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English

Alternative forms

  • assistaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-redup.
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti
Proto-Italic *sistō
Latin sistō
Latin assistōlbor.
Middle French assister
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Latin -ns
Latin -āns
Old French -ant
Middle French -ant
Middle French assistantbor.
Middle English assistent
English assistant

    From Middle English assistent, from Middle French assistant, from assister. By surface analysis, assist +‎ -ant.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /əˈsɪstənt/[1]
    • Audio (US):(file)
    • Hyphenation: as‧sis‧tant

    Adjective

    assistant (not comparable) (attributive)

    1. Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
      an assistant surgeon
    2. 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, volume (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

    having a subordinate or auxiliary position
    • Bulgarian: спомага́телен (bg) (spomagátelen)
    • Catalan: auxiliar (ca)
    • Finnish: apu-, vara-, avustava (fi), apulais-
    • Georgian: დამხმარე (damxmare)
    • German: helfend (de), hilfreich (de)
    • Greek: βοηθητικός (el) m (voïthitikós)
      Ancient Greek: συνεργός m (sunergós)
    • Hungarian: helyettes (hu), segéd (hu)
    • Icelandic: aðstoðar- (is)
    • Korean: 보조 (ko) (bojo), 시다 (ko) (sida)
    • Kurdish:
      Northern Kurdish: asîstan (ku)
    • Ladino:
      Latin: ayudador m
    • Marathi: सहाय्यक (sahāyyak)
    • Norwegian:
      Bokmål: assisterende
    • Polish: asystencki (pl)
    • Portuguese: assistente (pt)
    • Romanian: asistent (ro)
    • Russian: вспомога́тельный (ru) (vspomogátelʹnyj)
    • Spanish: asistente (es), ayudante (es)
    • Swahili: naibu (sw)
    • Swedish: (please verify) assisterande (sv) (1, 2), (please verify) stödjande (sv) (2), (please verify) hjälpande (sv) (2)
    • Turkish: asistan (tr)

    Noun

    assistant (plural assistants)

    1. (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 […].
    2. A person who assists or helps someone else.
    3. (UK) Sales assistant.
    4. A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program.
      Synonym: wizard

    Translations

    person who assists — see also helper,‎ monosabio
    • Albanian: asistent (sq) m, asistente (sq) f, ndihmës (sq) m, ndihmëtar (sq) m
    • Amharic: ረዳት (rädat)
    • Arabic: مُسَاعِد (ar) m (musāʕid), مُسَاعِدَة f (musāʕida), مُعَاوِن (ar) m (muʕāwin), مُعَاوِنَة f (muʕāwina)
    • Armenian: օգնական (hy) (ōgnakan)
    • Asturian: asistente m or f
    • Azerbaijani: köməkçi (az), yardımçı
    • Bashkir: ярҙамсы (yarðamsï)
    • Belarusian: памо́чнік m (pamóčnik), памо́чніца f (pamóčnica), асістэ́нт m (asistént), асістэ́нтка f (asisténtka)
    • Bengali: সহায়ক (bn) (śohaẏok)
    • Bulgarian: помо́щник (bg) m (pomóštnik), помо́щничка f (pomóštnička), помо́щница f (pomóštnica), асисте́нт (bg) m (asistént), асисте́нтка f (asisténtka)
    • Burmese: အကူ (my) (a.ku)
    • Catalan: assistent (ca) m, assistenta (ca) f
    • Cebuano: kabulig
    • Chinese:
      Cantonese: 助理 (zo6 lei5), 助手 (yue) (zo6 sau2), 副手 (fu3 sau2)
      Hokkien: 助理 (zh-min-nan) (chō͘-lí), 助手 (chō͘-chhiú)
      Mandarin: 助理 (zh) (zhùlǐ), 助手 (zh) (zhùshǒu), 副手 (zh) (fùshǒu)
    • Czech: asistent (cs) m, asistentka (cs) f, pomocník (cs) m, pomocnice (cs) f
    • Danish: assistent, hjælper (da), medhjælper
    • Dutch: assistent (nl) m, assistente (nl) f
    • Egyptian:
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      (ẖrj-ꜥ)
    • Esperanto: asistanto
    • Estonian: abiline (et), asetäitja, assistent
    • Finnish: assistentti (fi), apulainen (fi), avustaja (fi)
    • French: assistant (fr) m, aide (fr) f, auxiliaire (fr) m or f
      Middle French: assistant m
    • Galician: asistente m
    • Georgian: ასისტენტი (asisṭenṭi)
    • German: Assistent (de) m, Mitarbeiter (de) m, Helfer (de) m, Gehilfe (de) m
    • Greek: βοηθός (el) m or f (voïthós)
      Ancient Greek: βοηθός m (boēthós), ὑπουργός m (hupourgós)
    • Hebrew: עוֹזֵר m (ozér)
    • Hindi: सहायक (hi) m (sahāyak), मददगार (hi) m (madadgār)
    • Hungarian: asszisztens (hu), segéd (hu)
    • Icelandic: aðstoðarmaður m
    • Ido: helpanto (io), helpero (io)
    • Indonesian: pembantu (id)
    • Irish: cúntóir
    • Italian: assistente (it) m or f
    • Japanese: 助手 (ja) (じょしゅ, joshu), 手伝い (ja) (てつだい. tetsudai), アシスタント (ja) (ashisutanto)
    • Karelian: abuniekka
    • Kazakh: көмекші (kömekši), ассистент (assıystent)
    • Khmer: អ្នកជំនួយ (nĕək cumnuəy), ភូឈួយ (km) (phuu chuəy)
    • Korean: 조수(助手) (ko) (josu), 도우미 (doumi)
    • Kurdish:
      Central Kurdish: شاگرد (şagrid)
      Northern Kurdish: arîkar (ku), alîkar (ku)
    • Kyrgyz: жардамчы (ky) (jardamcı), ассистент (ky) (assistent)
    • Lao: ຜູ້ຊ່ວຍ (phū suāi), ຜູ້ຮອງ (phū hǭng)
    • Latin: adiūtor (la) m, adiūtrix f; optiō m, administer m
    • Latvian: asistents m, asistente f, palīgs m, palīdze f
    • Lithuanian: asistentas m, asistentė f, padėjėjas m, padėjėja f
    • Livvi: abuniekku
    • Macedonian: помагач m (pomagač), помагачка f (pomagačka), помошник m (pomošnik), помошничка f (pomošnička), асистент m (asistent), асистентка f (asistentka)
    • Malay: pembantu (ms)
    • Maltese: please add this translation if you can
    • Māori: taituarā, kaiāwhina, uruora, piki
    • Marathi: सहाय्यक m (sahāyyak)
    • Middle English: servaunt
    • Mongolian:
      Cyrillic: туслагч (mn) (tuslagč)
    • Norman: assistant m
    • Norwegian:
      Bokmål: assistent (no) m, medhjelper m
      Nynorsk: assistent m, medhjelpar m
    • Persian:
      Iranian Persian: دَسْتْیار (dastyâr), آسیسْتان (âsistân), یاوَر (yâvar)
    • Polish: asystent (pl) m or f, asystentka (pl) f, pomocnik (pl) m, pomocnica (pl) f
    • Portuguese: assistente (pt) m or f, ajudante (pt) m or f
    • Romanian: asistent (ro) m, asistentă (ro) f, ajutor (ro) m, ajutoare (ro) f
    • Russian: ассисте́нт (ru) m (assistént), ассисте́нтка (ru) f (assisténtka), помо́щник (ru) m (pomóščnik), помо́щница (ru) f (pomóščnica)
    • Scottish Gaelic: cuidiche
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: помо̀ћнӣк m, асѝстент m
      Latin: pomòćnīk m, asìstent (sh) m
    • Slovak: pomocník m, pomocníca f, asistent m, asistentka f
    • Slovene: pomočnik m, pomočnica f
    • Spanish: asistente (es) m or f
    • Swahili: msaidizi (sw)
    • Swedish: assistent (sv), medhjälpare (sv) c
    • Tajik: ёрдамчӣ (yordamči), дастёр (dastyor), ёвар (yovar), ассистент (assistent)
    • Tatar: ярдәмче (tt) (yärdämçe)
    • Thai: ผู้ช่วย (th) (pûu-chûai)
    • Turkish: yardımcı (tr), asistan (tr), muavin (tr)
      Ottoman Turkish: یاردمجی (yardımcı), امدادجی (imdâdcı), ناصر (nâsır)
    • Turkmen: kömekçi
    • Ukrainian: помічни́к m (pomičnýk), помічни́ця f (pomičnýcja), асисте́нт (uk) m (asystént), асисте́нтка (uk) f (asysténtka)
    • Urdu: مَدَدْگار m (madadgār), سَہایَک m (sahāyak), یاوَر (ur) m (yāvar)
    • Uyghur: ياردەمچى (yardemchi)
    • Uzbek: yordamchi (uz), assistent (uz)
    • Vietnamese: phó thủ, người phụ việc
    • Volapük: yufan (vo)
    an auxiliary software tool — see wizard

    Derived terms

    • assistant chief constable
    • assistant field cornet
    • assistantly
    • assistant-manage
    • assistant manager
    • assistant professor
    • assistant referee
    • assistantship
    • assistant stage manager
    • butler's assistant
    • certified nursing assistant
    • education assistant
    • lab assistant
    • laboratory assistant
    • language assistant
    • legal assistant
    • library assistant
    • nurse assistant, nurse's assistant, nurse-assistant, nurses' assistant
    • nursing assistant
    • personal assistant
    • personal digital assistant
    • physician assistant
    • physician's assistant, physician-assistant, physicians' assistant
    • referee assistant
    • research assistant
    • shop assistant
    • teacher's assistant
    • teaching assistant
    • underassistant
    • video assistant referee
    • virtual assistant
    • voice assistant

    Related terms

    • assist
    • assistance

    References

    1. ^ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assistant

    Anagrams

    • Satanists, satanists, stanitsas

    French

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /a.sis.tɑ̃/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Audio (France (Toulouse)):(file)
    • Audio (France (Vosges)):(file)
    • Audio (France):(file)
    • Audio (France (Vosges)):(file)

    Participle

    assistant

    1. present participle of assister

    Noun

    assistant m (plural assistants, feminine assistante)

    1. assistant

    Derived terms

    • assistant numérique personnel

    Descendants

    • → Turkish: asistan

    Further reading

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

    Latin

    Verb

    assistant

    1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of assistō

    Middle French

      Verb

      assistant (feminine singular assistante, masculine plural assistans, feminine plural assistantes)

      1. present participle of assister
      2. (may be preceded by en, invariable) gerund of assister

      Noun

      assistant m (plural assistans)

      1. assistant (person who is present)

      Norman

      Etymology

      Borrowed from English assistant.

      Noun

      assistant m (plural assistants, feminine assistante)

      1. (Jersey) assistant
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