assistant
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- assistaunt (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle French assistant, from assister.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]assistant (not comparable) (attributive)
- Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
- an assistant surgeon
- Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
- 1790, James Beattie, Elements of Moral Science:
- Genius and learning […] are mutually and greatly assistant to each other.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
- The person principally assistant on this occasion, indeed the only one who did any service, or seemed likely to do any, was the landlady […]
Translations
[edit]having a subordinate or auxiliary position
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Noun
[edit]assistant (plural assistants)
- (obsolete) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- a woman of great authority, having first yeelded an accompt unto her Citizens, and shewed good reasons why she was resolved to end her life, earnestly entreated Pompey to be an assistant at her death, that so it might be esteemed more honourable […].
- A person who assists or helps someone else.
- (British) Sales assistant.
- A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program.
- Synonym: wizard
Translations
[edit]person who assists
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an auxiliary software tool — see wizard
Derived terms
[edit]- assistantly
- assistant-manage
- assistant manager
- assistant professor
- assistant referee
- assistantship
- assistant stage manager
- butler's assistant
- education assistant
- lab assistant
- laboratory assistant
- language assistant
- legal assistant
- library assistant
- personal assistant
- personal digital assistant
- physician assistant
- referee assistant
- research assistant
- shop assistant
- teaching assistant
- underassistant
- video assistant referee
- virtual assistant
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[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Participle
[edit]assistant
Noun
[edit]assistant m (plural assistants, feminine assistante)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Turkish: asistan
Further reading
[edit]- “assistant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]assistant
Middle French
[edit]Verb
[edit]assistant (feminine singular assistante, masculine plural assistans, feminine plural assistantes)
Noun
[edit]assistant m (plural assistans)
- assistant (person who is present)
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English assistant.
Noun
[edit]assistant m (plural assistants, feminine assistante)
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