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ert

ert verb: to incite; urge on; encourage.

Verb

ert (third-person singular simple present erts, present participle erting, simple past and past participle erted)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To incite; urge on; encourage.
  2. (UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To irritate; provoke.
  3. (UK, dialectal, intransitive, obsolete) To be eager; hurry.
  4. (UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To make as if to strike; argue (with).
  5. (UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To strive after; try to obtain.
  6. (UK, dialectal, intransitive, obsolete) To strive onward and upward.

Proper noun capitalized: ERT

ERT

  1. Ellenikí/Ellinikí Radiofonía Tileórasi (Hellenic (Greek) Broadcasting television), Greece

Noun capitalized: ERT

ERT (plural ERTs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of emergency response team.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of enzyme replacement therapy.

Forms of ert

Verb
third-person singular presenterts
present participleerting
past participleerted
pasterted
alternative formart
Noun
pluralERTs

Origin of ert

From Middle English erten, ertin, from Old Norse erta (“to provoke, incite, tease”), from Proto-Germanic *artijaną (“to excite, tease”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erd- (“sharp point, stinger”). Cognate with Icelandic erta (“to irritate”), Norwegian erta (“to taunt”), Swedish ärta (“to tease, jibe”), Old Irish aird (“point, ord, end point”), Ancient Greek ἄρδις (árdis, “arrowhead”).

Words formed from ert

Words that rhyme with ert

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Questions about ert

What does ert mean?
Ert means to incite; urge on; encourage.
What part of speech is ert?
Ert can be a verb, a proper noun or a noun.
What is the past tense of ert?
The past tense of ert is erted.

Words near ert in the dictionary

  1. ersters
  2. Erstfeld
  3. erstwhile
  4. erstwhiles
  5. Ersu
  6. ert
  7. Erta Ale
  8. Ertale
  9. ertapenem
  10. ERTC
  11. Ertebølle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ert (page history and authors); ERT (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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