fluch
- Italian: bestemmia
- Portuguese: palavrão
- Russian: прокля́тие
oath (oaths, present participle oathing; simple past and past participle oathed)
- (archaic) To pledge.
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