Taoiseach

en-noun

Taoiseach (plural Taoiseachs or Taoisigh)

Taoiseachs (plural)
Taoisigh (plural)
taoiseach (alternative)

Borrowed from Irish Taoiseach (“chieftain, leader; prime minister of Ireland”).
The plural form Taoisigh is borrowed from Irish Taoisigh.

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Article 28. […] 5. 1º The head of the Government, or Prime Minister, shall be called, and is in this Constitution referred to as, the Taoiseach. 2º The Taoiseach shall keep the President generally informed on matters of domestic and international policy.

1937 July 1 (date ratified), “The Government”, in The Constitution of Erin, Ireland, San Francisco, Calif.: Russell Quinn, published [1938?], →OCLC, page 22:

To cope with the situation created at home by the war so close at hand, an Taoiseach (Prime Minister [Éamon] de Valera) rearranged his cabinet and formed a Ministry of Supplies under one of his ablest men.

1940 December 7, Arthur W. Bromage, Mary C. Bromage, “Ireland—What Now?”, in The Michigan Alumnus: Quarterly Review: A Journal of University Perspectives, volume XLVII, number 10, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Alumni Association of the University of Michigan, →OCLC, page 208:

The only leader of the 1916 Easter rebellion to escape hanging, [Éamon d]e Valera lost the civil war, then won elections that made him taoiseach (prime minister) for 19 years.

1954 May 31, “The Taoiseach Falls: De Valera Nears the End of Long Political Trail”, in Henry R[obinson] Luce, editor, Life, volume 36, number 22, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29, column 1:

The Constitution of Ireland, art. 13, requires that the President of Ireland, the formal head of state, appoints the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) on the nomination of the Dáil Eireann (a popular elected legislative Chamber of Deputies). Ther same provision also requires that the President appoints the other members of the government on the nomination of the Taoiseach with the previous approval of the Dáil.

1983 October, Law Library, Library of Congress, “Time Span between Election or Selection of an Official and the Subsequent Taking of Office in Various Foreign Countries [Ireland]”, in Commencement of Terms of Office of the President and Members of Congress: Hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session on S.J. Res. 71: A Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to the Commencement of the Terms of Office of the President, Vice President, and Members of Congress […] (Serial No. J-98-113), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published 24 April 1984, →OCLC, page 42:

So what if they didn't have their Christmas Eve drinks party with the two Taoiseachs? They would have the satisfaction of knowing they could have.

1993, Mary Breasted, chapter 12, in Why Should You Doubt Me Now?, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 50:

Although Taoisigh insist that choices are based on merit and capacity, they show a remarkable tendency to surround themselves with loyalists.

1994, Brian Farrell, “The Political Role of Cabinet Ministers in Ireland”, in Michael Laver, Kenneth A. Shepsle, editors, Cabinet Ministers and Parliamentary Government (The Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 81:

Despite the attacks, 'the boss', as [Charles] Haughey was to become known, was elected taoiseach by 82 votes to 62. However, he was a taoiseach with strong opposition from within his own party.

2003, Dermot Keogh, “Ireland, 1972–84”, in J[acqueline] R. Hill, editor, A New History of Ireland, volumes VII (Ireland 1921–84), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 379:

Under normal circumstances, when a Taoiseach 'advises' the President to dissolve the Dáil and thereby bring about a general election, the President is bound to accede to this. However, the President, in the words of Article 13.2.2 [of the Constitution of Ireland], 'may in his absolute discretion refuse to dissolve Dáil Éireann on the advice of a Taoiseach who has ceased to retain the support of a majority in Dáil Éireann'.

2010, Michael Gallagher, “The Oireachtas: President and Parliament”, in John Coakley, Michael Gallagher, editors, Politics in the Republic of Ireland, 5th edition, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge in association with PSAI Press, →ISBN, part II (Representative Democracy at Work), page 200:

For three centuries, the fabled Round Room in Dublin's Mansion House has been the site of some of Ireland's most important gatherings. British monarchs and Irish taoiseachs, a Catholic pope and a Protestant terrorist, all have walked its halls.

2010, David J. Lynch, “Money is Just Evidence”, in When the Luck of the Irish Ran Out: The World’s Most Resilient Country and Its Struggle to Rise Again, New York, N.Y., Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 175:

He [Charles Haughey] was determined to seize the initiative, to paint a picture of a taoiseach forging ahead with a bold new strategy in relation to Northern Ireland – a leader, driven by an inner crusade to transform the landscape of Anglo-Irish relations.

2016, Stephen Kelly, “The Haughey—Thatcher Relationship: The Anglo-Irish Summit Meeting, May 1980”, in ‘A Failed Political Entity’: Charles Haughey and the Northern Ireland Question 1945–1992, Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland: Merrion Press, →ISBN, page 149:

Everyone in the UK and Ireland should be afraid of a no-deal Brexit, the Irish taoiseach said, after he was accused of engaging in “Project Fear mark two”.

2019 August 1, Kevin Rawlinson, “Leo Varadkar: ‘We should all be afraid of a no-deal Brexit’”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-26:

Well, I was there from 1973 to 1993, working directly with five different taoisigh, at different times, of course, as secretary to the government, or Cabinet Secretary in Robert [Armstrong]'s terms—from Sunningdale to the Downing Street Declaration.

2020, John Coakley, Jennifer Todd, quoting Dermot Nally, “The Anglo-Irish Agreement, 1985”, in Negotiating a Settlement in Northern Ireland, 1969–2019, Oxford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 173:

Commonwealth of Nations
Commonwealth of Nations

(Irish politics) The head of the government of Ireland, comparable to a prime minister of a Commonwealth of Nations country.


regiment

regiment (nominative singular)
regimenty (nominative plural)
regimentu (genitive singular)
regimentów (genitive plural)
regimentowi (dative singular)
regimentom (dative plural)
regiment (accusative singular)
regimenty (accusative plural)
regimentem (instrumental singular)
regimentami (instrumental plural)
regimencie (locative singular)
regimentach (locative plural)
regimencie (singular vocative)
regimenty (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin regimentum.

lbor

(historical, military) regiment (infantry or cavalry regiment in foreign armies in Poland in the 17th and 18th centuries)


sarcophagus

en-noun

sarcophagus (plural sarcophagi or sarcophaguses or (rare) sarcophagusses)

sarcophagi (plural)
sarcophaguses (plural)
sarcophagusses (plural rare)

/sɑːˈkɒfəɡəs/

/sɑɹˈkɑfəɡəs/

/sɑːˈkɒfəɡaɪ/

/sɑɹˈkɑfəɡaɪ/

Assos
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Frankfurt Main Cemetery
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The noun is borrowed from Latin sarcophagus (“grave; sarcophagus; flesh-eating, carnivorous”), from Ancient Greek σᾰρκοφᾰ́γος (sărkophắgos, “sarcophagus; flesh-eating, carnivorous”) (so named from λῐ́θος σᾰρκοφᾰ́γος (lĭ́thos sărkophắgos, literally “flesh-eating stone”) a type of limestone found at Assos in Troas (now Behramkale, Turkey) thought to consume the flesh of corpses, and thus used to make coffins), from σαρκός (sarkós) (the genitive form of σάρξ (sárx, “flesh; body”), from Proto-Indo-European *twerḱ- (“to carve; to cut off, trim”)) + -φάγος (-phágos, suffix meaning ‘eater (of); eating’) (from ἔφαγον (éphagon, “to devour, eat”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- (“to allot, distribute; to divide”)).
The plural form sarcophagi is borrowed from Latin sarcophagī.
The verb is derived from the noun.

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From the collection of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt.

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Containing Numerous Designs for Dwellings, from the Cottage to the Villa, Including Farm Houses, Farmeries, and Other Agricultural Buildings; Several Designs for Country Inns, Public Houses, and Parochial Schools; with the Requisite Fittings-up, Fixtures, and Furniture; and Appropriate Offices, Gardens, and Garden Scenery; Each Design Accompanied by Analytical and Critical Remarks, Illustrative of the Principles of Architectural Science and Taste of which It is Composed. 􂀿...􂁀 Illustrated by More than Two Thousand Engravings; the Designs by Upwards of Fifty Different Architects, Surveyors, Builders, Upholsterers, Cabinet-makers, Landscape-gardeners, and Others, of whom a List is Given. A New Edition, with Numerous Corrections, and with Many of the Plates Re-engraved.

at the Architectural Library, High Holborn.

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From J[ohn] C[laudius] Loudon (1839) “Of the Furniture of Villas”, in An Encyclopædia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture; […], new edition, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, and sold by John Weale, […], →OCLC, book III (Designs for Villas, with Various Degrees of Accommodation, and in Different Styles of Architecture), figure 1873, page 1045.

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Near unto Aſſos, a citie in Troas, there is found in the quarries a certaine ſtone called Sarcophagus, vvhich runneth in a direct veine, and is apt to be cloven and ſo cut out of the rocke by flakes: The reaſon of the name is this, becauſe that vvithin the ſpace of fortie daies it is knovvne for certain to conſume the bodies of the dead vvhich are beſtovved therein, skin, fleſh, and bone, all ſave the teeth.

1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XXXVI.] Of Certaine Stones which will Quickly Consume the Bodies that be Laid therein. Of Others Againe that Preserve Them a Long Time. Of the Stone Called Assius, and the Medicinable Properties thereof.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 2nd tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 587:

His Entrails are like the Sarcophagus, that devours dead Bodies in a ſmall Space, […]

a. 1681 (date written), Samuel Butler, “A Glutton”, in R[obert] Thyer, editor, The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler, […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1759, →OCLC, page 461:

(obsolete except Ancient Greece, historical) A kind of limestone used by the Ancient Greeks for coffins, so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses.


Mawrth

From Middle Welsh Mawrth, from Proto-Brythonic *Mo̦rθ, borrowed from Latin mārtius. Compare Cornish Merth, Breton Meurzh.


Selene

From the Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē, proper noun), from σέλας (sélas, “light”).

Balancing Arria is the union of Selene and Endymion. In the center of the main panel Selene descends from her chariot, whose horses are held by a nymph, to join Endymion, who lies to the right.

1999, Mark P. O. Morford, Robert J. Lenardon, Classical Mythology, page 43:

In the other, more famous story, the moon goddess Selene fell in love with him^([Endymion]) while he was asleep.

2005, Marshall Cavendish Corporation, Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology, volume 4, page 473:

This fragmentary front panel of a sarcophagus preserves two episodes from the story of Endymion and Selene. Selene, goddess of the moon, fell in love with Endymion, a beautiful young mortal.

2010, J. Paul Getty Trust, Kenneth Lapatin, Karol Wight, editors, The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Antiquities Collection, 2nd edition, page 169:

(Greek mythology) The goddess of the Moon.


Selene

Borrowed from Latin Selēnē, from Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē).

(Greek mythology) Selene (goddess of the moon)


villa

Borrowed from Italian villa, from Latin vīlla (“country house”). Doublet of vill and ville.

(Ancient Rome, plural "villae") A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.


prevarication

en-noun

prevarication (countable and uncountable, plural prevarications)

/pɹɪˌvæɹɪˈkeɪʃən/

/pɹɪˌvæɹəˈkeɪʃən/

From Anglo-Norman prevaricassion, Middle French prevarication, and their source, Latin praevāricātiō (“collusion with an opponent; transgression; deceit”), from the stem of praevāricor.

der

(Ancient Rome, law, historical) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.


Thalia

From Ancient Greek Θαλία (Thalía) or Θάλεια (Tháleia); from Ancient Greek θάλλω (thállō, “flourish, to be verdant”).

uder

(Greek mythology) The Muse of comedy and idyllic poetry.

(Greek mythology) One of the three Graces/Charites.


Mebyon Kernow

From Cornish, meaning "Sons of Cornwall".

A left-of-centre political party that campaigns for greater self-government for Cornwall.


siren

sirens (plural)
sirenes (plural)
sirene (alternative)

From Middle English siren, from Old French sereine and Latin Sīrēn, Sīrēna, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn). The mammalian sense was first attested in French in Dominique Bouhours, Les entretiens d'Ariste et d'Eugène, in 1671. The aquatic salamander sense was originally introduced by Linnaeus in 1766, for a genus of his reptiles. Doublet of serin.

Now give ear to what I'm about to say to you , and a god himself will bring it before your mind . First , you will come to the Sirens . These beings enthrall all men who arrive before them . Whoever draws near without knowledge and ...

2008 October 7, Homer, The Odyssey, North Atlantic Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 278:

(Greek mythology) One of a group of nymphs who lured mariners to their death on the rocks.


siren

siren (indefinite nominative singular)
sirens (genitive indefinite singular)
sirenen (definite nominative singular)
sirenens (definite genitive singular)
sirener (indefinite nominative plural)
sireners (genitive indefinite plural)
sirenerna (definite nominative plural)
sirenernas (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed from Latin Sīrēn, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn).


temenos

The three spheres – political, commercial, spiritual – intersected, and at the very centre of their conjunction was, and is, the Meccan temenos.

2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, page 123:

(chiefly Ancient Greece) Ground under, surrounding and adjacent to a temple; a sacred enclosure or precinct.


forum

→ Italian: forum

→ Korean: 포럼 (poreom)

From Latin forum (“public market place, forum”). Doublet of fuero and door.

der

Trish was an admin on three forums, and had no trouble at all when it came to moderating them.

(Internet) An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.


Eris

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἔρις (Éris), from ἔρις (éris, “strife”).
See also Eris (mythology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia and Eris (dwarf planet) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

pedia

According to Homer, the Trojan war is, above all, an affair of the gods. It is about Eris, a sister of the god of war Ares, and about Eros, not directly named by Homer, but who in the figure of Aphrodite, the god of love, plays a central role on the side of the Trojans. Eris is the one who divides gods, mortals, and things from each other; Eros is the one who brings them together.

1992, Samuel Ijsseling, “Eros and Eris: The Trojan War and Heidegger on the Essence of Truth”, in Paul van Tongeren, Paul Sars, Chris Bremmers, Koen Boey, editors, Eros and Eris: Contributions to a Hermeneutical Phenomenology Liber Amicorum for Adriaan Peperzak, Kluwer Academic, page 2:

1993, Herman Parret, The Aesthetics of Communication: Pragmatics and Beyond, Springer, Softcover reprint, page 18,
Eris, "the Strife with the violent heart", one reads in Hesiod's Theogony, is a child of the Night, and "Hateful Struggle gave birth to painful Distress and Distraction and Famine and tearful Sorrow; also Wars and Battles and Murders and Slaughters; also Feuds and Lying Words and Angry Words".

According to Newport, no specific bowling alley can claim to be the site of the birth of the Discordian movement. It evolved at several different bowling alleys. This revelation came as a devastating disappointment to your humble author, who—in the course of writing this book—had planned a grand religious pilgrimage to this envisioned holy site, where I would snap sacred photos of "The Brunswick Shrine," and perhaps even fall to my knees before this fabled Mecca of Discordianism, bowing to the Goddess Eris.

2003, Adam Gorightly, The Prankster and the Conspiracy: The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture, Paraview Press, page 58:

And yet Erisianism should not be treated frivolously. Greg Hill told me his experiences with Eris had been quite profound. Although it started as an atheistic joke, his perceptions began to change.

2006, Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-worshippers, and Other Pagans in America, Penguin, page 351:

(Greek mythology) The goddess of discord and strife, whose apple of discord sparked events that eventually led to the Trojan War; equated by Homer with Enyo (goddess of violent war) and identified with the Roman goddess Discordia;

The goddess of discord and strife, whose apple of discord sparked events that eventually led to the Trojan War; equated by Homer with Enyo (goddess of violent war) and identified with the Roman goddess Discordia;
(religion, Discordianism) the same figure as principal deity of Discordianism, regarded as the goddess of disorder.


Eris

Eridin (adjective relational)
Eris (nominative singular)
Eridy (genitive singular)
Eridě (dative singular)
Eridu (accusative singular)
Erido (singular vocative)
Eridě (locative singular)
Eridou (instrumental singular)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἔρις (Éris).

Ve svatební síni se shromáždili všichni nebešťané kromě Eridy, bohyně sváru. Svatebčané se chtěli nerušeně radovat […] Proto Eridu nepozvali, neboť kam ona vkročí, tam vznikají spory a hádky. Eris jim však urážku neodpustila.

2014, Rudolf Mertlík, Příběhy Odysseovy, Praha: Albatros, →ISBN, page 9:

All the heaven-borns besides Eris gathered in the wedding hall. The wedding guests did not want to be disturb while rejoicing […] That was why they had not invited Eris, because there arise quarrels and conflicts where she enters. However, Eris did not forgive them the offence.

(Greek mythology) Eris, the goddess of discord, confusion, and strife


Eris

(Greek mythology) Eris (Greek goddess of discord and strife, whose apple of discord sparked events that eventually led to the Trojan War)


Lethe

From Latin Lēthē, from Ancient Greek Λήθη (Lḗthē).

(Greek mythology) The personification of oblivion, daughter of Eris.

No wonder these mortal Folks have so many Complaints, […] if they were dead now, and to be settled here for ever, they'd be damn'd before they'd make such a Rout come over—“But care, I suppose, is thirsty; and till they have drench’d themselves with Lethe, there will be no quiet among ’em” however, I’ll e’en to work; and so, friend Æsop, and brother Mercury, good bye to ye.

1740, David Garrick, Lethe: or Aesop in the Shade, published 1782:

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, / Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains / One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:

For two-and-twenty years he [Doctor Guillotin], unguillotined, shall hear nothing but guillotine, see nothing but guillotine; then dying, shall through long centuries wander, as it were, a disconsolate ghost, on the wrong side of Styx and Lethe; his name like to outlive Cæsar’s.

1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter IV, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book IV (States-General):

A well-fed man is not driven to drink by the craving that torments the hungry; and the comfortable do not crave for the boon of forgetfulness. Gin is the only Lethe of the miserable.

1890, William Booth, chapter 6, in In Darkest England and the Way Out:

When we have done penance, and are purified, and have drunk of the fountain of Lethe and bathed in the fountain of Eunoe, the mistress of our soul raises us to the Paradise of Heaven.

1891, Oscar Wilde, “The Critic as Artist”, in Intentions:

oblivion n.: Lethe. In Greek mythology, Lethe (pronounced LEEthee) is one of the several rivers of Hades. Those who drink from it experience complete forgetfulness. Today it is used to refer to one in an oblivious or forgetful state.

2015, Peter E. Meltzer, The Thinker's Thesaurus, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN:

(Greek mythology) The river which flows through Hades from which the souls of the dead drank so that they would forget their time on Earth.


Lethe

la-proper noun

Lēthē f sg (genitive Lēthēs); first declension

Lēthē (canonical feminine singular)
Lēthēs (genitive)
Lēthē (nominative singular)
Lēthēs (genitive singular)
Lēthae (dative singular)
Lēthēn (accusative singular)
Lēthē (ablative singular)
Lēthē (singular vocative)
Lēthae (locative singular)

[ˈɫ̪eːt̪ʰeː]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λήθη (Lḗthē).

bor+

(Greek mythology) the river Lethe, the river of oblivion


Metis

From Ancient Greek Μῆτις (Mêtis) from Ancient Greek μῆτις (mêtis, “wisdom”).

(Greek mythology) A Titan who was the personification of wisdom, the first spouse of Zeus, and the mother of Athena


plebeian

plebeians (plural)
plebian (alternative)
plebeyan (alternative)
plebean (alternative)
plebeane (alternative)
plebien (alternative)

From Latin plēbēius (“a commoner; common”) + -an (adjective-forming suffix), from Latin plēbēs + -ius (adjective-forming suffix), possibly under the influence of Middle French plebeyen, plebein, plebien (“a commoner”) and plebeien (“concerning the common people”). Cf. Medieval Latin plēbēiānus (“a commoner”), from plēbēius + -ānus.

cog

Na plebeane will tak þe dochter of ane patriciane but hir consent.

1533, John Bellenden translating Livy, History of Rome, Vol. II, Ch. iv, Sect. ii

(historical, Ancient Rome) A member of the plebs, the common citizens of ancient Rome.

պլեբեյ

one of the common people of ancient Rome


production

en-noun

production (countable and uncountable, plural productions)

→ Japanese: プロダクション (purodakushon)

/pɹəˈdʌkʃən/

From Middle English produccioun, from Old French production, from Latin prōductiō, prōductiōnem (“a lengthening, prolonging”). See produce.

der

(Scots law, in the plural) Written documents produced in support of the action or defence.


Typhon

(Greek mythology) The most powerful and feared of all Greek monsters, having the head, arms, and torso of a man, and his bottom half consisting of countless dragons or serpents. Some stories also say that his hands ended in serpents and that he bears 100 heads. He is shrouded in giant wings, his eyes blaze a white fire, and his arms reach towards the stars.

Athanasius Kircher
Oedipus Aegyptiacus
Typhon


tyrant

→ Welsh: teirant

From Middle English tyraunt, tiraunt, tyrant, tyrante, from Old French tyrant, from the addition of a terminal -t to tiran (cp. French tyran) via a back-formation related to the development of French present participles out of the Latin -ans form, from Latin tyrannus (“despot”), from Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos, “usurper, monarch, despot”), of uncertain origin.

tirà

person who uses violence to treat others unjustly

To proue him Tyrant, this reason may suffice, That Henry liueth still.

c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], line 71:

The reappearance of tyranny [in the 4th century BC] had many reasons... one of the main causes was the development of antagonism between rich and poor; tyrants came to power exploiting a social and political imbalance within the state.

1980, Michel Austin et al., Economic and Social History of Ancient Greece, section 142:

Ancient Greek tyrannies appeared once more in great numbers with the breakdown of the polis in the period from the fourth to the second centuries [BC]. These later tyrannies tended to rely on a more narrow class base and to use a brutal military rule, and thus writers could use the words tyrant and tyranny, with their modern connotations of evil and cruelty, to describe them accurately.

1996, Roger Boesche, Theories of Tyranny, from Plato to Arendt, section 4:

(historical, Ancient Greece) A usurper; one who gains power and rules extralegally, distinguished from kings elevated by election or succession.


ambrosia

en-noun

ambrosia (countable and uncountable, plural ambrosias)

From Latin ambrosia (“food of the gods”), from Ancient Greek ἀμβροσία (ambrosía, “immortality”), from ἄμβροτος (ámbrotos, “immortal”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + βροτός (brotós, “mortal”).

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He had a most intense admiration of female loveliness, and looked upon woman as a kind of super-angelic being, whose food should be the ambrosiæ and nectar of the gods, and whose garments the spotless white of vestal purity.

1845 November, Caroline Lee Hentz, “The Mysterious Reticule”, in Sarah J[osepha] Hale, Morton M’Michael, Louis A[ntoine] Godey, editors, Godey’s Magazine and Lady’s Book, volume XXXI, number 16, Philadelphia, Pa.: Louis A. Godey, […], page 202, column 1:

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) The food of the gods, thought to confer immortality.

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) The anointing-oil of the gods.


ambrosia

From Latin ambrosia, borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀμβροσίᾱ (ambrosíā, “immortality”).


ambrosia

ambrosias (plural)
ambrósia (alternative)
ambrôsia (alternative)

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) ambrosia (food of gods or delicious foods)


ambrosia

ambrosia (indefinite nominative singular)
ambrosias (genitive indefinite singular)
ambrosian (definite nominative singular)
ambrosians (definite genitive singular)


Sejm

sejmowy (adjective)
Sejm (nominative singular)
Sejmu (genitive singular)
Sejmowi (dative singular)
Sejm (accusative singular)
Sejmem (instrumental singular)
Sejmie (locative singular)
Sejmie (singular vocative)

(government) Sejm (the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland)

Sejm (total number of people who sit in the Sejm)

Coordinate term: Senat


Sejm

Sejm (nominative singular)
Sejmy (nominative plural)
Sejmu (genitive singular)
Sejmów (genitive plural)
Sejmowi (dative singular)
Sejmom (dative plural)
Sejm (accusative singular)
Sejmy (accusative plural)
Sejmem (instrumental singular)
Sejmami (instrumental plural)
Sejmie (locative singular)
Sejmach (locative plural)
Sejmie (singular vocative)
Sejmy (plural vocative)

→ English: Sejm

→ German: Sejm

→ Latvian: Saeima

→ Lithuanian: Seĩmas

→ Romanian: Seim

→ Russian: Сейм (Sejm)

→ Ukrainian: Сейм (Sejm)

→ Yiddish: סיים (seym)

(government, historical) any specific gathering of the Sejm


Irene

Borrowed from French Irène, from Ancient Greek Εἰρήνη (Eirḗnē, “peace”), name of a goddess of peace, of early Christian saints, and of an 8th-century Byzantine empress. Doublet of Eirini.

(Greek mythology) Eirene, the Greek goddess of peace, one of the Horae/Horæ; equivalent to the Roman goddess Pax.


Irene

From English Irene, borrowed from French Irène, from Ancient Greek Εἰρήνη (Eirḗnē, “peace”). Also from Irenea.

(Greek mythology) Eirene, the Greek goddess of peace, one of the Horae/Horæ


rhapsody

The noun is derived from Latin rhapsōdia (“part of an epic poem suitable for uninterrupted recitation”), from Koine Greek ῥαψῳδία (rhapsōidía, “part of an epic poem suitable for uninterrupted recitation; rigmarole”), Ancient Greek ῥαψῳδία (rhapsōidía, “composition or recitation of Epic poetry”), from ῥαψῳδός (rhapsōidós, “composer or performer of Epic poetry”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). Ῥαψῳδός (Rhapsōidós) is derived from ῥᾰ́πτω (rhắptō, “to sew”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to bend; to turn”)) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “ode; song”) (ultimately from Proto-Hellenic *awoidā́ (“song”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming o-grade action nouns).
Sense 2.2 (“instrumental composition of irregular form”) probably developed from sense 2.1 (“exaggeratedly enthusiastic or exalted expression of feeling in speech or writing”), and both of these senses may have been influenced by rapture (“extreme excitement, happiness, or pleasure”), the latter being a quality associated with the senses. Sense 2.3 (“literary composition consisting of miscellaneous works”) is borrowed from Middle French rhapsodie (modern French rhapsodie), from Latin rhapsōdia: see above.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
* French rhapsodie (“instrumental composition of irregular form”)
* German Rhapsodie (“instrumental composition of irregular form”)

cog

(Ancient Greece, poetry, historical) An epic poem, or part of one, suitable for uninterrupted recitation.

狂想曲

ancient Greek epic poem, or part of one, suitable for uninterrupted recitation


satyr

satyrs (plural)
satyre (alternative)
satyrus (alternative)

From French satyre, from Latin satyrus, from Ancient Greek σάτυρος (sáturos).

Rough Satyrs danced; and Fauns, with cloven heel, / From the glad sound would not be absent long.
male variation of nymphs

(Greek mythology) A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness, sometimes pictured with a perpetual erection.


satyr

nl-noun

satyr m (plural satyrs, diminutive satyrtje n)

satyrs (plural)
satyrtje (diminutive neuter)
sater (alternative)

Ultimately from Latin satyrus, from Ancient Greek σάτυρος (sáturos).

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) satyr, faun


satyr

satyr (nominative singular)
satyrowie (nominative plural)
satyra (genitive singular)
satyrów (genitive plural)
satyrowi (dative singular)
satyrom (dative plural)
satyra (accusative singular)
satyrów (accusative plural)
satyrem (instrumental singular)
satyrami (instrumental plural)
satyrze (locative singular)
satyrach (locative plural)
satyrze (singular vocative)
satyrowie (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French satyre, from Latin satyrus, from Ancient Greek σάτυρος (sáturos).


satyr

satyr (indefinite nominative singular)
satyrs (genitive indefinite singular)
satyren (definite nominative singular)
satyrens (definite genitive singular)
satyrer (indefinite nominative plural)
satyrers (genitive indefinite plural)
satyrerna (definite nominative plural)
satyrernas (definite genitive plural)


Roman Empire

/ˈɹəʊmən ˈɛmpaɪə/

/ˈɹoʊmən ˈɛmpaɪɚ/

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Roman Empire.wav

The sense something that one frequently thinks about is a reference to the "How Often Do You Think About the Roman Empire?" meme, popularized on Instagram and TikTok around September 2023.

(historical) The empire which succeeded the Roman Republic and existed between 27 B.C.E. and 476 C.E. in the west (and until 1453 C.E. in the east; see Byzantine Empire), encompassing territories stretching from Britain and Germany to Spain, North Africa and the Persian Gulf.


outer

inner

antonym(s) of “one who supports leaving the EU”

The 51.4 per cent to 48.6 per cent victory of the "outers" broke the back of the Labour government.

2013 January 25, Jon Cruddas, “Au Revoir, Europe: What If Britain Left the EU? by David Charter”, in The Independent:

2015 May 7, Guy Faulconbridge, “Britain's EU "outers" see opportunity in wake of Greece's "No"”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2015-12-22:

Meanwhile, outers are disporting themselves on TV in luminous green ties, hand-woven by first years at the Dronefield Academy for the Sartorially Challenged.

2016 February 16, Robert Shrimsley, “Gimme a Brexit break”, in Financial Times:

(UK politics) One who supports leaving the European Union.


Saturnus

planets of the Solar System: planete van die Sonnestelsel: Mercurius · Venus · Aarde · Mars · Jupiter · Saturnus · Uranus · Neptunus [edit]


Saturnus

Saturnus (nominative singular)
Saturnukset (nominative plural)
Saturnus (accusative nominative singular)
Saturnukset (accusative nominative plural)
Saturnuksen (accusative genitive singular)
Saturnukset (accusative genitive plural)
Saturnuksen (genitive singular)
Saturnusten (genitive plural)
Saturnuksien (genitive plural)
Saturnusta (partitive singular)
Saturnuksia (partitive plural)
Saturnuksessa (inessive singular)
Saturnuksissa (inessive plural)
Saturnuksesta (elative singular)
Saturnuksista (elative plural)
Saturnukseen (illative singular)
Saturnuksiin (illative plural)
Saturnuksella (adessive singular)
Saturnuksilla (adessive plural)
Saturnukselta (ablative singular)
Saturnuksilta (ablative plural)
Saturnukselle (allative singular)
Saturnuksille (allative plural)
Saturnuksena (essive singular)
Saturnuksina (essive plural)
Saturnukseksi (singular translative)
Saturnuksiksi (plural translative)
Saturnuksetta (abessive singular)
Saturnuksitta (abessive plural)
Saturnuksin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Saturnukseni (nominative singular)
Saturnukseni (nominative plural)
Saturnukseni (accusative nominative singular)
Saturnukseni (accusative nominative plural)
Saturnukseni (accusative genitive singular)
Saturnukseni (accusative genitive plural)
Saturnukseni (genitive singular)
Saturnusteni (genitive plural)
Saturnuksieni (genitive plural)
Saturnustani (partitive singular)
Saturnuksiani (partitive plural)
Saturnuksessani (inessive singular)
Saturnuksissani (inessive plural)
Saturnuksestani (elative singular)
Saturnuksistani (elative plural)
Saturnukseeni (illative singular)
Saturnuksiini (illative plural)
Saturnuksellani (adessive singular)
Saturnuksillani (adessive plural)
Saturnukseltani (ablative singular)
Saturnuksiltani (ablative plural)
Saturnukselleni (allative singular)
Saturnuksilleni (allative plural)
Saturnuksenani (essive singular)
Saturnuksinani (essive plural)
Saturnuksekseni (singular translative)
Saturnuksikseni (plural translative)
Saturnuksettani (abessive singular)
Saturnuksittani (abessive plural)
Saturnuksineni (comitative plural)
Saturnuksesi (nominative singular)
Saturnuksesi (nominative plural)
Saturnuksesi (accusative nominative singular)
Saturnuksesi (accusative nominative plural)
Saturnuksesi (accusative genitive singular)
Saturnuksesi (accusative genitive plural)
Saturnuksesi (genitive singular)
Saturnustesi (genitive plural)
Saturnuksiesi (genitive plural)
Saturnustasi (partitive singular)
Saturnuksiasi (partitive plural)
Saturnuksessasi (inessive singular)
Saturnuksissasi (inessive plural)
Saturnuksestasi (elative singular)
Saturnuksistasi (elative plural)
Saturnukseesi (illative singular)
Saturnuksiisi (illative plural)
Saturnuksellasi (adessive singular)
Saturnuksillasi (adessive plural)
Saturnukseltasi (ablative singular)
Saturnuksiltasi (ablative plural)
Saturnuksellesi (allative singular)
Saturnuksillesi (allative plural)
Saturnuksenasi (essive singular)
Saturnuksinasi (essive plural)
Saturnukseksesi (singular translative)
Saturnuksiksesi (plural translative)
Saturnuksettasi (abessive singular)
Saturnuksittasi (abessive plural)
Saturnuksinesi (comitative plural)
Saturnuksemme (nominative singular)
Saturnuksemme (nominative plural)
Saturnuksemme (accusative nominative singular)
Saturnuksemme (accusative nominative plural)
Saturnuksemme (accusative genitive singular)
Saturnuksemme (accusative genitive plural)
Saturnuksemme (genitive singular)
Saturnustemme (genitive plural)
Saturnuksiemme (genitive plural)
Saturnustamme (partitive singular)
Saturnuksiamme (partitive plural)
Saturnuksessamme (inessive singular)
Saturnuksissamme (inessive plural)
Saturnuksestamme (elative singular)
Saturnuksistamme (elative plural)
Saturnukseemme (illative singular)
Saturnuksiimme (illative plural)
Saturnuksellamme (adessive singular)
Saturnuksillamme (adessive plural)
Saturnukseltamme (ablative singular)
Saturnuksiltamme (ablative plural)
Saturnuksellemme (allative singular)
Saturnuksillemme (allative plural)
Saturnuksenamme (essive singular)
Saturnuksinamme (essive plural)
Saturnukseksemme (singular translative)
Saturnuksiksemme (plural translative)
Saturnuksettamme (abessive singular)
Saturnuksittamme (abessive plural)
Saturnuksinemme (comitative plural)
Saturnuksenne (nominative singular)
Saturnuksenne (nominative plural)
Saturnuksenne (accusative nominative singular)
Saturnuksenne (accusative nominative plural)
Saturnuksenne (accusative genitive singular)
Saturnuksenne (accusative genitive plural)
Saturnuksenne (genitive singular)
Saturnustenne (genitive plural)
Saturnuksienne (genitive plural)
Saturnustanne (partitive singular)
Saturnuksianne (partitive plural)
Saturnuksessanne (inessive singular)
Saturnuksissanne (inessive plural)
Saturnuksestanne (elative singular)
Saturnuksistanne (elative plural)
Saturnukseenne (illative singular)
Saturnuksiinne (illative plural)
Saturnuksellanne (adessive singular)
Saturnuksillanne (adessive plural)
Saturnukseltanne (ablative singular)
Saturnuksiltanne (ablative plural)
Saturnuksellenne (allative singular)
Saturnuksillenne (allative plural)
Saturnuksenanne (essive singular)
Saturnuksinanne (essive plural)
Saturnukseksenne (singular translative)
Saturnuksiksenne (plural translative)
Saturnuksettanne (abessive singular)
Saturnuksittanne (abessive plural)
Saturnuksinenne (comitative plural)
Saturnuksensa (nominative singular)
Saturnuksensa (nominative plural)
Saturnuksensa (accusative nominative singular)
Saturnuksensa (accusative nominative plural)
Saturnuksensa (accusative genitive singular)
Saturnuksensa (accusative genitive plural)
Saturnuksensa (genitive singular)
Saturnustensa (genitive plural)
Saturnuksiensa (genitive plural)
Saturnustaan (partitive singular)
Saturnustansa (partitive singular)
Saturnuksiaan (partitive plural)
Saturnuksiansa (partitive plural)
Saturnuksessaan (inessive singular)
Saturnuksessansa (inessive singular)
Saturnuksissaan (inessive plural)
Saturnuksissansa (inessive plural)
Saturnuksestaan (elative singular)
Saturnuksestansa (elative singular)
Saturnuksistaan (elative plural)
Saturnuksistansa (elative plural)
Saturnukseensa (illative singular)
Saturnuksiinsa (illative plural)
Saturnuksellaan (adessive singular)
Saturnuksellansa (adessive singular)
Saturnuksillaan (adessive plural)
Saturnuksillansa (adessive plural)
Saturnukseltaan (ablative singular)
Saturnukseltansa (ablative singular)
Saturnuksiltaan (ablative plural)
Saturnuksiltansa (ablative plural)
Saturnukselleen (allative singular)
Saturnuksellensa (allative singular)
Saturnuksilleen (allative plural)
Saturnuksillensa (allative plural)
Saturnuksenaan (essive singular)
Saturnuksenansa (essive singular)
Saturnuksinaan (essive plural)
Saturnuksinansa (essive plural)
Saturnuksekseen (singular translative)
Saturnukseksensa (singular translative)
Saturnuksikseen (plural translative)
Saturnuksiksensa (plural translative)
Saturnuksettaan (abessive singular)
Saturnuksettansa (abessive singular)
Saturnuksittaan (abessive plural)
Saturnuksittansa (abessive plural)
Saturnuksineen (comitative plural)
Saturnuksinensa (comitative plural)


Saturnus

Internationalism, borrowed from Dutch Saturnus, from Latin Saturnus.

(Roman mythology) The god of fertility and agriculture, equivalent to the Greek Kronos.


Saturnus

la-proper noun

Sāturnus m (genitive Sāturnī); second declension

Sāturnus (canonical masculine)
Sāturnī (genitive)
Sāturnus (nominative singular)
Sāturnī (nominative plural)
Sāturnī (genitive singular)
Sāturnōrum (genitive plural)
Sāturnō (dative singular)
Sāturnīs (dative plural)
Sāturnum (accusative singular)
Sāturnōs (accusative plural)
Sāturnō (ablative singular)
Sāturnīs (ablative plural)
Sāturne (singular vocative)
Sāturnī (plural vocative)

→ Albanian: Shtunë

→ English: Saturn

→ German: Saturn

desctree

→ Old Galician-Portuguese: Saturno
Galician: Saturno
Portuguese: Saturno

→ Proto-Brythonic: *Sadurn (from Vulgar Latin Săturnus)

Breton: Sadorn

Cornish: Sadorn

Middle Welsh: Sadwrn

Welsh: Sadwrn

→ Proto-West Germanic: *Sāturnas dag (see there for further descendants)

[s̠äːˈt̪ʊrnʊs̠]

Probably from Etruscan 𐌔𐌀𐌕𐌓𐌄 (satre); alternative derivation from Latin satus, the past participle of serō (“to sow”), is then mere folk-etymology.

(Roman mythology) Saturn (god of fertility and agriculture)


Merkurius

Merkurius (nominative singular)
Merkuriukset (nominative plural)
Merkurius (accusative nominative singular)
Merkuriukset (accusative nominative plural)
Merkuriuksen (accusative genitive singular)
Merkuriukset (accusative genitive plural)
Merkuriuksen (genitive singular)
Merkuriusten (genitive plural)
Merkuriuksien (genitive plural)
Merkuriusta (partitive singular)
Merkuriuksia (partitive plural)
Merkuriuksessa (inessive singular)
Merkuriuksissa (inessive plural)
Merkuriuksesta (elative singular)
Merkuriuksista (elative plural)
Merkuriukseen (illative singular)
Merkuriuksiin (illative plural)
Merkuriuksella (adessive singular)
Merkuriuksilla (adessive plural)
Merkuriukselta (ablative singular)
Merkuriuksilta (ablative plural)
Merkuriukselle (allative singular)
Merkuriuksille (allative plural)
Merkuriuksena (essive singular)
Merkuriuksina (essive plural)
Merkuriukseksi (singular translative)
Merkuriuksiksi (plural translative)
Merkuriuksetta (abessive singular)
Merkuriuksitta (abessive plural)
Merkuriuksin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Merkuriukseni (nominative singular)
Merkuriukseni (nominative plural)
Merkuriukseni (accusative nominative singular)
Merkuriukseni (accusative nominative plural)
Merkuriukseni (accusative genitive singular)
Merkuriukseni (accusative genitive plural)
Merkuriukseni (genitive singular)
Merkuriusteni (genitive plural)
Merkuriuksieni (genitive plural)
Merkuriustani (partitive singular)
Merkuriuksiani (partitive plural)
Merkuriuksessani (inessive singular)
Merkuriuksissani (inessive plural)
Merkuriuksestani (elative singular)
Merkuriuksistani (elative plural)
Merkuriukseeni (illative singular)
Merkuriuksiini (illative plural)
Merkuriuksellani (adessive singular)
Merkuriuksillani (adessive plural)
Merkuriukseltani (ablative singular)
Merkuriuksiltani (ablative plural)
Merkuriukselleni (allative singular)
Merkuriuksilleni (allative plural)
Merkuriuksenani (essive singular)
Merkuriuksinani (essive plural)
Merkuriuksekseni (singular translative)
Merkuriuksikseni (plural translative)
Merkuriuksettani (abessive singular)
Merkuriuksittani (abessive plural)
Merkuriuksineni (comitative plural)
Merkuriuksesi (nominative singular)
Merkuriuksesi (nominative plural)
Merkuriuksesi (accusative nominative singular)
Merkuriuksesi (accusative nominative plural)
Merkuriuksesi (accusative genitive singular)
Merkuriuksesi (accusative genitive plural)
Merkuriuksesi (genitive singular)
Merkuriustesi (genitive plural)
Merkuriuksiesi (genitive plural)
Merkuriustasi (partitive singular)
Merkuriuksiasi (partitive plural)
Merkuriuksessasi (inessive singular)
Merkuriuksissasi (inessive plural)
Merkuriuksestasi (elative singular)
Merkuriuksistasi (elative plural)
Merkuriukseesi (illative singular)
Merkuriuksiisi (illative plural)
Merkuriuksellasi (adessive singular)
Merkuriuksillasi (adessive plural)
Merkuriukseltasi (ablative singular)
Merkuriuksiltasi (ablative plural)
Merkuriuksellesi (allative singular)
Merkuriuksillesi (allative plural)
Merkuriuksenasi (essive singular)
Merkuriuksinasi (essive plural)
Merkuriukseksesi (singular translative)
Merkuriuksiksesi (plural translative)
Merkuriuksettasi (abessive singular)
Merkuriuksittasi (abessive plural)
Merkuriuksinesi (comitative plural)
Merkuriuksemme (nominative singular)
Merkuriuksemme (nominative plural)
Merkuriuksemme (accusative nominative singular)
Merkuriuksemme (accusative nominative plural)
Merkuriuksemme (accusative genitive singular)
Merkuriuksemme (accusative genitive plural)
Merkuriuksemme (genitive singular)
Merkuriustemme (genitive plural)
Merkuriuksiemme (genitive plural)
Merkuriustamme (partitive singular)
Merkuriuksiamme (partitive plural)
Merkuriuksessamme (inessive singular)
Merkuriuksissamme (inessive plural)
Merkuriuksestamme (elative singular)
Merkuriuksistamme (elative plural)
Merkuriukseemme (illative singular)
Merkuriuksiimme (illative plural)
Merkuriuksellamme (adessive singular)
Merkuriuksillamme (adessive plural)
Merkuriukseltamme (ablative singular)
Merkuriuksiltamme (ablative plural)
Merkuriuksellemme (allative singular)
Merkuriuksillemme (allative plural)
Merkuriuksenamme (essive singular)
Merkuriuksinamme (essive plural)
Merkuriukseksemme (singular translative)
Merkuriuksiksemme (plural translative)
Merkuriuksettamme (abessive singular)
Merkuriuksittamme (abessive plural)
Merkuriuksinemme (comitative plural)
Merkuriuksenne (nominative singular)
Merkuriuksenne (nominative plural)
Merkuriuksenne (accusative nominative singular)
Merkuriuksenne (accusative nominative plural)
Merkuriuksenne (accusative genitive singular)
Merkuriuksenne (accusative genitive plural)
Merkuriuksenne (genitive singular)
Merkuriustenne (genitive plural)
Merkuriuksienne (genitive plural)
Merkuriustanne (partitive singular)
Merkuriuksianne (partitive plural)
Merkuriuksessanne (inessive singular)
Merkuriuksissanne (inessive plural)
Merkuriuksestanne (elative singular)
Merkuriuksistanne (elative plural)
Merkuriukseenne (illative singular)
Merkuriuksiinne (illative plural)
Merkuriuksellanne (adessive singular)
Merkuriuksillanne (adessive plural)
Merkuriukseltanne (ablative singular)
Merkuriuksiltanne (ablative plural)
Merkuriuksellenne (allative singular)
Merkuriuksillenne (allative plural)
Merkuriuksenanne (essive singular)
Merkuriuksinanne (essive plural)
Merkuriukseksenne (singular translative)
Merkuriuksiksenne (plural translative)
Merkuriuksettanne (abessive singular)
Merkuriuksittanne (abessive plural)
Merkuriuksinenne (comitative plural)
Merkuriuksensa (nominative singular)
Merkuriuksensa (nominative plural)
Merkuriuksensa (accusative nominative singular)
Merkuriuksensa (accusative nominative plural)
Merkuriuksensa (accusative genitive singular)
Merkuriuksensa (accusative genitive plural)
Merkuriuksensa (genitive singular)
Merkuriustensa (genitive plural)
Merkuriuksiensa (genitive plural)
Merkuriustaan (partitive singular)
Merkuriustansa (partitive singular)
Merkuriuksiaan (partitive plural)
Merkuriuksiansa (partitive plural)
Merkuriuksessaan (inessive singular)
Merkuriuksessansa (inessive singular)
Merkuriuksissaan (inessive plural)
Merkuriuksissansa (inessive plural)
Merkuriuksestaan (elative singular)
Merkuriuksestansa (elative singular)
Merkuriuksistaan (elative plural)
Merkuriuksistansa (elative plural)
Merkuriukseensa (illative singular)
Merkuriuksiinsa (illative plural)
Merkuriuksellaan (adessive singular)
Merkuriuksellansa (adessive singular)
Merkuriuksillaan (adessive plural)
Merkuriuksillansa (adessive plural)
Merkuriukseltaan (ablative singular)
Merkuriukseltansa (ablative singular)
Merkuriuksiltaan (ablative plural)
Merkuriuksiltansa (ablative plural)
Merkuriukselleen (allative singular)
Merkuriuksellensa (allative singular)
Merkuriuksilleen (allative plural)
Merkuriuksillensa (allative plural)
Merkuriuksenaan (essive singular)
Merkuriuksenansa (essive singular)
Merkuriuksinaan (essive plural)
Merkuriuksinansa (essive plural)
Merkuriuksekseen (singular translative)
Merkuriukseksensa (singular translative)
Merkuriuksikseen (plural translative)
Merkuriuksiksensa (plural translative)
Merkuriuksettaan (abessive singular)
Merkuriuksettansa (abessive singular)
Merkuriuksittaan (abessive plural)
Merkuriuksittansa (abessive plural)
Merkuriuksineen (comitative plural)
Merkuriuksinensa (comitative plural)


Merkurius

From Dutch Mercurius, from Latin Mercurius.

(Roman mythology) The Roman god associated with speed, sometimes used as a messenger. He wore winged sandals. Mercury corresponded to the Greek god Hermes.


telega

teleżka (diminutive)
telega (nominative singular)
telegi (nominative plural)
telegi (genitive singular)
teleg (genitive plural)
teledze (dative singular)
telegom (dative plural)
telegę (accusative singular)
telegi (accusative plural)
telegą (instrumental singular)
telegami (instrumental plural)
teledze (locative singular)
telegach (locative plural)
telego (singular vocative)
telegi (plural vocative)

Dwie telegi tego rodzaju zastaliśmy przed więzieniem w wewnętrznym jego dziedzińcu[…]

1876, Konstanty Wolicki, Wspomnienia z czasów pobytu w cytadeli warszawskiej i na Syberyi. (Erinnerungen aus den Zeiten des Aufenthaltes in der Warschauer Cittadelle und in Sibirien.), page 57:

We found two telegas of this kind in front of the prison in its inner courtyard […]

(historical) telega (simple four-wheeled Russian cart without springs)


plebe

Borrowed from Latin plēbem. Compare the inherited doublet pieve.

(historical, Ancient Rome) plebs (plebeian class)


succession

en-noun

succession (countable and uncountable, plural successions)

Inherited from Middle English [Term?], from Old French succession, from Latin successiō (noun).

An act, process, or instance of succeeding:

(historical) In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.


palla

Borrowed from Latin palla, of uncertain origin.

(historical, Ancient Rome) palla (cloth worn by ladies)


Louis

From French Louis, from Middle French Loïs, Loïc, &c., from Old French Looïs, Luis, Lodhuvigs, Lodevis, Lodhwig, &c., from Latin Ludovicus, from Clodovicus, from Frankish *Hlūdawīg, from Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz (“loud; famous”) + *wīgą (“battle”).
Doublet of Lewis and, more remotely, Aloysius, Luis, Ludwig, Luigi, and Clovis.
Remotely related to Slav and related terms through the Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear, be heard; famous”) root.

der

It was a strange collection, like Billy Bones’s hoard for the diversity of coinage, but so much larger and so much more varied that I think I never had more pleasure than in sorting them. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, […]

1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

(historical numismatics) Alternative letter-case form of louis: various gold and silver coins issued by the French kings.


Etruscan

en-adj

Etruscan (comparative more Etruscan, superlative most Etruscan)

more Etruscan (comparative)
most Etruscan (superlative)

From Latin Etruscus (which see for more) + -an.

Of or pertaining to the region and culture of Etruria, a pre-Roman civilization in Italy.


Etruscan

The extinct language of Etruria, which has no known relation to any other language.

伊特魯里亞語 /伊特鲁里亚语

Yītèlǔlǐyàyǔ


Ulster Cycle

A large body of prose and verse centering around the traditional heroes of Ulaid and the reign of Conchobar mac Nessa. One of the four major cycles of Irish Mythology.


Gae Bulg

The spear of Cúchulainn, given to him by Aife.


Aífe

Borrowed from Old Irish Aífe; compare Modern Irish Aoife.

Aoibhe (alternative)
Aoife (alternative)

(Irish mythology) Either of two figures of Irish mythology:

A female warrior from Alba (Scotland), the daughter of Airdgeimm and sister of Scáthach, who became Cú Chulainn's lover; featured in the Ulster Cycle.

One of the wives of Lir, who turned her stepchildren into swans; featured in Oidheadh chloinne Lir ("Fate of the Children of Lir").


CP

en-noun

CP (countable and uncountable, plural CPs)

(UK politics, since 2019) Initialism of command paper.


Black and Tan

A member of the RIC British paramilitary force, operating against Irish republicans in the War of Independence 1920/21.

Dúchrónach

member of the RIC British irregular army group


mina

Borrowed from Latin mina, from Ancient Greek μνᾶ (mnâ, “mna”). Compare maneh, from Biblical Hebrew מָנֶה (māne), as well as maund.

What then of the actual fine of thirty minae Socrates proposes? Thirty minae was a large sum, “the equivalent of approximately eight-and-one-half years′ wages," according to one recent estimate (Brickhouse and Smith 1988, 227); enough to buy a library of three thousand philosophy books, if the price of Anaxogoras′ book is any guide (26d6-e2).

1989, C. D. C Reeve, Socrates in the Apology: An Essay on Plato′s Apology of Socrates, page 174:

(historical) A monetary unit of ancient Greece and the Middle East, originally equivalent to the weight of a mina of silver.


heros

heros (nominative singular)
herosi (nominative plural)
herosowie (nominative plural)
herosa (genitive singular)
herosów (genitive plural)
herosowi (dative singular)
herosom (dative plural)
herosa (accusative singular)
herosów (accusative plural)
herosem (instrumental singular)
herosami (instrumental plural)
herosie (locative singular)
herosach (locative plural)
herosie (singular vocative)
herosi (plural vocative)
herosowie (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin hērōs, from Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs). Doublet of gieroj.


Democritus

From Ancient Greek Δημόκριτος (Dēmókritos).

A Greek philosopher (c.460-c.370 BC). The originator of the atomic theory together with his teacher Leucippus.


Hesiod

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin Hēsiodus, from Ancient Greek Ἡσίοδος (Hēsíodos).

slbor

Ancient Greek poet and rhapsodist of the 8th century BCE, known as the first author of didactic verse.


Arthur

From the name of the legendary king, from Middle English Arthure, from Medieval Latin Arthurus, probably from Middle Welsh arth (“bear”).
Other suggestions include Old Welsh arth (“bear”) and ur (“man”), or a Latinized (Romano-British) name; compare Latin Artorius, itself possibly of Etruscan origin, or more likely Messapic-Illyrian related to Proto-Albanian *artsa (“bear”).

A number of places in the United States:

A village in Douglas County and Moultrie County, Illinois.

Wellington North
Wellington North#English

Wellington County
Wellington County#English

A community of Wellington North township, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada, named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.


Arthur

Arabic: آرثر

Japanese: アルテュール (Arutyūru)

Equivalent to English Arthur, used in France since the Middle Ages.


hat trick

hat tricks (plural)
hattrick (alternative)
hat-trick (alternative)

From hat + trick (“element of a magician’s or variety entertainer’s act; entertaining and difficult physical action”, noun). Sense 2 (“achievement of a bowler taking three wickets in three consecutive balls”)—the original sporting sense—refers to the commemorative hat formerly given as a prize to the bowler by his club.

driekuns

three achievements in a single game, competition, season, etc.

שלושער m (shloshá'ar, literally “three-gate or goal”)

གསུམ་སྦྲགས (gsum sbrags, literally “pack-of-three”)

Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament

(UK politics, historical, rare) A means of securing a seat in the House of Commons by a Member of Parliament placing their hat upon it during an absence.


flamen

flamens (plural)
flamines (plural)
flamin (alternative)

(historical, Ancient Rome) A priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis.


hexagram

hexagrams (plural)
hexagramme (alternative)

/ˈhɛksəɡɹæm/

A hollow six-pointed star formed by overlapping two equilateral triangles.

Any of the 64 sets of solid and broken lines, formed by pairs of trigrams, used for divination in the I Ching.

A large silver coin minted during the Byzantine Empire.


energia

energia (nominative singular)
energie (nominative plural)
energii (genitive singular)
energii (genitive plural)
energij (archaic genitive plural)
energii (dative singular)
energiom (dative plural)
energię (accusative singular)
energie (accusative plural)
energią (instrumental singular)
energiami (instrumental plural)
energii (locative singular)
energiach (locative plural)
energio (singular vocative)
energie (plural vocative)
energija (alternative)
energja (alternative)

Internationalism; possibly borrowed from German Energie or French énergie, ultimately from Latin energīa. First attested in 1606. Compare Kashubian energiô and Silesian ynergijŏ.

ref

Rozmowa o rokoszu (in Polish), 1606, page 111: “Nuż co była sama energia, sama medulla rokoszu tego, na żołnierza utriusque partis i na sługi senatorskie i panięce: »Kto cnotliwy, do braciej!« nie zawołano.”

(Ancient Greece, philosophy) energy (form as opposed to matter as potency)


gens

Bilecik Province
Marcus Aurelius
Roman emperor

Borrowed from Latin gēns (“gens; people, tribe”), from Proto-Italic *gentis, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis (“birth; production”), from *ǵenh₁- (“to beget; to give birth; to produce”) + *-tis (suffix forming abstract or action nouns from verb roots). Doublet of kind, genesis, and jati. See also gender, generate, gentile, genus; also Latin gigno (“I bring forth”).

gentile

of or pertaining to a gens or several gentes

[page 568, column 2] There were certain sacred rites (sacra gentilitia) which belonged to a gens, to the observance of which all the members of a gens, as such, were bound, whether they were members by birth, adoption, or adrogation. A person was freed from the observance of such sacra, and lost the privileges connected with his gentile rites, when he lost his gens, that is, when he was adrogated, adopted, or even emancipated; for adrogation, adoption, and emancipation were accompanied by a diminutio capitis. […] [page 569, column 2] As the gentes were subdivisions of the three ancient tribes, the populus (in the ancient sense) alone had gentes, so that to be a patrician and to have a gens were synonymous; and thus we find the expressions gens and patricii constantly united.

1848, G[eorge] L[ong], “GENS”, in William Smith, editor, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 2nd improved and enlarged edition, London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, Upper Gower Street; and Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; John Murray, Albemarle Street, →OCLC, pages 568 and 569:

Caius Julius Caesar belonged to the gens Julius, his father's name was Caesar, and his own individual name (praenomen) was Caius. Women were given the clan name as their own; Caesar's sister was called Julia, and a younger sister would have been called Julia Minor.

1987, Frances Gies, Joseph Gies, “Roots: Roman, German, Christian”, in Marriage and Family in the Middle Ages, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN:

(Ancient Rome, historical) A legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people related through a common ancestor by birth, marriage or adoption, possibly over many generations, and sharing the same nomen gentilicium.


gens

Borrowed from Latin gēns. Doublet of gente.

(Ancient Rome) gens (in Ancient Rome, a group of people descending from a common ancestor)


resignation

en-noun

resignation (countable and uncountable, plural resignations)

/ˌɹɛz.ɪɡˈneɪ.ʃən/

/ˌɹez.ɪɡˈnæɪ.ʃən/

From Middle English resignacion, resignacioun, from Old French resignation, from Medieval Latin resignātiōnem, accusative of resignātio. Equivalent to resign + -ation.

(Scots law, historical) The form by which a vassal returns the feu into the hands of a superior.


inner

outer

antonym(s) of “One who supports remaining in the EU”

From Middle English inner, ynner, ynnere, from Old English innera, comparative of inne (“within”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁en.

(UK politics) One who supports remaining in the European Union.


Bacchus

From the Latin Bacchus, from the Ancient Greek Βάκχος (Bákkhos).

(Roman mythology) Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and vivid social gatherings.


Bacchus

la-proper noun

Bacchus m (genitive Bacchī); second declension

Bacchī (genitive)
Bacchus (nominative singular)
Bacchī (nominative plural)
Bacchī (genitive singular)
Bacchōrum (genitive plural)
Bacchō (dative singular)
Bacchīs (dative plural)
Bacchum (accusative singular)
Bacchōs (accusative plural)
Bacchō (ablative singular)
Bacchīs (ablative plural)
Bacche (singular vocative)
Bacchī (plural vocative)

→ English: Bacchus (learned)

→ French: Bacchus (learned)

→ Italian: Bacco, bacco (learned)

→ Portuguese: Baco (learned)

→ Spanish: Baco (learned)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βάκχος (Bákkhos).

bor+

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Bacchus


Москва

ru-proper noun+

Москва́ • (Moskvá) f inan (genitive Москвы́, relational adjective моско́вский)

Москва́ (canonical)
Moskvá (romanization)
Москвы́ (genitive)
моско́вский (adjective relational)
Москва́ (nominative singular)
Москвы́ (genitive singular)
Москве́ (dative singular)
Москву́ (accusative singular)
Москво́й (instrumental singular)
Москво́ю (instrumental singular)
Москве́ (prepositional singular)
Москва́ (dated nominative singular)
Москвы́ (dated genitive singular)
Москвѣ́ (dated dative singular)
Москву́ (accusative dated singular)
Москво́й (dated instrumental singular)
Москво́ю (dated instrumental singular)
Москвѣ́ (dated prepositional singular)
МСК (alternative)

→ Armenian: Մոսկվա (Moskva)

→ Azerbaijani: Moskva

→ Belarusian: Масква (Maskva)

→ Czech: Moskva

Czech: moskva (“rye bread”) (uncommon)

→ Dungan: Москва (Moskva)

→ Greek: Μόσχα (Móscha)

→ Hebrew: מוסקבה (moskvá)

→ Hungarian: Moszkva

→ Ingrian: Moskova

→ Italian: Mosca

→ Japanese: モスクワ (Mosukuwa)

→ Karaim: Москва (Moskva)

→ Korean: 모스크바 (moseukeuba)

→ Kyrgyz: Москва (Moskva)

→ Latvian: Maskava

→ Lithuanian: Maskva

→ Norwegian Bokmål: Moskva

→ Polish: Moskwa

→ Romanian: Moscova

→ Slovak: Moskva

→ Vietnamese: Mát-xcơ-va

→ Yiddish: מאָסקווע (moskve)

Inherited from Old East Slavic *Москꙑ (*Mosky), originally referring to the river, probably from Proto-Slavic *mosky of unknown origin. Perhaps related to Czech moskva (“raw bread”), Slovak mozga (“puddle”), Polish Mozgawa, and more distantly Lithuanian mazgóti (“to wash, rinse”), Sanskrit मज्जति (májjati, “to sink”), Latin mergō (“to dive”). Doublet of Моско́вия (Moskóvija).

inh+

в Москве́

в Москву́

из Москвы́

Москва́ просну́лась и завизжа́ла трамва́ями. … Ле́тнее со́лнце ликова́ло над полнокро́вной землёй, и взо́рам двух люде́й предста́ла но́вая Москва́ ― чуде́сный го́род могу́щественной культу́ры, упря́мого труда́ и у́много сча́стья.

1926—1927, Andrei Platonov, Эфирный тракт:

Moscow awakened and screamed with trams. … The summer sun rejoiced over the full-blooded land, and two men appeared before the gaze of a new Moscow ― a wonderful city of powerful culture, stubborn labor and intelligent happiness.

Moskvá prosnúlasʹ i zavizžála tramvájami. … Létneje sólnce likoválo nad polnokróvnoj zemljój, i vzóram dvux ljudéj predstála nóvaja Moskvá ― čudésnyj górod mogúščestvennoj kulʹtúry, uprjámovo trudá i úmnovo sčástʹja.

Moscow (a federal city, the capital of Russia)


Xenophanes

From Ancient Greek Ξενοφάνης (Xenophánēs). The name means “of foreign appearance” and is composed of ξένος (xénos, “foreign”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “appear”).

Lucretius was the Xenophanes of Roman culture, a great theorist (visionary), an ardent disciple of Universal Nature, an enemy of all superstition, false gods, and false fear of death, […]

1931, Hermann Schneider, Margaret Minna Green, The History of World Civilization, volume 2, page 614:

No Xenophanes arose amongst the Jews to rebuke them for ascribing to Jahweh acts which would be accounted a shame and a disgrace amongst men; […]

1970, John Arthur Passmore, The Perfectibility of Man, page 77:

Euthyphro is no Xenophanes but as a religious and thinking man he can turn to great teachers; […]

1985, Michael Despland, The Education of Desire, page 33:

The pre-Socratic philosopher Xenophanes of Colophon; by extension or reference, any profound or transformative religious thinker.


Diogenes

Diogenes (nominative singular)
Diogenesowie (nominative plural)
Diogenesa (genitive singular)
Diogenesów (genitive plural)
Diogenesowi (dative singular)
Diogenesom (dative plural)
Diogenesa (accusative singular)
Diogenesów (accusative plural)
Diogenesem (instrumental singular)
Diogenesami (instrumental plural)
Diogenesie (locative singular)
Diogenesach (locative plural)
Diogenesie (singular vocative)
Diogenesowie (plural vocative)

(uncountable, Ancient Greece, philosophy) Diogenes (Ancient Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynicism)


Oceanid

(Greek mythology) Any of the sea nymphs, daughters of Oceanus and Tethys.


Manannán mac Lir

Borrowed from Irish Manannán mac Lir, from Old Irish Manandán mac Lir.


Prometheus

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From Ancient Greek Προμηθεύς (Promētheús), from πρό (pró, “before”) + μανθάνω (manthánō, “to think”).

(Greek mythology) The Titan chiefly honored for stealing fire from Zeus in the stalk of a fennel plant and giving it to mortals for their use. The god of fire and craft.


Prometheus

head

Prometheus m (genitive Prometheus or Prometheus')

Prometheus (genitive)
Prometheus' (genitive)

From Latin Promēthe͡us or from Ancient Greek Προμηθεύς (Promētheús).


Prometheus

la-proper noun

Promētheus m sg (genitive Promētheī or Promētheos); second declension

Promētheus (canonical masculine singular)
Promētheī (genitive)
Promētheos (genitive)
Promētheus (nominative singular)
Promētheī (genitive singular)
Promētheos (genitive singular)
Promētheō (dative singular)
Promētheum (accusative singular)
Promēthea (accusative singular)
Promētheō (ablative singular)
Promētheu (singular vocative)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Προμηθεύς (Promētheús).


Ethniu

(Irish mythology) The daughter of the Fomorian king Balor, wife of Cian and the mother of Lugh and Delbáeth, and the grandmother of Cúchulainn and Fionn mac Cumhaill.


Ethniu

Irish: Eithne

→ Old Norse: Eðna

Icelandic: Eðna

Scottish Gaelic: Eithne

Finn mac Cumail
Finn mac Cumail#Old_Irish

(Irish mythology) The daughter of the Fomorian king Balor, wife of Cían and the mother of Lug and Delbáeth, and the grandmother of Cú Chulainn and Finn mac Cumail.


Balor

(Irish mythology) A king of the Fomorians, supposed to have lived on Tory Island. Son of Buarainech. Husband of Cethlenn. Father of Ethniu.


Buarainech

(Irish mythology) The father of Balor, the King of the Fomorians.


Cethlenn

(Irish mythology) The wife of Balor of the Fomorians, and, by Balor, the mother of Ethniu; also a prophetess.


Olympic Games

From Olympic + games, after Middle French ieux olympiques.

The first Olympic Games are traditionally dated to 776 BC.

In the times of the Olimpike games, with chariots exceeding all other in magnificence, he also sent poets and musitians to present his verses, with tents and pavillions gilt and most suinptuously tapistried.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

Olympic Games. — Besides the ordinary confederacies that join independent states together, a singular federal bond is remarkable in the Olympic games, which for many ages cemented the Grecian commonwealths by a joint tie of recreation and religious ritual.

1840, John Dunlop, The Universal Tendency to Association in Mankind. Analyzed and Illustrated, London: Houlston and Stoneman, page 103:

(historical, Ancient Greece) A sporting festival held every four or five years on the Plain of Olympia in southern Greece, in honour of Zeus.

Olympian kisat

sporting festival held every four or five years in southern Greece


dragoon

en-verb

dragoon (third-person singular simple present dragoons, present participle dragooning, simple past and past participle dragooned)

dragoons (present singular third-person)
dragooning (participle present)
dragooned (participle past)
dragooned (past)

Battle of Cerro Gordo
Battle of Jena–Auerstedt
Mexican–American War
Smithsonian Institution
Édouard Detaille

The noun is borrowed from French dragon (“dragon (mythological creature); type of cavalry soldier, dragoon”) (originally referring to a soldier armed with the firearm of the same name (sense 1.1)), ultimately from Latin dracō (“dragon; kind of serpent or snake”), from Ancient Greek δρᾰ́κων (drắkōn, “dragon; serpent”), possibly from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “to see, see clearly (in the sense of something staring)”), from Proto-Indo-European *derḱ- (“to see”)). Doublet of Draco, dracone, and dragon.
The verb is either derived:
* from the noun; or
* from French dragonner (“to force (someone) into doing something, coerce; to torment (oneself)”), from dragon (noun) (see above) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs).

ref

From the collection of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., United States.

From the collection of the Musée de l'Armée (Army Museum) in Paris, France.

der

She [Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné] appears to have exulted in the extirpation of protestantism in Provence, by the power of her son-in-law, count de Gregnan [i.e., François Adhémar de Monteil, Comte de Grignan]; she even speaks with levity of the sufferings of the huguenots, dragooned into the bosom of the true church.

1803, Mary Hays, “The Marchioness de Sevigne”, in Female Biography; or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of All Ages and Countries. […], volume VI, London: […] Richard Phillips, […] by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, page 401:

This was the pious lady [Ninon de l’Enclos] who, in after times, expiated the faults of her youth by dragooning Huguenots into Catholics.

1845 June, “Art. V.—Lives of Men of Letters and Science who Flourished in the Time of George III. By Henry Lord Brougham. Knight and Co. [book review]”, in The Westminster Review, American edition, volume XLIII, number LXXXV, New York, N.Y.: Leonard Scott & Co., […], →OCLC, footnote *, page 191, column 1:

(Christianity, French politics, historical) To subject (a Huguenot) to the dragonnades (“a policy instituted by Louis XIV of France in 1681 to intimidate Protestant Huguenots to convert to Roman Catholicism by billeting dragoons (noun sense 1.2) in their homes to abuse them and destroy or steal their possessions”).

antaa dragonnadeille

to subject (a Huguenot) to the dragonnades


interlocutor

interlocutors (plural)
interlocutour (alternative)

From French interlocutoire, from Latin interlocūtōrium.

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A decree of the English Court of Chancery is not entitled to more respect in Scotland than a decree (interlocutor) of the Scottish Court of Session in England.

1869, “The Judicial System of Scotland”, in The American Law Register (1852-1891), volume 17, number 5, page 257:


pontiff

Borrowed from Middle French pontife m, from Latin pontifex m. Doublet of pontifex.

(historical, Ancient Rome) A member of the most illustrious of the colleges of priests of the Roman religion, the College of Pontiffs; a pontifex.


ovation

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/əʉˈvæɪ.ʃn̩/

Triumph, a Solemn Honour done to Generals after great Victories, receiving them into Town with Publick Acclamations; there were two ſorts among the Romans; the Great, that was ſimply called Tr[i]umph; and the Little called, Ovation; […] [I]t was by Special Priviledge that L. Cornelius Lentulus, Proconſul, was admitted to this Honour of an Ovation, in 553. […]

1703, “Triumph”, in An Universal, Historical, Geographical, Chronological and Poetical Dictionary, […], volumes II (M–Z), London: […] J[ohn] Hartley, […]; W. Turner, […]; and Tho[mas] Hodgson, […], →OCLC:

The Dictator [Mamercus Aemilius Mamercinus] was allow'd a Triumph, and [Aulus Cornelius] Coſſus an Ovation, wherein he appear'd with the Spoils of K[ing] Volumnius [i.e., Lars Tolumnius], and fix'd them as a ſolemn Offering in the Temple of Jupiter Feretrius, being the firſt Spolia Opima that had been brought thither ſince the Time of Romulus.

1711, “Italy”, in Atlas Geographicus, or, A Compleat System of Geography, Ancient and Modern. […], volume II, in the Savoy [London]: Printed by John Nutt; and sold by Benjamin Barker and Charles King […], →OCLC, page 1404, column 2:

He who had no more than an Ovation granted him, was not crown'd with Laurel, but Myrtle: The Senate, however, and all the ſeveral Orders of Magiſtrates went to meet him. […] It was the way at firſt in Ovations for the Conqueror to go on Foot, but the Cuſtom of riding on Horſeback was afterwards introduc'd. […] Inſtead of bulls, the Victims us'd in the greater Triumphs, they had Sheep in their Ovations, or rather Rams crown'd, which were led before the Conqueror, in order to be ſacrific'd when the Proceſſion was over.

1722, [Bernard de] Montfaucon, “The Triumph for a Naval Victory. II. What the Ovatio was. III. The Ceremonies of the Ovation.”, in David Humphreys, transl., Antiquity Explained, and Represented in Sculptures, … Translated into English, volume III, London: Printed by J[acob] Tonson and J. Watts, →OCLC, book VI (Of the Marks of Victory, […]), paragraph III, pages 104–105:

How attentive were the Romans to the language of ſigns! They wore garments peculiar to their different ranks and ages; they had their togas, and diſtinguiſhing ornaments of various kinds, their roſtrums, their lictors, their faſces, their crowns, ovations, triumphs, &c. all was parade and ceremony; and all had its effect on the minds of the citizens.

1763 January, [Jean-Jacques] Rousseau, “The Difference between Ancient and Modern Eloquence”, in The London Magazine: Or, Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer, volume XXXII, London: Printed for R[ichard] Baldwin, […], →OCLC, page 38:

(Ancient Rome) A victory ceremony of less importance than a triumph.


vestal virgin

From Latin; virgines Vestales referred to the priestesses in charge of the sacred fire in the temple of Vesta in Rome.

(literally) A virgin dedicated to the service of the goddess Vesta.


Athirne

(Irish mythology) Athairne the Importunate, a poet and a satirist of the court of Conchobar mac Nessa in the Ulster Cycle and foster-father of Amairgin mac Echit.


Findchoem

Conall the Victorious
Conall the Victorious

(Irish mythology) Princess of Ulster. Wife of Amairgin mac Echit and sister of Conchobar mac Nessa. Mother of Conall the Victorious.


Achall

(Irish mythology) In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, the daughter of Cairbre Nia Fer; committed suicide after her brother Erc was killed by Conall Cernach.


Fedelm Noíchrothach

The daughter of Conchobar mac Nessa who married Cairbre Nia Fer but was unfaithful to him. Cousin of Conall the Victorious. Mother of Erc and Achall.


Erc

From Old Irish Erc (modern Irish Earc), a word for which the electronic Dictionary of the Irish language gives several meanings, but the most likely meaning for the name is "spotted, speckled, motley," from Proto-Celtic *ɸerkos (“perch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“colored”).

(Irish mythology) A member of the conspiracy that killed Cúchulainn, but was killed by his second cousin Conall the Victorious. Son of Cairbre Nia Fer and brother of Achall.


Briccriu

Bricriu (alternative)
Briccirne (alternative)
Bricne (alternative)

(Irish mythology) In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology: a warrior, poet, and troublemaker who once held a lavish feast for Conchobar mac Nessa and the heroes of Ulster in his house at Dún Rudraige.


Áed Ruad

(Irish mythology) The High King of Ireland who ruled in rotation with his cousins Díthorba and Cimbáeth, each ruling for seven years in turn.


Díthorba

(Irish mythology) One of the three High Kings of Ireland, who ruled in rotation with Áed Ruad and Cimbáeth, each ruling seven years in turn and for three seven-year periods.


Cimbáeth

(Irish mythology) One of the three High Kings of Ireland, who ruled in rotation with Áed Ruad and Díthorba, each ruling seven years in turn and ruling for three seven year period. He died of plague at Emain Macha.


Finnbhennach

(Irish mythology) In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, an extremely fertile stud bull owned by king Ailill mac Máta. He was originally one of Bodb Dearg's pig-keepers, who fell out with one of his colleagues.


recognition

en-noun

recognition (usually uncountable, plural recognitions)

/ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃən/

From Middle English recognicion, from Middle French recognicion, recognition and its etymon Latin recognitiōnem (accusative of recognitiō), from recognitus, past participle of recognōscere.

(Scots law, historical) A return of the feu to the superior.


Constantinople

From Middle English Constantinople, ultimately from Late Latin Constantinopolis, from Ancient Greek Κωνσταντινούπολις (Kōnstantinoúpolis, “City of Constantine”), after Roman emperor Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus (also known as Constantine I, St. Constantine, and/or Constantine the Great).

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Κωνσταντινούπολις

Constantinopolis (alternative)
Konstantinoupolis (alternative)

Name of present-day Istanbul from 330–1930 C.E.. Previously known as Byzantium.

കോണ്സ്റ്റാന്റിനോപ്പിള്

kōṇsṟṟānṟinōppiḷŭ


Terpsichore

From Ancient Greek Τερψιχόρη (Terpsikhórē, from τέρψις (térpsis, “enjoyment, delight”) + χορός (khorós, “chorus”)).

uder

(Greek mythology) The goddess of dance and the dramatic chorus, and one of the Muses; the daughters of Zeus & Mnemosyne.


Thetis

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Thetis.wav

(Greek mythology) One of the Nereids; the mother of Achilles


censor

The noun is borrowed from Latin cēnsor (“magistrate; critic”), from cēnseō (“to give an opinion, judge; to assess, reckon; to decree, determine”) + -sor (variant of -tor (suffix forming masculine agent nouns)). Cēnseō is derived from Proto-Italic *kensēō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱens- (“to announce, proclaim; to put in order”). The English word is cognate with Late Middle English sensour, Proto-Iranian *cánhati (“to declare; to explain”), Sanskrit शंसति (śaṃsati, “to declare”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

cog

The Ancient Roman censors were part of the cursus honorum, a series of public offices held during a political career, like consuls and praetors.

And Nobly nam'd, ſo twice being Cenſor, / Was his great Anceſtor.

c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 14, column 1:

Neither [the Segetes Lustrantur and the Oves Lustrantur] are in this place, to be underſtood the Luſtra, which were wont to be Celebrated at Rome by the Cenſors, after the Cenſus of Citizens was made by a Sacrifice of the Suovetaurilia; for they had ceaſed long ago, as appeareth by what Cenſorinus writeth in his Book de Die Natali; at which time the Office of Cenſors also ceaſed, which ſome endeavoured, though in vain, to re-eſtabliſh.

1685, William Howel[l], “The History of the Reformation of Religion by Constantine”, in An Institution of General History, or The History of Ecclesiastical Affairs of the World. […], London: […] Miles Flesher, →OCLC, paragraph 17, page 7:

[page 110] [Justus] Lipſius divides the Duty of the Cenſors into two Heads; the Survey of the People, and the Cenſure of Manners. […] With respect to the latter part of their Office, they had the power to puniſh an Immorality in any Perſon, of what Order ſoever. […] [page 111] 'Tis very remarkable, that if one of the Cenſors died, no body was ſubſtituted in his room 'till the next Luſtrum, and his Partner was oblig'd to quit his Office; becauſe the Death of a Cenſor happen'd juſt before the ſacking of Rome by the Gauls, and was ever after accounted highly ominous and unfortunate.

1696, Basil Kennett, “Of the Censors”, in Romæ Antiquæ Notitia: Or, The Antiquities of Rome. […], London: […] A. Swall and T. Child, […], →OCLC, part II, book III (Of the Civil Government of the Romans), pages 110–111:

At the head of his victorious legions, in his reign over the ſea and land, from the Nile and Euphrates to the Atlantic ocean, Auguſtus proclaimed himſelf the ſervant of the ſtate and the equal of his fellow-citizens. The conqueror of Rome and her provinces aſſumed the popular and legal form of a cenſor, a conſul, and a tribune.

1788, Edward Gibbon, chapter XLIX, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume V, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, pages 168–169:

The Censors were always two in number, and were originally chosen from the Patricians exclusively. In B.C. 351, we find for the first time a Plebeian Censor, G[aius] Marcius Rutilus. In B.C. 339, a Lex Publilia was passed by Q[uintus] Publilius Philo when Dictator, enacting that at least one of the Censors must be a Plebeian.

1876, William Ramsay, “Magistrates of the Regal and Republican Periods and under the Early Emperors”, in A Manual of Roman Antiquities, 10th edition, London: Charles Griffin and Company […], →OCLC, page 165:

(Ancient Rome, historical) One of the two magistrates who originally administered the census of citizens, and by Classical times (between the 8th century B.C.E. and the 6th century C.E.) was a high judge of public behaviour and morality.


censor

censor (indefinite nominative singular)
censors (genitive indefinite singular)
censorn (definite nominative singular)
censorns (definite genitive singular)
censorer (indefinite nominative plural)
censorers (genitive indefinite plural)
censorerna (definite nominative plural)
censorernas (definite genitive plural)

(classical studies) censor; a Roman census administrator


irritate

en-verb

irritate (third-person singular simple present irritates, present participle irritating, simple past and past participle irritated)

irritates (present singular third-person)
irritating (participle present)
irritated (participle past)
irritated (past)

From Latin irritātus, past participle of irritō (“I invalidate, annul”), from irritus (“invalid”), negation of ratus (“valid, established, fixed”).

/ˈɪɹ.ɪˌteɪt/

c. 1634-1661 John Bramhall, Protestants' Ordination Defended
Are human laws presently superfluous, so often as they do not irritate or abrogate Divine laws ?

(transitive, obsolete, Scots law) To render null and void.


facility

en-noun

facility (countable and uncountable, plural facilities)

From Middle English facilite, from Middle French facilité, and its source, Latin facilitās. By surface analysis, facile + -ity. Doublet of faculty.

(Scots law) A condition of mental weakness less than idiocy, but enough to make a person easily persuaded to do something against their better interest.


Poseidon

(Greek mythology) The god of the sea and other waters, earthquakes and horses; corresponds to the Roman god Neptune.


Poseidon

Poseidon (nominative singular)
Poseidona (genitive singular)
Poseidonovi (dative singular)
Poseidona (accusative singular)
Poseidone (singular vocative)
Poseidonovi (locative singular)
Poseidonem (instrumental singular)
Poseidón (alternative)


Poseidon

de-proper noun

Poseidon m (proper noun, strong, genitive Poseidons)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ποσειδῶν (Poseidôn).


Poseidon

Posídon (alternative)
Possêidon (alternative)
Posidão (alternative)

(Greek mythology) Poseidon (god of the sea)


Poseidon

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ποσειδῶν (Poseidôn).


Elysium

From Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἠλῠ́σῐον (Πεδῐ́ον) (Ēlŭ́sĭon (Pedĭ́on)).

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Ἠλῠ́σῐον (Πεδῐ́ον)

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) The home of the blessed after death.

至福樂土 /至福乐土

home of the blessed after death in Greek and Roman mythology — see also Elysian Fields


Elysium

de-noun

Elysium n (strong, genitive Elysiums, plural Elysien)

Elysiums (genitive)
Elysien (plural)
Elysium (nominative singular)
Elysien (definite nominative plural)
Elysiums (genitive singular)
Elysien (definite genitive plural)
Elysium (dative singular)
Elysien (dative definite plural)
Elysium (accusative singular)
Elysien (accusative definite plural)

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Ἠλῠ́σῐον (Πεδῐ́ον)

Freude, schöner Götterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,

1785, Friedrich Schiller, Ode an die Freude, 1nd stanza, lines 1-4

(please add an English translation of this quotation)

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Elysium (home of the blessed after death)


Elysium

la-proper noun

Ēlysium n sg (genitive Ēlysiī or Ēlysī); second declension

Ēlysium (canonical neuter singular)
Ēlysiī (genitive)
Ēlysī (genitive)
Ēlysium (nominative singular)
Ēlysiī (genitive singular)
Ēlysī (genitive singular)
Ēlysiō (dative singular)
Ēlysium (accusative singular)
Ēlysiō (ablative singular)
Ēlysium (singular vocative)

desctree

→ French: Élysée m, Elysée
→ English: Élysée
→ Korean: 엘리제 (Ellije)

[eːˈlʲʏs̠iʊ̃ˑ]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἠλῠ́σῐον (Ēlŭ́sĭon).


Elysian Fields

Calque of Latin Campī Ēlysiī, from Ancient Greek Ἠλῠ́σῐον Πεδῐ́ον (Ēlŭ́sĭon Pedĭ́on). By surface analysis, Elysian + fields.

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Ἠλῠ́σῐον Πεδῐ́ον

Indeed, the Elysian Fields themselves were a part of Hades, though they have since been removed to Paris.

1911, Ambrose Bierce, “Hades”, in The Devil’s Dictionary, New York, N.Y., Washington, D.C.: The Neale Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 127:

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Elysium; home of the blessed, after death.

Ելիսեյան մարգագետիններ

home of the blessed after death in Greek and Roman mythology — see also Elysium


purdah

en-noun

purdah (countable and uncountable, plural purdahs)

purdahs (plural)
pardah (alternative)
purda (alternative)

Borrowed from Hindustani پردہ / पर्दा (pardā), and its etymon Classical Persian پرده (pardah, “curtain; screen; (archaic) veil”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).

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Despite Rail Minister Chris Heaton-Harris's reassurance that "the White Paper is coming" it was further delayed by the period of purdah that preceded local elections held on May 6.

2021 June 2, “Network News: ‘Root and Branch’ Review Three Years in the Making”, in Rail, number 932, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:

(countable, UK politics) The period between the announcement of an election or referendum and its conclusion, during which civil servants refrain from making policy announcements or taking actions that could be seen as advantageous to certain candidates in the election.


Koine

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κοινή (Koinḗ), from ἡ κοινὴ διάλεκτος (hē koinḕ diálektos, “the common dialect”), from κοινός (koinós, “shared, common, public, general, ordinary, usual”).

bor+

The “common” Greek language that developed and flourished between 300 B.C.E. and 300 C.E. (the time of the Roman Empire), and from which Modern Greek descended. It was based on the Attic and Ionian dialects of Ancient Greek.


vespillo

Like vespilloes or gravemakers.

1642, [Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici, London: […] Andrew Crooke, →OCLC:

(Ancient Rome) One who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial.


Victorian

From Victoria + -an (suffix forming adjectives and agent nouns), from the name of Queen Victoria (1819–1901), monarch of the United Kingdom.

suffix

It was not until the late 1800s when older members of New York society, aghast at the invasion of vulgar "new money," devised a daunting system of social rules – not to mention silverware – meant to repel anyone of humble origins who dared to sit down at one of their twelve-course dinners. It was the Victorians who gave us such useful implements as the strawberry knife.

2008 May 29 – June 4, Aimee Levitt, “St. Louis’ etiquette masters tell us how to mind our manners”, in Riverfront Times, St. Louis, Mo.: Euclid Media Group, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-06-02, page 20:

The arrival of the railway turned this isolated fishing village into a popular seaside destination for Victorians who came to breathe fresh sea air, clear their lungs or take the waters.

2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: The Nation’s Finest Stations: Grange-over-Sands”, in Rail, number 948, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27:

A person born in or living in the Victorian period, or exhibiting characteristics of that period.

викторианец

The commercial resurgence brought about by the area's changing tastes is reflected in midtown's conglomeration of refurbished Victorians, apartments, specialty shops, offices, corner groceries, restaurants, single-family homes, and bed and breakfast inns.

1987, Faren Maree Bachelis, “Downtown Sacramento”, in The Pelican Guide to Sacramento and the Gold Country (A Firebird Press Book), Gretna, New Orleans, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 86:

(chiefly US, architecture) A house built in the Victorian architectural style.


Victorian

From Victoria (“capital of British Columbia, Canada”) + -an (suffix forming adjectives and agent nouns); incorporated as a city in 1862, the settlement which preceded the city was named Fort Victoria after Queen Victoria in 1843.

(Canada) Of, or native or relating to, the city of Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, Canada.


Victorian

(Canada) A person from the city of Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, Canada.


Celtchar

Celtchair (alternative)
Celtar (alternative)
Keltchar (alternative)

(Irish mythology) A leading figure in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology: an Ulster warrior described as tall, grey, and ugly, and who wields a spear called Luír Cheltchair, and who killed Blaí Briugu after the latter slept with his wife Brig Bretach.


Luír Cheltchair

(Irish mythology) The spear wielded by Celtchar. Its lust for blood is so great that it has to be dipped in a cauldron of poison to control it.


Brig Bretach

(Irish mythology) In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, the wife of Celtchar. Her husband Celtchar killed Blaí Briugu for sleeping with her as Blaí Briugu was required to do so by the latter's geas.


Blaí Briugu

(Irish mythology) In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, a wealthy Ulster warrior who kept a hostel. He was killed by Celtchar for sleeping with the latter's wife Brig Bretach.


Ferdiad

(Irish mythology) In Irish mythology, Cúchulainn's best friend and foster-brother.


prefect

prefects (plural)
præfect (alternative)
praefect (alternative)

From Middle English prefect and prefecte, from Old French prefect (Mod. French préfet), from Latin praefectus (“one placed in charge, overseer, director, prefect”), from praeficere (“to place in charge”).

prefekt

the head of a prefecture, whether a Japanese prefecture, French department, or Balkan county

the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, or of provisions; the pretorian prefect, who was commander of the troops guarding the emperor's person

Or think of a decent young citizen in a toga - perhaps too much dice, you know - coming out here in the train of some prefect, or tax-gatherer, or trader even, to mend his fortunes.

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 196:

It seems that in the autumn of 803 he went on leave. His uncle Po Chi-chên, had recently been moved from his post at Hsü-chou and promoted to be Prefect of Hsü-chʻang in Central Honan.

1951, Arthur Waley, The Life and Times of Po Chü-i, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, page 33:

(historical) An official of Ancient Rome who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.


basileus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βασιλεύς (basileús, “chief, king”).

bor

For two centuries its towers and domes were to rise in the heavens, drawing the attention of Emperors and Basilei, of Popes and Patriarchs.

Although portrayals of basileis of the eleventh century wearing the loros in the traditional manner are not lacking, I cannot cite a Byzantine example of metropolitan origin later than 1100.

1990, Ernst Kitzinger, The Mosaics of St. Mary’s of the Admiral in Palermo, Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, →ISBN, page 192:

The revitalization of the Byzantine Empire during the reigns of the energetic and capable basilei of the Comnens dynasty: Alexios I (1081-1118), John II (1118-1143) and Manuel (1143-1180), and the wars with a Rum Sultanate troubled by dynastic fights drastically diminished its possessions in Anatolia.

2003, Victor Spinei, The Great Migrations in the East and South East of Europe from the Ninth to the Thirteenth Century, Romanian Cultural Institute, →ISBN, page 193:

It is quite easy to establish the identity of these “Roman princes” who reoccupied Pannonia after Attila’s death: they were the basilei from Constantinople who, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, claimed to be the only successors of the Caesars (around the turn of the 9ᵗʰ century they began to call themselves “basilei of the Romans”—“basileis ton Romanon” or “Romaion”).

2007, Transylvanian Review, volume 16, Romanian Cultural Foundation, page 16:

In our third example, the tyrant Nabis usurped power from the traditional, dual basileis of Sparta, then had them executed.

2017, Michael Martin, City of the Sun: Development and Popular Resistance in the Pre-Modern West, New York, N.Y.: Algora Publishing, →ISBN, page 64:

The basileis of the Iron Age were now replaced with various appointed and elected magistrates.

2020, David B. Small, “Institutional Evolution of Ancient Greece”, in Dmitri M[ikhailovich] Bondarenko, Stephen A. Kowalewski, David B. Small, editors, The Evolution of Social Institutions: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures), Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 274:

It would probably be worth seeking a possible connection-and-overlay between the name of one of the Byzantine basilei of the 9th century and the godfather of Boris I, Michael III, and that of the Bulgarian ruler Boris-Michael himself, who also lived in that age.

2020, Tsvetelin Stepanov, translated by Daria Manova, Waiting for the End of the World: European Dimensions, 950–1200 (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450; 57), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 251:

“Peter and Maria basilei of Bugaria,” “Peter and Maria in Christ autocrats of the Bulgarians,” and “Peter and Maria in Christ august autocrats and basilei.”

2023, Christian Raffensperger, Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe, 1000-1200, Abingdon, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:


Urano

(Greek mythology) Uranus, Greek god of the sky and heavens.


Urano

planets of the Solar System: planeta do sistema solar: Mercurio · Venus · Terra · Marte · Xúpiter · Saturno · Urano · Neptuno [edit]


Urano

From Latin Ūranus, from Ancient Greek Οὐρανός (Ouranós), from οὐρανός (ouranós, “sky, heaven”).

planets of the Solar System: pianeti del sistema solare: Mercurio · Venere · Terra · Marte · Giove · Saturno · Urano · Nettuno [edit]


Urano

planets of the Solar System: planeta do sistema solar: Mercúrio · Vénus~Vênus · Terra · Marte · Júpiter · Saturno · Urano~Úrano · Neptuno~Netuno [edit]

(Greek mythology) Uranus (primal god of the sky)


Urano

[ʔʊˈɾaː.n̪o]


urna

A wine vessel, probably the Roman urna, which contained half the quantity of the amphora.

1810, A Description of the Collection of Ancient Terracottas of the British Museum, British Museum, No. XXXIX, page 22:

The congius was the 8th part of the amphora, and the 4th of the urna: it contained 6 sextarii.

1847, Francis Adams, The Seven Books of Paulus Ægeineta, volume 3, The Sydenham Society, page 623:

It follows that the seah must equal the urna, and the hin equal 2 Attic choes.

1903, Sir Charles Warren, The Ancient Cubit and Our Weights and Measures, page 89:

(historical) A Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of 40 Roman pounds of wine and equivalent to about 13 L although differing slightly over time.


urna

la-noun

urna f (genitive urnae); first declension

urnae (genitive)
urna (nominative singular)
urnae (nominative plural)
urnae (genitive singular)
urnārum (genitive plural)
urnae (dative singular)
urnīs (dative plural)
urnam (accusative singular)
urnās (accusative plural)
urnā (ablative singular)
urnīs (ablative plural)
urna (singular vocative)
urnae (plural vocative)

Asturian: urna

Catalan: urna

English: urn, urna

Esperanto: urno

French: urne

Galician: urna

Georgian: ურნა (urna)

German: Urne

Italian: urna

Norwegian: urne (Bokmål), urne (Nynorsk)

Portuguese: urna

Romanian: urnă

Russian: у́рна (úrna)

Spanish: urna

Probably from *urc-na, with simplification of the cluster. Ernout and Meillet view this word, urceus, orca and Greek ὕρχη (húrkhē) (other words for vessels) as all related somehow via borrowing (with the exact source and pathway unclear). Bennett 1907 indicates that the length of the vowel in the first syllable is not established, noting that the Italian descendant could be a learned form, and hypothesizes that the word is derived from a weak grade of the root arc-, presumably referring to the root found in arceō, arca, and arx, which is now reconstructed as *h₂erk-. However, Schrijver 1991 argues that word-initial *HRC- normally has a reflex of aRC in Latin (as in argentum from *h₂r̥ǵn̥to-), which would exclude Bennett's favored etymology.
By an alternative derivation, from ūrō (“burn, singe”) in reference to the firing of the clay in their creation.

(chiefly historical) ballot box, particularly the urns used in gathering Roman ballots under the Republic


adherence

en-noun

adherence (countable and uncountable, plural adherences)

adherences (plural)
adhærence (alternative)

From Middle French adhérence, from Latin adhærentia.

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(Scots law) The fulfilment of the legal obligation of residing with wife or husband.


symposium

symposium (plural symposiums or symposia)

Borrowed from Latin symposium, from Ancient Greek συμπόσιον (sumpósion, “drinking party”) from συμπίνω (sumpínō, “drink together”) συν- (sun-, “together-”) + πίνω (pínō, “drink”).

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Symposium in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Alternative form: symposion

A drinking party in Ancient Greece, especially one with intellectual discussion.

пиршество

a drinking party in Ancient Greece, especially one with intellectual discussion