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wield

verbenomattesté dans les dialogues

  • //wiːld//

To handle with skill and ease, especially a weapon or tool.

verbe

  1. 1

    To handle with skill and ease, especially a weapon or tool.

  2. 2

    To exercise (authority or influence) effectively.

    The question isn't whether AI will reshape human society—it's whether its engineers will wield that power thoughtfully.

  3. 3

    obsolèteTo command, rule over; to possess or own.

    There was never kyng sauff myselff that welded evir such knyghtes. There was never a king other than myself who ever commanded such knights.

  4. 4

    obsolèteTo control, to guide or manage.

    With such his chearefull speaches he doth wield / Her mind so well, that to his will she bends[…].

  5. 5

    obsolèteTo carry out, to bring about.

    All is weill done, God wate, weild he hys will.

Étymologie

From Middle English welden, from the merger of Old English wealdan (“to control, rule”) (strong class 7) and Old English wieldan (“to control, subdue”) (weak). Both verbs derive from Proto-West Germanic *waldan and *waldijan, respectively; and are ultimately from Proto-Germanic *waldaną (“to rule”). The reason for the merger was that in Middle English the -d in the stem made it hard to distinguish between strong and weak forms in the past tense.

nom

  1. 1

    Rule, command; power, control, wielding.

    What boots it if I beat the heathen home, And fold the mountains in my wield, and fire […]

    […] telling him of the treasures concealed in the cave, of the mysterious ring and tarnhelmet, possessing which he can hold the wield of the world.

    All wealth in my wield is, I know by my wit […]

    “Trust me, I will make them listen,” he hissed and for the first time, he used his wield fallaciously, because instead of giving life, he absorbed it from the tree.

Étymologie

From Middle English welde, from Old English *wield, ġewield (“power, control, dominion”), from Proto-West Germanic *waldi, from Proto-Germanic *waldiz (“power, might, control”).

Formes

pluriel
wields
passé
wielded
participe passé
wielded
participe présent
wielding
3ᵉ personne du singulier
wields
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).