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Definition: PERTAINED |
PERTAINEDImperative & past participle1. Of Pertain |
Date "PERTAINED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Crosswords: PERTAINED |
| Specialty definitions using "PERTAINED": Morrill Act of 1862 ♦ Ziklag. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "PERTAINED": Pertain. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The bulk of importation pertained to tractors, incubators, irrigation system equipment and grain cleaner machines. (references) | |
Human Rights | Spain | The majority of the complaints pertained to education and social services, although some dealt with discrimination, domestic violence, and mistreatment by law enforcement agencies. (references) |
Turkey | During the year, the Government lost 154 cases to which it was a party, most of which pertained to dispossession of property (from villages in the southeast), due process, torture, deaths, and past disappearances. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PERTAINED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "PERTAINED" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 88.89% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 11.11% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "PERTAINED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 附属 (Adjunct, Affiliated, Pertain, Pertaining, subordination). (various references) | ||||
German | gehörte (appertained, belonged), betraf (concerned). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 적절하는. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ertainedpay | ||||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Chronicles Chapter 12, Verse 4 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai katekrathsan twn polewn twn ocurwn ai hsan en iouda kai hlqen eiV ierousalhm |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Cepitque civitates munitissimas in Iuda et venit usque Hierusalem |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he tok the most strengthed cytees in Juda, and came vnto Jerusalem. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he took the walled towns of Judah, and came as far as Jerusalem. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 2 Chronicles Chapter 12, Verse 4 |
| Cebuano | Ug nakuha niya ang mga kinutaang ciudad nga sakup sa Juda ug miadto sa Jerusalem. |
| Chinese | 他 攻 取 了 猶 大 的 堅 固 城 、 就 來 到 耶 路 撒 冷 。 |
| Croatian | Osvojivši tvrde judejske gradove, dopro je do Jeruzalema. |
| Danish | og efter at have indtaget Fæstningerne i Juda drog han mod Jerusalem. |
| Dutch | En hij nam de vaste steden in, die Juda had, en hij kwam tot Jeruzalem toe. |
| Finnish | Ja hän valloitti Juudan varustetut kaupungit ja tuli aina Jerusalemiin saakka. |
| French | Il prit les villes fortes qui appartenaient à Juda, et arriva jusqu`à Jérusalem. |
| German | Und er gewann die festen Städte, die in Juda waren, und kam bis gen Jerusalem. |
| Haitian Creole | Li pran tout lavil ak gwo ranpa peyi Jida yo, jouk li rive lavil Jerizalèm. |
| Hungarian | És elfoglalá Júdának erõs városait, azután méne Jeruzsálem alá. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ia merebut kota-kota berbenteng di Yehuda lalu maju sampai ke Yerusalem. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka dialahkannya segala negeri yang berkota benteng di tanah Yehuda, lalu sampailah ia ke Yeruzalem. |
| Italian | Egli prese le fortezze di Giuda e giunse fino a Gerusalemme. |
| Maori | Na kua riro i a ia nga pa taiepa o Hura, a ka tae ki Hiruharama. |
| Norwegian | Han inntok de faste byer i Juda og kom like til Jerusalem. |
| Portuguese | E tomou as cidades fortificadas de Judá, e chegou até Jerusalém. |
| Rumanian | A luat cetqyile kntqrite ale lui Iuda, wi a ajuns pknq la Ierusalim. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "PERTAINED": appertained. (additional references) | |
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"PERTAINED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: patarine, pectinid, Periander, pertaine, Petriana, prestained. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PERTAINED" (pronounced pertā"nd) |
| 5 | -er t ā" n d | ascertained, entertained. |
| 4 | -t ā" n d | abstained, attained, contained, detained, maintained, obtained, retained, stained, sustained, unstained. |
| 3 | -ā" n d | arraigned, brained, campaigned, caned, chained, complained, constrained, craned, disdained, drained, explained, feigned, gained, grained, ingrained, maned, ordained, pained, planed, preordained, rained, refrained, regained, reigned, reined, remained, restrained, retrained, sprained, strained, trained, unconstrained, unexplained, unrestrained, untrained, waned. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: repainted. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-n-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: aperient, detainer, dipteran, parented, retained. | |
-2 letters: adepter, antired, arenite, depaint, detrain, diptera, painted, painter, pardine, partied, patined, peatier, perinea, pertain, pirated, predate, preedit, pretend, printed, repaint, repined, retaped, retinae, ripened, tapered, trained, trainee. | |
-3 letters: aedine, aeried, airted, anteed, ardent, arpent, dearie, denari, denier, depart, derate, detain, diaper, dieter, dipnet, earned, endear, endite, enrapt. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-n-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: interplead, pedantries, pedestrian, pretrained. | |
+2 letters: appertained, apprenticed, deprecating, deprecation, depredating, depredation, desperation, impregnated, interlapped, interplayed, interpleads, interspaced, pedestrians, predicament, predominate, reappointed, reimplanted. | |
+3 letters: deprecations, depreciating, depreciation, depredations, desperations, deuteranopia, deuteranopic, endoparasite, impersonated, interplanted, interpleaded, interpleader, interpolated, lepidopteran, meanspirited, peregrinated, precautioned, predesignate, predestinate, predicaments, predominated, predominates, prenominated, presidential, transpierced. | |
+4 letters: decrepitating, decrepitation, deprecatingly, depreciations, deuteranopias, disparagement, disparateness, endoparasites, equiponderant, expeditionary, hyperinflated, intercompared, interpandemic, interpellated, interpleaders, interpleading, lepidopterans, parenthesized, pedestrianism, predesignated, predesignates, predestinated, predestinates, predestinator, predominately, premeditating, premeditation, preordainment, presanctified, reapportioned, repartitioned, repristinated, stipendiaries, superordinate, unappreciated, unpasteurized, unpredictable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 45 52 54 41 49 4E 45 44 |
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