Danger

Table of contents

1 Etymology 2 Noun 2.1 Translations 2.2 Derived expressions 2.3 Synonyms 3 Transitive verb 3.1 Translations

Etymology

Old English danger, daunger , power, arrogance, refusal, difficulty, from Old French dagier , dongier (with same meaning), French danger danger, from an assumed Late Latin dominiarium power, authority, from Latin dominium power, property. See dungeon, domain, dame

Noun

danger

1. (Obsolete): Authority; jurisdiction; control

   Quotations

   • In danger had he . . . the young girls. - Chaucer

2. (Obsolete): Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty. See In one's danger, below.

   Quotations

   • You stand within his danger, do you not? Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, IV-i
   • Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in danger of this statute. - Robynson (More's Utopia) .

3. Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.
4. (Obsolete): Difficulty; sparingness. - Chaucer
5. (Obsolete): Coyness; disdainful behavior. - Chaucer

Translations

• Danish: fare
• Dutch: gevaar n (3)
• Finnish: vaara (3), uhka (3)
• French: danger m (3)
• German: Gefahr f (3)
• Ido: danjero
• Lithuanian: pavojus m (3)
• Spanish: peligro m (3)
• Swedish: fara c (3)

Derived expressions

• In one's danger, (Obsolete): in one's power; liable to a penalty to be inflicted by him. This sense is retained in the proverb, Out of debt out of danger."

  Quotations

  • Those rich man in whose debt and danger they be not. - Robynson (More's Utopia)

• To do danger, (Obsolete): to cause danger. - Shakespeare

Synonyms

• Peril; hazard; risk; jeopardy
• Danger is the generic term, and implies some contingent evil in prospect.
• Peril is instant or impending danger; as, in peril of one's life.
• Hazard arises from something fortuitous or beyond our control; as, the hazard of the seas.
• Risk is doubtful or uncertain danger, often incurred voluntarily; as, to risk an engagement.
• Jeopardy is extreme danger.
• Danger of a contagious disease; the perils of shipwreck; the hazards of speculation; the risk of daring enterprises; a life brought into jeopardy.

Transitive verb

to danger

1. (Obsolete): To endanger. - Shakespeare

Translations

• Dutch: in gevaar brengen
• German: gefährden