robbery
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *Hrew-? Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp-der. Proto-Germanic *raubōną Frankish *raubōnbor. Late Latin raubāre Old French rober Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Old French -ie Old French roberiebor. Middle English robberie English robbery From Middle English robberie, robry, roberie, from Old French roberie, from the verb rober (“to steal; to pillage”) + -ie. Ultimately from unattested Frankish *raubōn. By surface analysis, rob + -ery. Compare Dutch roverij (“robbery”), Norwegian Bokmål røveri (“robbery”), German Räuberei (“robbery, banditry”). Displaced native Old English rēaflāc.
Definitions
The act or practice of robbing.
The offense of taking or attempting to take the property of another by force or threat of…
The offense of taking or attempting to take the property of another by force or threat of force.
- bank robbery
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at robbery. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at robbery. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at robbery
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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