# alert
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈlɜːt/
* (General American) enPR: ə-lûrtʹ, IPA: /əˈlɝt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
* Hyphenation: a‧lert

### Etymology 1

From French alerte (“alert”), from the phrase à l’erte (“on the watch”), from Italian all'erta (“to the height”), from erta (“lookout, tower”).

#### Adjective

alert (comparative more alert, superlative most alert)
* Attentive; awake; on guard.
* (obsolete) brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
** 1712 June 23 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “THURSDAY, June 12, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 408; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:I saw an alert young fellow that cocked his hat upon a friend of his who entered just at the same time with myselfThe spelling has been modernized.

##### Derived terms

* alertless
* alertly
* alertness
* hyperalert
* overalert
* superalert
* unalert

##### Translations
#### Noun

alert (plural alerts)
* An alarm.
* A notification of higher importance than an advisory.
* (military) A state of readiness for potential combat.
    an airborne alert; ground alert
* (computing) Synonym of bell (“bell character”).

##### Derived terms

* alert fatigue
* alert five
* amber alert
* drink alert
* e-alert
* medical alert jewelry
* on alert
* on the alert
* red alert
* silver alert
* spew alert
* spoiler alert

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Formed within English by conversion, from alert (adj). Compare French alerter.

#### Verb

alert (third-person singular simple present alerts, present participle alerting, simple past and past participle alerted)
* To give warning to.

##### Derived terms

* alertable

##### Translations
### References

* ↑ "alert, adj. and n.", OED Online, revised Sep. 2012 for Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed.. Oxford University Press.
* ↑ "alert, v.", OED Online, revised Sep. 2012 for Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed.. Oxford University Press.

### Anagrams

* alter, alter-, altre, artel, later, ratel, taler, telar

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French alerte.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aːˈlɛrt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: alert
* Rhymes: -ɛrt

### Adjective

alert (comparative alerter, superlative alertst)
* alert

#### Derived terms

* alertheid

#### Descendants

* Negerhollands: allert

### Anagrams

* later, ratel

## German
### Etymology

Borrowed from French alerte.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [aˈlɛʁt]
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

alert (strong nominative masculine singular alerter, comparative alerter, superlative am alertesten)
* alert

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “alert” in Duden online
* “alert” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French alerte or English alert, from Italian all'erta. First attested in the second half of the 20th century.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.lɛrt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -alɛrt
* Syllabification: a‧lert

### Noun

alert m inan
* alert (device used to alarm people)
    Synonym: alarm
    antyterrorystyczny alert ― a terrorist alert
* alert (sound used to alarm people)
    Synonym: alarm
* alert (state of being alerted)
    pomarańczowy alert ― orange alert
    czerwony alert ― red alert
    alert ekologiczny ― an ecological alert
    ogłaszać/ogłosić alert ― to declare alert
    alert obowiązuje ― alert holds form/applies to
* (military) alert (state of readiness for potential combat)
* (technology) alert
    Synonym: powiadomienie

#### Derived terms

* alertowy

### References

* ↑ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “alert”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
* 1 2 Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “alert”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)

### Further reading

* alert in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* alert in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French alerte.

### Adjective

alert m or n (feminine singular alertă, masculine plural alerți, feminine and neuter plural alerte)
* wide-awake

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French alerte, from Italian all'erta (“on guard”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈlæʈ/
* Rhymes: -æʈː

### Adjective

alert (comparative alertare, superlative alertast)
* alert

#### Declension

$^1$ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. $^2$ Dated or archaic. $^3$ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

### Further reading

* alert in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker

### Anagrams

* artel, later, letar, realt