respect

Afrikaans: respek

Negerhollands: respekt, respect

→ Indonesian: respek

→ Papiamentu: reespek (dated)

→ Saramaccan: lesipéki

→ Sranan Tongo: lespeki

→ Caribbean Javanese: lespéki

Borrowed from Middle French respect, from Old French respect, from Latin respectus. Doublet of respijt.


respect

He is an intellectual giant, and I have great respect for him.

A video of Tajik President Emomali Rahmon complaining to Russian President Vladimir Putin about his lack of respect for the countries of Central Asia that were once part of the Soviet Union has struck a nerve on social media, where it has been viewed millions of times.[…]
“We have always respected the interests of our main strategic partner,” Rahmon said, referring to Russia. “We want respect, too."

2022 October 15, “Tajik President's Demand For 'Respect' From Putin Viewed Millions Of Times On YouTube”, in Radio Free Europe, archived from the original on 2022-10-17:

(uncountable) an attitude of consideration or high regard

(uncountable) good opinion, honor, or admiration

The mourners paid their last respects to the deceased poet.

(uncountable, always plural) Polite greetings, often offered as condolences after a death.

This year's model is superior to last year's in several respects.

In our two loves there is but one respect

1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 36”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

(countable) a particular aspect, feature or detail of something

And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 2:25:

en-noun

respect (countable and uncountable, plural respects)

respekt

admiration for a person or entity because of perceived merit

From Middle English respect, from Old French respect, also respit (“respect, regard, consideration”), from Latin respectus (“a looking at, regard, respect”), perfect passive participle of respiciō (“look at, look back upon, respect”), from re- (“back”) + speciō (“to see”). Doublet of respite.


respect

She is an intellectual giant, and I respect her greatly.

I respect your right to hold that belief, although I think it is nonsense.

I respect your right to feel offended, even though most people, myself included, totally disagree and don’t find the comment offensive in the slightest.

To have regard for something, to observe a custom, practice, rule or right.

They failed to respect the treaty they had signed, and invaded.

[T]hou reſpecteſt not ſpilling Edwards bloud: [...]

1595 December 9 (first known performance), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedie of King Richard the Second. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Simmes for Androw Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

We haue also large and various Orchards, and Gardens; Wherein we doe not ſo much reſpect Beauty, as Variety of Ground and Soile, proper for diuerſe Trees and Herbs: [...]

1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “New Atlantis. A Worke Vnfinished.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, page 33:

To take notice of; to regard as worthy of special consideration; to heed.

Whatever they are else, they are always chastisements; and correction respects faults.

Glandulation respects the secretory vessels, which are either glandules, follicles, or utricles.

1806, James Lee, An Introduction to Botany:

I hope I may never again be in a state of mind so unchristian as the mental frame in which I lived for some weeks, respecting the memory of Master B.

1859 December 13, Charles Dickens, “The Mortals in the House”, in Charles Dickens, editor, The Haunted House. The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Whiting, […], →OCLC, page 4, column 2:

(transitive, dated except in "respecting") To relate to; to be concerned with.

[T]his my friend (knowen by no name) was found, / Being then a child and ſcarce of power to ſpeake, / To whom my father gaue this name of Gaſper, / And as his own reſpected him to death, [...]

c. 1597, Ben. Jonson, A Pleasant Comedy, Called: The Case is Alterd. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Bartholomew Sutton, and William Barrenger, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

(obsolete) To regard; to consider; to deem.

That Palladius adviſeth the front of his edifice ſhould ſo reſpect the South, that in the firſt angle it receive the riſing raies of the winter Sunne, and decline a little from the winter ſetting thereof.

1650, Thomas Browne, “Of East and West”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 6th book, page 263:

en-verb

respect (third-person singular simple present respects, present participle respecting, simple past and past participle respected)

respects (present singular third-person)
respecting (participle present)
respected (participle past)
respected (past)

belittle

antonym(s) of “to regard as worthy of special consideration”

Sranan Tongo: respeki

→ Kari'na: respeki


respect

→ Dutch: respect

Afrikaans: respek

Negerhollands: respekt, respect

→ Indonesian: respek

→ Papiamentu: reespek (dated)

→ Saramaccan: lesipéki

→ Sranan Tongo: lespeki

→ Caribbean Javanese: lespéki

Borrowed from Latin respectus. Doublet of répit.


respect

A: Wah gwaan? B: Respect!

A: Tek it easy. B: Respect!


respect

Run whey di two a dem, dem nuh have nuh respect fi yuh.

Get rid of both of them. They have no respect for you.

“Our problem is that the police dem nah deal with people wid nuh respect. […]”

2020, Romardo Lyons, “Mixed reactions to state of emergency”, in The Jamaica Star (in English):

Our problem is that the police aren't approaching the people with respect. […]


respect

Yuh done know seh mi respect yuh whole heap.

You already know that I respect you a lot.

“Dem a tek too much risk wid dem life and nuff a dem nuh respect dem body […]”

2020, “DANCING DEATHTRAPS - Dancers risking serious injuries doing stunts”, in The Jamaica Star (in English):

They're taking too many risks with their life and a lot of them don't respect their body. […]


respect

respect, consideration, deference, esteem, regard

respect (accusative indefinite nominative)
respectul (accusative definite nominative)
respect (indefinite)
respectului (definite)
respectule (vocative)

Borrowed from French respect, Latin respectus.