helmet
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]- helmette (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle English helmet, helmett, a borrowing from Old French helmet, heaumet, a diminutive of helme (Modern French heaume), equivalent to helm + -et. The Old French is itself of Germanic origin (whence Old English helm). Used in English since the 15th century, it has largely displaced helm as the general word.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]helmet (plural helmets)
- A hard, protective head covering, typically part of armour.
- Synonyms: (archaic or poetic) helm, (sometimes humorous) brain bucket
- Hyponym: hard hat
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter II, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.
- (heraldry) Such a helm when placed above a shield on a coat of arms.
- Synonym: helm
- That which resembles a helmet in form, position, etc.
- The upper part of a chemist's retort.
- Synonym: (obsolete) helm
- The hood-shaped upper sepal or petal of some flowers, as of the monkshood or the snapdragon.
- A naked shield or protuberance on the top or fore part of the head of a bird.
- The glans penis.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:glans penis
- (by extension, derogatory) A contemptible or stupid person.
- 2021 September 3, MJowen174, Twitter[1], archived from the original on 2023-01-14:
- Jarvo’s a stinky old helmet.
- The upper part of a chemist's retort.
Derived terms
[edit]- balaclava helmet
- beer helmet
- bicycle helmet
- blue helmet
- close helmet
- coal scuttle helmet
- combat helmet
- construction helmet
- Corinthian helmet
- crash helmet, crash-helmet
- flying helmet
- helmet hair
- helmet shell
- helmet snail
- helmet streamer
- horned helmet
- kettle helmet
- pit helmet
- pith helmet
- policeman's helmet
- purple helmet
- safety helmet
- space helmet
- steel pot helmet
- washbasin helmet
Related terms
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[edit]Translations
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Verb
[edit]helmet (third-person singular simple present helmets, present participle helmeting or helmetting, simple past and past participle helmeted or helmetted)
- (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a helmet.
- 1913 August 28, “English Non-Militant Suffragists in Parade”, in The Union Signal, volume XXXIX, number 35, Evanston, Ill., page 12:
- There was no nonsense about these women—no hysteria, no top-note emotion. They were not out for smashing windows or helmetting policemen, or blowing up things sky-high.
- 1917 August, Walter Adolphe Roberts, “To a Friend Fallen for France (Alan Seeger)”, in The Forum, volume LVIII, New York, N.Y.: The Forum Publishing Company […], page 210:
- COMRADE, I had done well with you to swear / Allegiance to the colors of romance / In the great days when our sweet mistress, France, / Girded her loins and helmetted her hair.
- 2014, Jandy Nelson, I’ll Give You the Sun, New York, N.Y.: Dial Books, →ISBN, page 96:
- And then they’re fleeing in a second rain of meteorites, their arms helmetting their heads, as they run away from us.
Anagrams
[edit]Cebuano
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English helmet, from Middle English helmet, helmett, a borrowing from Old French helmet, heaumet, a diminutive of helme.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: hel‧met
Noun
[edit]helmet
- a helmet; a protective head covering, usually part of armour
Verb
[edit]helmet
- to wear a helmet
Quotations
[edit]For quotations using this term, see Citations:helmet.
Finnish
[edit]Noun
[edit]helmet
- nominative plural of helmi
- necklace made of pearls or beads
Declension
[edit]Inflection of helmet (Kotus type 7/ovi, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | — | helmet | |
genitive | — | helmien | |
partitive | — | helmiä | |
illative | — | helmiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | — | helmet | |
accusative | nom. | — | helmet |
gen. | — | ||
genitive | — | helmien | |
partitive | — | helmiä | |
inessive | — | helmissä | |
elative | — | helmistä | |
illative | — | helmiin | |
adessive | — | helmillä | |
ablative | — | helmiltä | |
allative | — | helmille | |
essive | — | helminä | |
translative | — | helmiksi | |
abessive | — | helmittä | |
instructive | — | helmin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Synonyms
[edit]- (necklace): helminauha
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French helmet; equivalent to helm + -et.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]helmet
- A helmet; an armoured piece of headgear.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “helmet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-18.
Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English helmet, from Middle English helmet, helmett, a borrowing from Old French helmet, heaumet, ultimately from Germanic origin. Doublet of almete.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈhelmet/ [ˈhɛl.mɛt̪̚]
- Rhymes: -elmet
- Syllabification: hel‧met
Noun
[edit]helmet (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜎ᜔ᜋᜒᜆ᜔)
References
[edit]- “helmet”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱel- (cover)
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms suffixed with -et
- English terms derived from Germanic languages
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɛlmɪt
- Rhymes:English/ɛlmɪt/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Heraldry
- English derogatory terms
- English verbs
- English transitive verbs
- en:Armor
- en:Genitalia
- en:Headwear
- Cebuano terms borrowed from English
- Cebuano terms derived from English
- Cebuano terms derived from Middle English
- Cebuano terms derived from Old French
- Cebuano lemmas
- Cebuano nouns
- Cebuano verbs
- ceb:Headwear
- Finnish non-lemma forms
- Finnish noun forms
- Finnish ovi-type nominals
- Finnish pluralia tantum
- Middle English terms borrowed from Old French
- Middle English terms derived from Old French
- Middle English terms suffixed with -et
- Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- enm:Armor
- enm:Headwear
- Tagalog terms borrowed from English
- Tagalog terms derived from English
- Tagalog terms derived from Middle English
- Tagalog terms derived from Old French
- Tagalog terms derived from Germanic languages
- Tagalog doublets
- Tagalog 2-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/elmet
- Rhymes:Tagalog/elmet/2 syllables
- Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- tl:Armor
- tl:Headwear