assistant

adjectivenouncommon in dialogue

//əˈsɪstənt//

Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.

adjective

1
Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
an assistant surgeon
2
Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
Genius and learning […] are mutually and greatly assistant to each other.
The person principally assistant on this occasion, indeed the only one who did any service, or seemed likely to do any, was the landlady […]

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti Proto-Italic *sistō Latin sistō Latin assistōbor. 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.

noun

1
obsoleteSomeone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
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
Sales assistant.
4
A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program.

Forms

plural: assistants

assignment · The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of…assist · To help.assistance · Aid; help; the act or result of assisting.

assistant · Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.

assisting · assistance; help given associate · Joined with another or others and having lower status.Associate · An associate's degree.

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