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Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti

Proto-Italic *sistō

Latin sistō

Latin assistōbor.

Middle French assister

Proto-Indo-European *-onts

Latin -āns

Old French -ant

Middle French -ant

Middle French assistantbor.

Middle English assistent

English assistant

From Middle English Category:English terms inherited from Middle English#ASSISTANT Category:English terms derived from Middle English#ASSISTANT assistent, from Middle French Category:English terms derived from Middle French#ASSISTANT assistant, from assister. By surface analysis, assist +‎ -antCategory:English terms suffixed with -ant#ASSISTANT.

assistant (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#ASSISTANT Category:English adjectives#ASSISTANT Category:English uncomparable adjectives#ASSISTANT Category:English entries with incorrect language header#ASSISTANT Category:Pages with entries#ASSISTANT Category:Pages with 5 entries#ASSISTANT (attributive)

Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
an assistant surgeonCategory:English terms with collocations#ASSISTANT
Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
- 1790, James Beattie, Elements of Moral Science:
  Genius and learning […] are mutually and greatly assistant to each other.
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- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
  The person principally assistant on this occasion, indeed the only one who did any service, or seemed likely to do any, was the landlady […]
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having a subordinate or auxiliary position

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assistant (plural assistants)Category:English lemmas#ASSISTANT Category:English nouns#ASSISTANT Category:English countable nouns#ASSISTANT Category:English entries with incorrect language header#ASSISTANT Category:Pages with entries#ASSISTANT Category:Pages with 5 entries#ASSISTANT

(obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#ASSISTANT) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
  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 […].
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A person who assists or helps someone else.
(British Category:British English#ASSISTANT) Sales assistant.
A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program.
Synonym: wizard

person who assists

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an auxiliary software tool — see wizard

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French

assistantCategory:French non-lemma forms#ASSISTANT Category:French present participles#ASSISTANT Category:French entries with incorrect language header#ASSISTANT Category:Pages with entries#ASSISTANT Category:Pages with 5 entries#ASSISTANT

assistant m (plural assistants, feminine assistante)Category:French lemmas#ASSISTANT Category:French nouns#ASSISTANT Category:French countable nouns#ASSISTANT Category:French entries with incorrect language header#ASSISTANT Category:French masculine nouns#ASSISTANT Category:Pages with entries#ASSISTANT Category:Pages with 5 entries#ASSISTANT

→ Turkish: asistan

Latin

assistantCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#ASSISTANT Category:Latin verb forms#ASSISTANT Category:Latin entries with incorrect language header#ASSISTANT Category:Pages with entries#ASSISTANT Category:Pages with 5 entries#ASSISTANT

Middle French

Category:Middle French terms suffixed with -ant#ASSISTANT Category:Middle French terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *steh₂-#ASSISTANT Category:Middle French terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₂éd#ASSISTANT Category:Pages using etymon with no ID#ASSISTANT

assistant (feminine singular assistante, masculine plural assistans, feminine plural assistantes)Category:Middle French non-lemma forms#ASSISTANT Category:Middle French present participles#ASSISTANT Category:Middle French entries with incorrect language header#ASSISTANT Category:Pages with entries#ASSISTANT Category:Pages with 5 entries#ASSISTANT

assistant m (plural assistans)Category:Middle French lemmas#ASSISTANT Category:Middle French nouns#ASSISTANT Category:Middle French entries with incorrect language header#ASSISTANT Category:Middle French masculine nouns#ASSISTANT Category:Pages with entries#ASSISTANT Category:Pages with 5 entries#ASSISTANT Category:Middle French countable nouns#ASSISTANT

assistant (person who is present)

Norman

Borrowed from English Category:Norman terms borrowed from English#ASSISTANT Category:Norman terms derived from English#ASSISTANT assistant.

assistant m (plural assistants, feminine assistante)Category:Norman lemmas#ASSISTANT Category:Norman nouns#ASSISTANT Category:Norman entries with incorrect language header#ASSISTANT Category:Norman masculine nouns#ASSISTANT Category:Pages with entries#ASSISTANT Category:Pages with 5 entries#ASSISTANT

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