alert

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈlɜːt/
• (General American) enPR: ə-lûrtʹ, IPA^(key): /əˈlɝt/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
• Hyphenation: a‧lert

From French alerte (“alert”), from the phrase à l'erte (“on the watch”), from Italian all'erta (“to the height”), from erta (“lookout, tower”).[1]

alert (comparative more alert, superlative most alert)

1. Attentive; awake; on guard.
2. (obsolete) brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
   • 1712 June 23 (Gregorian calendar)​, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele [et al.], “THURSDAY, June 12, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 408; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:

     I saw an alert young fellow that cocked his hat upon a friend of his who entered just at the same time with myself

alert (plural alerts)

1. An alarm.
2. A notification of higher importance than an advisory.
3. (military) A state of readiness for potential combat.

   an airborne alert; ground alert

Formed within English by conversion, from alert (adj). Compare French alerter.[2]

alert (third-person singular simple present alerts, present participle alerting, simple past and past participle alerted)

1. To give warning to.

• alter, alter-, altre, artel, later, ratel, taler, telar

Borrowed from French alerte.

• IPA^(key): /aːˈlɛrt/

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• Hyphenation: alert
• Rhymes: -ɛrt

alert (comparative alerter, superlative alertst)

1. alert

• alertheid

• Negerhollands: allert

• later, ratel

Borrowed from French alerte.

• IPA^(key): [aˈlɛʁt]

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alert (strong nominative masculine singular alerter, comparative alerter, superlative am alertesten)

1. alert

• “alert” in Duden online
• “alert” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Borrowed from French alerte or English alert, from Italian all'erta.[1][2] First attested in the second half of the 20th century.[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.lɛrt/

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• Rhymes: -alɛrt
• Syllabification: a‧lert

alert m inan

1. alert (device used to alarm people)

   Synonym: alarm

   antyterrorystyczny alert ― a terrorist alert

2. alert (sound used to alarm people)

   Synonym: alarm

3. alert (state of being alerted)

   pomarańczowy alert ― orange alert

   czerwony alert ― red alert

   alert ekologiczny ― an ecological alert

   ogłaszać/ogłosić alert ― to declare alert

   alert obowiązuje ― alert holds form/applies to

4. (military) alert (state of readiness for potential combat)
5. (technology) alert

   Synonym: powiadomienie

• Pęzik, Piotr; Przepiórkowski, A.; Bańko, M.; Górski, R.; Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B (2012) Wyszukiwarka PELCRA dla danych NKJP. Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego [National Polish Language Corpus, PELCRA search engine]‎, Wydawnictwo PWN

• alert in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• alert in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From French alerte.

alert m or n (feminine singular alertă, masculine plural alerți, feminine and neuter plural alerte)

1. wide-awake

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• IPA^(key): /aˈlæʈ/
• Rhymes: -æʈː

alert (comparative alertare, superlative alertast)

1. alert

• artel, later, letar, realt