usurpation

English

Etymology

From Middle English usurpacioun, from Old French usurpacion, from Latin ūsurpātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌjuːsə(ɹ)ˈpeɪʃən/, /ˌjuːzə(ɹ)ˈpeɪʃən/

Noun

usurpation (countable and uncountable, plural usurpations)

1. The wrongful seizure of something by force, especially of sovereignty or other authority.
   • a. 1627 (date written), Francis Bacon, chapter VII, in James Spedding, editor, The Works of Francis Bacon, […]: The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon […], volume IV, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, published 1858, →OCLC, page 270:

     The third part of practice hath divers branches, but one principal root in these our times, which is the vast and overspreading ambition and usurpation of the see of Rome; […]

   • 1685, John Dryden, Albion and Albanius, published 1691, Act I, scene i, page 10:

     Sent from the God's to ſet us free / From Bondage and from Uſurpation!

2. Trespass onto another's property without permission.
3. A taking or use without right.

Related terms

• usurp
• usurper

Translations

wrongful seizure

• Arabic: غَصْب m (ḡaṣb)
• Armenian: ուզուրպացիա (hy) (uzurpacʻia), յուրացում (hy) (yuracʻum)
• Azerbaijani: qəsb
• Belarusian: узурпа́цыя f (uzurpácyja)
• Bulgarian: узурпа́ция (bg) f (uzurpácija), загра́бване n (zagrábvane), присвоя́ване n (prisvojávane)
• Catalan: usurpació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 篡位 (zh) (cuànwèi)

• Czech: uzurpace f
• Danish: usurpation (da) c
• Dutch: verovering (nl) f, overweldiging (nl) f, wederrechtelijke inbezitneming, bezitsaanmatiging, toeeigening f, usurpatie (nl) f
• Estonian: usurpeerimine
• Finnish: anastus (fi), kaappaus (fi)
• French: usurpation (fr) f
• Galician: usurpación (gl) f
• Georgian: უზურპაცია (uzurṗacia)
• German: Usurpation (de) f, Anmaßung (de) f, widerrechtliche Inbesitznahme f
• Greek: αντιποίηση (el) f (antipoíisi)
• Hindi: अपहरण (hi) m (apahraṇ)
• Hungarian: bitorlás (hu)
• Icelandic: valdarán n
• Irish: anlathas m
• Italian: usurpazione f
• Japanese: 簒奪 (ja) (さんだつ, sandatsu)
• Korean: 찬탈(簒奪) (ko) (chantal)
• Latin: usurpatio f
• Latvian: uzurpācija f
• Lithuanian: uzurpacija f
• Macedonian: узурпација f (uzurpacija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: usurpasjon m

• Occitan: usurpacion (oc) f
• Persian: غَصب (fa) (ğasb)
• Polish: uzurpacja f
• Portuguese: usurpação (pt) f
• Romanian: uzurpație f, uzurpare (ro) f
• Russian: узурпа́ция (ru) f (uzurpácija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: узурпа́ција f

  Roman: uzurpácija (sh) f

• Slovak: uzurpácia f
• Slovene: uzurpacija f
• Spanish: usurpación f
• Swedish: usurpation (sv) c
• Tagalog: paggaga, angka
• Tajik: ғасб (ġasb)
• Turkish: gasp (tr)
• Ukrainian: узурпа́ція (uk) f (uzurpácija)
• Urdu: غَصْب (ġasb)
• Yiddish: אוזורפּירונג f (uzurpirung)

Further reading

• “usurpation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.zyʁ.pa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

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Noun

usurpation f (plural usurpations)

1. usurpation (wrongful seizure)
2. that which is usurped

Further reading

• “usurpation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.