Martinet

Definition: Martinet

Martinet

Noun

1. Someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms.

Date "martinet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Martinet

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Martinet A strict disciplinarian; so called from the Marquis of Martinet, a young colonel in the reign of Louis XIV., who remodelled the infantry, and was slain at the siege of Doesbourg, in 1672 (Voltaire, Louis XIV., c. 10). The French still call a cat-o'-nine-tails a "martinet." The French martinet was a whip with twelve leather thongs. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	MARTINET. A military term for a strict disciplinarian: from the name of a French general, famous for restoring military discipline to the French army. He first disciplined the French infantry, and regulated their method of encampment: he was killed at the. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Martinet

Synonyms: disciplinarian (n), moralist (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Martinet

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Severity	Tyrant, disciplinarian, precisian, martinet, stickler, bashaw, despot, hard master, Draco, oppressor, inquisitor, extortioner, harpy, vulture; accipitres, birds of prey, raptorials, raptors.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Martinet

English words defined with "martinet": Martinetism. (references)

Specialty definitions using "martinet": MARTINET. (references)

Etymologies containing "martinet": Martlet. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Martinet" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (swift).

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Commercial Usage: Martinet

Domain	Title
Books	Essentials of Functional Phonology. Foreword by André Martinet (reference) J.F. Martinet en de achttiende eeuw : in ijver en onverzadelijken lust om te leeren (reference) Johann Conrad Beissel: Mystic and Martinet, 1690-1768 (American Utopian Adventure Series) (reference) La phonie du français chez les trilingues twi. Préface de A. Martinet (reference) Marxistische Stalinismus-Kritik : Dialog zwischen Guiseppe Boffa (P.C.I.) und Gilles Martinet (PS) (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Martinet

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	De l'Eau de Cologne.....du Vinaigre!!! / Martinet.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		J'ai ete bien maltraite. / Martinet.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Duo de seringues � baton mécanique entre deux époux dumarais. / Martinet.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Sortez! petite libertine!... / Martinet.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Faut y qu'un homme!.....soit cochon..... / Martinet.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Le Docteur Double-dose. / G. lithog de F. Delpech. � Paris chez Mlle. Naudet...et chez Martinet.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	La Consultation / Chez Martinet Lith. de Langlumé.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Dupuytren. / Ach. Martinet del et sc.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Lithograph by Martinet, depicting the Brazilian ships Armacao and Nitherohy at left, HMS Alfred in the right center foreground and USS Congress (1842-1862) in the right distance. Date is during the 1840s or 1850s, when Congress was serving in the South Atlantic or passing through on her way to or from the Pacific.Credit: NAVY.		Architecture vivante - La Cuisiniere / chez Martinet.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Usage Frequency: Martinet

"Martinet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.65% of the time. "Martinet" is used about 23 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
Noun (singular)	95.65%	22	74,468
Noun (proper)	4.35%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	23	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Martinet

The following table summarizes the usage of "martinet" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Martinet	Last name	100	70,328
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Martinet

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
martinet	50
charles martinet	8
isabelle martinet	5
andre martinet	3
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Modern Translations: Martinet

Language		Translations for "martinet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏الضابط المتشدد, ‏الضابط الصارم. (various references)

Farsi		منجنیق سنگ انداز, سخت گیری وانضباطخشک , ادم باانضباطوسخت گیر. (various references)

French		officier sévère, officier dur. (various references)

German		zuchtmeister (disciplinarian, taskmaster), strenger zuchtmeister. (various references)

Greek		στραβόξυλο (cross-grained person, curmudgeon), πολύ αυστηρόσ, επιλοχίασ (sergeant first class, sergeant major, staff sergeant), τηρητήσ πειθαρχίασ (disciplinarian). (various references)

Hebrew		תובע משמעת � וקש�", קפ�"ן (careful, observant, pedant, pernickety, prissy, stickler, strict). (various references)

Hungarian		túl szigorú (stiff), paragrafusokon lovagló, fegyelmezõ. (various references)

Italian		severo (austere, hard, harsh, heavy-handed, rigorous, severe, stern, strict, tight), rigido (harsh, inflexible, numbly, primly, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rugged, severe, stark, stern, stiff, strait laced, stringent, taut, wooden), intransigente (intransigent, uncompromising). (various references)

Manx		smaghteyr (disciplinarian, provost). (various references)

Pig Latin		artinetmay

Portuguese		pedreiro (bricklayer, martyr, Mason), indivíduo mandão. (various references)

Romanian		persoanã militãroasã. (various references)

Russian		сторонник строгой дисциплины. (various references)

Spanish		rigorista (precisian, stickler), ordenancista (disciplinarian). (various references)

Turkish		sert amir (disciplinarian), otoriter yönetici. (various references)

Ukranian		солдафон, причепливий начальник, педант (disciplinarian, nit-picker, pedagog, pedagogue, pedant, precisian, prig, splitter). (various references)

Vietnamese		quân nhân chặt chẽ về kỷ luật, người theo kỷ luật chặt chẽ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Martinet

Derivations
	Words beginning with "martinet": martinets. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Martinet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mantinea, marinet, Martelet, martenet, martenot, martine, Martinek, martinent, martines, martinette, Martineu, martinit, Martinon, Martinotti, martinpelto, martionet, matinct, Mattinata, matu-nte, Miettinen, Multinet, Sarmineto, smartine. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Martinet

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-m-n-r-t-t"
	-1 letter: intreat, iterant, minaret, nattier, nitrate, raiment, tertian.
	-2 letters: airmen, attire, etamin, imaret, inmate, marine, marten, martin, matter, mattin, minter, mitten, natter, ratine, ratite, ratten, remain, remint, retain, retina, retint, tamein, tinter, titman, titmen.
	-3 letters: aimer, ament, amine, anime, antre, armet, entia, inarm, inert, inter, irate, mater, matin, matte, meant, menta, merit, minae, miner.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-m-n-r-t-t"
	+1 letter: intimater, martinets, maternity, mattering, terminate.
	+2 letters: antimarket, antimatter, impartment, intimaters, marionette, martensite, monetarist, portamenti, remittance, retransmit, smattering, terminated, terminates, terminator, tryptamine.
	+3 letters: actinometer, actinometry, antimatters, arbitrament, attempering, curtailment, determinant, determinate, detrainment, detrimental, entrainment, exterminate, impartments, impetrating, impetration, importunate, intemperate, interatomic, maltreating, marionettes, martensites, martensitic, maternities, metacentric, metrication, mistreating, monetarists, permutation, readmitting, remittances, retransmits, smatterings, terminating, termination, terminative, terminators, transmitted, transmitter, tryptamines.
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