stress – English noun declension

English noun forms of stress

Noun: stress
Singularstress
Pluralstresses

Sample Sentences

  • Go easy on him, he's been under a lot of stress lately.
  • Lazarus and Folkman’s transactional model of stress and coping describes psychological stress as “a particular relationship between the person and the environment that is appraised as taxing or exceeding his or her resources and endangering his or her well-being” (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984, p.19). According to these authors, the essence of inducing stress is how a person appraises the situation and whether he or she has the physical and mental ability to cope with the problem. [2024 December 16, Amanda M. Y. Chu, Damen H. Y. Woo, Agnes Tiwari, Helina Yuk, Mike K. P. So, “Which types of family caregivers are more prone to developing depression? Leveraging non-financial social support to mitigate depression”, in Current Psychology, →DOI:]
  • lexical stress
  • phrase stress, prosodic stress
  • Some people put the stress on the first syllable of “controversy”; others put it on the second.
  • The shift from pitch to stress appears to happen before the other obliques begin merging in the Proto-Italic, Proto-Germanic, Primitive Irish, and Middle Indo-Aryan. But further investigation into the timeline of sound changes […] shows that, at least in Germanic, the oblique and core noun stems sound quite unpredictably different in all these families by the time of the crucial accent shift from pitch to stress. […] once a language becomes stress-sensitive, there seems to be a strong tendency in early Indo-European languages to shift the stress to the first syllable. This change happens shortly after the change to stress accent in Proto-Germanic, Proto-Italic, and Proto-Celtic, and even Thessalian, with evidence from Dybo's Law and Verner's Law left behind to show that sound changes happened after the changes to stress accent. [2020 September 7, Steve Rapaport, “Parallel syncretism in early Indo-European”, in Bridget Drinka, editor, Historical Linguistics 2017: Selected Papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July – 4 August 2017, →DOI, page 59:]
  • With this sad Hersal of his heavy stress,
  • The warlike Damzel was empassion's sore,
  • And said; Sir Knight, your Cause is nothing less
  • Than is your Sorrow , certes if not more [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
3. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
4. Proto-Italic *dis-
5. Latin dis-
6. Proto-Indo-European *streyg-
7. Proto-Indo-European *-né-
8. Proto-Indo-European *-ti
9. Proto-Indo-European *strinégti
10. Proto-Italic *stringō
11. Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ-
12. Proto-Indo-European *-eti
13. Proto-Indo-European *stréngʰeti
14. Proto-Italic *strengō
15. Latin stringō
16. Latin distringōder.
17. Old French destrecierbor.
18. Middle English destresse
19. English stress
20. From a shortening of Middle English destresse, borrowed from Old French destrecier, from Latin distringō (“to stretch out”). This form probably coalesced with Middle English stresse, from Old French estrece (“narrowness”), from Vulgar Latin *strictia, from Latin strictus (“narrow”). Displaced native Old English swēġ (“accent, stress”), though strictly in the grammatical sense.
21. In the sense of "mental strain" or “disruption”, used occasionally in the 1920s and 1930s by psychologists, including Walter Cannon (1934); in “biological threat”, used by endocrinologist Hans Selye, by metaphor with stress in physics (force on an object) in the 1930s, and popularized by same in the 1950s. See: Middle English Nouns 'destresse', Latin Nouns 'distringō', Middle English Nouns 'stresse', Latin Nouns 'strictus'.

Verbs referencing "stress"

Dutch Nouns stress, French Nouns stress, Icelandic Nouns stress, Italian Nouns stress, Swedish Nouns stress, German Nouns Stress, Finnish Nouns stressi, Polish Nouns stres, Romanian Nouns stres, Portuguese Nouns estresse, Russian Nouns стресс, Catalan Nouns estrès, Hungarian Nouns stressz, Ukrainian Nouns стрес.