means The act of taking someone's property by force, threat, or stealth — theft with menace attached.

from From Old French 'roberie,' the act of plundering, built on the verb 'rober' (to rob, to steal), which traces back to a Germanic root — the same family that gave English 'reave' (to plunder) and 'bereave' (to rob someone of). That Germanic source originally carried the sense of seizing spoils, often spoils of war. So the word was born among raiders, not pickpockets — a reminder that robbery began as something armies did before it became something muggers and, per the essence, suits did.