Orion

Orion (nominative singular)
Orion (accusative nominative singular)
Orionin (accusative genitive singular)
Orionin (genitive singular)
Orionia (partitive singular)
Orionissa (inessive singular)
Orionista (elative singular)
Orioniin (illative singular)
Orionilla (adessive singular)
Orionilta (ablative singular)
Orionille (allative singular)
Orionina (essive singular)
Orioniksi (singular translative)
Orionitta (abessive singular)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Orionini (nominative singular)
Orionini (accusative nominative singular)
Orionini (accusative genitive singular)
Orionini (genitive singular)
Orioniani (partitive singular)
Orionissani (inessive singular)
Orionistani (elative singular)
Orioniini (illative singular)
Orionillani (adessive singular)
Orioniltani (ablative singular)
Orionilleni (allative singular)
Orioninani (essive singular)
Orionikseni (singular translative)
Orionittani (abessive singular)
Orionisi (nominative singular)
Orionisi (accusative nominative singular)
Orionisi (accusative genitive singular)
Orionisi (genitive singular)
Orioniasi (partitive singular)
Orionissasi (inessive singular)
Orionistasi (elative singular)
Orioniisi (illative singular)
Orionillasi (adessive singular)
Orioniltasi (ablative singular)
Orionillesi (allative singular)
Orioninasi (essive singular)
Orioniksesi (singular translative)
Orionittasi (abessive singular)
Orionimme (nominative singular)
Orionimme (accusative nominative singular)
Orionimme (accusative genitive singular)
Orionimme (genitive singular)
Orioniamme (partitive singular)
Orionissamme (inessive singular)
Orionistamme (elative singular)
Orioniimme (illative singular)
Orionillamme (adessive singular)
Orioniltamme (ablative singular)
Orionillemme (allative singular)
Orioninamme (essive singular)
Orioniksemme (singular translative)
Orionittamme (abessive singular)
Orioninne (nominative singular)
Orioninne (accusative nominative singular)
Orioninne (accusative genitive singular)
Orioninne (genitive singular)
Orionianne (partitive singular)
Orionissanne (inessive singular)
Orionistanne (elative singular)
Orioniinne (illative singular)
Orionillanne (adessive singular)
Orioniltanne (ablative singular)
Orionillenne (allative singular)
Orioninanne (essive singular)
Orioniksenne (singular translative)
Orionittanne (abessive singular)
Orioninsa (nominative singular)
Orioninsa (accusative nominative singular)
Orioninsa (accusative genitive singular)
Orioninsa (genitive singular)
Orioniaan (partitive singular)
Orioniansa (partitive singular)
Orionissaan (inessive singular)
Orionissansa (inessive singular)
Orionistaan (elative singular)
Orionistansa (elative singular)
Orioniinsa (illative singular)
Orionillaan (adessive singular)
Orionillansa (adessive singular)
Orioniltaan (ablative singular)
Orioniltansa (ablative singular)
Orionilleen (allative singular)
Orionillensa (allative singular)
Orioninaan (essive singular)
Orioninansa (essive singular)
Orionikseen (singular translative)
Orioniksensa (singular translative)
Orionittaan (abessive singular)
Orionittansa (abessive singular)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ὠρῑ́ων (Ōrī́ōn)


Orion

la-proper noun

Ōrīōn m sg (genitive Ōrīōnis); third declension

Ōrīōn (canonical masculine singular)
Ōrīōnis (genitive)
Ōrīōn (nominative singular)
Ōrīōnis (genitive singular)
Ōrīōnī (dative singular)
Ōrīōnem (accusative singular)
Ōrīōne (ablative singular)
Ōrīōn (singular vocative)

→ Middle English: Orioun (learned)

English: Orion

→ Portuguese: Orion (learned)

→ Sicilian: Uriuni


Orion

Órion (alternative)
Orionte (alternative)

(Greek mythology) Orion (a giant-hunter)


minotaur

/ˈmɪnəˌtɔː(ɹ)/

/ˈmaɪnəˌtɑɹ/

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μινώταυρος (Minṓtauros), from Μίνως (Mínōs, “Minos, king of Crete”) + ταῦρος (taûros, “bull”).

af

(Greek mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Minotaur

مَنْطُور

monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man


Morpheus

Borrowed from Latin Morpheus (possibly coined by Ovid in his Metamorphoses as the god is not mentioned in earlier works), from Ancient Greek Μορφεύς (Morpheús), from μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”) (alluding to the fact that Morpheus appeared in dreams in the forms of different people) + -εύς (-eús, suffix forming masculine nouns indicating persons concerned with particular things).

(Greek mythology) The god and personification of dreams; according to the Roman poet Ovid, one of the sons of Somnus, the god of sleep.


Aphrodite

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē) (see it for more).

bor+

Coordinate term: (Roman counterpart) Venus

In the "Iliad", Aphrodite is represented as the daughter of Zeus and Dione, the goddess of moisture, who, as the wife of the god of heaven, was held in high esteem among the old Pelasgians.

1877, Otto Seemann, The Mythology of Greece and Rome: With Special Reference to Its Use in Art, page 65:

(Greek mythology) The goddess of beauty and love, born when Cronus castrated his father, Uranus, and threw his genitalia into the sea.


Aphrodite

From Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē).


Aphrodite

la-proper noun

Aphrodītē f sg (genitive Aphrodītēs); first declension

Aphrodītē (canonical feminine singular)
Aphrodītēs (genitive)
Aphrodītē (nominative singular)
Aphrodītēs (genitive singular)
Aphrodītae (dative singular)
Aphrodītēn (accusative singular)
Aphrodītē (ablative singular)
Aphrodītē (singular vocative)

[äpʰrɔˈd̪iːt̪eː]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē).


Europa

From Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē), a character name in Greek mythology.
Doublet of Europe.

(Greek mythology) Several characters, most notably a Phoenician princess abducted to Crete by Zeus.


Europa

From Middle Dutch europa, from Latin Eurōpa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπᾱ (Eurṓpā), Doric form of Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē).

(Greek mythology) a Phoenician princess abducted to Crete by Zeus


Europa

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Europa, from Latin Eurōpa, borrowed from Doric Greek Εὐρώπα (Eurṓpa).

etymon

(Greek mythology) Europa (woman seduced by Zeus)


Europa

From Middle High German Eurōpā, borrowed from Latin Eurōpa, borrowed from Doric Greek Εὐρώπα (Eurṓpa).

(Greek mythology) Europa (a Phoenician princess abducted to Crete by Zeus)


Europa

it:52 Europa
it:Europa
it:Europa (Oceanina)
it:Europa (astronomia)
it:Europa (figlia di Agenore)
it:Europa (natante)

(mythology, Greek mythology) Europa (consort of Zeus, daughter of Agenor)

(mythology, Greek mythology) Europa (daughter of Oceanus and Tethys)


Europa

la-proper noun

Eurōpa f sg (genitive Eurōpae); first declension

Eurōpa (canonical feminine singular)
Eurōpae (genitive)
Eurōpa (nominative singular)
Eurōpae (genitive singular)
Eurōpae (dative singular)
Eurōpam (accusative singular)
Eurōpā (ablative singular)
Eurōpa (singular vocative)
Eurōpē (alternative)

Catalan: Europa

Italian: Europa

→ Sicilian: Europa

→ Turkish: Avrupa

Old French:

Middle French:

French: Europe

desctree

Old Galician-Portuguese: Europa, Eyropa
Fala: Europa
Galician: Europa
Portuguese: Europa
→ Burmese: ဥရောပ (u.rau:pa.)
→ Hunsrik: Ëuropa
→ Japanese: ヨーロッパ (Yōroppa)

Old Spanish:

Spanish: Europa

Sicilian: Aurupa

Bulgarian: Европа (Evropa)

Mandarin: 歐羅巴 /欧罗巴 (Ōuluóbā)

Middle Dutch: europa

Dutch: Europa (see there for further descendants)

Middle English: Europe
English: Europe, Europa (see there for further descendants)
Scots: Europe

Middle High German: Eurōpā
German: Europa

Romanian: Europa

Russian: Европа (Jevropa)

Borrowed from Doric Greek Εὐρώπα (Eurṓpa); cognate with Attic Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē).

la:52 Europa
la:Europa
la:Europa (mythologia)
la:Europa (satelles)

(Greek mythology) Europa (daughter of Phoenician king Agenor who was abducted by Jupiter and carried to Crete)


Europa

europejski (adjective)
Europa (nominative singular)
Europy (genitive singular)
Europie (dative singular)
Europę (accusative singular)
Europą (instrumental singular)
Europie (locative singular)
Europo (singular vocative)

Etymology tree
Doric Greek Εὐρώπα (Eurṓpa)bor.
Latin Eurōpalbor.
Polish Europa
Learned borrowing from Latin Eurōpa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē).

etymon

(Greek mythology) Europa (princess abducted to Crete by Zeus)


Europa

→ Burmese: ဥရောပ (u.rau:pa.)

→ Hunsrik: Ëuropa

→ Japanese: ヨーロッパ (Yōroppa)

(Greek mythology) Europa (Phoenician princess)


Europa

Borrowed from Latin Eurōpa. Doublet of Sicilian Aurupa.

Aurupa (alternative)
Arupa (alternative)
Eurupa (alternative)
Iurupa (alternative)


Europa

→⇒ Ye'kwana: Eudojanña


Europa

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπα (Eurṓpa).

Europe, the westernmost part of the Eurasian continent, north of Africa and west of Asia


crave

From Middle English craven, from Old English crafian (“to crave, ask, implore, demand, summon”), from Proto-West Germanic *krafōn, from Proto-Germanic *krafjaną (“to demand”). Cognate with Danish kræve (“to demand, require”), Swedish kräva (“to crave, demand”), Icelandic krefja (“to demand”), Norwegian kreve (“to demand”).

inh

(Scots law) A formal application to a court to make a particular order.


Maggie

(informal) Margaret Thatcher, former British prime minister.


aloe

Borrowed from Ancient Greek (τὰ) Ἁλῶα ((tà) Halôa), derived from ἅλως (hálōs, “threshing floor”).

bor+

(historical, Ancient Greece) a festival dedicated to Demeter, celebrated in the time of the harvesting of grapes


Argus

(Greek mythology) A mythical being, also called Argos or Argus Panoptes, with many eyes, a watchman who served Hera; his eyes were later transplanted to the peacock's tail.


Argus

la-noun

Argus m sg (genitive Argī); second declension

Argī (genitive)
Argus (nominative singular)
Argī (genitive singular)
Argō (dative singular)
Argum (accusative singular)
Argō (ablative singular)
Arge (singular vocative)


Argus

Argus (nominative singular)
Argusa (genitive singular)
Argusowi (dative singular)
Argusa (accusative singular)
Argusem (instrumental singular)
Argusie (locative singular)
Argusie (singular vocative)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἄργος (Árgos).


atrium

atrium (nominative singular)
atria (nominative plural)
atrium (genitive singular)
atriów (genitive plural)
atrium (dative singular)
atriom (dative plural)
atrium (accusative singular)
atria (accusative plural)
atrium (instrumental singular)
atriami (instrumental plural)
atrium (locative singular)
atriach (locative plural)
atrium (singular vocative)
atria (plural vocative)

(architecture, Ancient Rome) atrium (a central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings)


augur

Borrowed from Latin augur, of uncertain origin; akin to augurō (“interpret omens”).

It was an ancient tradition, that when the Capitol was founded by one of the Roman kings, the god Terminus (who presided over boundaries, and was represented, according to the fashion of that age, by a large stone) alone, among all the inferior deities, refused to yield his place to Jupiter himself. A favorable inference was drawn from his obstinacy, which was interpreted by the augurs as a sure presage that the boundaries of the Roman power would never recede.

1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol I, ch 1-pt ii:

(Ancient Rome) An official who interpreted omens before the start of public events.


augur

augur (nominative singular)
augurzy (nominative plural)
augury (derogatory nominative plural)
augura (genitive singular)
augurów (genitive plural)
augurowi (dative singular)
augurom (dative plural)
augura (accusative singular)
augurów (accusative plural)
augurem (instrumental singular)
augurami (instrumental plural)
augurze (locative singular)
augurach (locative plural)
augurze (singular vocative)
augurzy (plural vocative)

(Ancient Rome) augur (an official who interpreted omens before the start of public events)


boyar

boyars (plural)
boyard (alternative)
bolyard (alternative)

From Russian боя́ре (bojáre), plural of боя́рин (bojárin).

Boris had abdicated in 889, leaving the throne to his son Vladimir, who had immediately identified himself with the boyar aristocracy which Boris had done his utmost to crush.

1997, John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium, Penguin, published 1998, page 159:

A long series of wars was fought in the sixteenth century to keep Polish influence at bay in the West Russian lands, and prevent it from seducing Muscovy's restless boyars, the warrior-barons whose independence the grand dukes were determined to crush.

2007, John Darwin, After Tamerlane, Penguin, published 2008, page 68:

some of his family looked to Orthodox Christianity to sustain them, and not only many of his boyars but most of his subjects were Orthodox Christians.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 514:

(historical) A member of a rank of aristocracy (second only to princes) in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia and Romania.


corona

en-noun

corona (plural coronas or coronae or (obsolete) coronæ)

coronas (plural)
coronae (plural)
coronæ (obsolete plural)

→ Japanese: コロナ (korona)

The noun is borrowed from Latin corōna (“crown; garland, wreath”), from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē, “type of crown; curved object (door handle, tip of a bow, stern of a ship, etc.)”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). The English word is a doublet of crown, korona, koruna, krona, króna, and krone.
The plural form coronae is borrowed from Latin corōnae.
The verb is derived from the noun.

laki

upper or crownlike portion of certain parts of the body

kruunu

appendage of an organism that resembles a crown or corona

From the remark of Servius [i.e., Maurus Servius Honoratus] (ad Aen. v. 269) it appears that coronae adorned with lemnisci were a greater distinction than those without them.

1842, Leonhard Schmitz, “λημνίσκος [lēmnískos, LEMNISCUS]”, in William Smith, editor, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: […] [Samuel Bentley] for Taylor and Walton, […], →OCLC, page 557, column 2:

Funerary inscriptions of soldiers under the Empire are frequently accompanied by representation of the dona militaria awarded during service. We instantly recognise depictions of torques, armillae, phalerae (often attached to a special harness), and various types of coronae.

1997 January, Lawrence Keppie, “Military Service in the Late Republic: The Evidence of Inscriptions and Sculpture”, in Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies, volume 8, Ryton, Tyne and Wear: M. C. Bishop, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 1:

Though men typically did not wear hats, they could wear a ceremonial form of headwear known as a corona, or crown. Like many areas of Roman dress, there were strict rules about wearing coronas.

2004, Sara Pendergast, Tom Pendergast, edited by Sarah Hermsen, Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages, volume 1, Detroit, Mich.: UXL, →ISBN, page 183:

(Ancient Rome, historical) A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.


chiton

chitons (plural)
chitones (plural)
khiton (alternative)

From Ancient Greek χιτών (khitṓn, “tunic”), from a Central Semitic *kittan, from the Akkadian 𒌆𒃰 (kitû, literally “flax, linen”), from Sumerian 𒄑𒃰 (kitû [GIŠ.GADA]).

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On the night of our first attempt, we simply overdrank and passed out in our chitons in the woods near Francis’s house.

She wears a diaphanous himation that covers her torso, over a floor-length chiton of heavier fabric.

1998, Colette Susan Czapski, “NM238: A Hellenistic Statue and Its Archaistic Support”, in Kim J. Hartswick, Mary Carol Sturgeon, editors, Stephanos: Studies in Honor of Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, page 53:

She wears a chiton and himation, using both hands to hold the edge of the latter, in which she has gathered apples.

2002, chapter I, in Nikolaos Kaltsas, editor, Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, page 156:

(historical) A loose woolen tunic worn by men and women in Ancient Greece.


chiton

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χιτών (khitṓn).

chiton (mollusc of the class Polyplacophora)


chiton

chitoane (plural)
chiton (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
chitonul (accusative definite nominative singular)
chitoane (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
chitoanele (accusative definite nominative plural)
chiton (indefinite singular)
chitonului (definite singular)
chitoane (indefinite singular)
chitoanelor (definite plural)
chitonule (singular vocative)
chitoanelor (vocative)


duma

From Russian ду́ма (dúma, “elective legislative assembly”, originally: “thought”), Origin of the Slavic term is disputed. Either of Germanic origin. Doublet of doom. Or from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke”), akin to Proto-Slavic *duti (“to blow"), *dymъ (“smoke”). The drink is named after the legislative assembly.

bor

Hence, while preserving his autocratic power, the Czar decrees a “Gosudarstvennaia Duma,” or State Council. The elections for this Duma will cover the whole territory of the Empire, ...

1905, “Russian Duma” in The Outlook Volume 80, 989

A Russian legislative assembly such as the historical duma of the Russian Empire or the modern lower house of the Federal Assembly (the Russian national parliament).

دُومَا

lower house of Russian national parliament


hetman

From Polish hetman, probably from Middle High German houbetman, heuptman (“commander”), from Old High German houbitman, from Proto-West Germanic *haubidamann. Compare modern German Hauptmann (“captain”), Haupt, Mann. The Polish e in hetman attests to a borrowing from an East Central German dialect, in which Middle High German -öu- gives -ē-. Doublet of head man.


hetman

hetman (nominative singular)
hetmani (nominative plural)
hetmany (derogatory nominative plural)
hetmana (genitive singular)
hetmanów (genitive plural)
hetmanowi (dative singular)
hetmanom (dative plural)
hetmana (accusative singular)
hetmanów (accusative plural)
hetmanem (instrumental singular)
hetmanami (instrumental plural)
hetmanie (locative singular)
hetmanach (locative plural)
hetmanie (singular vocative)
hetmani (plural vocative)

→ Belarusian: ге́тман (hjétman)

→ Bulgarian: хе́тман (hétman)

→ English: hetman

→ French: hetman

→ German: Hetman

→ Portuguese: hétmã, hétmane

→ Romanian: hatman

→ Ukrainian: ге́тьман (hétʹman)

desctree

→ Russian: ге́тман (gétman)
→ Uzbek: getman

→ Spanish: hetman

Borrowed from Middle High German houbetman, heuptman, from houbet, heupt. Compare German Hauptmann. The e in hetman attests to a borrowing from an East Central German dialect, in which Middle High German -öu- gives -ē-.

bor+

(historical, military) Cossack military commander

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

(historical, military) title used by the senior military commanders in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (15th to 18th century)


lar

lar (nominative singular)
lary (nominative plural)
lara (genitive singular)
larów (genitive plural)
larowi (dative singular)
larom (dative plural)
lara (accusative singular)
lary (accusative plural)
larem (instrumental singular)
larami (instrumental plural)
larze (locative singular)
larach (locative plural)
larze (singular vocative)
lary (plural vocative)

(Roman mythology, chiefly in the plural) lar (household god, particularly overseeing the family itself)


mir

mir (nominative singular)
miry (nominative plural)
miru (genitive singular)
mirów (genitive plural)
mirowi (dative singular)
mirom (dative plural)
mir (accusative singular)
miry (accusative plural)
mirem (instrumental singular)
mirami (instrumental plural)
mirze (locative singular)
mirach (locative plural)
mirze (singular vocative)
miry (plural vocative)
mnir (alternative)

(historical) mir, obshchina (peasant village community as opposed to individual farmsteads, or khutors, in Imperial Russia)


mitre

From Middle English mytre, from Old French mitre, from Ancient Greek μίτρα (mítra, “headband, turban”). Its use in reference to a counterfeit coin derived from the bishop's mitre stamped upon it. Doublet of Mithras, Mithra, Mitra, and Mehr.

doublet

(historical, numismatics) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I.


nereid

From the stem of Latin Nērēis (“sea-nymph”), from Ancient Greek Νηρηΐς (Nērēḯs), from Νηρεύς (Nēreús, “the sea-god Nereus”).

(Greek mythology) One of 50 sea nymphs who were attendants upon Poseidon (Neptune), and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes in human form and sometimes with the tail of a fish.


paean

paeans (plural)
pæan (alternative)
pean (alternative)

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Phidias

From Latin paeān (“a hymn, especially a victory hymn, to Apollo or another god”), from Ancient Greek παιᾱ́ν (paiā́n, “a chant or song, especially a thanksgiving or victory hymn, to Apollo under the name Παιᾱ́ν (Paiā́n)”), from the phrase Ἰὼ Παιᾱ́ν (Iṑ Paiā́n, “O Paean!, Thanks to Paean!”). According to Homer, Paián or Paean was the name of the physician of the gods; its further etymology is unclear. It has been suggested that Παιᾱ́ν is derived from *παιάϝων (*paiáwōn, “one who heals illnesses through magic”), from *παῖϝα (*paîwa), *παϝία (*pawía, “to blow”), related to παίω (paíō, “to hit, strike”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pēu-, *pyu-, *pū- (“to hit; to cut”)), or from παύω (paúō, “to bring to an end; to abate, to stop”) (from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, little; smallness”)), or that it may be a Pre-Greek word.
Compare Middle French and French paean (also French péan), Italian peana, Portuguese peã, péan.

der

a chant or song, especially a thanksgiving or victory hymn, to Apollo under the name <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc">Παιᾱ́ν</i> (Paiā́n)

cog

In the mean time I am going to that part, whence I think it convenient for the battle to begin; and, as I paſs, ſhall consider how things are with reſpect to ourſelves. When I come there, and we are juſt ready to engage, I ſhall begin the Pœan;^([sic]) and do you follow.

1773, W[illiam] Cooke, “The Life of Cyrus the Great”, in The Way to the Temple of True Honor and Fame by the Paths of Heroic Virtue: Exemplified in the Most Entertaining Lives of the Most Eminent Persons of both Sexes: On the Plain Laid down by Sir William Temple in His Essay of Heroic Virtue. In Four Volumes, volume II, Devizes, Wiltshire: Printed and sold by T. Burrough, bookseller; sold also by L[ockyer] Davis, over against Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holbourn, London, →OCLC, page 64:

Oh, happy ſoldier! had thy worth been try'd, / In pious daring, on thy country's ſide! / Oh, had thy ſword Iberian battles known, / Or purple with Cantabrian ſlaughter grown; / How had thy name in deathleſs annals ſhone! / But now no Roman Pæan ſhalt thou ſing, / Nor peaceful triumphs to thy country bring, / […] Oh, hapleſs victor thou! oh, vainly brave! / How haſt thou fought, to make thyſelf a ſlave!

1795, Lucan, “The Pharsalia of Lucan”, in Nicholas Rowe, transl., The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Robert Anderson, M.D., volume XII, London: Printed for John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Co. Edinburgh, →OCLC, book VI, page 797, column 1:

The pæans were songs, of which the tune and words expressed courage and confidence. […] Pæans were sung, not only when there was a hope of being able, by the help of the gods, to overcome a great and imminent danger, but when the danger was happily past; they were songs of hope and confidence as well as of thanksgiving for victory and safety.

1847, K[arl] O[tfried] Müller, “Earliest Popular Songs”, in George Cornwall [i.e., Cornewall] Lewis, transl., History of the Literature of Ancient Greece, to the Period of Isocrates. Translated from the German Ms. of K. O. Müller, Professor in the University of Gottingen (Library of Useful Knowledge), new corr. edition, London: Robert Baldwin, 47, Paternoster Row [published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge], →OCLC, pages 19–20:

(Ancient Greece, historical) A chant or song, especially a hymn of thanksgiving for deliverance or victory, to Apollo or sometimes another god or goddess; hence any song sung to solicit victory in battle.

The dissolution of this great Republic, and the probable failure of the mighty experiments in government of which it has been the theatre, will be a fine subject for political parties to illustrate their various prejudices. The upholders of despotism will sing pæans over its downfall—the lovers of liberty will mourn over what appears to be the stern condition of man, to run alternately the career of improvement and of degeneracy— […]

1833 February, “The Present Crisis in the United States”, in The Monthly Magazine, of Politics, Literature, and the Belles Lettres (New Series), volume XV, number LXXXVI, London: Published by Charles Tilt, 86, Fleet Street, →OCLC, page 209:

Long before they reached this place, which was situated at the other end of the village, they heard the pæan of May carolled by a hundred voices; and, on entering the area, they immediately joined in the chorus.

1841, “The Journey”, in The Life and Times of Dick Whittington; an Historical Romance, London: Hugh Cunningham, St. Martin's Place, Trafalgar Square; Simpkin, Marshall and Co., Stationers' Hall Court; Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute; Dublin: John Cumming; Glasgow: D. Campbell, →OCLC, page 57:

But what tribute shall we bestow, what sacred pæan shall we raise over the tombs of those who dared, in the face of unrivalled power, and within the reach of majesty, to blow the blast of freedom throughout a subject continent?

1843, Dawes, “Intelligence Necessary to Perpetuate Independence”, in John E[py] Lovell, editor, The United States Speaker: A Copious Selection of Exercises in Elocution; consisting of Prose, Poetry, and Dialogue: Drawn Chiefly from the Most Approved Writers of Great Britain and America: Including a Variety of Pieces Suitable for Very Young Readers: Designed for the Use of Colleges and Schools, rev. and imp. stereotype edition, New Haven, Conn.: Published by S. Babcock, →OCLC, page 27:

Butler’s wife and co-frontperson Regine Chassagne was a one-woman party, bringing sartorial sparkle, snippets of stylised choreography, her helium soprano and Caribbean fiesta spirit to the performance, skipping through the crowd back to the second stage to dance away troubles on top of the piano as she sang Haiti, her bi-lingual paean to her homeland.

2022 September 6, Fiona Shepherd, “Music review: Arcade Fire, Hydro, Glasgow”, in The Scotsman:

(by extension) Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph.

պեան

any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph


paean

la-noun

paeān m (genitive paeānis); third declension

paeān (canonical masculine)
paeānis (genitive)
paeān (nominative singular)
paeānēs (nominative plural)
paeānis (genitive singular)
paeānum (genitive plural)
paeānī (dative singular)
paeānibus (dative plural)
paeānem (accusative singular)
paeānēs (accusative plural)
paeāne (ablative singular)
paeānibus (ablative plural)
paeān (singular vocative)
paeānēs (plural vocative)

→ English: paean

→ French: péan (learned)

→ Italian: peana (learned)

→ Polish: pean

→ Portuguese: peã (learned)

→ Romanian: pean (learned)

→ Spanish: peán (learned)

From Ancient Greek παιᾱ́ν (paiā́n, “chant, song of praise”).

der

(Ancient Greece, historical) Hymn to Apollo.


romano

pt-adj

romano (feminine romana, masculine plural romanos, feminine plural romanas)

romana (feminine)
romanos (masculine plural)
romanas (feminine plural)

Learned borrowing from Latin rōmānus (“Roman”), from Rōma (“Rome”), corresponding to Roma + -ano. Doublet of romão and romeno.

lbor

(historical) Roman (of or relating to the Ancient Roman civilisation)


romano

pt-noun

romano m (plural romanos, feminine romana, feminine plural romanas)

romanos (plural)
romana (feminine)
romanas (feminine plural)

(historical) Roman (a citizen of ancient Rome)


sago

From Latin sagum, sagus, from Ancient Greek σάγος (ságos), perhaps of Gaulish origin.


sou

Borrowed from French sou. Doublet of sol, sold, soldo, solid, solidus, and xu.

doublet

He is grey, flat-footed and withered, with long, brittle nails that set your nerves on edge while he scrapes up your two sous.

1918 February (date written), Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Je ne parle pas français”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 73:

(historical) An old French copper coin equal to one twentieth of a livre or twelve deniers; one sou is to the livre as one shilling is to the pound.


taler

From German Taler, (older) Thaler. Doublet of dollar.

(historical) Germanic unit of currency used between the 15th and 19th centuries.


Tory

From Irish tóraí (“pursuer”), from tóir (“pursuit”). The first recorded use in English is from a 1646 letter by James Butler ("Earl of Ormond") to a Colonel O' Brien, describing bandits and thieves on main roadways.

(UK politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party, which evolved from Royalist politicians; historically associated with upholding the rights of the monarchy and the privileges of the established Church.

консерватор

a member or supporter of the Conservative Party (UK, Canada)


Tory

(UK politics) Of or belonging to the Tory Party or the Conservative Party.


troika

From Russian тро́йка (trójka, “a group of three”).

der

A great writer of the last epoch, comparing Russia to a swift troika galloping to an unknown goal, exclaims 'Oh, troika, birdlike troika, who invented thee!' and adds, in proud ecstasy, that all the peoples of the world stand aside respectfully to make way for the recklessly galloping troika to pass.

1880, Constance Garnett, chapter VI, in The Brothers Karamazov, book XII, translation of original by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, page 787:

When Gogol wrote his great passage on the troika speeding across the steppes, he likened it to Russia itself, advancing across the earth.

1960, Lesley Blanch, The Sabres of Paradise: Conquest and Vengeance in the Caucasus, Tauris Parke Paperbacks, published 2006, →ISBN, page 145:

Travelling part of the way by rail and the remainder by troika, he reached Orenburg shortly before Christmas.

1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia, Oxford University Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 367:

A Russian carriage drawn by a team of three horses abreast.


yoke

From Middle English yok, yoke, ȝok from Old English ġeoc (“yoke”), from Proto-Germanic *juką (“yoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm (“yoke”), from *yewg- (“to join; to tie together, yoke”). Doublet of yuga, jugum, yoga and possibly yogh.
Senses 3.1 (“area of arable land”) and 3.2 (“amount of work done with draught animals”) probably referred to the area of land that could generally be ploughed by yoked draught animals within a given time.

poikkipuu

linking or supporting object that resembles a yoke

駕駛桿 /驾驶杆

device with crosspieces used to control an aircraft

iugum

unit of land area notionally equivalent to the area a team of yoked draft animals can work in a day

[H]is will and pleaſure was they ſhould paſſe all under the yoke or gallows: the maner wherof is this. They took three ſpears or javelins, and ſet two of them pitched in the ground endlong, and their overthwart faſtned unto the other. Under this kind of gallows the Dictator compelled the Æquians to go.

1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “[Book III]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC, page 89:

[T]he Æqui being attacked on both ſides and unable to reſiſt or fly, begged a ceſſation of arms. They offered the dictator his own terms; he gave them their lives, but obliged them, in token of ſervitude, to paſs under the yoke, which was two ſpears ſet upright, and another acroſs, in the form of a door, beneath which the vanquiſhed were to march.

1769, [Oliver] Goldsmith, “From the Creation of the Tribunes to the Appointment of the Decemviri”, in The Roman History, from the Foundation of the City of Rome, to the Destruction of the Western Empire. […], volume I, London: […] S. Baker and G. Leigh, […]; T[homas] Davies, […]; and L. Davis, […], →OCLC, page 127:

Senses relating to a frame around the neck.

(Ancient Rome) Chiefly in pass under the yoke: a raised yoke (sense 1.1), or a symbolic yoke formed from two spears installed upright in the ground with another spear connecting their tops, under which a defeated army was made to march as a sign of subjugation.

ies

raised yoke, or a symbolic yoke formed from two spears installed upright in the ground with another spear connecting their tops, under which a defeated army was made to march as a sign of subjugation


victory

en-noun

victory (countable and uncountable, plural victories)

victories (plural)
victorie (alternative)

→ Maori: wikitōriatanga

The noun is derived from Middle English victory, victori, victorie (“supremacy, victory; a defeat or vanquishing, conquest; superior military force; might, power, strength; triumphal celebration or procession; monument commemorating a defeat; superior position, dominance; mastery; moral victory, vindication; success, triumph; redemption, salvation; resurrection of Jesus; means of achieving spiritual victory; reward for or token of perseverance in a spiritual struggle”) [and other forms], borrowed from Anglo-Norman victorie and Old French victorie, a variant of victoire (“victory, win”) (modern French victoire), from Latin victōria (“victory”), from victor (“champion, winner, victor; conqueror, vanquisher”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to contain, envelop; to overcome”)) + -ia (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). The English word is analysable as victor + -y (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition, quality, or state), and displaced Middle English siȝe, sye.
The interjection is derived from the noun.
Cognates
* French victoire
* Italian vittoria
* Portuguese vitoria
* Spanish victoria
* Romanian victorie

nb...

victorye, viktori, vitorie, vittori, vittorie, vyctory, vyktorye, (Kent) fictorie, fyctorye, (Northern England) wictori, wictorie, wictorrie

suffix

snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory

All along the Champs Elysées were […] statues of plaster representing nymphs, triumphs, victories, and other female personages painted in oil so as to represent marble; real marble could have had no better effect, and the appearance of the whole was lively and picturesque in the extreme.

1841, M. A. Titmarsh [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], “Mr. Titmarsh to Miss Smith on the Second Funeral of Napoleon. Letter III. The Funeral Ceremony.”, in The Second Funeral of Napoleon: […] And The Chronicle of the Drum. […], London: Hugh Cunningham, […], →OCLC, page 63:

(Roman mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Victory (“(uncountable) the Roman goddess of victory, the counterpart of the Greek goddess Nike; also (countable), an artistic depiction of her, chiefly as a winged woman”)


superiority

en-noun

superiority (countable and uncountable, plural superiorities)

superiorities (plural)
superiourity (alternative)

From Middle English superiorite, from Old French superiorite, from Medieval Latin superioritas, from Latin superior.
Morphologically superior + -ity.

(Scots law, historical) The right which the superior enjoys in the land held by the vassal.


Charybdis

From Ancient Greek Χάρυβδις (Khárubdis).

(Greek mythology) A personification of the above whirlpool as a female monster.


chimera

chimeras (plural)
chimaera (alternative)
chimæra (alternative)
chimere (alternative)
chymera (alternative)
chemera (alternative)
chymæra (alternative)

monolith

antonym(s) of “anything composed of very disparate parts”

Variant of Middle English chimere, chymere, & chymera under renewed Latin influence from the 16th century, from French chimère, from Latin Chimaera, from Ancient Greek Χίμαιρα (Khímaira, “fire-breathing mythological monster, fire-spewing Lycian or Cilician mountain”), from χίμαιρα (khímaira, “she-goat”, from χίμαρος (khímaros, “male goat”) + -α (-a)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey-. In reference to the fish, directly from Latin Chimaera, used by Linnaeus. In reference to organisms with distinct areas of different genetic makeups, a calque of German Chimäre, used by Hans Winkler in 1907.

af

...beestis clepid chymeres, that han a part of ech beest, and suche ben not, no but oonly in opynyoun...

1382, John Purvey, Bible, Prologue, p. 31

Bellerophon was commanded to destroy this monster, and with the assistance of the flying horse, Pegasus, he slew the chimera.

1860, E. Cust, “The Chimeras: An Attempt to Show that the Compound Animals of the Assyrian Marbles are Representations of those Erected by Solomon and Jeroboam (Read 1st and 8th December, 1859.)”, in Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, volume XII, Liverpool: Adam Holden, →OCLC, page 99:

The game includes a bunch of chimeras, with the lion heads shooting fire and the snake tails whipping around trying to bite the player.

(Greek mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Chimera, a supposed monster in Lycia with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a dragon or serpent, killed by the hero Bellerophon.


decimation

en-noun

decimation (countable and uncountable, plural decimations)

/ˌdɛsɪˈmeɪʃən/

Borrowed from Latin decimātiō, a punishment where every 10th man in a unit would be stoned to death by the men who were spared. Used by the Romans to keep order in their military. Compare septimation and vicesimation.

desimointi

creation of a new sequence comprising every nth element of the original

By decimation and a tythed death; / If thy Reuenges hunger for that Food, / Which Nature loathes, take thou the deſtin'd tenth, […]

c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v], page 98, column 1:

(Ancient Rome, strictly) The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.

desimaatio

selection of every tenth person for death or other punishment


hermetic

en-adj

hermetic (comparative more hermetic, superlative most hermetic)

more hermetic (comparative)
most hermetic (superlative)
Hermetic (alternative)
hermetical (alternative)
hermetick (alternative)

From Medieval Latin hermeticus, irregular derivation of Hermes Trismegistus, the god and mythological alchemist, said to possess a magic ability to seal treasure chests so that nothing could access their contents.

(chiefly capitalized, Greek mythology) Pertaining to ancient Greek Olympian God Hermes


lictor

(history) lictor (An official, carrying a hatchet wrapped in a bundle of sticks, who preceded the consuls or the dictator, in ancient Rome.)


patrician

patricians (plural)
patritian (alternative)

Borrowed from Middle French patricien, from Latin patricius, derived from patrēs cōnscrīptī (“Roman senators”).

Noble Patricians, Patrons of my right, / Defend the iuſtice of my Cauſe with Armes.

c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 31, column 1:

(Ancient Rome) A member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the senior class of Romans, who, with certain property, had by right a seat in the Roman Senate.


patrician

patrician (comparative more patrician, superlative most patrician)

more patrician (comparative)
most patrician (superlative)
patritian (alternative)

It will speed the shrivelling of the patrician “one nation” Tories, who tried to curb the extremes of Thatcherism and ended by providing its veils.

Saint-Simon was certainly a radical, and hostile to inherited privilege, but his bourgeois 'socialism' was of a patrician kind. Science, being a firm and certain kind of knowledge, a 'religion of Newton' or 'cult of Reason' essentially plays the key role in his grand scheme for social engineering.

2013 July 18, Doctor Martin Parker, Valerie Fournier, Patrick Reedy, The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization, Zed Books Ltd., →ISBN:

Where Ruskin's patrician socialism sought to create better conditions and 'higher' aspirations for the 'Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain', Sickert painted his working- and lower-middle-class subjects as if history, in the advance of mass culture and popular democracy, were on their side.

2022 September 8, Michael Bird, This is Tomorrow: Twentieth-century Britain and its Artists, Thames & Hudson, →ISBN:

Politically active to help people in lower classes, especially in a patronizing or condescending way.


Pegasus

From Late Middle English Pegase, Pegasus, from Latin Pēgasus, from Ancient Greek Πήγασος (Pḗgasos), traditionally associated with πηγή (pēgḗ, “spring, fountain, fountain fed by a spring”), especially used to denote springs of Ocean, where Perseus killed Medusa, from whose blood Pegasus sprang. Some have dismissed this as folk etymology and suggest a pre-Greek origin because of the -ασος suffix. First attested in the 14th century.

Pegasos (alternative)
pegasus (alternative)

Пегас

in Ancient Greek or other European contexts

(Greek mythology) A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the blood of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. Bellerophon tamed and rode upon Pegasus when he defeated the Chimaera.

vernal equinoctial
vernal equinox#English

(astronomy) A constellation of the northern sky, near the vernal equinoctial point, representing the winged horse. Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form the asterism of the Great Square of Pegasus.


Pegasus

Pegasuses (plural)
Pegasi (plural)
Pegasos (alternative)
pegasus (alternative)

(originally Greek mythology, fantasy, occasionally proscribed) Any winged horse; pterippus.

Confidence in Corinthian Pegasi grew up in the Greek zone of the island in such a way that Pegasi became the accepted coin of the realm.

2007 February 15, R. J. A. Talbert, Timoleon and the Revival of Greek Sicily: 344-317 B.C., Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 167:

(historical) A coin of ancient Corinth with a winged horse depicted on the obverse.


Pegasus

la-proper noun

Pēgasus m sg (genitive Pēgasī); second declension

Pēgasus (canonical masculine singular)
Pēgasī (genitive)
Pēgasus (nominative singular)
Pēgasī (genitive singular)
Pēgasō (dative singular)
Pēgasum (accusative singular)
Pēgasō (ablative singular)
Pēgase (singular vocative)

[ˈpeːɡäs̠ʊs̠]

[ˈpɛːɡäs̬us]


Scylla

From Latin Scylla, from Ancient Greek Σκύλλα (Skúlla).

(Greek mythology) A personification of said rock as a ravenous monster.

Ah cease rash Youth! desist e'er 'tis too late, / Fear the just Gods, and think of Scylla′s Fate!

1714, Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, Canto III:

(Greek mythology) A princess, daughter of King Nisos of Megara, who fell in love with King Minos and betrayed her city to him.


Scylla

de Charybde en Scylla


Scylla

Scylla f sg (genitive Scyllae); first declension

Scyllae (genitive)
Scylla (nominative singular)
Scyllae (genitive singular)
Scyllae (dative singular)
Scyllam (accusative singular)
Scyllā (ablative singular)
Scylla (singular vocative)

(Greek mythology) Scylla (a ravenous monster)


Sisyphean

From Sisyphus, from Ancient Greek Σίσυφος (Sísuphos). Sisyphus was a Greek mythical figure who was doomed to endlessly roll a boulder up a hill in Tartarus, only to have it roll back down again.

Sisyphusean (alternative)
sisyphean (alternative)
Sisyphian (alternative)
Sysyphean (alternative)
sisyphic (alternative)
sisiphic (alternative)


sophist

Learned borrowing from Latin sophista, also sophistes, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek σοφιστής (sophistḗs, “pursuer of wisdom”), from σοφίζομαι (sophízomai, “to become wise”).

der

[T]hey have acted in this Calumny both the injuſtice of the Tyrant, and the forgery of the Sophiſt.

1699, Richard Bentley, “The Preface”, in A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris. With an Answer to the Objections of the Honourable Charles Boyle, Esquire, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for Henry Mortlock […], and John Hartley […], →OCLC, page iii:

(figurative, by extension) One who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument.

سَفْسَطِيّ

one who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument


tanner

George II of Great Britain
John Sigismund Tanner
Royal Mint

Named after John Sigismund Tanner (1705–1775), who designed a sixpence for the Royal Mint during the reign of King George II.

[A]s you are so flash of your money, though you say you are poor, you may give me a tanner to buy a little baccy with; […]

1851, George Borrow, chapter III, in Lavengro; the Scholar—the Gypsy—the Priest. […], volume II, London: John Murray […], →OCLC, page 32:

They'd say hello, maybe slip you a tanner.

2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 469:

(British, colloquial) A former British coin worth six old pence.


toxotes

From Ancient Greek τοξότης (toxótēs, “bowman, archer”).

uder

(historical) A Greek archer armed with a short Greek bow and a short sword.


treat

en-verb

treat (third-person singular simple present treats, present participle treating, simple past and past participle treated or (Northern England, Bristol, colloquial) tret)

treats (present singular third-person)
treating (participle present)
treated (participle past)
treated (past)
tret (Northern-England colloquial participle past)
tret (Northern-England colloquial past)
treat (infinitive)

From Middle English treten, from Anglo-Norman treter, Old French tretier, traiter, from Latin tractāre (“to pull", "to manage”), from the past participle stem of trahere (“to draw", "to pull”).

(UK politics, law) To commit the offence of providing food, drink, entertainment or provision to corruptly influence a voter.


triumph

en-noun

triumph (countable and uncountable, plural triumphs)

From Middle English [Term?], borrowed from Old French triumphe, from Latin triumphus (“triumphal procession”), ultimately from Ancient Greek θρίαμβος (thríambos, “thriambus”). Doublet of thriambus and trump.

der

(historical, Ancient Rome) a ceremony held to publicly celebrate and sanctify the military achievement of an army commander.

voitonjuhla

ceremony to celebrate someone’s military achievement


vestal

vestal (indefinite nominative singular)
vestals (genitive indefinite singular)
vestalen (definite nominative singular)
vestalens (definite genitive singular)
vestaler (indefinite nominative plural)
vestalers (genitive indefinite plural)
vestalerna (definite nominative plural)
vestalernas (definite genitive plural)


centime

Borrowed from French centime. Doublet of centim, centimo, and santim.

(historical) A former subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the franc.


Sterculius

(Roman mythology) The god of manure or fertilizer.


diptych

From Late Latin diptycha, plural, from Ancient Greek, neuter plural of δίπτυχος (díptukhos, “folded, doubled”), from δι- (di-) + πτυχή (ptukhḗ, “fold, layer”).

(historical, Ancient Rome) Artistically-wrought tablets distributed by consuls, etc. of the later Roman Empire to commemorate their tenure of office; hence (transferred sense) a list of magistrates.


SF

(Ireland, UK politics) Initialism of Sinn Féin; an Irish political party.


augure

Borrowed from Latin augurium. Doublet of heur.


BNP

British National Party
w:British National Party

(UK politics) Initialism of British National Party.


BNP

David Cameron kallade BNP:s framgång för ”avskyvärd”.

2009 June 8, “Katastrof för Labour [Disaster for Labour]”, in SVT Nyheter:

David Cameron called the BNP's success "abhorrent".


gladiator

en-verb

gladiator (third-person singular simple present gladiators, present participle gladiatoring, simple past and past participle gladiatored)

gladiators (present singular third-person)
gladiatoring (participle present)
gladiatored (participle past)
gladiatored (past)
gladiatour (alternative)

From Latin gladiātor, from gladius (“sword”). See also English gladius.

He did his gladiatoring doubtless without malice, and from a purely sporting instinct — even as Mr. Punch gave the provocation.

1895, Athol Mayhew, A Jorum of "Punch" with Those who Helped to Brew it:

Quoting the accounts in both Time and Newsweek, they note that though the "defense attorney may have outwitted, outsparred, and even "out gladiatored" (another popular image in the trial coverage) his opponent, but he still lost the case.

1988, Bernard S. Jackson, Law, fact and narrative coherence, page 71:

It was all part of the gladiatoring: the true performer would argue each case to the utmost, like a debater or mooter in our own world.

2005, John K. Hale, Milton's Cambridge Latin: Performing in the Genres, 1625-1632:

Och! lave off your gladiatoring; sure it's took up I'd be if I did that!

2010, John O'Mahony, R. L. Praeger, The Sunny Side of Ireland, page 71:


gladiator

gladiator (nominative singular)
gladiatorzy (nominative plural)
gladiatory (derogatory nominative plural)
gladiatora (genitive singular)
gladiatorów (genitive plural)
gladiatorowi (dative singular)
gladiatorom (dative plural)
gladiatora (accusative singular)
gladiatorów (accusative plural)
gladiatorem (instrumental singular)
gladiatorami (instrumental plural)
gladiatorze (locative singular)
gladiatorach (locative plural)
gladiatorze (singular vocative)
gladiatorzy (plural vocative)


gladiator

gladiator (indefinite nominative singular)
gladiators (genitive indefinite singular)
gladiatorn (definite nominative singular)
gladiatorns (definite genitive singular)
gladiatorer (indefinite nominative plural)
gladiatorers (genitive indefinite plural)
gladiatorerna (definite nominative plural)
gladiatorernas (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed from Latin gladiātor, from gladius.

gladiator; entertainer who engaged in mortal combat


GC

General Committee
w:Constituency Labour Party

(UK politics) Initialism of General Committee: the general management committee of a constituency party of the British Labour Party.


Bacchanalia

From Latin Bacchānālia (“feast of Bacchus”), plural of Bacchānal (“a place devoted to Bacchus”), from Bacchus (“the god of wine”), from Ancient Greek Βάκχος (Bákkhos).

(Greek mythology) A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.


adduce

adduce (third-person singular simple present adduces, present participle adducing, simple past and past participle adduced)

adduces (present singular third-person)
adducing (participle present)
adduced (participle past)
adduced (past)

From Middle English adducen, from Latin addūcere, adductum (“to lead or bring to”), from ad- + dūcere (“to lead”). See duke, and compare adduct.

(transitive, Scots law) To produce in proof.


adduce

head

adduce (third-person singular simple present adduces, present participle adducin, simple past adduced, past participle adduced)

adduces (present singular third-person)
adducin (participle present)
adduced (past)
adduced (participle past)

Borrowed from Latin adducere, adductum (“to lead or bring to”).

(transitive, Scots law) to adduce (produce in proof)


legion

Attested (in Middle English, as legioun) around 1200, from Old French legion, from Latin legiō, legionem, from legō (“to gather, collect”); akin to legend, lecture. Doublet of León, which was borrowed from Spanish.
Generalized sense of “a large number” is due to an allusive phrase in Mark 5:9, "my name is Legion: for we are many" (KJV).

Meronyms: cohort, maniple, century

(military, Ancient Rome) The major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.

legioen

the major unit or division of the Roman army


legion

legion (indefinite nominative singular)
legions (genitive indefinite singular)
legionen (definite nominative singular)
legionens (definite genitive singular)
legioner (indefinite nominative plural)
legioners (genitive indefinite plural)
legionerna (definite nominative plural)
legionernas (definite genitive plural)


addict

en-verb

addict (third-person singular simple present addicts, present participle addicting, simple past and past participle addicted)

addicts (present singular third-person)
addicting (participle present)
addicted (participle past)
addicted (past)

→ Cebuano: adik

→ Tagalog: adik

Borrowed from Latin addictus, past participle of addīcō (“deliver; devote; surrender”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + dīcō (“say; declare”)

get hooked

cause someone to become addicted, especially to a harmful drug

(transitive, Ancient Rome) To deliver (someone or something) following a judicial decision.


Tartarus

From Latin Tartarus, from Ancient Greek Τάρταρος (Tártaros).

[…] them with Fire and hoſtile Arms / Fearleſs aſſault, and to the brow of Heav'n / Purſuing, drive them out from God and bliſs, / Into thir place of puniſhment, the Gulf / Of Tartarus, which ready opens wide / His fiery Chaos to receave thir fall.

1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 50–55:

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A dark and gloomy part of the realm of Hades, reserved for the damned and the wicked, such as the Titans; an equivalent of hell in Greek and Roman mythology.


Tartarus

la-proper noun

Tartarus m sg (genitive Tartarī); second declension

Tartarī (genitive)
Tartarus (nominative singular)
Tartarī (genitive singular)
Tartarō (dative singular)
Tartarum (accusative singular)
Tartarō (ablative singular)
Tartare (singular vocative)
Tartaros (alternative)

Catalan: Tàrtar

→ English: Tartarus

French: Tartare

[ˈt̪ärt̪ärʊs̠]

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Tartarus (hell, part of the underworld)


Hades

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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hā́idēs).

lbor

(Greek mythology) The god of the underworld and ruler of the dead, son of Cronus and Rhea, brother of Zeus and Poseidon.

(Greek mythology) The underworld, the domain of Hades, by transference from its god.


Hades

Hades (nominative singular)
Hadesa (genitive singular)
Hadesowi (dative singular)
Hadesa (accusative singular)
Hadesem (instrumental singular)
Hadesie (locative singular)
Hadesie (singular vocative)


Hades

Hades (nominative singular)
Hadesu (genitive singular)
Hadesowi (dative singular)
Hades (accusative singular)
Hadesem (instrumental singular)
Hadesie (locative singular)
Hadesie (singular vocative)


Hades

Learned borrowing from Latin Hades, from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hā́idēs).

(Greek mythology) Hades (god of the underworld)

(Greek mythology) Hades (the underworld, the domain of Hades)


Hades

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hā́idēs).


Ares

From Latin Arēs, from Ancient Greek Ἄρης (Árēs).

(Greek mythology) The Greek god of war, considered equivalent to the Roman Mars and usually described as a son of Zeus and Hera, companion of Eris and Enyo, and by Aphrodite father of Deimos and Phobos.


Ares

Borrowed from Latin Arēs, from Ancient Greek Ἄρης (Árēs).


Ares

de-proper noun

Ares m (proper noun, strong, genitive Ares')

(Greek mythology) Ares (Greek god of war)


Ares

la-proper noun

Arēs m sg (genitive Aris); third declension

Arēs (canonical masculine singular)
Aris (genitive)
Arēs (nominative singular)
Aris (genitive singular)
Arī (dative singular)
Arem (accusative singular)
Are (ablative singular)
Arēs (singular vocative)

Catalan: Ares

English: Ares

French: Arès

Galician: Ares

Italian: Ares

Portuguese: Ares

Romanian: Ares

Spanish: Ares

(Greek mythology) Ares, Mars in Greek or literary contexts


Ares

Ares (nominative singular)
Aresa (genitive singular)
Aresowi (dative singular)
Aresa (accusative singular)
Aresem (instrumental singular)
Aresie (locative singular)
Aresie (singular vocative)


Ares

Learned borrowing from Latin Arēs, from Ancient Greek Ἄρης (Árēs).


Ares

Ȃres (canonical masculine)
А̑рес (Cyrillic)


Ares

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἄρης (Árēs).


Jove

From Middle English Joves, from Latin Iuppiter, Iovis, from Proto-Italic *djowe-, ablative case of *djous, from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws. Doublet of Dyeus and Zeus.

BEAT on, proud billows; Boreas blow; / Swell, curled waves, high as Jove’s roof; / Your incivility doth ſhow, / That innocence is tempeſt proof; / Though ſurly Nereus frown, my thoughts are calm; / Then ſtrike, Affliction, for thy wounds are balm. [Attributed to Roger L'Estrange (1616–1704).]

1781, [Mostyn John Armstrong], History and Antiquities of the County of Norfolk. Volume IX. Containing the Hundreds of Smithdon, Taverham, Tunstead, Walsham, and Wayland, volume IX, Norwich: Printed by J. Crouse, for M. Booth, bookseller, →OCLC, page 51:

(Roman mythology) Jupiter, god of the sky.


Jason

From the Ancient Greek Ἰάσων (Iásōn), from ἰάομαι (iáomai, “I heal”). The Jason mentioned in the New Testament (Acts 17:5-9, Romans 16:21) is probably a Greek rendering of Joshua.

I know he will be glad of our success: / We are the Jasons, we have won the fleece.

(Greek mythology) The leader of the Argonauts, who retrieved the Golden Fleece from king Aeetes of Colchis, for his uncle Pelias.


Jason

From English Jason, from the Ancient Greek Ἰάσων (Iásōn), from ἰάομαι (iáomai, “I heal”).

(Greek mythology) Jason; the leader of the Argonauts, who retrieved the Golden Fleece from king Aeetes of Colchis, for his uncle Pelias


Jason

From the Ancient Greek Ἰάσων (Iásōn), from ἰάομαι (iáomai, “I heal”).


Lucifer

Lūcifer m sg (genitive Lūciferī); second declension

Lūcifer (canonical masculine singular)
Lūciferī (genitive)
Lūcifer (nominative singular)
Lūciferī (genitive singular)
Lūciferō (dative singular)
Lūciferum (accusative singular)
Lūciferō (ablative singular)
Lūcifer (singular vocative)
lūcifer (alternative)

Aromanian: lutseafir

Romanian: Luceafăr

→ Catalan: Llucifer, lucífer

→ French: Lucifer

→ English: luciferous, Lucifer

→ Italian: lucifero, Lucifero

desc

→ Polish: lucyfer, Lucyfer, lucyper, Lucyper

→ Portuguese: lucífero, Lúcifer

→ Romanian: Lucifer

→ Spanish: lucífero, Lucifer, Luzbel

→ German: Luzifer

[ˈɫ̪uːkɪfɛr]

From lūx + -fer, calque of Ancient Greek Φωσφόρος (Phōsphóros).

cal

(Greek mythology) Lucifer, the fabled son of Aurora and Cephalus, and father of Ceyx


Asclepius

Borrowed from Latin Asclēpius, from Ancient Greek Ἀσκληπιός (Asklēpiós).

Asclepios (alternative)
Asklepios (alternative)

We found religious medicine in the Homeric poems, and there was no century without healing cults. The cult of Asclepius was by no means the only one, but, for reasons that will be discussed later, it dominated the scene and set a pattern for the cults of other healing deities.

1961, Henry E. Sigerist, “A History of Medicine, Volume II: Early Greek, Hindu, and Persian Medicine”, in Paperback, Oxford University Press, published 1987, page 44:

The temple of Asclepius is located just inside the north wall (Fig. 5) and is referred to by Pausanias (p. 34), who notes that the site was a place of refreshment in summer.

2002, Jerome Murphy-O'Connor, St. Paul's Corinth: Texts and Archaeology, Liturgical Press, page 186:

The story of Tiber Island is similar: in 293 BC, the inhabitants of Rome started to fall sick and die from an unknown disease, and the city fathers sent an expedition to Epidaurus in Greece to retrieve one of the snakes sacred to Asclepius (Greek Asklepiós, Aesculapius in Latin), god of medicine and healing, thus bringing the god to Rome. The story told by Livy was that as the ship carrying this snake came up the Tiber, the snake escaped and swam to the island. The Romans immediately concluded that Asclepius wished to dwell there (it would appear that clever Asclepius had immediately recognised an excellent place of quarantine), and built a temple to the god on the island.

2015, Paula Landart, Finding Ancient Rome: Walks in the City, E-Book, page 16:

(Greek mythology) A Greek mythological deity, the god of doctors, medicine and healing; a son of Apollo and the Thessalian princess Coronis, husband to the goddess Epione and father of the Asclepiades; identified with the Roman god Aesculapius.

阿斯克勒庇俄斯

Āsīkèlēibì'ésī


popular

en-adj

popular (comparative more popular, superlative most popular)

more popular (comparative)
most popular (superlative)

From Middle English populer, from Old French populaire and Latin populāris, from populus (“people”) + -āris (“-ar”).

As a work of popular science it is exemplary: the focus may be the numbers, but most of the mathematical legwork is confined to the appendices and the accompanying commentary is amusing and witty, as well as informed.

2009 April 8, “Meltdown”, in The Economist:

Aimed at ordinary people, as opposed to specialists etc.; intended for general consumption.


popular

popular (nominative singular)
popularzy (nominative plural)
popularowie (nominative plural)
populary (derogatory nominative plural)
populara (genitive singular)
popularów (genitive plural)
popularowi (dative singular)
popularom (dative plural)
populara (accusative singular)
popularów (accusative plural)
popularem (instrumental singular)
popularami (instrumental plural)
popularze (locative singular)
popularach (locative plural)
popularze (singular vocative)
popularzy (plural vocative)
popularowie (plural vocative)
populary (derogatory plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin populārēs. First attested in the 20th century.

(Ancient Rome, politics) popular (member of the Populares)


ostracize

en-verb

ostracize (third-person singular simple present ostracizes, present participle ostracizing, simple past and past participle ostracized)

term-label

(American spelling, Oxford British English)

ostracizes (present singular third-person)
ostracizing (participle present)
ostracized (participle past)
ostracized (past)
ostracise (alternative)

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From Ancient Greek ὀστρακίζω (ostrakízō, “to banish from a city by ostracism”), from ὄστρᾰκον (óstrăkon, “earthenware vessel; fragment of such a vessel, potsherd”) (from the fact that when voting was held to decide whether to banish people, their names were inscribed on potsherds) + -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō, suffix forming verbs)). The English word is cognate with French ostraciser.

refn

From the collection of the Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, Greece.

der

Republics have been accused of being ungrateful. Aristides was ostracised for being called the Just, and Themistocles banished, after saving his country from desolation.

1836 December 15, Eleazer Wheelock Ripley, “The President’s Message”, in Register of Debates in Congress, Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the Second Session of the Twenty-fourth Congress: […] (United States House of Representatives), volume XIII, Washington, D.C.: Printed and published by Gales and Seaton, published 1837, →OCLC, column 1097:

[T]he person who was ostracised was obliged to leave Athens within ten days after the sentence, and unless a vote of the people recalled him before the expiration of that time, to stay in exile for ten years.

1840, “OSTRACISM”, in [George Long], editor, The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volumes XVII (Organ–Pertinax), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], →OCLC, page 55, column 2:

The Athenian Hyperbolus, who had been ostracized some years before by the coalition of Nikias and Alkibiades, together with their respective partisans—ostracized (as Thucydides tells us) not from any fear of his power and over-transcendent influence, but from his bad character and from his being a disgrace to the city—and thus ostracized by an abuse of the institution—was now resident at Samos.

[1849], George Grote, “Twenty-first Year of the War.—Oligarchy of Four Hundred at Athens.”, in A History of Greece from the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation Contemporary with Alexander the Great. [...] In Four Volumes, 2nd edition, volume III, New York, N.Y.: W. L. Allison Co., publishers, →OCLC, part II (Continuation of Historical Greece), page 203:

(transitive, Ancient Greece, historical) To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.

verbannen

to ban a person from a city for five or ten years by the procedure of ostracism


genius

en-noun

genius (countable and uncountable, plural geniuses or genii)

From Latin genius (“inborn nature; a tutelary deity of a person or place; wit, brilliance”), from gignō (“to beget, produce”), Old Latin genō, from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵenh₁-. Doublet of genio. See also genus.

bor

and the genius of the place: the growing enthusiasm for codified standards in the Army and Navy

1646 (indicated as 1645), John Milton, “the unseen genius of the wood”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], →OCLC:

We talk of genius still, but with thought how changed! The genius of Augustus was a tutelary demon, to be sworn by and to receive offerings on an altar as a deity.

1715, Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive Culture:

An old sinner, in shape of a khansamah, is the genius of the place, and has rarely aught else to tempt the tired traveller with than a “sudden death”—a fowl caught running in the yard, and dished up forthwith; […]

1866, Frederick F. Wyman, From Calcutta to the Snowy Range, page 330:

(countable, Roman mythology, also figuratively) The tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person.


lepton

Borrowed from English lepton, from Ancient Greek λεπτόν (leptón).


Artemis

From Ancient Greek Ἄρτεμις (Ártemis). Further etymology is uncertain.

(Greek mythology) The Greek goddess of the hunt, wild animals, and wilderness; the daughter of Leto and Zeus; the sister of Apollo. (Compare Diana.)


Artemis

Artemis (nominative singular)
Artemis (accusative nominative singular)
Artemiin (accusative genitive singular)
Artemiin (genitive singular)
Artemista (partitive singular)
Artemiissa (inessive singular)
Artemiista (elative singular)
Artemiiseen (illative singular)
Artemiilla (adessive singular)
Artemiilta (ablative singular)
Artemiille (allative singular)
Artemiina (essive singular)
Artemiiksi (singular translative)
Artemiitta (abessive singular)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Artemiini (nominative singular)
Artemiini (accusative nominative singular)
Artemiini (accusative genitive singular)
Artemiini (genitive singular)
Artemistani (partitive singular)
Artemiissani (inessive singular)
Artemiistani (elative singular)
Artemiiseeni (illative singular)
Artemiillani (adessive singular)
Artemiiltani (ablative singular)
Artemiilleni (allative singular)
Artemiinani (essive singular)
Artemiikseni (singular translative)
Artemiittani (abessive singular)
Artemiisi (nominative singular)
Artemiisi (accusative nominative singular)
Artemiisi (accusative genitive singular)
Artemiisi (genitive singular)
Artemistasi (partitive singular)
Artemiissasi (inessive singular)
Artemiistasi (elative singular)
Artemiiseesi (illative singular)
Artemiillasi (adessive singular)
Artemiiltasi (ablative singular)
Artemiillesi (allative singular)
Artemiinasi (essive singular)
Artemiiksesi (singular translative)
Artemiittasi (abessive singular)
Artemiimme (nominative singular)
Artemiimme (accusative nominative singular)
Artemiimme (accusative genitive singular)
Artemiimme (genitive singular)
Artemistamme (partitive singular)
Artemiissamme (inessive singular)
Artemiistamme (elative singular)
Artemiiseemme (illative singular)
Artemiillamme (adessive singular)
Artemiiltamme (ablative singular)
Artemiillemme (allative singular)
Artemiinamme (essive singular)
Artemiiksemme (singular translative)
Artemiittamme (abessive singular)
Artemiinne (nominative singular)
Artemiinne (accusative nominative singular)
Artemiinne (accusative genitive singular)
Artemiinne (genitive singular)
Artemistanne (partitive singular)
Artemiissanne (inessive singular)
Artemiistanne (elative singular)
Artemiiseenne (illative singular)
Artemiillanne (adessive singular)
Artemiiltanne (ablative singular)
Artemiillenne (allative singular)
Artemiinanne (essive singular)
Artemiiksenne (singular translative)
Artemiittanne (abessive singular)
Artemiinsa (nominative singular)
Artemiinsa (accusative nominative singular)
Artemiinsa (accusative genitive singular)
Artemiinsa (genitive singular)
Artemistaan (partitive singular)
Artemistansa (partitive singular)
Artemiissaan (inessive singular)
Artemiissansa (inessive singular)
Artemiistaan (elative singular)
Artemiistansa (elative singular)
Artemiiseensa (illative singular)
Artemiillaan (adessive singular)
Artemiillansa (adessive singular)
Artemiiltaan (ablative singular)
Artemiiltansa (ablative singular)
Artemiilleen (allative singular)
Artemiillensa (allative singular)
Artemiinaan (essive singular)
Artemiinansa (essive singular)
Artemiikseen (singular translative)
Artemiiksensa (singular translative)
Artemiittaan (abessive singular)
Artemiittansa (abessive singular)
Artemis (nominative singular)
Artemis (accusative nominative singular)
Artemiksen (accusative genitive singular)
Artemiksen (genitive singular)
Artemista (partitive singular)
Artemiksessa (inessive singular)
Artemiksesta (elative singular)
Artemikseen (illative singular)
Artemiksella (adessive singular)
Artemikselta (ablative singular)
Artemikselle (allative singular)
Artemiksena (essive singular)
Artemikseksi (singular translative)
Artemiksetta (abessive singular)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Artemikseni (nominative singular)
Artemikseni (accusative nominative singular)
Artemikseni (accusative genitive singular)
Artemikseni (genitive singular)
Artemistani (partitive singular)
Artemiksessani (inessive singular)
Artemiksestani (elative singular)
Artemikseeni (illative singular)
Artemiksellani (adessive singular)
Artemikseltani (ablative singular)
Artemikselleni (allative singular)
Artemiksenani (essive singular)
Artemiksekseni (singular translative)
Artemiksettani (abessive singular)
Artemiksesi (nominative singular)
Artemiksesi (accusative nominative singular)
Artemiksesi (accusative genitive singular)
Artemiksesi (genitive singular)
Artemistasi (partitive singular)
Artemiksessasi (inessive singular)
Artemiksestasi (elative singular)
Artemikseesi (illative singular)
Artemiksellasi (adessive singular)
Artemikseltasi (ablative singular)
Artemiksellesi (allative singular)
Artemiksenasi (essive singular)
Artemikseksesi (singular translative)
Artemiksettasi (abessive singular)
Artemiksemme (nominative singular)
Artemiksemme (accusative nominative singular)
Artemiksemme (accusative genitive singular)
Artemiksemme (genitive singular)
Artemistamme (partitive singular)
Artemiksessamme (inessive singular)
Artemiksestamme (elative singular)
Artemikseemme (illative singular)
Artemiksellamme (adessive singular)
Artemikseltamme (ablative singular)
Artemiksellemme (allative singular)
Artemiksenamme (essive singular)
Artemikseksemme (singular translative)
Artemiksettamme (abessive singular)
Artemiksenne (nominative singular)
Artemiksenne (accusative nominative singular)
Artemiksenne (accusative genitive singular)
Artemiksenne (genitive singular)
Artemistanne (partitive singular)
Artemiksessanne (inessive singular)
Artemiksestanne (elative singular)
Artemikseenne (illative singular)
Artemiksellanne (adessive singular)
Artemikseltanne (ablative singular)
Artemiksellenne (allative singular)
Artemiksenanne (essive singular)
Artemikseksenne (singular translative)
Artemiksettanne (abessive singular)
Artemiksensa (nominative singular)
Artemiksensa (accusative nominative singular)
Artemiksensa (accusative genitive singular)
Artemiksensa (genitive singular)
Artemistaan (partitive singular)
Artemistansa (partitive singular)
Artemiksessaan (inessive singular)
Artemiksessansa (inessive singular)
Artemiksestaan (elative singular)
Artemiksestansa (elative singular)
Artemikseensa (illative singular)
Artemiksellaan (adessive singular)
Artemiksellansa (adessive singular)
Artemikseltaan (ablative singular)
Artemikseltansa (ablative singular)
Artemikselleen (allative singular)
Artemiksellensa (allative singular)
Artemiksenaan (essive singular)
Artemiksenansa (essive singular)
Artemiksekseen (singular translative)
Artemikseksensa (singular translative)
Artemiksettaan (abessive singular)
Artemiksettansa (abessive singular)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἄρτεμις (Ártemis)


Artemis

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἄρτεμις (Ártemis).


Athena

From Middle English Athena, from Latin Athēna, from Ancient Greek Ἀθηνᾶ (Athēnâ). Doublet of Athina.

(Greek mythology) The goddess of wisdom, especially strategic warfare, the arts, and especially crafts, in particular, weaving; daughter of Zeus and Metis. Her Roman counterpart is Minerva.


Athena

From Ancient Greek Ἀθήνη (Athḗnē), Ἀθηνᾶ (Athēnâ).


Athena

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἀθηνᾶ (Athēnâ).


Oedipus

From the Latin Oedipus, from the Ancient Greek Οἰδίπους (Oidípous, “swollen foot”).

der

(Greek mythology) A son of Laius and Jocasta, who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother.


Oedipus

la-proper noun

Oedipūs or Oedipus m sg (genitive Oedipodos or Oedipodis or Oedipī); variously declined, third declension, second declension

Oedipūs (canonical)
Oedipus (canonical masculine singular)
variously declined (canonical)
Oedipodos (genitive)
Oedipodis (genitive)
Oedipī (genitive)
Oedipūs (nominative singular)
Oedipus (nominative singular)
Oedipodos (genitive singular)
Oedipodis (genitive singular)
Oedipī (genitive singular)
Oedipodī (dative singular)
Oedipō (dative singular)
Oedipoda (accusative singular)
Oedipodem (accusative singular)
Oedipum (accusative singular)
Oedipode (ablative singular)
Oedipō (ablative singular)
Oedipūs (singular vocative)
Oedipe (singular vocative)
Œdipūs (alternative)
Œdipus (alternative)

From Ancient Greek Οἰδίπους (Oidípous, apparently from οἰδάω (oidáō, “to swell”) + πούς (poús, “foot”)).

der

(Greek mythology) King of Thebes, son of Laius and Jocasta.


DVC

(French politics) Abbreviation of divers centre (“centrist”).


Clio

(Greek mythology) The goddess of history and heroic poetry, and one of the Muses; the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne.


Clio

la-proper noun

Clīō f sg (genitive Clīūs); fourth declension

Clīō (canonical feminine singular)
Clīūs (genitive)
Clīō (nominative singular)
Clīūs (genitive singular)
Clīō (dative singular)
Clīō (accusative singular)
Clīō (ablative singular)
Clīō (singular vocative)

Translingual: Clio (generic name)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κλειώ (Kleiṓ).

(Greek mythology) Clio, three figures:
the Muse of history and epic poetry

(Greek mythology) Clio, three figures:
a Nereid

(Greek mythology) Clio, three figures:
an Oceanid


Clio

(Greek mythology) Clio (the Muse of history and heroic poetry)


Cronus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κρόνος (Krónos), possibly from the Ancient Greek κραίνω (kraínō, “to accomplish or fulfil”).

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Cronos (alternative)
Kronos (alternative)

The deal is: You post a photo from 10 years ago and one from now. It’s like viewing a painting of Cronus eating his children, but online.

2019 January 16, Alexis C. Madrigal, “Go Ahead, Post the Stupid Photo of Yourself From 10 Years Ago”, in The Atlantic:

(Greek mythology) The youngest of the twelve Titans, son of Uranus and Gaia; father to the first generation of Olympian gods and goddesses.


Khronos

(Greek mythology) Alternative spelling of Cronus

(Greek mythology) Alternative spelling of Chronos


Chronos

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Χρόνος (Khrónos), from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”)

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Chronus (alternative)
Khronos (alternative)

(Greek mythology) The personification of time.


Chronos

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Χρόνος (Khrónos).

(Greek mythology) Chronos, Chronus (personification)


Dionysus

Via Latin Dionȳsus, from Ancient Greek Διόνῡσος (Diónūsos).

All hail slain and risen God / All hail Dionysus / Come blessed Dionysus, various nam'd, bull-fac'd / Begot from the thunder, Bacchus fam'd

(Greek mythology) The god of wine, ivy and grapes, specifically its intoxication and social influence, but also the patron of agriculture and the theater. Also related to the mystery of religion, as in "spiritual intoxication".


Dionysus

la-proper noun

Dionȳsus m sg (genitive Dionȳsī); second declension

Dionȳsus (canonical masculine singular)
Dionȳsī (genitive)
Dionȳsus (nominative singular)
Dionȳsī (genitive singular)
Dionȳsō (dative singular)
Dionȳsum (accusative singular)
Dionȳsō (ablative singular)
Dionȳse (singular vocative)

(Greek mythology) Dionysus, a Greek god.


faculty

From Middle English faculte (“power, property”), from Old French faculte, from Latin facultas (“capability, ability, skill, abundance, plenty, stock, goods, property; in Medieval Latin also a body of teachers”), another form of facilitas (“easiness, facility, etc.”), from facul, another form of facilis (“easy, facile”); see facile. Doublet of facility.

der

(Church of England) A licence to make alterations to a church.


sikiö

sikiö (nominative singular)
sikiöt (nominative plural)
sikiö (accusative nominative singular)
sikiöt (accusative nominative plural)
sikiön (accusative genitive singular)
sikiöt (accusative genitive plural)
sikiön (genitive singular)
sikiöiden (genitive plural)
sikiöitten (genitive plural)
sikiötä (partitive singular)
sikiöitä (partitive plural)
sikiössä (inessive singular)
sikiöissä (inessive plural)
sikiöstä (elative singular)
sikiöistä (elative plural)
sikiöön (illative singular)
sikiöihin (illative plural)
sikiöllä (adessive singular)
sikiöillä (adessive plural)
sikiöltä (ablative singular)
sikiöiltä (ablative plural)
sikiölle (allative singular)
sikiöille (allative plural)
sikiönä (essive singular)
sikiöinä (essive plural)
sikiöksi (singular translative)
sikiöiksi (plural translative)
sikiöttä (abessive singular)
sikiöittä (abessive plural)
sikiöin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
sikiöni (nominative singular)
sikiöni (nominative plural)
sikiöni (accusative nominative singular)
sikiöni (accusative nominative plural)
sikiöni (accusative genitive singular)
sikiöni (accusative genitive plural)
sikiöni (genitive singular)
sikiöideni (genitive plural)
sikiöitteni (genitive plural)
sikiötäni (partitive singular)
sikiöitäni (partitive plural)
sikiössäni (inessive singular)
sikiöissäni (inessive plural)
sikiöstäni (elative singular)
sikiöistäni (elative plural)
sikiööni (illative singular)
sikiöihini (illative plural)
sikiölläni (adessive singular)
sikiöilläni (adessive plural)
sikiöltäni (ablative singular)
sikiöiltäni (ablative plural)
sikiölleni (allative singular)
sikiöilleni (allative plural)
sikiönäni (essive singular)
sikiöinäni (essive plural)
sikiökseni (singular translative)
sikiöikseni (plural translative)
sikiöttäni (abessive singular)
sikiöittäni (abessive plural)
sikiöineni (comitative plural)
sikiösi (nominative singular)
sikiösi (nominative plural)
sikiösi (accusative nominative singular)
sikiösi (accusative nominative plural)
sikiösi (accusative genitive singular)
sikiösi (accusative genitive plural)
sikiösi (genitive singular)
sikiöidesi (genitive plural)
sikiöittesi (genitive plural)
sikiötäsi (partitive singular)
sikiöitäsi (partitive plural)
sikiössäsi (inessive singular)
sikiöissäsi (inessive plural)
sikiöstäsi (elative singular)
sikiöistäsi (elative plural)
sikiöösi (illative singular)
sikiöihisi (illative plural)
sikiölläsi (adessive singular)
sikiöilläsi (adessive plural)
sikiöltäsi (ablative singular)
sikiöiltäsi (ablative plural)
sikiöllesi (allative singular)
sikiöillesi (allative plural)
sikiönäsi (essive singular)
sikiöinäsi (essive plural)
sikiöksesi (singular translative)
sikiöiksesi (plural translative)
sikiöttäsi (abessive singular)
sikiöittäsi (abessive plural)
sikiöinesi (comitative plural)
sikiömme (nominative singular)
sikiömme (nominative plural)
sikiömme (accusative nominative singular)
sikiömme (accusative nominative plural)
sikiömme (accusative genitive singular)
sikiömme (accusative genitive plural)
sikiömme (genitive singular)
sikiöidemme (genitive plural)
sikiöittemme (genitive plural)
sikiötämme (partitive singular)
sikiöitämme (partitive plural)
sikiössämme (inessive singular)
sikiöissämme (inessive plural)
sikiöstämme (elative singular)
sikiöistämme (elative plural)
sikiöömme (illative singular)
sikiöihimme (illative plural)
sikiöllämme (adessive singular)
sikiöillämme (adessive plural)
sikiöltämme (ablative singular)
sikiöiltämme (ablative plural)
sikiöllemme (allative singular)
sikiöillemme (allative plural)
sikiönämme (essive singular)
sikiöinämme (essive plural)
sikiöksemme (singular translative)
sikiöiksemme (plural translative)
sikiöttämme (abessive singular)
sikiöittämme (abessive plural)
sikiöinemme (comitative plural)
sikiönne (nominative singular)
sikiönne (nominative plural)
sikiönne (accusative nominative singular)
sikiönne (accusative nominative plural)
sikiönne (accusative genitive singular)
sikiönne (accusative genitive plural)
sikiönne (genitive singular)
sikiöidenne (genitive plural)
sikiöittenne (genitive plural)
sikiötänne (partitive singular)
sikiöitänne (partitive plural)
sikiössänne (inessive singular)
sikiöissänne (inessive plural)
sikiöstänne (elative singular)
sikiöistänne (elative plural)
sikiöönne (illative singular)
sikiöihinne (illative plural)
sikiöllänne (adessive singular)
sikiöillänne (adessive plural)
sikiöltänne (ablative singular)
sikiöiltänne (ablative plural)
sikiöllenne (allative singular)
sikiöillenne (allative plural)
sikiönänne (essive singular)
sikiöinänne (essive plural)
sikiöksenne (singular translative)
sikiöiksenne (plural translative)
sikiöttänne (abessive singular)
sikiöittänne (abessive plural)
sikiöinenne (comitative plural)
sikiönsä (nominative singular)
sikiönsä (nominative plural)
sikiönsä (accusative nominative singular)
sikiönsä (accusative nominative plural)
sikiönsä (accusative genitive singular)
sikiönsä (accusative genitive plural)
sikiönsä (genitive singular)
sikiöidensä (genitive plural)
sikiöittensä (genitive plural)
sikiötään (partitive singular)
sikiötänsä (partitive singular)
sikiöitään (partitive plural)
sikiöitänsä (partitive plural)
sikiössään (inessive singular)
sikiössänsä (inessive singular)
sikiöissään (inessive plural)
sikiöissänsä (inessive plural)
sikiöstään (elative singular)
sikiöstänsä (elative singular)
sikiöistään (elative plural)
sikiöistänsä (elative plural)
sikiöönsä (illative singular)
sikiöihinsä (illative plural)
sikiöllään (adessive singular)
sikiöllänsä (adessive singular)
sikiöillään (adessive plural)
sikiöillänsä (adessive plural)
sikiöltään (ablative singular)
sikiöltänsä (ablative singular)
sikiöiltään (ablative plural)
sikiöiltänsä (ablative plural)
sikiölleen (allative singular)
sikiöllensä (allative singular)
sikiöilleen (allative plural)
sikiöillensä (allative plural)
sikiönään (essive singular)
sikiönänsä (essive singular)
sikiöinään (essive plural)
sikiöinänsä (essive plural)
sikiökseen (singular translative)
sikiöksensä (singular translative)
sikiöikseen (plural translative)
sikiöiksensä (plural translative)
sikiöttään (abessive singular)
sikiöttänsä (abessive singular)
sikiöittään (abessive plural)
sikiöittänsä (abessive plural)
sikiöineen (comitative plural)
sikiöinensä (comitative plural)

siitä (“to be conceived, to procreate”) + -iö


RIP

référendum d’initiative partagée
référendum d'initiative partagée#French

(French politics) Initialism of référendum d’initiative partagée.


Ζεύς

grc-proper noun

Ζεύς • (Zeús) m (genitive Διός); third declension

Zeús (romanization)
Διός (genitive)
ὁ Ζεύς (nominative singular)
τοῦ Δῐός (genitive singular)
Ζηνός (genitive singular)
τῷ Δῐῐ́ (dative singular)
Ζηνῐ́ (dative singular)
τὸν Δῐ́ᾰ (accusative singular)
Ζῆνᾰ (accusative singular)
Ζεῦ (singular vocative)
Δάν (alternative)
Δεύς (alternative)
Ζάν (alternative)
Ζάς (alternative)
Ζήν (alternative)
Τάν (alternative)

Greek: Ζευς (Zefs), Δίας (Días)

→ Arabic: زُوس (zūs)

→ Classical Syriac: ܙܘܣ (zews)

→ Coptic: ⲍⲉⲩⲥ (zeus)

→ English: Zeus

→ Georgian: ზევსი (zevsi)

→ Latin: Zeus

→ Messapic: 𐌆𐌉𐌑 (Ziś)

desctree

→ Old Armenian: Զեւս (Zews)
Armenian: Զևս (Zews)

→ Old Church Slavonic: Ꙁеѵсъ (Zevsŭ)

→ Russian: Зевс (Zevs)

From Proto-Hellenic *Dzéus, related to Mycenaean Greek 𐀇𐀺 (di-wo /diwos/); from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws. Cognate with Sanskrit द्यु (dyú), Latin Iovis (and *Iu- in Iuppiter), Old English Tīw, Hittite 𒅆𒍑 (sius).

Παῦε λέγων, μὰ τὸν Δία


missive

15th century; from Medieval Latin missīvus, from mittō (“to send”).

(in the plural, Scots law) Letters sent between two parties in which one makes an offer and the other accepts it.


Battle of Britain

(historical) A series of air engagements between the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the German Luftwaffe during World War II for air superiority over southern England and the English Channel prior to any German invasion of the British Isles.

Slag om Brittanje

series of air engagements between the British Royal Air Force and the German Luftwaffe during World War II


equestrian

en-adj

equestrian (comparative more equestrian, superlative most equestrian)

more equestrian (comparative)
most equestrian (superlative)

Ultimately from Latin equester (“of or pertaining to equestrians/cavalry”) + -ianus (“-ian, related to”, adjective marker), from equus (“horse”).

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(historical) Of or relating to the ancient Roman class of equites.


Perseus

Latin from the Ancient Greek Περσεύς (Perseús).

(Greek mythology) The mythological Greek warrior who slew the Gorgon Medusa by decapitating her. He married Andromeda after rescuing her from Ceto and founded Mycenae. He was the son of Zeus and Danae.


Perseus

Perseus (nominative singular)
Perseus (accusative nominative singular)
Perseuksen (accusative genitive singular)
Perseuksen (genitive singular)
Perseusta (partitive singular)
Perseuksessa (inessive singular)
Perseuksesta (elative singular)
Perseukseen (illative singular)
Perseuksella (adessive singular)
Perseukselta (ablative singular)
Perseukselle (allative singular)
Perseuksena (essive singular)
Perseukseksi (singular translative)
Perseuksetta (abessive singular)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Perseukseni (nominative singular)
Perseukseni (accusative nominative singular)
Perseukseni (accusative genitive singular)
Perseukseni (genitive singular)
Perseustani (partitive singular)
Perseuksessani (inessive singular)
Perseuksestani (elative singular)
Perseukseeni (illative singular)
Perseuksellani (adessive singular)
Perseukseltani (ablative singular)
Perseukselleni (allative singular)
Perseuksenani (essive singular)
Perseuksekseni (singular translative)
Perseuksettani (abessive singular)
Perseuksesi (nominative singular)
Perseuksesi (accusative nominative singular)
Perseuksesi (accusative genitive singular)
Perseuksesi (genitive singular)
Perseustasi (partitive singular)
Perseuksessasi (inessive singular)
Perseuksestasi (elative singular)
Perseukseesi (illative singular)
Perseuksellasi (adessive singular)
Perseukseltasi (ablative singular)
Perseuksellesi (allative singular)
Perseuksenasi (essive singular)
Perseukseksesi (singular translative)
Perseuksettasi (abessive singular)
Perseuksemme (nominative singular)
Perseuksemme (accusative nominative singular)
Perseuksemme (accusative genitive singular)
Perseuksemme (genitive singular)
Perseustamme (partitive singular)
Perseuksessamme (inessive singular)
Perseuksestamme (elative singular)
Perseukseemme (illative singular)
Perseuksellamme (adessive singular)
Perseukseltamme (ablative singular)
Perseuksellemme (allative singular)
Perseuksenamme (essive singular)
Perseukseksemme (singular translative)
Perseuksettamme (abessive singular)
Perseuksenne (nominative singular)
Perseuksenne (accusative nominative singular)
Perseuksenne (accusative genitive singular)
Perseuksenne (genitive singular)
Perseustanne (partitive singular)
Perseuksessanne (inessive singular)
Perseuksestanne (elative singular)
Perseukseenne (illative singular)
Perseuksellanne (adessive singular)
Perseukseltanne (ablative singular)
Perseuksellenne (allative singular)
Perseuksenanne (essive singular)
Perseukseksenne (singular translative)
Perseuksettanne (abessive singular)
Perseuksensa (nominative singular)
Perseuksensa (accusative nominative singular)
Perseuksensa (accusative genitive singular)
Perseuksensa (genitive singular)
Perseustaan (partitive singular)
Perseustansa (partitive singular)
Perseuksessaan (inessive singular)
Perseuksessansa (inessive singular)
Perseuksestaan (elative singular)
Perseuksestansa (elative singular)
Perseukseensa (illative singular)
Perseuksellaan (adessive singular)
Perseuksellansa (adessive singular)
Perseukseltaan (ablative singular)
Perseukseltansa (ablative singular)
Perseukselleen (allative singular)
Perseuksellensa (allative singular)
Perseuksenaan (essive singular)
Perseuksenansa (essive singular)
Perseuksekseen (singular translative)
Perseukseksensa (singular translative)
Perseuksettaan (abessive singular)
Perseuksettansa (abessive singular)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Περσεύς (Perseús)


Perseus

la-proper noun

Perseus m sg (genitive Perseos or Perseī); variously declined, third declension, second declension

Perseus (canonical masculine singular)
variously declined (canonical)
Perseos (genitive)
Perseī (genitive)
Perse͡us (nominative singular)
Perseos (genitive singular)
Perseī (genitive singular)
Perseō (dative singular)
Persea (accusative singular)
Perseum (accusative singular)
Perseō (ablative singular)
Perse͡u (singular vocative)

(Greek mythology) Perseus (son of Jupiter and Danae, killed Medusa and rescued Andromeda)


Marso

Borrowed from Latin Mārs, from Old Latin Māvors. Doublet of marto.

(Roman mythology) Mars, the Roman god of war


Iuno

Iūnō f sg (genitive Iūnōnis); third declension

Iūnō (canonical feminine singular)
Iūnōnis (genitive)
Iūnō (nominative singular)
Iūnōnis (genitive singular)
Iūnōnī (dative singular)
Iūnōnem (accusative singular)
Iūnōne (ablative singular)
Iūnō (singular vocative)
Jūnō (alternative)

There are two hypotheses:
* From Proto-Indo-European *dyúh₃onh₂-, *dyúh₃nh₂- (“having heavenly authority”), from *dyew- (“sky, heaven”) + *-Hō (“burden, authority”), rendering Iuvō, *Iūnis, normalized to Iūnō, Iūnōnis. See Ancient Greek Διώνη (Diṓnē, “Dione”);
* From Proto-Indo-European *h₂yúh₃onh₂-, *h₂yúh₃nh₂- (“the young goddess”), from *h₂óyu (“long time, lifetime”) + *-Hō (“burden, authority”) also rendering *Iuvō, *Iūnis, normalized to Iūnō, Iūnōnis. See Latin iuvenis (“young”).

cur sit virginibus, quæris, dea culta ministris? / inveniam causas hac quoque parte suas. / ex Ope Iunonem memorant Cereremque creatas / semine Saturni; tertia Vesta fuit. / utraque nupserunt, ambæ peperisse feruntur; / de tribus impatiens restitit una viri.

Why, you ask, is the goddess tended by virgin ministers? I’ll discover the true causes for this as well. They say that Juno and Ceres were born of Ops by Saturn’s seed; Vesta was the third daughter. The other two married, both reported to have borne children; of the three, one remained who could not bear a husband.

(Roman mythology, religion) Juno, queen of the gods, patron of rulers and childbirth, equivalent to the Greek Hera.


Юпитер

bg:Юпитер (планета)

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Юпитер

ru-proper noun+

Юпи́тер • (Jupíter) m inan or m anim (genitive Юпи́тера, nominative plural Юпи́теры, genitive plural Юпи́теров)

Юпи́тер (canonical)
Jupíter (romanization)
Юпи́тера (genitive)
Юпи́теры (nominative plural)
Юпи́теров (genitive plural)
Юпи́тер (nominative singular)
Юпи́теры (nominative plural)
Юпи́тера (genitive singular)
Юпи́теров (genitive plural)
Юпи́теру (dative singular)
Юпи́терам (dative plural)
Юпи́тера (accusative animate singular)
Юпи́теров (accusative animate plural)
Юпи́тер (accusative inanimate singular)
Юпи́теры (accusative inanimate plural)
Юпи́тером (instrumental singular)
Юпи́терами (instrumental plural)
Юпи́тере (prepositional singular)
Юпи́терах (plural prepositional)
Юпи́теръ (alternative)

→ Uyghur: يوپىتېر (yopitër)

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Classical Greek

The form of the Ancient Greek language used during the classical period of Greek literature: approximately 600 to 300 BCE.


Ancient Greek

Any of the various forms of the Greek language of classical antiquity, particularly the classical Attic dialect used in Athenian literature.

اللُّغَة الْيُونَانِيَّة الْقَدِيمَة

Wiktionary’s coverage of Ancient Greek terms


Ancient Greek

Ancient Greeks (plural)
ancient Greek (alternative)

A native or inhabitant of Ancient Greece.


SDP

We believed that the Trots represented a mad, extreme form of Labour that was never going to do anything for anybody, yet we felt strongly that nothing would be achieved by jumping ship and defecting to the SDP.

2008, Cherie Blair, Speaking for Myself: My Life from Liverpool to Downing Street:

Social Democratic Party
w:Social Democratic Party (UK)

(UK politics, historical, 1981–1988) Initialism of Social Democratic Party, a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.


Cupid

From Latin Cupīdō, personification of cupīdō (“desire, desire of love”), from cupidus (“eager, greedy, passionate”), from cupiō (“to desire”).

The myth of Cupid and Psyche was one of the most influential romances in European culture.

(Roman mythology) The god of love, son of Venus; sometimes depicted as a putto (a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow). The Roman counterpart of Eros.


Sinn Féin

From Irish Sinn Féin (literally “we ourselves”) from sinn (“we, us”) + féin (“-self, -selves”).

compound

Ireland’s largest party, Fianna Fáil, has said it will not consider going into government with Sinn Féin, a decision likely to prevent the leftwing nationalists from entering power for the first time.

2020 February 13, “Ireland: Fianna Fáil rules out coalition with Sinn Féin”, in The Guardian, sourced from Reuters, →ISSN:

(Irish politics) An Irish political party committed to the reunification of Ireland.


Sinn Féin

Shinn Féin (genitive)
Sinn Féin
Shinn Féin
tSinn Féin

/ʃɪnʲ fʲeːnʲ/