hardy

See also: Hardy

English

Etymology

From Middle English hardy, hardi, from Old French hardi ‎(“hardy, daring, stout, bold”). Old French hardi is usually regarded as the past participle of hardir ("to harden, be bold, make bold"; compare Occitan ardir, Italian ardire), from Frankish *hardijan; but it may also have come directly from Frankish *hardi, a secondary form of Frankish *hard (compare Old High German harti, herti, secondary forms of Old High German hart ‎(“hard”)); or even yet from Frankish *hardig (compare Middle Low German herdich ‎(“persevering”), Old Danish hærdig, Norwegian herdig, Swedish härdig ‎(“vigorous, courageous”)). Cognate with hard. May have at some point also been surface analysed as hard + -y.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑɹdi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑːdi/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)di

Adjective

hardy ‎(comparative hardier, superlative hardiest)

1. Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships. A hardy plant is one that can withstand the extremes of climate, such as frost.

Synonyms

• robust
• rugged
• strong

Derived terms

• cold hardy

Translations

inured to fatigue or hardships

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 頑強 (zh), 顽强 (zh) ‎(wánqiáng), 耐寒 (zh) ‎(nàihán) (cold-proof)

• Czech: otužilý, odolný
• Danish: hårdfør, modstandsdygtig
• Finnish: kylmänkestävä, sitkeä (fi)
• French: robuste (fr), rustique (fr) (of a plant)
• German: abgehärtet (de), widerstandsfähig (de)

• Icelandic: herkinn
• Irish: cróga, crógach, cróganta, cruadhéanta
• Italian: resistente (it), robusto (it)
• Japanese: 頑丈な ‎(がんじょうな, ganjō na), 頑強な (ja) ‎(がんきょうな, gankyō na)
• Russian: выно́сливый (ru) ‎(vynóslivyj), сто́йкий (ru) ‎(stójkij), морозоусто́йчивый (ru) ‎(morozoustójčivyj) (cold-proof), закалённый (ru) ‎(zakaljónnyj) (seasoned)
• Scottish Gaelic: tapaidh, fulangach

Noun

hardy ‎(plural hardies)

1. (chiefly plural) Anything, especially a plant, that is hardy.
   • 2009 June 1, David Carr, “Cast Out, but Still Reporting”, in New York Times^[1]:

     Across the country, various bands of journalistic hardies —— newsroom pros whose services are no longer salient to a crippled and disrupted information economy —— have taken matters into their own hands.

2. A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Anagrams

• hydra, Hydra

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Middle French

Etymology

Old French hardi.

Adjective

hardy m ‎(feminine singular hardye, masculine plural hardys, feminine plural hardyes)

1. hardy (having rugged physical strength)

Descendants

• French: hardi