risk – English noun declension

English noun forms of risk

Noun: risk
Singularrisk
Pluralrisks

Sample Sentences

  • There is risk of being brutalized, arrested, imprisoned and tortured, all because I want you to know the truth about this matter.
  • What crop(s) to plant, how much area to devote to each crop, and how much risk to take with respect to rainfall during the season are some of the decisions that must be made. [1994, S. I. Bhuiyan, On-farm Reservoir Systems for Rainfed Ricelands, page 36:]
  • 2006, Trever Ramsey on BBC News website, Exercise 'cuts skin cancer risk' read at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4764535.stm on 14 May 2006
  • Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.
  • Taking regular exercise, coupled with a healthy diet, reduced the risk of several types of cancer. [2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:]
  • Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training. [2012 January 26, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 60:]
  • Will they find the prospect of greater risk a cause for concern, rather than a gift from the right? [2004 April 23, “American Families at Risk”, in The American Prospect:]
  • The decision was also unlawful in disregarding the prospect of greater risk of sexual or physical abuse to girls at a co-educational residential school [2012 December 12, “Hekia Parata will not appeal Salisbury decision”, in Manawatu Standard:]
  • SEAC acknowledged that their recommendation was a somewhat uneasy compromise between the desire to protect the public from a small chance of a big risk and the desire not to ruin an industry, probably unnecessarily. [2006, R. Packer, The Politics of BSE, page 196:]
  • If there is a 25% chance of running over schedule, costing you a $100 out of your own pocket, that might be a risk you are willing to take. But if you have a 5% chance of running overschedule, knowing that there is a $10,000 penalty, you might be less willing to take that risk. [2002, Decisioneering Inc website, What is risk? read at http://www.decisioneering.com/risk-analysis.html on 14 May 2006]
  • the imminent and constant risk of assassination, a risk which has shaken very strong nerves [1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter VII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:]
  • That man is going to be a big risk once he's out of prison.
  • Those stairs are a major risk.
  • There was also a "degree of complacency" that the weather in the country was not good enough to present a health risk. [2006, BBC News website, Farmers warned over skin cancer read at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4764525.stm on 14 May 2006]
  • A good credit rating indicates the customer is a desirable risk.
  • Subprime mortgages are poor risks; especially for a pension scheme.

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Italic *wre-
3. Latin re-
4. Proto-Indo-European *sek-der.
5. Proto-Italic *sekaō
6. Latin seco
7. Latin resecōdeverb.
8. Vulgar Latin *resecum
9. Old Italian riscobor.
10. ▲
11. Old Italian risco
12. Italian rischio
13. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
14. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
15. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
16. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
17. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
18. Proto-Italic *-ājō
19. Proto-Italic *-āō
20. Latin -ō
21. Italian -are
22. Italian rischiarebor.
23. Middle French risquebor.
24. English risque
25. English risk
26. From earlier risque, from Middle French risque, from Old Italian risco (“risk”) (modern Italian rischio) and rischiare (“to run into danger”). Displaced native Old English pleoh (“risk”) and plēon (“to risk”).
27. Speculation on earlier roots
28. Most dictionaries consider the etymology of these Italian terms uncertain, but some suggest they perhaps come from Vulgar Latin *resecum (“that which cuts, rock, crag”) (> Medieval Latin resicu), from Latin resecō (“cut off, loose, curtail”, verb), in the sense of that which is a danger to boating or shipping; or from Ancient Greek ῥιζικόν (rhizikón, “root, radical, hazard”).
29. A few dictionaries express more certainty. Collins says the Italian risco comes from Ancient Greek ῥίζα (rhíza, “cliff”) due to the hazards of sailing along rocky coasts. The American Heritage says it probably comes from Byzantine Greek ῥιζικό, ριζικό (rhizikó, rizikó, “sustenance obtained by a soldier through his own initiative, fortune”), from Arabic رِزْق (rizq, “sustenance, that which God allots”), from Classical Syriac ܪܘܙܝܩܐ ,ܪܙܩܐ (rezqā, rōzīqā, “daily ration”), from Middle Persian [script needed] (rōzīg) (whence Classical Persian روزِی (rōzī)), from Middle Persian [script needed] (rōz, “day”) (whence Classical Persian روز (rōz)), from Old Persian 𐎼𐎢𐎨𐏃 (raučah) (cognate with Sanskrit रोचस् (rocas, “light, lustre”)), from Proto-Iranian *ráwčah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ráwčas, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *léwk-os, from *lewk- (“bright; to shine”) + *-os (noun suffix). Karla Mallette derives the word from Arabic رِزْق (rizq, “sustenance, that which God allots”) via Sabir.
30. Cognate with Spanish riesgo, Portuguese risco See: Italian Nouns 'rischio', Old English Nouns 'pleoh', Latin Nouns 'resecō', Italian Nouns 'risco', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ῥίζα', Spanish Nouns 'riesgo', Portuguese Nouns 'risco'.

Verbs referencing "risk"

Dutch Nouns risico, Galician Nouns risco.