Nowadays many people have different meanings for the word respect, but there is only one true meaning. The definition for the respect is as follows, a feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements. Apperception, esteem, consideration, dignity, recognition, and honor are just a few of the synonyms. So of course, criticism, dishonor, disrespect, neglect, disregard, and ignorance are just a few of the antonyms. This word has many different meanings around the world and throughout time. For example, an elderly person might find it respectful for another person to help them cross the street while on the other …show more content…
The word respect start in the 13th century. Which goes back to the word respectus and respite, which are the same word ultimately. Respectus is the past participle of Latin respincere ‘look back at’. Respectus was passed into English, perhaps by Old French respect as the sense ‘regard, relation’. The meaning we have now, ‘deference, esteem’, started to come about during the 16th century. An earlier borrowing of respectus into Old French produced respit, which preserved another meaning of the Latin word, ‘refuge’. This was the source of English respite. There are many ways in which a person can be disrespectful towards one another. Disrespecting comes in many different forms. As example, bullying, invading personal space, laughing at another, dis another, or scorning them. Nowadays many dis one another over the smallest items or even just for fun. Handicap people are a group of people who gets disrespected more than not. They are laughed at, picked on all throughout their life, and even treated heriabe on jobs. Since respect is treat people how you want to be treat, then disrespect of course is treating people how you do not want to be