örkki

örkki (nominative singular)
örkit (nominative plural)
örkki (accusative nominative singular)
örkit (accusative nominative plural)
örkin (accusative genitive singular)
örkit (accusative genitive plural)
örkin (genitive singular)
örkkien (genitive plural)
örkkiä (partitive singular)
örkkejä (partitive plural)
örkissä (inessive singular)
örkeissä (inessive plural)
örkistä (elative singular)
örkeistä (elative plural)
örkkiin (illative singular)
örkkeihin (illative plural)
örkillä (adessive singular)
örkeillä (adessive plural)
örkiltä (ablative singular)
örkeiltä (ablative plural)
örkille (allative singular)
örkeille (allative plural)
örkkinä (essive singular)
örkkeinä (essive plural)
örkiksi (singular translative)
örkeiksi (plural translative)
örkittä (abessive singular)
örkeittä (abessive plural)
örkein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
örkkini (nominative singular)
örkkini (nominative plural)
örkkini (accusative nominative singular)
örkkini (accusative nominative plural)
örkkini (accusative genitive singular)
örkkini (accusative genitive plural)
örkkini (genitive singular)
örkkieni (genitive plural)
örkkiäni (partitive singular)
örkkejäni (partitive plural)
örkissäni (inessive singular)
örkeissäni (inessive plural)
örkistäni (elative singular)
örkeistäni (elative plural)
örkkiini (illative singular)
örkkeihini (illative plural)
örkilläni (adessive singular)
örkeilläni (adessive plural)
örkiltäni (ablative singular)
örkeiltäni (ablative plural)
örkilleni (allative singular)
örkeilleni (allative plural)
örkkinäni (essive singular)
örkkeinäni (essive plural)
örkikseni (singular translative)
örkeikseni (plural translative)
örkittäni (abessive singular)
örkeittäni (abessive plural)
örkkeineni (comitative plural)
örkkisi (nominative singular)
örkkisi (nominative plural)
örkkisi (accusative nominative singular)
örkkisi (accusative nominative plural)
örkkisi (accusative genitive singular)
örkkisi (accusative genitive plural)
örkkisi (genitive singular)
örkkiesi (genitive plural)
örkkiäsi (partitive singular)
örkkejäsi (partitive plural)
örkissäsi (inessive singular)
örkeissäsi (inessive plural)
örkistäsi (elative singular)
örkeistäsi (elative plural)
örkkiisi (illative singular)
örkkeihisi (illative plural)
örkilläsi (adessive singular)
örkeilläsi (adessive plural)
örkiltäsi (ablative singular)
örkeiltäsi (ablative plural)
örkillesi (allative singular)
örkeillesi (allative plural)
örkkinäsi (essive singular)
örkkeinäsi (essive plural)
örkiksesi (singular translative)
örkeiksesi (plural translative)
örkittäsi (abessive singular)
örkeittäsi (abessive plural)
örkkeinesi (comitative plural)
örkkimme (nominative singular)
örkkimme (nominative plural)
örkkimme (accusative nominative singular)
örkkimme (accusative nominative plural)
örkkimme (accusative genitive singular)
örkkimme (accusative genitive plural)
örkkimme (genitive singular)
örkkiemme (genitive plural)
örkkiämme (partitive singular)
örkkejämme (partitive plural)
örkissämme (inessive singular)
örkeissämme (inessive plural)
örkistämme (elative singular)
örkeistämme (elative plural)
örkkiimme (illative singular)
örkkeihimme (illative plural)
örkillämme (adessive singular)
örkeillämme (adessive plural)
örkiltämme (ablative singular)
örkeiltämme (ablative plural)
örkillemme (allative singular)
örkeillemme (allative plural)
örkkinämme (essive singular)
örkkeinämme (essive plural)
örkiksemme (singular translative)
örkeiksemme (plural translative)
örkittämme (abessive singular)
örkeittämme (abessive plural)
örkkeinemme (comitative plural)
örkkinne (nominative singular)
örkkinne (nominative plural)
örkkinne (accusative nominative singular)
örkkinne (accusative nominative plural)
örkkinne (accusative genitive singular)
örkkinne (accusative genitive plural)
örkkinne (genitive singular)
örkkienne (genitive plural)
örkkiänne (partitive singular)
örkkejänne (partitive plural)
örkissänne (inessive singular)
örkeissänne (inessive plural)
örkistänne (elative singular)
örkeistänne (elative plural)
örkkiinne (illative singular)
örkkeihinne (illative plural)
örkillänne (adessive singular)
örkeillänne (adessive plural)
örkiltänne (ablative singular)
örkeiltänne (ablative plural)
örkillenne (allative singular)
örkeillenne (allative plural)
örkkinänne (essive singular)
örkkeinänne (essive plural)
örkiksenne (singular translative)
örkeiksenne (plural translative)
örkittänne (abessive singular)
örkeittänne (abessive plural)
örkkeinenne (comitative plural)
örkkinsä (nominative singular)
örkkinsä (nominative plural)
örkkinsä (accusative nominative singular)
örkkinsä (accusative nominative plural)
örkkinsä (accusative genitive singular)
örkkinsä (accusative genitive plural)
örkkinsä (genitive singular)
örkkiensä (genitive plural)
örkkiään (partitive singular)
örkkiänsä (partitive singular)
örkkejään (partitive plural)
örkkejänsä (partitive plural)
örkissään (inessive singular)
örkissänsä (inessive singular)
örkeissään (inessive plural)
örkeissänsä (inessive plural)
örkistään (elative singular)
örkistänsä (elative singular)
örkeistään (elative plural)
örkeistänsä (elative plural)
örkkiinsä (illative singular)
örkkeihinsä (illative plural)
örkillään (adessive singular)
örkillänsä (adessive singular)
örkeillään (adessive plural)
örkeillänsä (adessive plural)
örkiltään (ablative singular)
örkiltänsä (ablative singular)
örkeiltään (ablative plural)
örkeiltänsä (ablative plural)
örkilleen (allative singular)
örkillensä (allative singular)
örkeilleen (allative plural)
örkeillensä (allative plural)
örkkinään (essive singular)
örkkinänsä (essive singular)
örkkeinään (essive plural)
örkkeinänsä (essive plural)
örkikseen (singular translative)
örkiksensä (singular translative)
örkeikseen (plural translative)
örkeiksensä (plural translative)
örkittään (abessive singular)
örkittänsä (abessive singular)
örkeittään (abessive plural)
örkeittänsä (abessive plural)
örkkeineen (comitative plural)
örkkeinensä (comitative plural)

Borrowed from English orc, with fronting to associate with ölistä, öristä. Coined by translator Kersti Juva in 1973.


terrene

en-adj

terrene (comparative more terrene, superlative most terrene)

more terrene (comparative)
most terrene (superlative)

From Middle English terrene, from Anglo-Norman terriene, feminine of terrien, from Latin terrēnus, from terra (“earth”).

(science fiction) Made of matter (as opposed to antimatter).


Star Trek

Star Trek (comparative more Star Trek, superlative most Star Trek)

more Star Trek (comparative)
most Star Trek (superlative)

Sounds very Star Trek, but Virtual Reality technology exists right now.

1992, Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, →OL, page 110:

'This is very Star Trek,' Bryan pipes up as he examines the sketches of the space suits.

2002, Eddie Rowley, Westlife on Tour, Ebury, published 2011, →ISBN, →OL:

Older vampires learned how to dissemble and reassemble their bodies in a way that was very Star Trek.

2007 July 3, Michele Bardsley, Don't Talk Back to Your Vampire, Signet Eclipse, →ISBN, →OL, page 121:

Such portfolios lie on the so-called efficient frontier, which sounds very Star Trek, and is shown in Exhibit 12.2.

2008 August 4, David M. Darst, The Little Book that Saves Your Assets: What the Rich Continue to Do to Stay Wealthy in Up and Down Markets, Hoboken: Wiley, →ISBN, →OL, page 154:

The next century will be more Star Trek than anyone could have imagined. All the untapped channels and stations or frequencies (apps you can download) in the brain will become the new final frontier to explore.

2012 August 29, D. Crawford, Nirvana in the Garden of Eden: The Quantum Leap and Evolution of 2012, Bloomington: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →OL, page 33:

Futuristic, particularly with respect to things similar in appearance or effect to technology in the Star Trek franchise.


宇宙人

ja-r

宇宙人(うちゅうじん) (uchūjin)

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (宇宙人):
* → Japanese: 宇宙人(うちゅうじん) (uchūjin)
* → Korean: 우주인(宇宙人) (uju'in)

/y²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯⁵¹ ʐən³⁵/

/y²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯⁵¹ ʐən³⁵/


宇宙人

ja-noun

宇(う)宙(ちゅう)人(じん) • (uchūjin) ^(←うちうじん (utiuzin)?)

宇宙人 (canonical)
uchūjin (romanization)
utiuzin (romanization)
うちうじん (hiragana historical)

[ɯ̟t͡ɕɨːʑĩɴ]

宇宙 (uchū, “outer space”) + 人 (-jin, “person”)

suf

宇宙飛行士 宇宙飛行士#Japanese

Synonym of 宇宙飛行士 (uchū hikōshi, “astronaut”) (member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft, or someone trained for that purpose)


barn doors

Clip the C-47 to the barn doors.

Some broads have barn doors (see page 115) to block gross light spill into other set areas; others have even an adjustable beam, […]

1976, Herbert Zettl, Television Production Handbook, volume 10, page 105:

(film) Four hinged metal slats that come (or are attachable) on the front of cinema lights, used for shaping light and fastening light gels.


tanda

→ Basque: txanda

→ English: tanda

Cognate to Catalan tanda and Galician tanda, of unknown origin. Perhaps from a Latin tanta (literally “that much”) or nominalization of Latin tandem (“(of time) at length, at last”), with contamination from either. Normally suggested to be from an instance noun Arabic ضَمْدَة (ḍamda, “bandage”) from the root ض م د (ḍ-m-d) being metaphorically used, however, apart from this semantic development being dubious, not only the consonants do not match but this Arabic noun is of utmost rarity.

bor

el mejor momento de la tanda

(music, film, theater) performance, show, session (instance of a series of performances or a movie shows)


undine

From German Undine, from New Latin undīna, from Latin unda (“wave”).


mech

en-noun

mech (countable and uncountable, plural mechs)

(science fiction) A large piloted combat robot.

But I reprogrammed the recognition codes, and they won't treat him as Roubor Transic, nor will they obey any order he gives them. He's Mr. X to the mechs, a casual human to be taken care of just as well as possible, but never, never released.

1999, Analog Science Fiction & Fact - Volume 119, page 55:

He particularly liked the box full of "companions," small, hand-held mechs with advanced AI functions, programmed as individual advice and information systems.

2001, Robert I. Katz, Edward Maret: A Novel of the Future, page 100:

She grew up in Lower Manhattan, suffering the impeccably programmed attentions of the nanny mechs that did the work her mother and father couldn't be bothered with.

2006, Lou Anders, Futureshocks, page 75:

After a round of hugs and kisses, they headed to the lounge where Genie met them at the door and escorted them to the new VIP section followed by a mech that took their drink orders.

2019, Ron S. Nolan, Met Chron New-Humans:


thrash metal

/ˈθɹæʃ ˌmɛtəl/

A heavy and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical precision, alternate picking, and extended guitar solos, and often having aggressive lyrics.


causality

causality (countable and uncountable, plural causalities)

[kʰɒːˈz̥æl.ɪ.tɪ]

From Latin as if *causalitas, from causalis (“causal”), from causa (“cause”). By surface analysis, causal + -ity = cause + -ality.

The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.

But how do transformations like the evolution of language take place? A scientist looks for a cause inside time; a mystic knows that causality is essentially a process that is outside time-space.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 94:

But some discussion of the complex relationship between “allohistory” and sf is appropriate here, as the genres overlap in certain ways. Classical allohistory— such as Trevelyan's "What if Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo?" and Churchill's "If Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg" —is a rigorously consistent thought-experiment in historical causality.

2011 February 1, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, pages 102–103:

The relationship between something that happens or exists and the thing that causes it; the cause and consequence relationship.


centauroid

(fantasy, science fiction) A creature resembling a centaur.


dwerg

head

dwerg (plural dwerge, diminutive dwergie)

From Dutch dwerg, from Middle Dutch dwerch, from Old Dutch *dwerg, from Proto-Germanic *dwergaz.

(fiction, folklore, fantasy, mythology) dwarf (small folkloristic humanoid)


dwerg

nl-noun

dwerg m (plural dwergen, diminutive dwergje n, feminine dwergin)

dwergen (plural)
dwergje (diminutive neuter)
dwergin (feminine)

Afrikaans: dwerg

From Middle Dutch dwerch, from Old Dutch *dwerg, from Proto-West Germanic *dwerg, from Proto-Germanic *dwergaz.
Compare West Frisian dwerch, German Zwerg, English dwarf, Danish dværg.


scientifiction

Blend of scientific + fiction. Coined by Hugo Gernsback in 1916.

I am supposed to report Münchhaussen's^([sic]) doings; am supposed to be writing fiction, scientifiction, to be correct.

1916 January, Hugo Gernsback, Electrical Experimenter, page 474:

1926, Hugo Gernsback, Amazing Stories, "A New Sort of Magazine"
There is the usual fiction magazine, the love story and the sex-appeal type of magazine, the adventure type, and so on, but a magazine of "Scientifiction" is a pioneer in its field in America. By "scientifiction" I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story—a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision.

Lewis's novels are the scientifiction of a philosopher.

1949, Chad Walsh, C. S. Lewis: Apostle to the Skeptics:


Lovecraftian

en-adj

Lovecraftian (comparative more Lovecraftian, superlative most Lovecraftian)

more Lovecraftian (comparative)
most Lovecraftian (superlative)

From Lovecraft + -ian, in reference to H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), an American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, noted for combining these three genres within single narratives.

The tip of the thing was equipped with long whiplike appendages that writhed around a loose, drooling, toothless mouth large enough to swallow a man whole...Perhaps this was the only thing that the escaping Lovecraftian entity had thus far been able to extrude between the opening Gates — this one finger.

1984, Dean R. Koontz, Darkfall, page 362:

Frighteningly monstrous and otherworldly, sometimes with terrifyingly unnatural anatomy.


cloaking device

en-noun

cloaking device (plural cloaking devices)

1968. Coined by D. C. Fontana in the script for the Star Trek episode The Enterprise Incident.

Spock: "I believe the Romulans have developed a cloaking device which renders our tracking sensors useless."

1968, The Enterprise Incident (Star Trek), season 3, episode 2, Dorothy Catherine Fontana (actor):

Captain Needa: "They can't have disappeared. No ship that small has a cloaking device."

1980, The Empire Strikes Back, Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan, and George Lucas (actors):

I put out my hand and touched the warm surface of the camouflaged Rolls-Royce. I was going to ask Mycroft if I could have the cloaking device fitted to my Speedster but I was too late; enthused by my interest he had trotted off to a large roll-top bureau and was beckoning me over excitedly.

(science fiction) A device which renders a person or thing invisible.


saurian

From Sauria (suborder of lizards) + -an (suffix forming adjectives), under influence from earlier French saurien.

compound

After dinner we all went on deck and watched the unfamiliar scenes of a Capronian night--that is, all but von Schoenvorts. There was less to see than to hear. From the great inland lake behind us came the hissing and the screaming of countless saurians. Above us we heard the flap of giant wings, while from the shore rose the multitudinous voices of a tropical jungle--of a warm, damp atmosphere such as must have enveloped the entire earth during the Palezoic and Mesozoic eras.

1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VI, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:

Good evening, fellow saurians, and welcome once again to the Tri-Sports Arena! I'm your host, Raz Charkov...

1986, Kevin Eastman & al., Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Vol. I, No. 6, page 15

(popularly, especially science fiction) Any large reptilian animal, including crocodiles and reptilian aliens.


pyromancy

one type of which involves casting salt into a fire

thin smoke that rose straight up was a good omen

one type of which involves heating to produce cracks

this was done by heating pits carved into them

The magical power of conjuring or controlling fire.


волкулак

ru-noun+

волкула́к • (volkulák) m anim (genitive волкула́ка, nominative plural волкула́ки, genitive plural волкула́ков)

волкула́к (canonical)
volkulák (romanization)
волкула́ка (genitive)
волкула́ки (nominative plural)
волкула́ков (genitive plural)
волкула́к (nominative singular)
волкула́ки (nominative plural)
волкула́ка (genitive singular)
волкула́ков (genitive plural)
волкула́ку (dative singular)
волкула́кам (dative plural)
волкула́ка (accusative singular)
волкула́ков (accusative plural)
волкула́ком (instrumental singular)
волкула́ками (instrumental plural)
волкула́ке (prepositional singular)
волкула́ках (plural prepositional)

→ Yiddish: וואָלקעלאַק (volkelak)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vьlkolakъ, from *vьlkъ (“wolf”) and *dolkъ (“skin”).


cutting room

(film) A room in which a film is edited to its final form.


onocentaur

/ɒnəˈsɛntɔː/

Late Latin onocentaurus, from Ancient Greek ὀνοκένταυρος (onokéntauros, from ὄνος (ónos, “ass”) + κένταυρος (kéntauros, “centaur”)).

uder

ὀνοκένταυρος

A centaur with the body of an ass, instead of a prototypical horse.


progressive rock

(music) A rock music genre originating from the late 1960s and early 1970s, heavily influenced by classical music and jazz.


cacodemon

From Ancient Greek κακοδαίμων (kakodaímōn, “ill-starred”, from κακός (kakós, “bad”) + δαίμων (daímōn, “genius, divinity”)).

uder

The twelfth astrological House, from which only evil prognostics are alleged to proceed.


mpreg

(fandom slang) Abbreviation of male pregnancy.


garage rock

(US, music) A simple, relatively raw form of rock and roll from the mid-1960s.


yaoi

en-noun

yaoi (countable and uncountable, plural yaoi or yaois)

From Japanese やおい (yaoi), a blend of 山(やま)無(な)し (yama nashi, “no climax”) + 落(お)ち無(な)し (ochi nashi, “no point”) + 意味(いみ)無(な)し (imi nashi, “no meaning”), originally mocking those who criticised early yaoi works for being too focused on sex scenes instead of storylines.

ja-blend

(pornography, anime, manga) A form of hentai involving two or more males in a gay relationship.

ইয়াওই

(anime, manga) A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or sexual relationship between two or more men.


div

az-noun

div (definite accusative divi, plural divlər)

divi (accusative definite)
divlər (plural)
div (nominative singular)
divlər (nominative plural)
divi (accusative definite singular)
divləri (accusative definite plural)
divə (dative singular)
divlərə (dative plural)
divdə (locative singular)
divlərdə (locative plural)
divdən (ablative singular)
divlərdən (ablative plural)
divin (definite genitive singular)
divlərin (definite genitive plural)
divim (first-person nominative possessed-single possessive singular)
divlərim (first-person nominative possessed-many possessive singular)
divin (nominative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
divlərin (nominative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
divi (nominative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
divləri (nominative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
divimiz (first-person nominative plural possessed-single possessive)
divlərimiz (first-person nominative plural possessed-many possessive)
diviniz (nominative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
divləriniz (nominative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
divi (nominative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
divləri (nominative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
divləri (nominative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
divimi (accusative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
divlərimi (accusative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
divini (accusative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
divlərini (accusative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
divini (accusative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
divlərini (accusative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
divimizi (accusative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
divlərimizi (accusative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
divinizi (accusative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
divlərinizi (accusative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
divini (accusative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
divlərini (accusative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
divlərini (accusative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
divimə (dative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
divlərimə (dative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
divinə (dative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
divlərinə (dative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
divinə (dative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
divlərinə (dative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
divimizə (dative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
divlərimizə (dative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
divinizə (dative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
divlərinizə (dative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
divinə (dative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
divlərinə (dative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
divlərinə (dative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
divimdə (first-person locative possessed-single possessive singular)
divlərimdə (first-person locative possessed-many possessive singular)
divində (locative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
divlərində (locative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
divində (locative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
divlərində (locative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
divimizdə (first-person locative plural possessed-single possessive)
divlərimizdə (first-person locative plural possessed-many possessive)
divinizdə (locative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
divlərinizdə (locative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
divində (locative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
divlərində (locative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
divlərində (locative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
divimdən (ablative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
divlərimdən (ablative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
divindən (ablative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
divlərindən (ablative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
divindən (ablative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
divlərindən (ablative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
divimizdən (ablative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
divlərimizdən (ablative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
divinizdən (ablative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
divlərinizdən (ablative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
divindən (ablative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
divlərindən (ablative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
divlərindən (ablative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
divimin (first-person genitive possessed-single possessive singular)
divlərimin (first-person genitive possessed-many possessive singular)
divinin (genitive possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
divlərinin (genitive possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
divinin (genitive possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
divlərinin (genitive possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
divimizin (first-person genitive plural possessed-single possessive)
divlərimizin (first-person genitive plural possessed-many possessive)
divinizin (genitive plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
divlərinizin (genitive plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
divinin (genitive plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
divlərinin (genitive plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
divlərinin (genitive plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


FTL

en-noun

FTL (countable and uncountable, plural FTLs)

They had been slowly trailing the freighter for over a week, waiting for the ship to drop out of FTL.

2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 19:

(science fiction) Initialism of faster-than-light.


fire and brimstone

Calque of Biblical Hebrew גׇּפְרִ֣ית וָאֵ֑שׁ (gofrit va’esh) and Ancient Greek πυρὸς καὶ θείου (puròs kaì theíou), appearing in both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.

calque

גׇּפְרִ֣ית וָאֵ֑שׁ

πυρὸς καὶ θείου

And the third Angel followed them, ſaying with a lowd voice, If any man worship the beaſt and his image, and receiue his marke in his forehead, or in his hand, / The ſame ſhall drinke of the wine of the wrath of God, which is powred out without mixture into the cup of his indignation, and hee ſhall be tormented with fire and brimſtone, in the preſence of the holy Angels, and in the preſence of the Lambe:

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 14:9–10:


hellfire

en-noun

hellfire (countable and uncountable, plural hellfires)

/ˈhɛlˌfaɪəɹ/

From Middle English helle fire, helever, from Old English hellefȳr, equivalent to hell + fire. Cognate with West Frisian helfjoer (“hellfire”), Dutch hellevuur (“hellfire”), German Höllenfeuer (“hellfire”).


chronon

(physics) A hypothetical quantum or particle of time.


反重力

反重力 (canonical)
hanjūryoku (romanization)

From 反(はん, han) (anti-) + 重力 (じゅうりょく, jūryoku) (gravity)


redshirt

/ˈɹɛd.ʃəː(ɹ)t/

Redshirt (college sports)
Star Trek: The Original Series
Starfleet
redshirt (stock character)

Calque of Italian camicia rossa, equivalent to red + shirt. In later senses with reference to the uniforms or outfits worn by such people. The fandom slang sense emerged from the tendency of red-uninformed Starfleet officers to die in episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series.

(US, sports) A college athlete who spends a year not participating in official athletic activities, but does not lose his or her eligibility to participate in following years.

Sensing danger, Captain Kirk decided to beam down to the surface with Spock, McCoy, and a couple of redshirts.

I am not a goddamn redshirt! I have a purpose!

2017, 42m, in 12 Monkeys, season 3, episode 6:

(fiction, science fiction, fandom slang) An unimportant character introduced only to be killed in order to underscore the peril to the important characters; an expendable character.

(US, military) A person responsible for loading and unloading weapons, artillery, and equipment from aircraft.

As armoured personnel carriers rumbled on to Bangkok's deserted streets, thousands of troops fanned out in a cordon across the city, surrounding the redshirts' fortified protest camp.

2010 May 19, Ben Doherty, “Thai soldiers arrest protest leaders in bloody 'final crackdown'”, in The Guardian:

Alternative form of Red Shirt (“member of the UDD”).


redshirt

en-verb

redshirt (third-person singular simple present redshirts, present participle redshirting, simple past and past participle redshirted)

redshirts (present singular third-person)
redshirting (participle present)
redshirted (participle past)
redshirted (past)

/ˈɹɛd.ʃəː(ɹ)t/

Being asked whether I was going to be redshirted had some status associated with it.

2004, George R. Mills -, A View from the Bench, →ISBN:

The university decided to redshirt the freshman linebacker to give him an extra year to build up his bulk.

(US, collegiate sports) To place an athlete in a status wherein the athlete will spend a year not participating in official athletic activities, but will not lose his or her eligibility to participate in following years.

Hillman, who had come to Indiana without a scholarship (he now had one) from a Los Angeles suburb, wanted to redshirt so that he would have two years of eligibility left after Alford graduated. Smith didn't want to redshirt, he wanted to play.

2012 -, John Feinstein, Season on the Brink, →ISBN, page 62:

(US, collegiate sports) To take on a status wherein one will spend a year not participating in official athletic activities.


お化け

From お (o-, general honorific prefix) + 化け (bake, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 化(ば)ける (bakeru, “to change oneself into”)).

pre

お化けが出る。

提灯お化け

chochinobake, a ghost that resembles a lantern; paper lantern ghost


agathodaemon

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀγαθοδαίμων (agathodaímōn).

bor

A benevolent spirit, as opposed to a cacodemon (an evil daemon).


monda

mondák (plural)
monda (nominative singular)
mondák (nominative plural)
mondát (accusative singular)
mondákat (accusative plural)
mondának (dative singular)
mondáknak (dative plural)
mondával (instrumental singular)
mondákkal (instrumental plural)
mondáért (causal-final singular)
mondákért (causal-final plural)
mondává (singular translative)
mondákká (plural translative)
mondáig (singular terminative)
mondákig (plural terminative)
mondaként (essive-formal singular)
mondákként (essive-formal plural)
mondában (inessive singular)
mondákban (inessive plural)
mondán (singular superessive)
mondákon (plural superessive)
mondánál (adessive singular)
mondáknál (adessive plural)
mondába (illative singular)
mondákba (illative plural)
mondára (singular sublative)
mondákra (plural sublative)
mondához (allative singular)
mondákhoz (allative plural)
mondából (elative singular)
mondákból (elative plural)
mondáról (delative singular)
mondákról (delative plural)
mondától (ablative singular)
mondáktól (ablative plural)
mondáé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
mondáké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
mondáéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
mondákéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
mondám (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
mondáim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
mondád (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
mondáid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
mondája (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
mondái (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
mondánk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
mondáink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
mondátok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
mondáitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
mondájuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
mondáik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

Back-formation from mendemonda (“hearsay, rumor, gossip”), itself a reduplication. Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.

hu-langref

legend, saga, myth (a story set in the historical past containing both plausible and mythical elements)


登場

/tɤŋ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/tɤŋ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵/

/tɐŋ⁵⁵ t͡sʰœːŋ²¹/

/tɤŋ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/tɤŋ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵/

/tɐŋ⁵⁵ t͡sʰœːŋ²¹/

/tɤŋ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵/

/tɤŋ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/tɐŋ⁵⁵ t͡sʰœːŋ²¹/

(opera) to enter the stage or scene; to appear in performance


reggaeton

/rɛɡeɪˈtəʊn/

The Spanish islands gave the world salsa, and the more modern (and often controversial) hip-hop style reggaeton, which was forged between the islands and Miami.

2014, Carrie Gibson, Empire's Crossroads: The Caribbean From Columbus to the Present Day, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:

A style of Latin American popular music, originally developing from reggae in Panama but now more of a type of hip hop-dance music mainly associated with Puerto Rico.


alv

alven (definite singular)
alver (indefinite plural)
alvene (definite plural)

From Old Norse alfr, from Proto-Germanic *albiz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós.


alv

alven (definite singular)
alvar (indefinite plural)
alvane (definite plural)

Eg tenkte dat so mang ein Gong: "aa han, som var so sæl, at faa ein Alv med Laatt og Song, i Stova berr' eit Bil […]

I thought so many a time: "oh he, who was so blessed, to have an elf with mirth and song, in his house just for a while […]


alv

alv (indefinite nominative singular)
alvs (genitive indefinite singular)
alven (definite nominative singular)
alvens (definite genitive singular)
alver (indefinite nominative plural)
alvers (genitive indefinite plural)
alverna (definite nominative plural)
alvernas (definite genitive plural)

alf

officially obsolete since 1906, but still used for etymology 1

(mythology, fantasy) elf; a human-resembling, often magical, being


sega

(music) A genre of popular music mainly associated with Mauritius.


rokk

is-noun

rokk n (genitive singular rokks, no plural)

rokks (genitive singular)
rokk (indefinite nominative singular)
rokkið (definite nominative singular)
rokk (accusative indefinite singular)
rokkið (accusative definite singular)
rokki (dative indefinite singular)
rokkinu (dative definite singular)
rokks (genitive indefinite singular)
rokksins (definite genitive singular)


dire wolf

(fantasy) Synonym of warg (“type of wolf”)


hyphy

Probably an alteration of hype or hyper. American rapper Keak da Sneak is sometimes credited as coining the word in the 1990s, but no evidence exists to support this and the term is first attested in 2002.

It was Oakland rapper Keak Da Sneak who claims to have invented the term: upon being told by his mother that he was “hyperactive”, Keak repeated the term as “hyphy”. Since then, hyphy has come to refer to a complex group of cultural activities synonymous with Oakland: it is at once a sound, a behavior, a choice in recreational drugs.

2009, Mickey Hess, editor, Hip Hop in America: A Regional Guide, volume 1, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 281:

San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Bay Area#Proper noun

(music) A subgenre of hip-hop music and dancing associated with the San Francisco Bay Area.


pooka

From Old Irish púca (“goblin, sprite”), perhaps from a (nearly) identical Old Irish form, ultimately from Old English pūca (“demon”). Doublet of bucca and puck.

The pooka had befriended the kindly old man.

This is certain; Moggy was by no means so great a fool as Betty in respect of hobgoblins, witches, banshees, pookas, and the world of spirits in general. She eat heartily, and slept soundly, and as yet had never seen the devil.

1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

The Pooka is an animal of which, partly from the darkness of the night, and partly from the darkness that he carries about with him, the precise outline, especially of the head and neck, can never be distinguished.

1833 July, “Laurie on Grand Juries”, in The Westminster Review - Volume 19, page 88:

P-O-O-K-A. Pooka. From old Celtic mythology, a fairy spirit in animal form, always very large. The pooka appears here and there, now and then, to this one and that one. A benign but mischievous creature. Very fond of rumpots, crackpots, and how are you, Mr. Wilson?

A fairy that supposedly appears in animal form, often large.


Fantasyland

en-noun

Fantasyland (countable and uncountable, plural Fantasylands)

Perhaps capitalized under the influence of Walt Disney's Fantasyland theme park areas, which are noted for containing imagery relating to fairy tales.

If your dream depends a lot on luck, then you're in trouble. If it depends entirely on luck, you're living in Fantasyland. ... People who build their dream on reality take a very different approach to dreams than do people who live in Fantasyland.

2009, John C. Maxwell, Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions That Will Help You See It and Seize It, page 50:

Yes, I escaped into Fantasyland. However, I could just as easily have become a serial killer, a prostitute, a child beater, or a politician.

2007, Colleen Sell, A Cup of Comfort for Writers, page 28:

On a scale diagram, with the percentage of households on the vertical axis and the percentage of aggregate income on the horizontal axis, plot the Lorenz curve for Fantasyland.

2003, Richard G. Lipsey, Christopher Ragan, Economics, page 327:

A typical Fantasyland will display - often initially by means of a prefatory MAP - a selection, sometimes very full, from a more or less fixed list of landscape ingredients..."

1999, John Clute, John Grant, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, page 341:

Maybe this Fantasyland, as the egg woman called it, would counteract all the weirdness that had been accumulating since. ... Once this Fantasyland had kicked in, he would be on autopilot: all the necessary motivation would be provided for him.

1997, Jay Gummerman, Chez Chance, page 174:

Now leave Fantasyland and go back to the days of fur traders.

1986, Elma Schemenauer, Hello Edmonton, page 15:


mouro

pt-noun

mouro m (plural mouros, feminine moura, feminine plural mouras)

mouros (plural)
moura (feminine)
mouras (feminine plural)

Macanese: môro

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mouro (“Moor”), from Latin Maurus (“Moor”), from Ancient Greek μαυρός (maurós, “dark”). Doublet of Mauro and moro.

inh+

Moor (member of the Islamic peoples who invaded Iberia in the Middle Ages)


manusia

id-noun

manusia (first-person possessive manusiaku, second-person possessive manusiamu, third-person possessive manusianya)

manusiaku (first-person possessive)
manusiamu (possessive second-person)
manusianya (possessive third-person)

From Malay manusia, from Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣyá, “human being”).

der

manusia serigala

manusia harimau

(fantasy, mythology, only in compounds) were- (indicates a person who changes shape into an animal)


biokinesis

(parapsychology, science fiction) The ability, through the use of psychic power, to affect organic matter on a microscopic level, to manipulate the physiology (e.g. heart rate, breathing, nervous system or brainwaves) and voluntary motor functions of other people or living organisms, inducing processes such as accelerated healing, etc.


transdimensional

en-adj

transdimensional (comparative more transdimensional, superlative most transdimensional)

more transdimensional (comparative)
most transdimensional (superlative)

(science fiction) Relating to a dimension other than those of the normal three-dimensional world


diskó

is-noun

diskó n (genitive singular diskós, nominative plural diskó)

diskós (genitive singular)
diskó (nominative plural)
diskó (indefinite nominative singular)
diskóið (definite nominative singular)
diskó (indefinite nominative plural)
diskóin (definite nominative plural)
diskó (accusative indefinite singular)
diskóið (accusative definite singular)
diskó (accusative indefinite plural)
diskóin (accusative definite plural)
diskói (dative indefinite singular)
diskóinu (dative definite singular)
diskóum (dative indefinite plural)
diskóunum (dative definite plural)
diskós (genitive indefinite singular)
diskósins (definite genitive singular)
diskóa (genitive indefinite plural)
diskóanna (definite genitive plural)


naga

Borrowed from Sanskrit नाग (nāga, “serpent, snake”). Doublet of snake.

The five-coned towers form a quincunx, and their flanks are scooped into niches in each of which has been placed a smiling buddha shaded by a nine-headed naga like a big palm fan.

1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 257:

(Indian mythology) A member of a class of semi-divine creatures, often taking the form of a very large snake and associated with water.

ᬦᬵᬕ

a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake


mara

Maras have a white patch of fur on the rump that they flash when running, an adaptation they share with several species of deer and antelopes.

1999, Michael A. Mares, editor, Encyclopedia of Deserts, Mara, page 349:

Although only Dolichotis, the Patagonian mara, is strongly cursorial, all caviids have certain features typical of cursorial mammals[…].

2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Mammalogy, 5th edition, page 228:

Maras (Dolichotis patagonum) are cursorial and prefer open areas with low vegetation for breeding and more barren sites for construction of communal dens (Taber and Macdonald 1992; Baldi 2007).

2013, R. L. Honeycutt, “Chapter 3: Phylogenetics of Caviomorph Rodents and Genetic Perspectives on the Evolution of Sociality and Mating Systems in the Caviidae”, in José Roberto Moreira, Katia Maria P.M.B. Ferraz, Emilio A. Herrera, David W. Macdonald, editors, Capybara: Biology, Use and Conservation of an Exceptional Neotropical Species, page 70:

Any caviid rodent of genus Dolichotis, common in the Patagonian steppes of Argentina.


mara

mara (nominative singular)
mary (nominative plural)
mary (genitive singular)
mar (genitive plural)
marze (dative singular)
marom (dative plural)
marę (accusative singular)
mary (accusative plural)
marą (instrumental singular)
marami (instrumental plural)
marze (locative singular)
marach (locative plural)
maro (singular vocative)
mary (plural vocative)

→ Belarusian: ма́ра (mára)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mara. Compare English mare, German Mahr.

(Slavic mythology) A creature believed to drain sleeping people of their blood or energy; wight, mare.


kwaito

From Camtho, from Afrikaans kwaai (“cool”, literally “angry”).

der

Kwaito is a genre-defying style blending the programmed percussion and vibrant call-and-response vocals of 1980s bubble-gum with British garage, American hip-hop and the new Jamaican ragga music; this inter-cultural mix, in turn, is framed by laid-back bass lines that can sound like Chicago-based house music in slow motion.

2005, Martin Scherzinger, “The Globalisation of South African Art Music”, in Christine Lucia, editor, The World of South African Music, Cambridge Scholars Press, →ISBN:

The residue of this otherworldliness is still audible in contemporary kwaito, which consistently thwarts any simple identification with ethnicity, language, or social position.

2016, Gavin Steingo, Kwaito's Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 43:

(South Africa, music) A style of music featuring words chanted over house music, originating in Johannesburg during the 1990s.


kwela

(South Africa, music) A style of music, first played in the townships, whose principal instrument is the penny whistle.


down under

Refers to the fact that the Australian continent lies south of, colloquially thought of as 'below' or 'under', the equator.


Dixieland

My sis is tying the knot. I want you to play for the reception. She likes Dixieland. Two of my boys say you play good Dixieland.

(music) A type of jazz that originated in New Orleans.


gothic rock

First coined by John Stickney in reference to The Doors in 1967 and used by the late 1970s to describe the musical scene that gave rise to the goth subculture, both from a supposed aesthetic similarity to dark and moody 19th century gothic fiction and earlier gothic art and architecture.

Since the 1980s, several goth substyles have mixed the Batcave heritage with other musical genres into new goth substyles. New wave was gothed into darkwave, classic rock into gothic rock, and metal into gothic metal.

2015, Isabella van Elferen, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 25:

(music) A style of music that developed out of punk rock in the late 1970s, with lyrics and imagery often referring to morbid, spooky or mystical ideas.

The Doors
gothic architecture
gothic art
gothic fiction
gothic rock


duende

Borrowed from Spanish duende, from Old Spanish duen de casa (“house master”).

(Iberian folklore) a small humanoid creature who invades homes at night to carry out mischief and scare the residents

(by extension, fiction) any small fictional humanoid, especially a mischievous or evil one


duende

→ Cebuano: dewende

→ Chamorro: duendes

→ English: duende

→ Portuguese: duende

→ Russian: дуэ́нде (duénde)

desctree

→ Tagalog: duwende, dwende — nonstandard, duende, duwinde, ruwinri — dialectal, Rizal, rare
→ English: duwende

→ Ukrainian: дуе́нде (duénde)

Inherited from Old Spanish duen de casa (“master of the house”). Compare Sicilian donni di casa. See more at dueño.

inh+

(by extension, fiction) goblin, leprechaun, pixie, elf, imp, brownie, gremlin, hobgoblin


sìthiche

sìthiche (indefinite nominative singular)
sìthichean (indefinite nominative plural)
sìthiche (genitive indefinite singular)
shìthichean (genitive indefinite plural)
sìthiche (dative indefinite singular)
sìthichean (dative indefinite plural)
t-sìthiche (definite nominative singular)
an t-sìthiche (definite nominative singular)
sìthichean (definite nominative plural)
na sìthichean (definite nominative plural)
sìthiche (definite genitive singular)
an sìthiche (definite genitive singular)
sìthichean (definite genitive plural)
nan sìthichean (definite genitive plural)
t-sìthiche (dative definite singular)
an t-sìthiche (dative definite singular)
sìthichean (dative definite plural)
na sìthichean (dative definite plural)
shìthiche (definite singular vocative)
shìthichean (definite plural vocative)
sìthiche
shìthiche
after "an"
t-sìthiche


zmeu

zmei (plural)
zmeu (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
zmeul (accusative definite nominative singular)
zmei (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
zmeii (accusative definite nominative plural)
zmeu (indefinite singular)
zmeului (definite singular)
zmei (indefinite plural)
zmeilor (definite plural)
zmeule (singular vocative)
zmeilor (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic змиꙗ (zmija), from Proto-Slavic *zmьja (“snake”). Compare Serbo-Croatian zmija and zmaj.


Zauber

de-noun

Zauber m (strong, genitive Zaubers, plural Zauber)

Zaubers (genitive)
Zauber (plural)
Zauber (nominative singular)
Zauber (definite nominative plural)
Zaubers (genitive singular)
Zauber (definite genitive plural)
Zauber (dative singular)
Zaubern (dative definite plural)
Zauber (accusative singular)
Zauber (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German zouber, from Old High German zoubar, from Proto-Germanic *taubrą (“magic”). Akin to Dutch tover, Old Norse taufr. More at English tiver.


vorpal

en-adj

vorpal (comparative more vorpal, superlative most vorpal)

more vorpal (comparative)
most vorpal (superlative)

Coined by Lewis Carroll in the poem Jabberwocky to describe a sword, likely modeled after warp and vortex.


fifel

fīfel (canonical masculine neuter)
fīfel (nominative singular)
fīfelas (nominative plural)
fīfel (accusative singular)
fīfelas (accusative plural)
fīfeles (genitive singular)
fīfela (genitive plural)
fīfele (dative singular)
fīfelum (dative plural)
fīfel (nominative singular)
fīfel (nominative plural)
fīfel (accusative singular)
fīfel (accusative plural)
fīfeles (genitive singular)
fīfela (genitive plural)
fīfele (dative singular)
fīfelum (dative plural)

From Proto-West Germanic *fimbil, *fimbul, from Proto-Germanic *fimbulaz and Proto-Germanic *fimfilaz. Cognate with Old Norse fimbul- (“mighty, great”) and Old Norse fífl (“fool, idiot, buffoon”).


ecumenopolis

en-noun

ecumenopolis (plural ecumenopolises or ecumenopoleis or ecumenopoli)

ecumenopolises (plural)
ecumenopoleis (plural)
ecumenopoli (plural)

From ecumene (“inhabited world”) + -polis (“city”).
From use as a common noun of Ecumenopolis, applying the concept to diverse scenarios.

suffix

(chiefly science fiction) A city spanning an entire planet or large moon.


polonaise

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

Borrowed from French polonaise (“Polish”).


sorceress

From Middle English sorceresse, from Anglo-Norman sorceresse.

The strange-looking chamber, the red glare of the charcoal, her tall form, and long black hair loose, realised the wildest dream of one of the sorceresses of old, bending over herb and drug, to form their potent spells.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Laboratory”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 328:

A female sorcerer, especially one who is elegant; compare witch.


sieppi

sieppi (nominative singular)
siepit (nominative plural)
sieppi (accusative nominative singular)
siepit (accusative nominative plural)
siepin (accusative genitive singular)
siepit (accusative genitive plural)
siepin (genitive singular)
sieppien (genitive plural)
sieppiä (partitive singular)
sieppejä (partitive plural)
siepissä (inessive singular)
siepeissä (inessive plural)
siepistä (elative singular)
siepeistä (elative plural)
sieppiin (illative singular)
sieppeihin (illative plural)
siepillä (adessive singular)
siepeillä (adessive plural)
siepiltä (ablative singular)
siepeiltä (ablative plural)
siepille (allative singular)
siepeille (allative plural)
sieppinä (essive singular)
sieppeinä (essive plural)
siepiksi (singular translative)
siepeiksi (plural translative)
siepittä (abessive singular)
siepeittä (abessive plural)
siepein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
sieppini (nominative singular)
sieppini (nominative plural)
sieppini (accusative nominative singular)
sieppini (accusative nominative plural)
sieppini (accusative genitive singular)
sieppini (accusative genitive plural)
sieppini (genitive singular)
sieppieni (genitive plural)
sieppiäni (partitive singular)
sieppejäni (partitive plural)
siepissäni (inessive singular)
siepeissäni (inessive plural)
siepistäni (elative singular)
siepeistäni (elative plural)
sieppiini (illative singular)
sieppeihini (illative plural)
siepilläni (adessive singular)
siepeilläni (adessive plural)
siepiltäni (ablative singular)
siepeiltäni (ablative plural)
siepilleni (allative singular)
siepeilleni (allative plural)
sieppinäni (essive singular)
sieppeinäni (essive plural)
siepikseni (singular translative)
siepeikseni (plural translative)
siepittäni (abessive singular)
siepeittäni (abessive plural)
sieppeineni (comitative plural)
sieppisi (nominative singular)
sieppisi (nominative plural)
sieppisi (accusative nominative singular)
sieppisi (accusative nominative plural)
sieppisi (accusative genitive singular)
sieppisi (accusative genitive plural)
sieppisi (genitive singular)
sieppiesi (genitive plural)
sieppiäsi (partitive singular)
sieppejäsi (partitive plural)
siepissäsi (inessive singular)
siepeissäsi (inessive plural)
siepistäsi (elative singular)
siepeistäsi (elative plural)
sieppiisi (illative singular)
sieppeihisi (illative plural)
siepilläsi (adessive singular)
siepeilläsi (adessive plural)
siepiltäsi (ablative singular)
siepeiltäsi (ablative plural)
siepillesi (allative singular)
siepeillesi (allative plural)
sieppinäsi (essive singular)
sieppeinäsi (essive plural)
siepiksesi (singular translative)
siepeiksesi (plural translative)
siepittäsi (abessive singular)
siepeittäsi (abessive plural)
sieppeinesi (comitative plural)
sieppimme (nominative singular)
sieppimme (nominative plural)
sieppimme (accusative nominative singular)
sieppimme (accusative nominative plural)
sieppimme (accusative genitive singular)
sieppimme (accusative genitive plural)
sieppimme (genitive singular)
sieppiemme (genitive plural)
sieppiämme (partitive singular)
sieppejämme (partitive plural)
siepissämme (inessive singular)
siepeissämme (inessive plural)
siepistämme (elative singular)
siepeistämme (elative plural)
sieppiimme (illative singular)
sieppeihimme (illative plural)
siepillämme (adessive singular)
siepeillämme (adessive plural)
siepiltämme (ablative singular)
siepeiltämme (ablative plural)
siepillemme (allative singular)
siepeillemme (allative plural)
sieppinämme (essive singular)
sieppeinämme (essive plural)
siepiksemme (singular translative)
siepeiksemme (plural translative)
siepittämme (abessive singular)
siepeittämme (abessive plural)
sieppeinemme (comitative plural)
sieppinne (nominative singular)
sieppinne (nominative plural)
sieppinne (accusative nominative singular)
sieppinne (accusative nominative plural)
sieppinne (accusative genitive singular)
sieppinne (accusative genitive plural)
sieppinne (genitive singular)
sieppienne (genitive plural)
sieppiänne (partitive singular)
sieppejänne (partitive plural)
siepissänne (inessive singular)
siepeissänne (inessive plural)
siepistänne (elative singular)
siepeistänne (elative plural)
sieppiinne (illative singular)
sieppeihinne (illative plural)
siepillänne (adessive singular)
siepeillänne (adessive plural)
siepiltänne (ablative singular)
siepeiltänne (ablative plural)
siepillenne (allative singular)
siepeillenne (allative plural)
sieppinänne (essive singular)
sieppeinänne (essive plural)
siepiksenne (singular translative)
siepeiksenne (plural translative)
siepittänne (abessive singular)
siepeittänne (abessive plural)
sieppeinenne (comitative plural)
sieppinsä (nominative singular)
sieppinsä (nominative plural)
sieppinsä (accusative nominative singular)
sieppinsä (accusative nominative plural)
sieppinsä (accusative genitive singular)
sieppinsä (accusative genitive plural)
sieppinsä (genitive singular)
sieppiensä (genitive plural)
sieppiään (partitive singular)
sieppiänsä (partitive singular)
sieppejään (partitive plural)
sieppejänsä (partitive plural)
siepissään (inessive singular)
siepissänsä (inessive singular)
siepeissään (inessive plural)
siepeissänsä (inessive plural)
siepistään (elative singular)
siepistänsä (elative singular)
siepeistään (elative plural)
siepeistänsä (elative plural)
sieppiinsä (illative singular)
sieppeihinsä (illative plural)
siepillään (adessive singular)
siepillänsä (adessive singular)
siepeillään (adessive plural)
siepeillänsä (adessive plural)
siepiltään (ablative singular)
siepiltänsä (ablative singular)
siepeiltään (ablative plural)
siepeiltänsä (ablative plural)
siepilleen (allative singular)
siepillensä (allative singular)
siepeilleen (allative plural)
siepeillensä (allative plural)
sieppinään (essive singular)
sieppinänsä (essive singular)
sieppeinään (essive plural)
sieppeinänsä (essive plural)
siepikseen (singular translative)
siepiksensä (singular translative)
siepeikseen (plural translative)
siepeiksensä (plural translative)
siepittään (abessive singular)
siepittänsä (abessive singular)
siepeittään (abessive plural)
siepeittänsä (abessive plural)
sieppeineen (comitative plural)
sieppeinensä (comitative plural)


asema

Possibly from Fon azema (“vampire”), equivalent to ase + -man. Cf. Saramaccan azéma.

A vampire who has the appearance of an elderly person during the day and hides his or her skin at night when out for blood.


multidimensional

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

(science fiction, New Age religion) a being that exists in more than one dimension


ripsaw

en-noun

ripsaw (countable and uncountable, plural ripsaws)

Turks and Caicos Islands
Turks and Caicos Islands

(uncountable, music, Caribbean) A genre of music played with a ripsaw and other instruments, originally associated mainly with Turks and Caicos Islands.


beholder

From Middle English behalder, be holdar, beholder, beholdere, biholdar, biholdere, byholdere; equivalent to behold + -er.

(fantasy) A fictional monster in roleplaying games, a floating orb of flesh with a large mouth and many eyes on stalks.


philter

From Middle French philtre, from Ancient Greek φίλτρον (phíltron), from φιλέω (philéō, “I love”). Doublet of philtrum.

A kind of potion, charm, or drug; especially a love potion intended to make the drinker fall in love with the giver.


philter

en-verb

philter (third-person singular simple present philters, present participle philtering, simple past and past participle philtered)

philters (present singular third-person)
philtering (participle present)
philtered (participle past)
philtered (past)

to philter a draught

To impregnate or mix with a love potion.

Government of the Tongue
Let not those that have repudiated the more inviting sins, shew themselves philtred and bewitched.

To charm to love; to excite to love or sexual desire by a potion.


virga

la-noun

virga f (genitive virgae); first declension

virgae (genitive)
virga (nominative singular)
virgae (nominative plural)
virgae (genitive singular)
virgārum (genitive plural)
virgae (dative singular)
virgīs (dative plural)
virgam (accusative singular)
virgās (accusative plural)
virgā (ablative singular)
virgīs (ablative plural)
virga (singular vocative)
virgae (plural vocative)

Ancient Greek: βέργαι (bérgai)

Aromanian: veargã

Asturian: verga

Catalan: verga

English: virga

Galician: verga

Greek: βέργα (vérga)

Hungarian: virgács

Istriot: virga

Italian: verga

Megleno-Romanian: veargă

Norman: vèrgue

→ French: vergue

Occitan: vèrga

Old French: verge

→ English: verge

French: verge

Piedmontese: verga, vërga

Portuguese: verga, virga

Romanian: vargă

Sicilian: vìriga, vìrija

Spanish: verga

From Proto-Italic *wizgā, probably from Proto-Indo-European *wisgeh₂ (“flexible rod or stick”). Possibly cognate with Proto-Germanic *wiskaz (“bundle of hay or straw, wisp”). The Proto-Indo-European term is sometimes taken as an extension of Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to produce, procreate”), or alternatively from a stem *weyḱs- (see *weyḱ-). Regardless, it is probably a doublet of viscum.

nowrap

<i class="Latn mention" lang="ine-pro">*weyḱ-</i>)

flagellum equō et cāmus asinō et virgā dorsō inprūdentium

4th-century CE, Jerome of Stridon (St. Jerome), Vulgate, Proverbs 26:3

A whip for a horse, and a snaffle for an ass, and a rod for the back of fools.
(trans.: Douay-Rheims Bible)

8 AD . Fasti, Publius Ovidius Naso, Liber II, 703-704.
Illic Tarquinius mandata latentia nati
Accipit, et virga lilia summa metit.
There Tarquinius is receiving secret mandates of the son
And is knocking down with staff the tops of lilies.

Tum virgam capit: Hāc animās ille ēvocat Orcō

29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.242–243

Then [Mercury] takes up his wand: With this he calls pale souls from Orcus, or sends others down to sorrowful Tartarus, ….
(Specifically, the caduceus that Mercury uses in his role as psychopompus.)

pallentīs, aliās sub Tartara trīstia mittit, ….

sunt etiam singularia in medio constituta ne in unam partem praeiudicialiter vergentia alteram competenti decore nudarent: nasus, os, guttur, pectus, umbilicus, et genitalium virga descendens, quae laudabilia et honora monstrantur quando in medio locata consistunt.

These [body parts] are one by one placed in the middle, because if they converged to the same place, one would deprive the honour of another part. The nose, mouth, throat, chest, navel, and the rod of the genitals show their merit and excellence by being placed in the middle.

(figuratively, Late Latin, Medieval Latin) penis


dragan

head

dragan m (genitive singular dragain, nominative plural dragain)

dragain (genitive singular)
dragain (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
dragan (indefinite singular)
dragain (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a dhragain (indefinite singular)
a dhragana (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
dragain (indefinite singular)
dragan (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an dragan (definite singular)
na dragain (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an dragain (definite singular)
na ndragan (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an dragan (definite singular)
don dragan (definite singular)
leis na dragain (definite plural)

Borrowed from Old French dragon, from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “a serpent of huge size, a python, a dragon”), probably from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “I see clearly”).

der

/ˈd̪ˠɾˠaɡənˠ/

dragon
dragon lizard (member of Agamidae)


dragan

head

dragan m (genitive singular dragan, plural draganyn)

dragan (genitive singular)
draganyn (plural)
dragan (mutation mutation-radical)
ghragan (lenition mutation)
nragan (eclipsis mutation)

From Old Irish dragán, an English or Romance loanword, ultimately from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “a serpent of huge size, a python, a dragon”).


invulnerability

en-noun

invulnerability (countable and uncountable, plural invulnerabilities)


invulnerable

From Middle French invulnérable, from Latin invulnerābilis, from vulnerābilis, from vulnerō (“I wound”), from vulnus (“wound”), equivalent to in- + vulnerable.

His gaze went to Hirken, who stood gloating behind invulnerable transparisteel.

1979, Brian Daley, Han Solo at Stars' End:

Incapable of being injured; not vulnerable.


revenant

19th century. From French revenant, the present participle of revenir (“to return”). Compare revenue.

Sometimes […] semi-identifications could be made on the basis of names. Henry VII's son Arthur was hailed as a revenant in this way.

2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin, published 2009, page 184:

For granting even that Religion were dead; that it had died, half-centuries ago, with unutterable Dubois; or emigrated lately, to Alsace, with Necklace-Cardinal Rohan; or that it now walked as goblin revenant with Bishop Talleyrand of Autun; yet does not the Shadow of Religion, the Cant of Religion, still linger?

1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):

Earlier you mentioned a ghost, a revenant with which we may contaminate the Emperor.

1969, Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah, published 2008, →ISBN, page 19:

And to a revenant who had lived in body after body, died death after death, evanescence could seem like a dream of peace. But the chimaera could ill afford to let soldiers go.

2011, Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone, →ISBN:

If reports from the time are to be believed, 17th-century Poland was awash in revenants—not vampires, exactly, but proto-zombies who harassed the living by drinking their blood or, less disagreeably, stirring up a ruckus in their homes.

2023 September 5, Franz Lidz, “Undying Dread: A 400-Year-Old Corpse, Locked to Its Grave”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.


flitter

Then all three went out to the flitter. A tiny speedster, really; a torpedo bearing stubby wings and the ludicrous tail-surfaces, the multifarious driving-, braking-, side-, top-, and under-jets so characteristic of the tricky, cranky, but ultra-maneuverable breed.

1941 July, Edward Elmer Smith, “The Vortex Blaster”, in Comet Stories, volume 1, number 5, page 10:

Small flitters were powered and made ready, and everything that carried manual controls was inspected and cleared for action.

1944 March, George Oliver Smith, “Circle of Confusion”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 33, number 1, page 54:

The small flitters carried by the Queen for exploration work held with comfort a two-man crew—with crowding, three.

1955, Alice Mary Norton (as Andrew North), Sargasso of Space, page 53:

The flitter tumbled from the shimmering throat of the wormhole transit route from Port Sol to Earthport.

1994, Stephen Baxter, Ring, →ISBN, page 43:

(science fiction) A small aircraft or spacecraft.


Hexe

Hexe (genitive)
Hexen (plural)
Hexe (nominative singular)
Hexen (definite nominative plural)
Hexe (genitive singular)
Hexen (definite genitive plural)
Hexe (dative singular)
Hexen (dative definite plural)
Hexe (accusative singular)
Hexen (accusative definite plural)

desctree

→ Dutch: heks
Afrikaans: heks
→ Papiamentu: hèks

→ Polish: heksa

From Middle High German hecse, hesse, from Old High German hagzissa, from Proto-West Germanic *hagatussjā. Cognate with English hag and Dutch heks.


Wassermann

de-noun

Wassermann m (strong, genitive Wassermannes or Wassermanns, plural Wassermänner)

Wassermannes (genitive)
Wassermanns (genitive)
Wassermänner (plural)
Wassermann (nominative singular)
Wassermänner (definite nominative plural)
Wassermannes (genitive singular)
Wassermanns (genitive singular)
Wassermänner (definite genitive plural)
Wassermann (dative singular)
Wassermanne (dative singular)
Wassermännern (dative definite plural)
Wassermann (accusative singular)
Wassermänner (accusative definite plural)

Wasser + Mann. Compare English waterman.


singjay

A Jamaican style of reggae combining toasting and singing in an elastic scat format.


Europop

Coordinate term: Eurodance

And why do you have the Aqua album? It hasn't really stood the test of time, has it? Wasn't quite the ‘post-ironic Europop masterpiece’ you declared it to be back in 1997 […]

2010, John O'Connell, The Midlife Manual, Hachette, →ISBN:

A style of continental European pop music from the 1970s and 1980s characterized by catchy beats, slick songs and frothy lyrics.


smok

pl-noun

smok m animal (female equivalent smoczyca, diminutive smoczek, augmentative smoczysko, related adjective smoczy)

smoczyca (feminine)
smoczek (diminutive)
smoczysko (augmentative)
smoczy (adjective)
smok (nominative singular)
smoki (nominative plural)
smoka (genitive singular)
smoków (genitive plural)
smokowi (dative singular)
smokom (dative plural)
smoka (accusative singular)
smoki (accusative plural)
smokiem (instrumental singular)
smokami (instrumental plural)
smoku (locative singular)
smokach (locative plural)
smoku (singular vocative)
smoki (plural vocative)

– No właśnie – pokiwał głową tata kot – takie są krokodyle, wyglądają jak zielone smoki.

2012, Ewa Mirkowska, 59 bajek o zwierzętach, Siedmioróg:

"Exactly", papa cat nodded his head, "that's crocodiles for you, they look like green dragons."


cuento

→ Catalan: cuento

→ Tagalog: kuwento

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *contu(s) / *comptu(s), from Latin computus. Doublet of cómputo, a borrowing.


trahho

trahho (nominative singular)
trahhon (nominative plural)
trahhun (nominative plural)
trahhon (accusative singular)
trahhun (accusative singular)
trahhon (accusative plural)
trahhun (accusative plural)
trahhen (genitive singular)
trahhin (genitive singular)
trahhōno (genitive plural)
trahhen (dative singular)
trahhin (dative singular)
trahhōm (dative plural)
trahhōn (dative plural)

Middle High German: trache

Alemannic German: Traach

Bavarian: Drack

German: Drache

Luxembourgish: Draach

Rhine Franconian:

Pennsylvania German: Drach

Vilamovian: draoch


Einhorn

de-noun

Einhorn n (strong, genitive Einhornes or Einhorns, plural Einhörner)

Einhornes (genitive)
Einhorns (genitive)
Einhörner (plural)
Einhorn (nominative singular)
Einhörner (definite nominative plural)
Einhornes (genitive singular)
Einhorns (genitive singular)
Einhörner (definite genitive plural)
Einhorn (dative singular)
Einhorne (dative singular)
Einhörnern (dative definite plural)
Einhorn (accusative singular)
Einhörner (accusative definite plural)

[ˈʔaɪ̯nˌhɔʁn]

From Middle High German einhorn, einhurne, from Old High German einhorn(o), einhurn(o), a calque of Latin ūnicornis, itself a calque of Ancient Greek μονόκερως (monókerōs). Equivalent to ein + Horn.


J-pop

Borrowed from Japanese J-POP (jeipoppu), from J- + pop, an abbreviation of English Japanese pop, coined by Tokyo radio station J‑WAVE in 1988.

The girls are constantly reshuffled into new permutations in order to feed the J-pop market's insatiable demand for fresh looks and faces.

2005 August 21, Chris Campion, “J-Pop's dream factory”, in The Observer, →ISSN:

She may be declining in popularity, relevance and quality, but Ayumi Hamasaki is still the undisputed Queen of J-Pop, and it will be a long while before anyone can surpass her.

2010 March 25, Teresa Nieman, “Why Japanese pop matters”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(music) Japanese pop music influenced by Western genres.


J-pop

[ˌd͡ʒeɪ̯ˈpɔp]

[ˌd͡ʒeɪ̯ˈpɔp]

[ˌd͡ʒeɪ̯ˈpɔp]

/ˌd͡ʒɐjˈpɔp/

/ˌd͡ʒɐjˈpɔp/


synth

(science fiction) A synthetic humanoid, an android, a robot, a clone


esej

esej (nominative singular)
eseje (nominative plural)
eseju (genitive singular)
esejów (genitive plural)
esejowi (dative singular)
esejom (dative plural)
esej (accusative singular)
eseje (accusative plural)
esejem (instrumental singular)
esejami (instrumental plural)
eseju (locative singular)
esejach (locative plural)
eseju (singular vocative)
eseje (plural vocative)

essay (written composition of moderate length, exploring a particular issue or subject)


phylactery

Recorded since circa 1380, Middle English philaterie, either from Old French filatiere (12th c), or via Medieval Latin philaterium, an alteration of Late Latin phylacterium (“reliquary”), from Ancient Greek φυλακτήριον (phulaktḗrion, “safeguard, amulet”), via adjective φυλακτήριος (phulaktḗrios, “serving as a protection”), from φυλακτήρ (phulaktḗr, “watcher, guard”), itself from φυλάσσω (phulássō, “guard or ward off”), from φύλαξ (phúlax, “a guard”).

klaf

parchment used in Jewish ritual contexts

mezuzah

parchment scroll of Torah verses in a decorative container

"Heh. No. You're right about that. Often an object that was important to a lich in life serves as the phylactery, but it could be anything," Diran said.

2007, Tim Waggoner, Forge of the Mind Slayers, Wizards of the Coast, page 21:

'So,' says Calli impatiently, holding her head proudly, 'let's destroy the phylactery and let the lich rot in peace and then take the artefacts.'
'It's not as simple as that,' says Joachim. 'The phylactery is the mask.'
An unnerving silence fills the room. The only way to destroy a lich permanently is to destroy the phylactery it uses to house its soul.

2011, J. L. Connew, Origins of the Geomancer, Xlibris, page 112:

2017, Jason Paul McCartan, Through Dungeons Deeper: A Survival Guide For Dungeoneers: As Written by a Survivor, InfiniBadger Press, page 121,
Destroying the lich without destroying the phylactery first just allows the lich to regenerate its body over time (or steal someone else's) and it really pisses them off. With the intense connection a lich has with its phylactery if it gets destroyed the lich will know instantly.

(fantasy, roleplaying games) An enchanted object used (by such as a lich) to contain and protect the owner's soul.

命匣

object enchanted so as to contain and protect a soul


korrigan

Borrowed from Breton korrigan, from korr (“dwarf”) + -ig (diminutive suffix) + -an (hypocoristic suffix).

A continental Celtic female fairy called a corrigan, malevolent, sometimes seductive.

1945, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, HarperCollins, published 2019, →ISBN, page 9:

A long-haired nocturnal and often malevolent Breton fairy princess.


redcap

From red + cap.
In sense of "porter", 1890s US; compare contemporary Japanese 赤帽 (akabou), Chinese 小紅帽／小红帽 (Xiǎo Hóng Mào). On Labor Day, 1890, John Williams, an African-American railway porter, tied a red ribbon to his black uniform cap to stand out from the crowd at Grand Central Terminal. The strategy was so successful that it was soon adopted by others in the profession, leading to the synecdochic use of redcap as a term for all railway porters.

1876: Porter & Coates (pub.), Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Lord Soulis he sat in Hermitage Castle,
And beside him Old Redcap sly; —
"Now, tell me, thou sprite, who are meikle of might,
The death that I must die?"

"What's a Brownie?" you say. Oh, it's a kind of a sort of a Bogle, but it isn't so cruel as a Redcap! What! you don't know what's a Bogle or a Redcap!

1890, Joseph Jacobs, English Fairy Tales:

[…] the goblin had aroused the mercenary's ire. This seemed to bring out a formidable and hitherto unrecognized talent in the taciturn young man.
"Why cam' ye by my door?" The redcap brandished his pikestaff menacingly.
Redcap - A malevolent goblin easily distinguishable by their namesake red cap, fiery red eyes, claws and iron boots. They often appear as little old men, but can run very fast despite the boots. They reside in castles and watchtowers along the English-Scottish border, but will move their residence to avoid detection. They have sharp eagle’s talons which they use for weapons, but can easily be repelled simply by reading holy verse. http://www.vf11.com/legendsofvalhal/legendsofvalhal-post-814.html

2002, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, The Ill-Made Mute: The Bitterbynde:

After boggarts, they studied Red Caps, nasty little goblinlike creatures that lurked where there had been bloodshed […]

1999 July 8, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter; 3), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

(British, folklore) A type of evil goblin or imp.


nanite

I had the nanites install the brackets, then climbed up there with the panels, placed them on the brackets, and had the nanites secure them.

2017, Stephanie C. Fox, New World Order Underwater, page 76:

Disperse into a cloud of nanites.

2021 August 11, Thomas Happ, Axiom Verge 2, Nintendo Switch, description for Tilhar


gigante

es-adj

gigante m or f (masculine and feminine plural gigantes)

Learned borrowing from Latin gigās, from Ancient Greek γίγᾱς (gígās, “giant”). Cognate with English giant.


gigante

es-noun

gigante m (plural gigantes, feminine giganta, feminine plural gigantas)

gigantes (plural)
giganta (feminine)
gigantas (feminine plural)

→ Cebuano: higante

→ Tagalog: higante


dryad

From Old French driade (“wood nymph”), from Latin Dryas, Dryadis, from Ancient Greek Δρυάς (Druás, “dryad”), from δρῦς (drûs, “oak”), from Proto-Indo-European *derew(o)- (“tree, wood”); cf. Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”).

der

Coordinate term: Meliai

There it had stood for years, close beside a mighty oak, under which sat often the kindly old priest, who told stories to the listening children. The young chestnut tree listened with them: the Dryad inside it, who was still a child, could remember the time when the tree was so small that it only reached a little higher than the ferns and long blades of grass.

1914, Hans Christian Andersen, “The Dryad”, in William Alexander Craigie, transl., Fairy tales and other stories:


Midas touch

From the Greek legend of King Midas, related in chapter XI of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (8 C.E.), whom Dionysus (the god of, among other things, wine and winemaking) gave the power to turn things to gold by touching them.

Midaan kosketus

ability to gain financial reward or success from one’s actions easily and consistently

(Greek mythology, literally) The ability to turn everything one touches into gold.

(idiomatic) The ability to achieve financial reward (or, more generally, success) from one's actions easily and consistently.


selkie

(Celtic mythology) A seal which can magically transform into a human by shedding its skin.


ketjak

1999: An innovation on Mule Variations is the employment of a turntable artist, who as it turns out is so discrete you hardly notice, except on “Eyeball Kid”, which makes brilliantly apposite use of a sampled gospel choir and Balinese ketjak chanters — Luc Sante, Village Voice 12 May 1999 (Innocent When You Dream, Orion 2006, p. 250)

A form of Balinese musical drama featuring rhythmic, percussive chanting.


ninfa

Borrowed from Latin nympha (“nymph”), from Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “young woman, nymph”).


No, the slightest imbalance there would have alarms flashing all over the room. Probably it was the fact that he knew the threedee was a little out of whack.

1969, Dave Van Arnam, Starmind, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, page 14:

(science fiction) A system capable of recording or displaying three-dimensional video.

A man Ellaby's own size was sitting there, viewing a 3D. When he heard Ellaby at the door he got up.

1955 January, Martin Lesser, “The Dictator”, in Imagination, volume 6, number 1, page 85:

(science fiction) A three-dimensional video.


mariachi

/ˌmæɹiˈɑ.t͡ʃi/

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish mariachi. The origin of the Spanish word is unclear. It has often been claimed to derive from French mariage (“marriage”), reputedly because the Europe-born Emperor Maximilian of Mexico (which France had invaded) encouraged the music to be played at weddings. However, new evidence shows the word to have been used prior to the French invasion. Most other theories suggest indigenous roots. See Wikipedia.

Of or pertaining to a band playing such music, or to the singers of such songs.


mariachi

→ English: mariachi

Mexican Spanish, often derived from French mariage (“marriage”), because such bands performed at wedding celebrations, but this is debated. See English mariachi.

(music) a traditional form of music from the Mexican state of Jalisco


mandrake

en-noun

mandrake (countable and uncountable, plural mandrakes)

From Middle English mandrake, mandroke, an alteration of mandragora with the ending -dragora reinterpreted as related to dragon and replaced with native drake, from Old English mandragora, from Medieval Latin mandragorās.

Any plant of the genus Mandragora, certain of which are said to have medicinal or aphrodisiac properties; the root of these plants often resembles the shape of a small person, hence occasioning various mythic, magical, or occult uses.


hungry ghost

(Buddhism, Chinese folk religion) A type of supernatural being, condemned to desire more than it can consume; often depicted with large belly and tiny mouth.

ပြိတ္တာ

in Buddhism, a type of supernatural being


Proteus

Derived from Ancient Greek Πρωτεύς (Prōteús).

der+

(Greek mythology) A sea god who could change his shape at will.


ice bucket

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(science fiction, slang, humorous) A pod or similar device containing a person in cryosleep.


harmonium

Borrowed from French harmonium, a term coined by French inventor Alexandre Debain in 1840.

coin

The only other man was a little grey-headed fellow with a pleasant face and quick, twinkling eyes, who sat at a harmonium in the corner.

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Which Describes Some Strange Doings in Hammersmith”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

They were a grave and reverend seignior in a frock coat, a lady sitting at a portable harmonium, and a chinless youth toying with a crucifix.

1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC, page 244:

It [Troutbeck] has religious isolation also, for it is several miles—and very strenuous miles in winter—from the parish church at Mungrisdale, and the introduction of the harmonium to the waiting room was due to the zeal of a vicar of many years ago who, in the absence of any other room in the village, obtained permission to use the premises for services, including Sunday School. Most of his successors have continued this self-sacrificing duty.

1951 October, “Notes and News: The Harmonium at Troutbeck”, in Railway Magazine, page 709:

(music) A small keyboard instrument that consists of a series of reed pipes, which sound when one of the keys is pressed to open a valve that allows air to pass through.


Bandersnatch

Coined by Lewis Carroll in 1863 (see quotation).

Beware the jabberwock, my son.
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch

1863, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There:

An obscure fictional creature mentioned in two of Lewis Carroll's poems.


Tursas

Tursas (nominative singular)
Tursas (accusative nominative singular)
Tursaan (accusative genitive singular)
Tursaan (genitive singular)
Tursasta (partitive singular)
Tursaassa (inessive singular)
Tursaasta (elative singular)
Tursaaseen (illative singular)
Tursaalla (adessive singular)
Tursaalta (ablative singular)
Tursaalle (allative singular)
Tursaana (essive singular)
Tursaaksi (singular translative)
Tursaatta (abessive singular)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Tursaani (nominative singular)
Tursaani (accusative nominative singular)
Tursaani (accusative genitive singular)
Tursaani (genitive singular)
Tursastani (partitive singular)
Tursaassani (inessive singular)
Tursaastani (elative singular)
Tursaaseeni (illative singular)
Tursaallani (adessive singular)
Tursaaltani (ablative singular)
Tursaalleni (allative singular)
Tursaanani (essive singular)
Tursaakseni (singular translative)
Tursaattani (abessive singular)
Tursaasi (nominative singular)
Tursaasi (accusative nominative singular)
Tursaasi (accusative genitive singular)
Tursaasi (genitive singular)
Tursastasi (partitive singular)
Tursaassasi (inessive singular)
Tursaastasi (elative singular)
Tursaaseesi (illative singular)
Tursaallasi (adessive singular)
Tursaaltasi (ablative singular)
Tursaallesi (allative singular)
Tursaanasi (essive singular)
Tursaaksesi (singular translative)
Tursaattasi (abessive singular)
Tursaamme (nominative singular)
Tursaamme (accusative nominative singular)
Tursaamme (accusative genitive singular)
Tursaamme (genitive singular)
Tursastamme (partitive singular)
Tursaassamme (inessive singular)
Tursaastamme (elative singular)
Tursaaseemme (illative singular)
Tursaallamme (adessive singular)
Tursaaltamme (ablative singular)
Tursaallemme (allative singular)
Tursaanamme (essive singular)
Tursaaksemme (singular translative)
Tursaattamme (abessive singular)
Tursaanne (nominative singular)
Tursaanne (accusative nominative singular)
Tursaanne (accusative genitive singular)
Tursaanne (genitive singular)
Tursastanne (partitive singular)
Tursaassanne (inessive singular)
Tursaastanne (elative singular)
Tursaaseenne (illative singular)
Tursaallanne (adessive singular)
Tursaaltanne (ablative singular)
Tursaallenne (allative singular)
Tursaananne (essive singular)
Tursaaksenne (singular translative)
Tursaattanne (abessive singular)
Tursaansa (nominative singular)
Tursaansa (accusative nominative singular)
Tursaansa (accusative genitive singular)
Tursaansa (genitive singular)
Tursastaan (partitive singular)
Tursastansa (partitive singular)
Tursaassaan (inessive singular)
Tursaassansa (inessive singular)
Tursaastaan (elative singular)
Tursaastansa (elative singular)
Tursaaseensa (illative singular)
Tursaallaan (adessive singular)
Tursaallansa (adessive singular)
Tursaaltaan (ablative singular)
Tursaaltansa (ablative singular)
Tursaalleen (allative singular)
Tursaallensa (allative singular)
Tursaanaan (essive singular)
Tursaanansa (essive singular)
Tursaakseen (singular translative)
Tursaaksensa (singular translative)
Tursaattaan (abessive singular)
Tursaattansa (abessive singular)

From Proto-Finnic *tursas, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *þurisaz (“giant, name of the Þ-rune; one of Odin's runes”).

der

giant, name of the Þ-rune; one of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Odin</i>'s runes


chaabi

From Arabic شَعْبِيّ (šaʕbiyy, “popular, folksy”).

bor

(music) A kind of Moroccan popular music.


reguetón

Este estilo musical descrito como electro shaabi, melodías populares de la clase obrera egipcia que mezclan reguetón con rap, grime, electrónica y folk tradicional shaabi, ha conseguido enfadar al sindicato de músicos egipcios hasta el punto de intentar borrarlo del país.

2020 March 2, “Egipto prohíbe el reguetón árabe”, in La Vanguardia:


shoggoth

A monstrous gelatinous creature with green eyes, featured in the horror fiction of H. P. Lovecraft.


sombra

luz

antonym(s) of “darker parts of an image”

From Old Galician-Portuguese soombra, of uncertain origin, but ultimately containing Latin umbra (“shadow”). Possible etymologies include:
* from Old Galician-Portuguese soombrar, from Vulgar Latin *subumbrāre (“to shadow”), from Latin sub + umbrāre, from umbra (“shadow”).
* from Old Spanish solombra, from Vulgar Latin *solumbra, from Latin sub illā umbrā (literally “under that shadow”).
* from Latin umbra (“shadow”), influenced by Old Galician-Portuguese sol (“sun, sunshine”).
Cognate with Galician, Asturian, and Spanish sombra, solombra, Mirandese selombra, French sombre and possibly with Dalmatian sombreja and Romansch sumbreiva.

der

shadow
(supernatural, fantasy) shade, ghost


slipstream

en-noun

slipstream (countable and uncountable, plural slipstreams)

Compound of slip + stream. Fiction sense coined by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling in 1989.

coin

Coordinate term: New Weird

Slipstream is not simply a mixture of fantasy and realism, but something which lies between or even beyond the two.

2000, Damien Broderick, quoting Justina Robson and Rozanne Rabinowitz, Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 88:

(uncountable, fiction) A genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries.


Matrixism

A minor modern religion based on the science-fiction franchise The Matrix.


tulgey

The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, / Came whiffling through the tulgey wood

1871, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-glass, "Jabberwocky":

I battled for a while with Professor Aschloch's tulgey prose – only German poets have ever written lucid German prose – then closed my eyes, wondering bitterly which of my enemies the nice American worked for.

1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin 2001, page 69:

Thick, dense, dark (originally in reference to a wood).


metafiction

en-noun

metafiction (usually uncountable, plural metafictions)

From meta- + fiction, coined in 1970 by William H. Gass

Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot (1984) and Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor and Chatterton may be described as accomplished examples of historiographic metafiction, the kind of self-conscious, heavily parodic and experimental historical […]

1999, Susana Onega Jaén, Metafiction and Myth in the Novels of Peter Ackroyd, Camden House, →ISBN, page 1:

In the previous chapter, I presented a heuristic explanation of the development of metafiction. In this chapter, I turn to some texts written before the 1980s to demonstrate that the binary between realism and metafiction is not fixed.

2010, Evan Mwangi, Africa Writes Back to Self: Metafiction, Gender, Sexuality, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 65:

A form of self-referential literature concerned with the art and devices of fiction itself.


prog rock

Its opening track, Mastermind, offers one possible answer to a theoretical question about what prog rock might have sounded like in the highly unlikely event that it had co-opted Giorgio Moroder’s brand of electronic disco: […]

2016 July 7, Alexis Petridis, “Roísín Murphy: Take Her Up to Monto review – still too strange for the bigtime”, in The Guardian:

progressive rock
progressive rock#English


武俠

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (武俠):
* → Japanese: 武侠(ぶきょう) (bukyō)
* → Korean: 무협(武俠) (muhyeop)
* → Vietnamese: võ hiệp (武俠)

→ English: wuxia

→ Russian: уся́ (usjá)

/u²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ä³⁵/

/bu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiap̚³²/

/bu⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kiap̚⁵/

/bu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiap̚³²/

/bu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiap̚³²/

/bu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kiap̚³²/

/u²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ä³⁵/

/bu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiap̚³²/

/bu⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kiap̚⁵/

/bu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiap̚³²/

/bu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiap̚³²/

/bu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kiap̚³²/


ragga

Clipping of raggamuffin, variant of ragamuffin (“troublemaker”), influenced by reggae.

Tosh's brand of roots reggae, with its emphasis on uplifting anthems and melodic riffs, now sounds as dated as The Wailers' earliest incarnation as a straight-up ska band, especially when listened to alongside the shuddering bass of most contemporary ragga tracks.

1993 August, David Eimer, “Reel to Reel”, in The Wire, number 114, →ISSN, page 52:

The song samples Ricky Martin's hit Shake Your Bom-Bom but adds ragga's roughness. When Bam Bam comes on, the crowd goes wild.

2001 September 15, Christopher John Farley, “Music Goes Global”, in Time, →ISSN:

A sub-genre of reggae, ragga is a modern Jamaican sound with ties to the oldest traditional music of that island-nation. The name is taken from the word “raggamuffin”, a term used for disenfranchised youth. One popular ragga singer called Half Pint said, “A lot of people interpret raggamuffin as if it [is]^([sic]) a criminal morality.”

2016, Linda Dailey Paulson, “Ragga”, in edited by Dave DiMartino, Music in the 20th Century, volume 1, Routledge, →ISBN, page 514:

Fling a ragga riddim like it's '03

2019, Wiley et al (lyrics and music), “Boasty”:

(music) A subgenre of reggae and dancehall influenced by hip hop and digital production techniques such as sampling.


Roswell

en-proper noun

Roswell (countable and uncountable, plural Roswells)

Metathesized from Middle English Roweshill, from a contraction of either the Old English personal name Hrōþwulf or its Norman cognate Rolf, Rouf, Rou (in the genitive case, adding -es) + Old English hyll (“hill”).

An unincorporated community in Canyon County, Idaho.

(1997) So go on with your life / Forget that Roswell crap / Show love to the black suit / 'Cuz that's the Men In … Black "Men in Black" by Will Smith (1997)

A city, the county seat of Chaves County, New Mexico, known for conspiracy theories that its Roswell Army Air Field has recovered UFOs and extraterrestrials.

Among the cases he examined was an incident that has come to be known as England’s Roswell.

1998, Jim Wilson, “Six Unexplainable Encounters”, in Popular Mechanics, Hearst Magazines, page 66:

Kazantsev’s story was for some unaccountable reason taken seriously in the West, leading to some enthusiasts referring to Tunguska as the Russian Roswell.

2007, Rodney Castleden, Natural Disasters That Changed the World, Book Sales, page 272:

Dubbed “Mexico’s Roswell,” the mid-air collision near Coyame of an airplane and a UFO has been the subject of a major documentary for the History Channel’s UFO Hunters series in 2008, and numerous articles in newspapers, magazines, and Websites.

2008, Noe Torres, Ruben Uriarte, Mexico's Roswell: The Chihuahua UFO Crash, Lulu.com, page 3:

The most significant ufological event of a region.

Tuscarawas County
Tuscarawas County#English

A place in the United States:
A village in Tuscarawas County, Ohio.

census-designated place
census-designated place

A census-designated place in Miner County, South Dakota.


shapeshifter

/ˈʃeɪpʃɪftə/

The shapeshifter Lisa Bowalk, unable to shed the guise of a black panther, had gone onto the plain as a prisoner but was not now to be found among the dead above or the Captured down below.

Like the teller of shapeshifter stories—who conjures a shifting world of perceptions and expectations for his or her audience that is strikingly similar to the worlds created by the shapeshifter for its victims—the cultural practice of imagination...is an inherently shifty enterprise....

2003, Michael Bathgate, The Fox's Craft in Japanese Religion and Folklore: Shapeshifters, Transformations and Duplicities:

There have also been verified reports of fire-starters and ice-makers and a shapeshifter so powerful she was able to frame another Smallville citizen for a bank robbery!

Granted, Grace is talking about actual transformation, but she's a shapeshifter. For her, growing a couple inches taller is like an alternative to wearing high heels.

2015 January 30, Dan Shive, “Comic for Friday, Jan 30, 2015”, in El Goonish Shive - EGS:NP, archived from the original on 2022-08-13:

(fantasy, mythology, science fiction) A person or creature capable of changing their appearance or form at will.

canviaformes

creature capable of changing its appearance


Chinese dragon

(mythology) A legendary creature, usually depicted as long and snake-like, with many claws, common in several East Asian cultures.

চীনা আজদাহা

legendary creature common in several East Asian cultures


warbird

(science fiction) A heavily-armed starship.


apparate

en-verb

apparate (third-person singular simple present apparates, present participle apparating, simple past and past participle apparated)

apparates (present singular third-person)
apparating (participle present)
apparated (participle past)
apparated (past)

From Late Latin apparēre (“to appear”), as of a servant who appears on being summoned. A back-formation from apparition.

"Reivers!" he bellowed. His valet appeared — or really, it seemed rather more like he apparated — in the doorway.

2004, Julia Quinn, When He Was Wicked, page 105:

What had silenced her, however, was the enormous demonic object that had apparated in the air beyond the tunnel's exit.

2005, Matthew Reilly, Scarecrow, page 115:

if it is an emergency, I will be able to apparate directly to wherever you are and help you.

2008, P. L. Lansdon, Dreams of Dragons and Fantasies of Fairy Flight and Light: Book One, page 254:

(fantasy, intransitive) To appear magically; to teleport to or from a place.


brawler

From Middle English brawler, brawlere, equivalent to brawl + -er.

The world hath noted. And your name is great
In mouthes of wiſeſt Cenſure. What's the matter
That you vnlace your reputation thus,
And ſpend your rich opinion, for the name
Of a night-brawler? Giue me anſwer to it.

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 320, column 2:

A Biſhop then muſt be blameleſſe, the huſband of one wife, vigilant, ſober, of good behauiour, giuen to hoſpitalitie, apt to teach;
Not giuen to wine, no ſtriker, not greedy of filthy lucre, but patient, not a brawler, not couetous;
One that ruleth well his owne houſe, hauing his children in ſubiection with all grauitie.
(For if a man know not how to rule his owne houſe, how ſhall he take care of the Church of God?)

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Timothy 3:2–4, columns 1–2:

One who brawls, engages in noisy, unseemly fights.

"Classic brawlers ranging from Double Dragon to Streets of Rage and even Brutal Legend created my initial seed of interest for working on one," Deighan said.

2020, Patrick Hickey Jr., The Minds Behind Adventure Games, page 136:

(video games, informal) A beat 'em up game.


spacing

en-noun

spacing (countable and uncountable, plural spacings)

He was a laconic old soul who loved spacing only a jot better than he loved Martian alky.

1949 February 14, Alfred Coppel, “Runaway”, in Planet Stories, volume 4, number 2 (Spring):

(science fiction) The activity of working or living in outer space; the occupation of a spacer.


country pop

(music) A subgenre of country music that combines it with elements of pop music, produced and marketed to reach a wide audience; or a specific genre of country pop, especially the Nashville sound.


Nashville sound

(music) A subgenre of country music that became popular in the 1950s and 1960s, containing elements of popular music and characterized by electronic string sections, background vocals, and orchestras.


fairy dust

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Based on the story of the fictional character Peter Pan, see quotations.

Of course Peter had been trifling with them, for no one can fly unless the fairy dust has been blown on him.

1911, J[ames] M[atthew] Barrie, “Come away, Come away!”, in Peter and Wendy, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 54:

(fiction) A magical powder that would give the power of flight to whoever it was sprinkled on.

It's not that some magic private sector fairy dust makes the firms all be runs^([sic]) soundly. Lots of bad businesses are out there. But they tend to lose money and close.

2011 May 19, Megan McArdle, quoting Matt Yglesias, “When Should Governments Contract Out?”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:

(by extension) Any apparently magical ingredient or effect; a panacea.

keijupöly

any apparently magical ingredient or effect

This led to a certain amount of complacency on my part and certainly the fairy dust and mescaline cocktails I took day and night could only have contributed to my uncommonly satiated drive for a good fuck.

2001, Simon Logan, I-O, Prime, →ISBN, page 102:


humaniform

(science fiction, robotics) A robot resembling a human.


Bakersfield sound

Developed in and around Bakersfield, California, during the 1950s.

A subgenre of country music, the Bakersfield Sound emerged out of what Merle Haggard called “the redneck honky-tonks” and what Glen Campbell termed “the fightin' and dancin' clubs” in Bakersfield, California.

2023, Thomas M. Kitts, Keep on Believin', Penn State Press, →ISBN, page 105:

A subgenre of country music developed in the West Coast and popularized during the 1950s and 1960s, featuring Fender Telecaster guitars, a drum backbeat, fiddles and steel guitars, along with stylistic touches from rock and roll music.


Urban Cowboy

The term is borrowed from the title of a popular 1980 movie starring John Travolta and Debra Winger and featuring several country music performances.

(music, uncountable) Pop-styled country music which became popular during the early 1980s, following the release of the movie Urban Cowboy (1980).


outlaw country

Often said to be derived from the Waylon Jennings song "Ladies Love Outlaws." The outlaw country genre was created as a response to the then-prevalent Nashville sound and growing popularity of country pop.

A subgenre of country music that became popular during the 1970s, fusing older styles (such as honky-tonk) with newer styles including rock and blues. Artists involved wrote their own material, demanded creative control of their music, and adopted an "outlaw" image.


rockabilly

rockabilly (countable and uncountable, plural rockabillies or rockabillys)

rockabillies (plural)
rockabillys (plural)

/ˈɹɒkəˌbɪli/

/ˈɹɑːkəˌbɪli/

(uncountable, music) A genre of music originating from the South (United States) and mixing elements of rock, blues, country, hillbilly boogie and bluegrass music.


borganism

The word and concept are derived from The Borg, a race of cyborgs in the fictional Star Trek universe with a hive mind that operates as one.

(rare, idiomatic, science fiction, politics) Some forms of government.


xenoarchaeology

(science fiction) A fictional science, concerned with the physical remains of alien cultures. These may be found on planets which have been inhabited or visited by extraterrestrials.


kagok

A genre of Korean vocal music for mixed female and male voices. Accompaniments and interludes are played by a small ensemble of traditional Korean musical instruments


country and western

(music) A diverse field of American popular music that grew out of hillbilly music and features elements from rural peoples across the Southern and Western United States.


Western swing

A 1930s to 1940s style of U.S. Southwestern country music with a jazz influence, meshing string bands with other instrumentation - especially drums, trumpet, piano, electric guitar and the steel guitar.


neotraditional country

A subgenre of country music popularized starting in the early- to mid-1980s, emphasizing traditional country sounds rather than popular music sounds. Produced in direct response to the growing influence of country pop music.