undead

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-undead.wav

From Middle English undede, equivalent to un- + dead. The first attestation is from around 1400. The term was revived, popularized, and imbued with supernatural connotations by its usage in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.

Pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life.

When Anna and John finally break out of their self-centered bubbles to the shock that they must battle to the death an undead neighbor in a giant snowman costume, it plays like a poignant comment on movie teenagers' tendency to indulge their inner lives, ignorant of the world around them.

2018 November 27, April Wolfe, “Anna And The Apocalypse is a Holiday-horror Cocktail of Singing, Maiming, and Clichés”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2019-11-04:

(horror fiction) Being animate, though non-living.


undead

en-noun

undead (plural undead or (rare) undeads)

undead (plural)
undeads (plural rare)
un-dead (alternative)

In the zombie movie, an army of the undead accosted some unsuspecting teenagers.

"You will do me a service," the undead said to him.

Innocent VIII lent credibility to the actual existence of undeads, an action that perpetuated, and even stimulated, vampire hysteria.

1997, Carol Margaret Davison, Paul Simpson-Housley, Bram Stoker's Dracula: sucking through the century, 1897-1997:

"Were another of the Un-Dead, like him, to try to do what he has done, perhaps not all the centuries of the world that have been, or that will be, could aid him."

1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York: Doubleday & McClure, published 1899, page xxiv. 319:

Harley got devoured by the undead / Lurking down in some old wizard's tomb / You can say there's no such thing as zombies / But that's how Harley Warren met his doom

2006, The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, “Harley Got Devoured by the Undead”, in An Even Scarier Solstice:

It’s an episode of characters returning to their own pasts as different people. They can retrench like Cersei, back on her bullshit, I mean, warpath. Or they can adapt, like The Hound. Neither way necessarily ensures success, but we know the archmaester isn’t unequivocally right. We’ve seen dragons reborn and armies of the undead. I wouldn’t be so sure that Wall will stand forever.

2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:

(horror and fantasy fiction) A creature that is undead; that is, dead but still animate.

nemrtvý

those creatures which are dead but still animate


Adam

Adams (plural)
Adams (alternative)
Adams (alternative)
McAdam (alternative)
McAdams (alternative)
McCaw (alternative)
MacAdam (alternative)
MacAdams (alternative)
MacCaw (alternative)

From Middle English Adam, from Old English Adam, from Latin Adam, Adamus, from Ancient Greek Ἀδάμ (Adám), Ἄδαμος (Ádamos), from Biblical Hebrew אָדָם (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”), from אדמה (adamah, “red earth, ground”).

And so it is written: The first man Adam was made a liuing soule, the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 15:45:

Second Adam from above,
Reinstate us in thy love.

1739, Charles Wesley, Hark! the Herald Angels Sing:

(with second or last) Jesus Christ, whose sacrifice, in Christian theology, makes possible the forgiveness of Adam's original sin.


Adam

Adami (definite)
Adam (indefinite nominative singular)
Adami (definite nominative singular)
Adamë (indefinite nominative plural)
Adamët (definite nominative plural)
Adam (accusative indefinite singular)
Adamin (accusative definite singular)
Adamë (accusative indefinite plural)
Adamët (accusative definite plural)
Adami (dative indefinite singular)
Adamit (dative definite singular)
Adamëve (dative indefinite plural)
Adamëve (dative definite plural)
Adami (ablative indefinite singular)
Adamit (ablative definite singular)
Adamësh (ablative indefinite plural)
Adamëve (ablative definite plural)

From Latin Adam, Adamus, from Ancient Greek Ἀδάμ (Adám), Ἄδαμος (Ádamos), from Biblical Hebrew אָדָם (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”), from אדמה (adamah, “red earth, ground”).

(religion, Christianity) Adam (biblical figure)


Adam

From Hebrew אָדָם (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

der

a male given name, equivalent to English Adam


Adam

cs-proper noun

Adam m anim (diminutive Adámek or Damek or Áďa)

Adámek (diminutive)
Damek (diminutive)
Áďa (diminutive)
Adam (nominative singular)
Adamové (nominative plural)
Adama (genitive singular)
Adamů (genitive plural)
Adamovi (dative singular)
Adamu (dative singular)
Adamům (dative plural)
Adama (accusative singular)
Adamy (accusative plural)
Adame (singular vocative)
Adamové (plural vocative)
Adamovi (locative singular)
Adamu (locative singular)
Adamech (locative plural)
Adamem (instrumental singular)
Adamy (instrumental plural)

Borrowed from Hebrew אָדָם (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

bor+

a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Adam


Adam

From Middle Dutch Adam, from Latin Ādām, from Ancient Greek Ἀδάμ (Adám), from Hebrew אָדָם (“Adam”).

Adam (Biblical character, mythological first man)


Adam

a male given name; diminutive forms Adanet, Adenot, Adnet, Adnot


Adam

de-proper noun

Adam m (proper noun, strong, genitive Adams)

Borrowed from Latin Adam, from Ancient Greek Ἀδάμ (Adám), from Hebrew אָדָם (ʾāḏām, “man, soil, light brown”).


Adam

is-proper noun

Adam m (proper noun, genitive singular Adams)

Adams (genitive singular)
Adam (indefinite nominative singular)
Adam (accusative indefinite singular)
Adam (dative indefinite singular)
Adams (genitive indefinite singular)


Adam

csb-proper noun

Adam m pers (related adjective adamów or adamòwi)

adamów (adjective)
adamòwi (adjective)
Adóm (alternative)
Jadam (alternative)


Adam

Ādām (canonical masculine singular)
Ādām (nominative singular)
Ādām (genitive singular)
Ādām (dative singular)
Ādām (accusative singular)
Ādām (ablative singular)
Ādām (singular vocative)
Ādāmus (alternative)

desctree

→ Middle High German: Adam
Central Franconian:
Hunsrik: Aadem
German: Adam

→ Old English: Adam
Middle English: Adam
English: Adam
Scots: Adam

→ Old Galician-Portuguese: Adan, Adam
Galician: Adán
Portuguese: Adão

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀδάμ (Adám), borrowed from Hebrew אָדָם, from א־ד־ם.


Adam

English: Adam

Scots: Adam

From Old English Adam, from Latin Ādāmus, Ādām, from Ancient Greek Ἀδάμ (Adám), Ἄδαμος (Ádamos), from Biblical Hebrew אָדָם (adam).


Adam

ein (indefinite nominative singular)
dër (definite nominative singular)
Adam (nominative noun singular)
die (definite nominative plural)
Adame (nominative noun plural)
eines (genitive indefinite singular)
dës (definite genitive singular)
Adames (genitive noun singular)
dër (definite genitive plural)
Adame (genitive noun plural)
eime (dative indefinite singular)
dëm (dative definite singular)
Adame (dative noun singular)
dën (dative definite plural)
Adamen (dative noun plural)
einen (accusative indefinite singular)
dën (accusative definite singular)
Adam (accusative noun singular)
die (accusative definite plural)
Adame (accusative noun plural)

Central Franconian:

Hunsrik: Aadem

German: Adam

Learned borrowing from Latin Ādām, borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀδάμ (Adám), borrowed from Hebrew אָדָם, from א־ד־ם.


Adam

Adam (nominative singular)
Adamas (nominative plural)
Adam (accusative singular)
Adamas (accusative plural)
Adames (genitive singular)
Adama (genitive plural)
Adame (dative singular)
Adamum (dative plural)

desctree

Middle English: Adam
English: Adam
Scots: Adam


Adam

Adaś (diminutive)
Adam (nominative singular)
Adamowie (nominative plural)
Adama (genitive singular)
Adamów (genitive plural)
Adamowi (dative singular)
Adamom (dative plural)
Adama (accusative singular)
Adamów (accusative plural)
Adamem (instrumental singular)
Adamami (instrumental plural)
Adamie (locative singular)
Adamach (locative plural)
Adamie (singular vocative)
Adamowie (plural vocative)


Adam

Àdam (canonical masculine)
А̀дам (Cyrillic)
Adam (nominative singular)
Adama (genitive singular)
Adamu (dative singular)
Adama (accusative singular)
Adame (singular vocative)
Adamu (locative singular)
Adamom (instrumental singular)


Adam

nominative
Adam (singular)
Adamovia (plural)
genitive
Adama (singular)
Adamov (plural)
dative
Adamovi (singular)
Adamom (plural)
accusative
locative
Adamoch (plural)
instrumental
Adamom (singular)
Adamami (plural)


haunted

en-adj

haunted (comparative more haunted, superlative most haunted or hauntedest)

more haunted (comparative)
most haunted (superlative)
hauntedest (superlative)

The hotel was haunted by a disembodied spirit.

Of a location, frequented by a ghost or ghosts.


dog-eared

dog-eared (comparative more dog-eared, superlative most dog-eared)

more dog-eared (comparative)
most dog-eared (superlative)
dogeared (alternative)
dog eared (alternative)
dog's-eared (alternative)

/ˈdɔɡˌɪ(ə)ɹd/

From dog + eared (“having ears (of a specified type)”), modelled after dog’s-ear (obsolete), due to the similarity of their appearance to the folded ears of certain dogs. The word is analysable as dog-ear (“to fold the corner of a book’s page”) + -ed (suffix forming possessional adjectives) (dog-ear is attested in print later than dog-eared).

suffix

By thumbing to the dog-eared pages, she quickly found the items in the catalog she wanted to order.

The pages in his favourite book were dog-eared from years of reading it at bedtime.

There was the huge Italian cassone, with its fantastically painted panels and its tarnished gilt mouldings, in which he had so often hidden himself as a boy. There the satinwood book-case filled with his dog-eared schoolbooks.

1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter 10, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:

To the uninitiated it may seem strange to behold a Harvard graduate stuck down day after day poring over a pile of dog-eared school-books— third arithmetics, primary grammars, beginners' histories of Tennessee, of the United States, of England; physiology, hygiene. It may seem queer. But when it comes to standing a Wayne County teacher's examination, the specific answers to the specific questions on a dozen old examination slips are worth all the degrees Harvard ever did confer.

1921, Thomas Sigismund Stribling, “Chapter IV”, in Birthrigt:

Dog-eared tomes litter his sitting room, filled with lovely names – Sailor, Scandal, Saucebox, Starlight, Siren, to take a few from a random page of the directory for 1875.

2002 September 19, Stephen Moss, “Don’t spare the horses – riders set off for hunt rally”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-09-09:

Of a page in a book or other publication: having its corner folded down, either due to having been read many times, or intentionally as a sort of bookmark.

摺頁的 /折页的

of a page in a book or other publication: having its corner folded down, either due to having been read many times, or intentionally as a sort of bookmark


Avesta

From Persian اوستا (avestâ), from Middle Persian [script needed] (abestāg /ʾp(y)stʾk'/), of uncertain meaning.


mese

mesék (plural)
mese (nominative singular)
mesék (nominative plural)
mesét (accusative singular)
meséket (accusative plural)
mesének (dative singular)
meséknek (dative plural)
mesével (instrumental singular)
mesékkel (instrumental plural)
meséért (causal-final singular)
mesékért (causal-final plural)
mesévé (singular translative)
mesékké (plural translative)
meséig (singular terminative)
mesékig (plural terminative)
meseként (essive-formal singular)
mesékként (essive-formal plural)
mesében (inessive singular)
mesékben (inessive plural)
mesén (singular superessive)
meséken (plural superessive)
mesénél (adessive singular)
meséknél (adessive plural)
mesébe (illative singular)
mesékbe (illative plural)
mesére (singular sublative)
mesékre (plural sublative)
meséhez (allative singular)
mesékhez (allative plural)
meséből (elative singular)
mesékből (elative plural)
meséről (delative singular)
mesékről (delative plural)
mesétől (ablative singular)
meséktől (ablative plural)
meséé (singular)
meséké (plural)
mesééi (singular)
mesékéi (plural)
mesém (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
meséim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
meséd (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
meséid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
meséje (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
meséi (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
mesénk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
meséink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
mesétek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
meséitek (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
meséjük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
meséik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

From Proto-Ugric *mańćɜ, *maćɜ (“tale; to tell (tale, story)”).


mag

mag (nominative singular)
magowie (nominative plural)
magi (derogatory nominative plural)
maga (genitive singular)
magów (genitive plural)
magowi (dative singular)
magom (dative plural)
maga (accusative singular)
magów (accusative plural)
magiem (instrumental singular)
magami (instrumental plural)
magu (locative singular)
magach (locative plural)
magu (singular vocative)
magowie (plural vocative)
magi (derogatory plural vocative)

(biblical, Christianity) Magus (one of the three Biblical Magi who visit Jesus after his birth, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh in homage to him)


magic wand

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

A wand, usually made of wood, that is used to perform magic.


specter

From Middle French spectre, from Latin spectrum (“appearance, apparition”). Doublet of spectrum.

A specter haunted the cemetery at the old Vasquez manor.

Nevertheleſſe, they which ſhould ſee thoſe Iſles thus to moove in this manner, not knowing before that the ſame were naturall: they would entertaine many and diverſe apprehenſions in their fantaſie, & would imagine that they ſawe a thing very ſtrange and prodigious, and ſuch as did very neere approach to the nature of ſome Specter [translating spectre] and viſion.

1605, Peter de Loier [i.e., Pierre Le Loyer], translated by [Zachary Jones], “The many things being meerely Naturall are taken by the Sight or Hearing being deceived, for Specters and things prodigious”, in A Treatise of Specters or Straunge Sights, Visions and Apparitions Appearing Sensibly vnto Men. […], London: […] Val[entine] S[immes] for Mathew Lownes, →OCLC, folio 62, verso:

A ghostly apparition, a phantom. [from 17th c.]


maker

makers (plural)
makere (alternative)
makiere (alternative)
makyere (alternative)
macare (alternative)

English: maker

Scots: maker, macker, makar

→ English: makar

Yola: maakere, maakeare


Mary

Marys (plural)
Maries (plural)
Marie (alternative)

→ Cantonese: Mary

→ Cebuano: Mary, Marie

→ Danish: Mary

→ Faroese: Marý

→ Hawaiian: Mele, Mere

→ Japanese: マリー (Marī)

desc

→ Mandarin: 瑪麗 /玛丽 (Mǎlì), 瑪莉 /玛莉 (Mǎlì), 瑪利 /玛利 (Mǎlì)

→ Manx: Mayree

→ Maori: Mere, Meri

→ Norwegian: Mary

→ Scottish Gaelic: Màiri

→ Swedish: Mary

→ Tahitian: Mere

→ Tok Pisin: meri

→ Thai: แมรี (mɛɛ-rii)

From Middle English Marie, from Old French Marie, from Latin Maria, from Ancient Greek Μαρία (María), Μαριάμ (Mariám), from Aramaic מַרְיָם (maryām) or Biblical Hebrew מִרְיָם (miryām), of uncertain meaning (see the Hebrew entry for more). Doublet of Miriam, Marie, Maria, and Mariah.

Maria

Mary, mother of Jesus — see also Madonna, Mother of God, Our Lady, Queen of Heaven, Saint Mary, Theotokos, Virgin Mary
Note: Translations for Mary's various titles and appellations should go in the respective entries.

Now the birth of Jeſus Chriſt was on this wiſe: When as his mother Mary was eſpouſed to Joſeph (before they came together) ſhee was found with childe of the holy Ghoſt.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 1:18, column 2:

(religion) The mother of Jesus, believed in Christianity and Islam to have been a virgin at his birth, and believed by some Christians to have been born herself without sin, to have ascended to Heaven without death, and to act as a sympathetic intermediary for believers.

(biblical) Any of several other women in the New Testament, notably:

And Jeſus anſwered, and ſaide vnto her, Martha, Martha, thou art carefull, and troubled about many things: But one thing is needefull, and Mary hath choſen that good part, which ſhall not bee taken away from her.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 10:41–42, column 1:

Mary of Bethany, the sister of Lazarus and Martha.

(Islam) The 19th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an, recounting the events leading up to the birth of Jesus.

(Ireland, dated) A male middle name, given in honour of the Virgin Mary.

Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary


lycanthropy

en-noun

lycanthropy (usually uncountable, plural lycanthropies)

lycanthropies (plural)
lycanthropia (alternative)

From Ancient Greek λυκανθρωπία (lukanthrōpía), from λυκάνθρωπος (lukánthrōpos, “wolfman”). By surface analysis, lycanthrope + -y.

uder

(mythology) The state of being a lycanthrope (or werewolf), a person who can shapeshift between the form of a human being and a wolf, often said to happen involuntarily during a full moon; werewolfdom.


John the Baptist

From Middle English Johan þe Babtis, from Latin Iōannēs Baptista.

In those daies came Iohn the Baptist, preaching in the wildernesse of Iudea, And saying, Repent yee: for the kingdome of heauen is at hand.

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

A New Testament prophet who baptized Jesus and was subsequently executed by Herod Antipas.


malin

fr-adj

malin (feminine maligne or maline, masculine plural malins, feminine plural malignes or malines)

maligne (feminine)
maline (feminine)
malins (masculine plural)
malignes (feminine plural)
malines (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French malin(g), backformation from Old French maligne m (12th c.), a borrowing from Latin malignus. Compare the same backformation in bénin and, on the other hand, the original common-gender form preserved in digne.

prendre un malin plaisir à faire quelque chose

to take perverse pleasure in doing something

(chiefly dated or biblical) malicious, sadistic (which likes to do or say hurtful things for fun)


matica

mȁtica (canonical feminine)
ма̏тица (Cyrillic)
matica (nominative singular)
matice (nominative plural)
matice (genitive singular)
matica (genitive plural)
matici (dative singular)
maticama (dative plural)
maticu (accusative singular)
matice (accusative plural)
matice (singular vocative)
matico (singular vocative)
matice (plural vocative)
matici (locative singular)
maticama (locative plural)
maticom (instrumental singular)
maticama (instrumental plural)


Oktave

de-noun

Oktave f (genitive Oktave, plural Oktaven)

Oktave (genitive)
Oktaven (plural)
Oktave (nominative singular)
Oktaven (definite nominative plural)
Oktave (genitive singular)
Oktaven (definite genitive plural)
Oktave (dative singular)
Oktaven (dative definite plural)
Oktave (accusative singular)
Oktaven (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German octāv, from Medieval Latin octava (“eighth”).


bookworm

bookworms (plural)
book worm (alternative)

“This,” remarked the sedate observer beside me, “is a bookworm,—one of those men who are born to gnaw dead thoughts. His clothes, you see, are covered with the dust of libraries.

1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Earth's Holocaust”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:


bookstore

bookstores (plural)
book store (alternative)

A store where books are bought and sold.


Andreas

a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Andrew


Andreas

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἀνδρέας (Andréas).

Andrew (apostle, brother of the apostle Peter)


Andreas

Andreas (nominative singular)
Andreakset (nominative plural)
Andreas (accusative nominative singular)
Andreakset (accusative nominative plural)
Andreaksen (accusative genitive singular)
Andreakset (accusative genitive plural)
Andreaksen (genitive singular)
Andreasten (genitive plural)
Andreaksien (genitive plural)
Andreasta (partitive singular)
Andreaksia (partitive plural)
Andreaksessa (inessive singular)
Andreaksissa (inessive plural)
Andreaksesta (elative singular)
Andreaksista (elative plural)
Andreakseen (illative singular)
Andreaksiin (illative plural)
Andreaksella (adessive singular)
Andreaksilla (adessive plural)
Andreakselta (ablative singular)
Andreaksilta (ablative plural)
Andreakselle (allative singular)
Andreaksille (allative plural)
Andreaksena (essive singular)
Andreaksina (essive plural)
Andreakseksi (singular translative)
Andreaksiksi (plural translative)
Andreaksetta (abessive singular)
Andreaksitta (abessive plural)
Andreaksin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Andreakseni (nominative singular)
Andreakseni (nominative plural)
Andreakseni (accusative nominative singular)
Andreakseni (accusative nominative plural)
Andreakseni (accusative genitive singular)
Andreakseni (accusative genitive plural)
Andreakseni (genitive singular)
Andreasteni (genitive plural)
Andreaksieni (genitive plural)
Andreastani (partitive singular)
Andreaksiani (partitive plural)
Andreaksessani (inessive singular)
Andreaksissani (inessive plural)
Andreaksestani (elative singular)
Andreaksistani (elative plural)
Andreakseeni (illative singular)
Andreaksiini (illative plural)
Andreaksellani (adessive singular)
Andreaksillani (adessive plural)
Andreakseltani (ablative singular)
Andreaksiltani (ablative plural)
Andreakselleni (allative singular)
Andreaksilleni (allative plural)
Andreaksenani (essive singular)
Andreaksinani (essive plural)
Andreaksekseni (singular translative)
Andreaksikseni (plural translative)
Andreaksettani (abessive singular)
Andreaksittani (abessive plural)
Andreaksineni (comitative plural)
Andreaksesi (nominative singular)
Andreaksesi (nominative plural)
Andreaksesi (accusative nominative singular)
Andreaksesi (accusative nominative plural)
Andreaksesi (accusative genitive singular)
Andreaksesi (accusative genitive plural)
Andreaksesi (genitive singular)
Andreastesi (genitive plural)
Andreaksiesi (genitive plural)
Andreastasi (partitive singular)
Andreaksiasi (partitive plural)
Andreaksessasi (inessive singular)
Andreaksissasi (inessive plural)
Andreaksestasi (elative singular)
Andreaksistasi (elative plural)
Andreakseesi (illative singular)
Andreaksiisi (illative plural)
Andreaksellasi (adessive singular)
Andreaksillasi (adessive plural)
Andreakseltasi (ablative singular)
Andreaksiltasi (ablative plural)
Andreaksellesi (allative singular)
Andreaksillesi (allative plural)
Andreaksenasi (essive singular)
Andreaksinasi (essive plural)
Andreakseksesi (singular translative)
Andreaksiksesi (plural translative)
Andreaksettasi (abessive singular)
Andreaksittasi (abessive plural)
Andreaksinesi (comitative plural)
Andreaksemme (nominative singular)
Andreaksemme (nominative plural)
Andreaksemme (accusative nominative singular)
Andreaksemme (accusative nominative plural)
Andreaksemme (accusative genitive singular)
Andreaksemme (accusative genitive plural)
Andreaksemme (genitive singular)
Andreastemme (genitive plural)
Andreaksiemme (genitive plural)
Andreastamme (partitive singular)
Andreaksiamme (partitive plural)
Andreaksessamme (inessive singular)
Andreaksissamme (inessive plural)
Andreaksestamme (elative singular)
Andreaksistamme (elative plural)
Andreakseemme (illative singular)
Andreaksiimme (illative plural)
Andreaksellamme (adessive singular)
Andreaksillamme (adessive plural)
Andreakseltamme (ablative singular)
Andreaksiltamme (ablative plural)
Andreaksellemme (allative singular)
Andreaksillemme (allative plural)
Andreaksenamme (essive singular)
Andreaksinamme (essive plural)
Andreakseksemme (singular translative)
Andreaksiksemme (plural translative)
Andreaksettamme (abessive singular)
Andreaksittamme (abessive plural)
Andreaksinemme (comitative plural)
Andreaksenne (nominative singular)
Andreaksenne (nominative plural)
Andreaksenne (accusative nominative singular)
Andreaksenne (accusative nominative plural)
Andreaksenne (accusative genitive singular)
Andreaksenne (accusative genitive plural)
Andreaksenne (genitive singular)
Andreastenne (genitive plural)
Andreaksienne (genitive plural)
Andreastanne (partitive singular)
Andreaksianne (partitive plural)
Andreaksessanne (inessive singular)
Andreaksissanne (inessive plural)
Andreaksestanne (elative singular)
Andreaksistanne (elative plural)
Andreakseenne (illative singular)
Andreaksiinne (illative plural)
Andreaksellanne (adessive singular)
Andreaksillanne (adessive plural)
Andreakseltanne (ablative singular)
Andreaksiltanne (ablative plural)
Andreaksellenne (allative singular)
Andreaksillenne (allative plural)
Andreaksenanne (essive singular)
Andreaksinanne (essive plural)
Andreakseksenne (singular translative)
Andreaksiksenne (plural translative)
Andreaksettanne (abessive singular)
Andreaksittanne (abessive plural)
Andreaksinenne (comitative plural)
Andreaksensa (nominative singular)
Andreaksensa (nominative plural)
Andreaksensa (accusative nominative singular)
Andreaksensa (accusative nominative plural)
Andreaksensa (accusative genitive singular)
Andreaksensa (accusative genitive plural)
Andreaksensa (genitive singular)
Andreastensa (genitive plural)
Andreaksiensa (genitive plural)
Andreastaan (partitive singular)
Andreastansa (partitive singular)
Andreaksiaan (partitive plural)
Andreaksiansa (partitive plural)
Andreaksessaan (inessive singular)
Andreaksessansa (inessive singular)
Andreaksissaan (inessive plural)
Andreaksissansa (inessive plural)
Andreaksestaan (elative singular)
Andreaksestansa (elative singular)
Andreaksistaan (elative plural)
Andreaksistansa (elative plural)
Andreakseensa (illative singular)
Andreaksiinsa (illative plural)
Andreaksellaan (adessive singular)
Andreaksellansa (adessive singular)
Andreaksillaan (adessive plural)
Andreaksillansa (adessive plural)
Andreakseltaan (ablative singular)
Andreakseltansa (ablative singular)
Andreaksiltaan (ablative plural)
Andreaksiltansa (ablative plural)
Andreakselleen (allative singular)
Andreaksellensa (allative singular)
Andreaksilleen (allative plural)
Andreaksillensa (allative plural)
Andreaksenaan (essive singular)
Andreaksenansa (essive singular)
Andreaksinaan (essive plural)
Andreaksinansa (essive plural)
Andreaksekseen (singular translative)
Andreakseksensa (singular translative)
Andreaksikseen (plural translative)
Andreaksiksensa (plural translative)
Andreaksettaan (abessive singular)
Andreaksettansa (abessive singular)
Andreaksittaan (abessive plural)
Andreaksittansa (abessive plural)
Andreaksineen (comitative plural)
Andreaksinensa (comitative plural)

(rare) a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Andrew


Andreas

de-proper noun

Andreas m (proper noun, strong, genitive Andreas' or Andreas, plural Andreasse or Andreas or Andreas')

Andreas' (genitive)
Andreas (genitive)
Andreasse (plural)
Andreas (plural)
Andreas' (plural)
Andreas (nominative singular)
Andreasse (definite nominative plural)
Andreas (definite nominative plural)
Andreas' (definite nominative plural)
Andreas' (genitive singular)
Andreas (genitive singular)
Andreasse (definite genitive plural)
Andreas (definite genitive plural)
Andreas' (definite genitive plural)
Andreas (dative singular)
Andreassen (dative definite plural)
Andreas (dative definite plural)
Andreas' (dative definite plural)
Andreas (accusative singular)
Andreasse (accusative definite plural)
Andreas (accusative definite plural)
Andreas' (accusative definite plural)


Andreas

la-proper noun

Andrē̆ās m sg (genitive Andrē̆ae); first declension

Andrē̆ās (canonical masculine singular)
Andrē̆ae (genitive)
Andrē̆ās (nominative singular)
Andrē̆ae (genitive singular)
Andrē̆ae (dative singular)
Andrē̆am (accusative singular)
Andrē̆ān (accusative singular)
Andrē̆ā (ablative singular)
Andrē̆ā (singular vocative)
Andrē̆a (alternative)
Andrī̆a (alternative)
Andrī̆ās (alternative)

Catalan: Andreu

French: André

Galician: André, Andrade

Italian: Andrea

Old Galician-Portuguese: Andreu

Portuguese: André

Piedmontese: Andrèia

Ligurian: Drîa

Romanian: Îndrea, Andrea, Undrea

Spanish: Andrés

[än̪ˈd̪reːäːs̠]

[ˈän̪d̪reäːs̠]

[än̪ˈd̪rɛːäs]

Borrowed from the Ancient Greek Ἀνδρέᾱς (Andréās).


Andreas

From Vulgate Latin Andreas. First recorded as a given name in Norway in the 12th century.


Andreas

From Latin Andreas, of Ancient Greek origin. First recorded in Sweden in runes in the 12th century.


Andreas

Andreas
Handreas (prothesis-h)
Andras (alternative)
Andro (alternative)
Androw (alternative)


síra

síra (nominative singular-only)
síry (genitive singular-only)
síre (dative singular-only)
síru (accusative singular-only)
síre (locative singular-only)
sírou (instrumental singular-only)

ohňom a sírou


fridge

fridges (plural)
'fridge (alternative)
frig (alternative)

→ Antillean Creole: fridj

→ Bengali: ফ্রিজ (phrij)

→ Hindi: फ़्रिज (frij), फ्रिज (phrij)

→ Malayalam: ഫ്രിഡ്ജ് (phriḍjŭ)

→ Maltese: friġġ

→ Scottish Gaelic: frids

→ Swahili: friji

Alexandra DeWitt
Chicago Review Press
Frigidaire
Kyle Rayner
Women in Refrigerators

The noun is a clipping of refrigerator, perhaps influenced by the Frigidaire brand of refrigerators, or frigerator (“(dated) refrigerator”). The spelling is likely influenced by analogy with bridge, ridge, etc. The verb is derived from the noun.
The fandom slang verb sense alludes to the phrase "women in refrigerators" coined by the American comic book writer Gail Simone. Simone was referencing a plot point in Green Lantern (volume 3, issue 54, 1994), in which the Green Lantern's girlfriend is murdered by a villain, and her body placed in a refrigerator for him to find.

coinage

Sweet broccolini with tofu, sesame, and cilantro […] First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the soy sauce, chile sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about ⅜ inch / 1 cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade, and leave in the fridge for half an hour.

2008, Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi, “Vegetables, Legumes, and Grains”, in Ottolenghi: The Cookbook, New York, N.Y.: Ten Speed Press, published 2013, →ISBN:


fridge

en-verb

fridge (third-person singular simple present fridges, present participle fridging, simple past and past participle fridged)

fridges (present singular third-person)
fridging (participle present)
fridged (participle past)
fridged (past)

The backing cast are also all excellent, as expected considering the calibre of actors attached to the film – Andrea Riseborough is a very good example, playing a fascinating cop who really didn't deserve to be ‘fridged’ (meaning: removed from the action so that the men can do their manly things).

2013 April 26, Siobhan Whitebread, “Welcome to the Punch: A Little Less Conversation [film review]”, in Sophie Harrison, editor, Spark*: The University of Reading’s Student Newspaper, volume 63, number 1, Reading, Berkshire: Reading University Students’ Union, →OCLC, page 15, column 5:

In terms of villains, familiar characters haven't been fridged but they've been rather sexualized.

2014, Tim Hanley, “The Mundane Modern Age”, in Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World’s Most Famous Heroine, Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, part 3 (The Bronze Age), page 240:

Gwen [Stacy] dying is as big a part of Spider-Man's storyline as Uncle Ben dying. But originally, she was fridged, long before that was a thing. Gwen was something of a pretty nonentity in the comics, her death really only served the purpose of hurting Peter. She died a victim, yanked around by other characters.

2014 June 1, Dave Van Domelen, “Dave’s Capsules for May 2014”, in alt.toys.transformers (Usenet):

There’s more than a hint of fridging to Missandei's death, as she leaves behind a grief-stricken Grey Worm along with Daenerys [Targaryen].

2019 May 5, Danette Chavez, “Campaigns are Waged On and Off the Game Of Thrones Battlefield (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2021-01-28:

2022 March 12, Rich Johnston, “Gail Simone's "Fridging" Becomes Official DC Comics Terminology”, in Bleeding Cool, retrieved 2022-03-12:

(transitive, fandom slang) To gratuitously kill, disempower, or otherwise remove (a character, usually female) from a narrative, often strictly to hurt another character (usually male) and motivate vengeance.


pes

la-noun

pēs m (genitive pedis); third declension

pēs (canonical masculine)
pedis (genitive)
pēs (nominative singular)
pedēs (nominative plural)
pedis (genitive singular)
pedum (genitive plural)
pedī (dative singular)
pedibus (dative plural)
pedem (accusative singular)
pedēs (accusative plural)
pede (ablative singular)
pedibus (ablative plural)
pēs (singular vocative)
pedēs (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

⇒ Aromanian: pezã

Romanian: piez ⇒ piază

Dalmatian:

pi

Italo-Romance

Corsican: pede

Gallurese: pedi

Italian: piede

→ Esperanto: piedo

→ Ladino: piede (regional)

Neapolitan: pede

Sassarese: pedi

Sicilian: pedi, peri

Rhaeto-Romance:

Friulian: pît

Romansch: pe

Padanian:

Istriot: peîe, pèie

Gallo-Italic:

Ligurian: pê

Piedmontese: pe

Romagnol: pè, pid (Rimini, San Marino)

Venetan: piè

Northern Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: pièd

Norman: pid, pyid

desctree

Old French: pié, pé (Anglo-Norman), *pied, *piet
Middle French: pied
French: pied
Walloon: pî

Southern Gallo-Romance:

Catalan: peu

Old Occitan: pe
Occitan: pè

Ibero-Romance:

Asturian: pie

Extremaduran: pie

Leonese: pía

Mirandese: pie

Navarro-Aragonese: pie, pied

Aragonese: piet

Old Galician-Portuguese: pee
Galician: pé
Portuguese: pé

Old Spanish: pie
Ladino: pye
Spanish: pie

Sardinian:

Campidanese: pei

Logudorese: pe

Nuorese: pede

Derived forms:

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pedicāre

Catalan: petjar

Borrowings:

→ English: pes

→ Ido: pedo

→ Interlingua: pede

→⇒ German: stante pede

From Proto-Italic *pets, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds (compare Sanskrit पद् (pád), Ancient Greek πούς (poús) and Old English fōt, whence English foot).

vāde, liber, verbīsque meīs loca grāta salūtā:

Go, [my] book, and greet with my words [those] beloved places: at least I shall reach [them] with the ‘foot’ that is allowed!
(The exiled poet puns that the metrical “feet” of his poem shall go where his own “feet” cannot.)

(poetry) a metrical foot: the basic unit of metered poetry


životopis

životopis (nominative singular)
životopisy (nominative plural)
životopisu (genitive singular)
životopisů (genitive plural)
životopisu (dative singular)
životopisům (dative plural)
životopis (accusative singular)
životopisy (accusative plural)
životopise (singular vocative)
životopisy (plural vocative)
životopise (locative singular)
životopisu (locative singular)
životopisech (locative plural)
životopisem (instrumental singular)
životopisy (instrumental plural)

vlastní životopis


životopis

sh-noun

životòpis m (Cyrillic spelling живото̀пис)

životòpis (canonical masculine)
живото̀пис (Cyrillic)
životopis (nominative singular)
životopisi (nominative plural)
životopisa (genitive singular)
životopisa (genitive plural)
životopisu (dative singular)
životopisima (dative plural)
životopis (accusative singular)
životopise (accusative plural)
životopise (singular vocative)
životopisi (plural vocative)
životopisu (locative singular)
životopisima (locative plural)
životopisom (instrumental singular)
životopisima (instrumental plural)


životopis

sk-noun

životopis m inan (relational adjective životopisný)

životopisný (adjective relational)
nominative
životopis (singular)
životopisy (plural)
genitive
životopisu (singular)
životopisov (plural)
dative
životopisom (plural)
accusative
locative
životopise (singular)
životopisoch (plural)
instrumental
životopisom (singular)
životopismi (plural)

vlastný životopis


autobiography

en-noun

autobiography (countable and uncountable, plural autobiographies)

Autobiography […] inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth […]

1904, Mark Twain, “To W. D. Howells, in New York: Villa di Quarto, Florence, March 14, ’04”, in Albert Bigelow Paine, editor, Mark Twain's Letters, volume 2, published 1917, page 751:

Here I was interrupted, as I'm so often interrupted when giving my views on the Yeoman's Wedding Song, by her saying that she was dying to hear all about it but would rather wait till she could get it in my autobiography.

1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI:

(countable) A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.


biography

biography (countable and uncountable, plural biographies)

/baɪˈɒɡɹəfi/

/baɪˈɑɡɹəfi/

From New Latin biographia, formed from Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write”).

There are many biographies of Benjamin Franklin.

A person's life story, especially one published.


saga

Borrowed from Old Norse saga, maybe through English saga.


saga

sagowy (adjective)
saga (nominative singular)
sagi (nominative plural)
sagi (genitive singular)
sag (genitive plural)
sadze (dative singular)
sagom (dative plural)
sagę (accusative singular)
sagi (accusative plural)
sagą (instrumental singular)
sagami (instrumental plural)
sadze (locative singular)
sagach (locative plural)
sago (singular vocative)
sagi (plural vocative)


Michal

And as the Arke of the Lord came into the citie of Dauid, Michal Sauls daughter looked through a window, and saw king Dauid leaping and dauncing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 6:16:

(biblical) A daughter of Saul and wife of David in the Old Testament.


rest

rest (countable and uncountable, plural rests)

From Middle English rest, reste, from Old English ræst, from Proto-West Germanic *rastu, from Proto-Germanic *rastō, from Proto-Indo-European *ros-, *res-, *erH- (“rest”). Cognate with West Frisian rêst (“rest”), Dutch rust (“rest”), German Rast (“rest”), Swedish rast (“rest”), Norwegian rest (“rest”), Icelandic röst (“rest”), Old Irish árus (“dwelling”), German Ruhe (“calm”), Albanian resht (“to stop, pause”), Welsh araf (“quiet, calm, gentle”), Lithuanian rovà (“calm”), Ancient Greek ἐρωή (erōḗ, “rest, respite”), Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬨𐬈 (aⁱrime, “calm, peaceful”), Sanskrit रमते (rámate, “he stays still, calms down”), Gothic 𐍂𐌹𐌼𐌹𐍃 (rimis, “tranquility”). Related to roo.

rest

stick used to support the cue in snooker

(poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.


David

en-prop

David (countable and uncountable, plural Davids)

From Middle English David, Davyd, Davyde, from Old English Dauid, David, from Latin David, Davidus, from Koine Greek Δαυίδ (Dauíd), Δαβίδ (Dabíd), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew דּוד (Dāwîḏ, literally “beloved”).

der

David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 23:1-2:

Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and misinterpreting Holy Scriptures and numerous examples of mercy. We remember God’s forgiveness of Cain, who killed Abel, and the adulterer King David, who arranged the killing of Uriah, the husband of Bathsheba, his lover.

2014, Jimmy Carter, “Full Prisons and Legal Killing”, in A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 39:

(biblical) The second king of Judah and Israel, the successor of King Saul in the Old Testament; the son of Jesse and the father of Nathan and King Solomon.


David

From English David, from Koine Greek Δαυίδ (Dauíd), Δαβίδ (Dabíd), from the Biblical Hebrew דּוד (Dāwîḏ, literally “beloved”). Also from Spanish David.


David

Ultimately from Latin David, from Ancient Greek Δαυίδ (Dauíd), from Biblical Hebrew דָּוִד.


David

de-proper noun

David m (proper noun, strong, genitive Davids)

Davids (genitive)
David (nominative singular)
Davids (genitive singular)
David (dative singular)
David (accusative singular)

some speakers in the very north of Germany


David

From Vulgate Latin David, ultimately of Hebrew origin. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in runes around 1200.


David

[ˈd̪eɪ̯.vɪd̪̚]

[ˈd̪eɪ̯.bɪd̪̚]


Sodom

Partially from Old English Sodome, Sodoma, partially from Ancient Greek Σόδομα (Sódoma), from the Biblical Hebrew סְדֹם (s'dóm).
(Wadham College): Chosen for the rhyme.

(biblical, Quranic) A city in the Middle East which, according to the Bible and Islamic tradition, but not specifically named in the Qur'an, was destroyed by God (along with Gomorrah) for the sins of its inhabitants.


義訓

/i⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕyn⁵¹/

/jiː²² fɐn³³/

/i⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕyn⁵¹/

/jiː²² fɐn³³/

(literature) annotation of an ancient word with its meaning


testament

nl-noun

testament n (plural testamenten, diminutive testamentje n)

testamenten (plural)
testamentje (diminutive neuter)

Negerhollands: testament

→ Indonesian: testamen

From Middle Dutch testament, from Old French testament, from Latin testāmentum (“the publication of a will, a will, testament”).

der

(biblical) testament (part of the Bible)


Romeo

From Italian Romeo, from Ancient Greek Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos, “Roman”).

(fiction) One of the main characters of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: the ardent lover of Juliet.


Romeo

Romeo (nominative singular)
Romeowie (nominative plural)
Romea (genitive singular)
Romeów (genitive plural)
Romeowi (dative singular)
Romeom (dative plural)
Romea (accusative singular)
Romeów (accusative plural)
Romeem (instrumental singular)
Romeami (instrumental plural)
Romeo (locative singular)
Romeach (locative plural)
Romeo (singular vocative)
Romeowie (plural vocative)

(uncountable) Romeo (one of the main characters of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: the ardent lover of Juliet)


Juliet

/ˈd͡ʒuːlɪɛt/

Borrowed from Italian Giulietta, diminutive of Giulia, from Latin Iūlia, feminine of Iūlius, a Roman family name. Cognate with French Juliette.

For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:

One of the title characters of Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.


Juliet

From English Juliet, from Italian Giulietta, diminutive form of Giulia (“Julia”), from Julius, a Roman family name.

Juliet (the character in Romeo and Juliet)


Count Dracula

The fictional vampire in the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.

काउंट ड्रॅक्यूला

kāuṇṭa ḍrĕkyūlā


Dracula

Dracula
Order of the Dragon
Vlad II Dracul
Vlad the Impaler

From the name Vlad III Dracula (also known as Vlad Țepeș (“Vlad the Impaler”)), from the name of his father Vlad II Dracul, who was given the name Dracul by the Order of the Dragon. Dracul (literally “the Devil”) comes from the Romanian drac (“devil”), itself deriving from the Latin dracō (“dragon”).

(fiction) The fictional vampire in the novel of the same name by Bram Stoker.


Saul

From Hebrew שָׁאוּל (shaúl, “asked for”). Doublet of Silas, which derived from Aramaic.

And it came to paſſe, when the euill ſpirit from God was vpon Saul, that Dauid tooke an harpe, and played with his hand: So Saul was refreſhed, and was well, and the euill ſpirit departed from him.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 16:23, column 2:

(biblical) The first king of Israel in the Old Testament.


Saul

Saul (nominative singular)
Saulit (nominative plural)
Saul (accusative nominative singular)
Saulit (accusative nominative plural)
Saulin (accusative genitive singular)
Saulit (accusative genitive plural)
Saulin (genitive singular)
Saulien (genitive plural)
Saulia (partitive singular)
Sauleja (partitive plural)
Saulissa (inessive singular)
Sauleissa (inessive plural)
Saulista (elative singular)
Sauleista (elative plural)
Sauliin (illative singular)
Sauleihin (illative plural)
Saulilla (adessive singular)
Sauleilla (adessive plural)
Saulilta (ablative singular)
Sauleilta (ablative plural)
Saulille (allative singular)
Sauleille (allative plural)
Saulina (essive singular)
Sauleina (essive plural)
Sauliksi (singular translative)
Sauleiksi (plural translative)
Saulitta (abessive singular)
Sauleitta (abessive plural)
Saulein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Saulini (nominative singular)
Saulini (nominative plural)
Saulini (accusative nominative singular)
Saulini (accusative nominative plural)
Saulini (accusative genitive singular)
Saulini (accusative genitive plural)
Saulini (genitive singular)
Saulieni (genitive plural)
Sauliani (partitive singular)
Saulejani (partitive plural)
Saulissani (inessive singular)
Sauleissani (inessive plural)
Saulistani (elative singular)
Sauleistani (elative plural)
Sauliini (illative singular)
Sauleihini (illative plural)
Saulillani (adessive singular)
Sauleillani (adessive plural)
Sauliltani (ablative singular)
Sauleiltani (ablative plural)
Saulilleni (allative singular)
Sauleilleni (allative plural)
Saulinani (essive singular)
Sauleinani (essive plural)
Saulikseni (singular translative)
Sauleikseni (plural translative)
Saulittani (abessive singular)
Sauleittani (abessive plural)
Sauleineni (comitative plural)
Saulisi (nominative singular)
Saulisi (nominative plural)
Saulisi (accusative nominative singular)
Saulisi (accusative nominative plural)
Saulisi (accusative genitive singular)
Saulisi (accusative genitive plural)
Saulisi (genitive singular)
Sauliesi (genitive plural)
Sauliasi (partitive singular)
Saulejasi (partitive plural)
Saulissasi (inessive singular)
Sauleissasi (inessive plural)
Saulistasi (elative singular)
Sauleistasi (elative plural)
Sauliisi (illative singular)
Sauleihisi (illative plural)
Saulillasi (adessive singular)
Sauleillasi (adessive plural)
Sauliltasi (ablative singular)
Sauleiltasi (ablative plural)
Saulillesi (allative singular)
Sauleillesi (allative plural)
Saulinasi (essive singular)
Sauleinasi (essive plural)
Sauliksesi (singular translative)
Sauleiksesi (plural translative)
Saulittasi (abessive singular)
Sauleittasi (abessive plural)
Sauleinesi (comitative plural)
Saulimme (nominative singular)
Saulimme (nominative plural)
Saulimme (accusative nominative singular)
Saulimme (accusative nominative plural)
Saulimme (accusative genitive singular)
Saulimme (accusative genitive plural)
Saulimme (genitive singular)
Sauliemme (genitive plural)
Sauliamme (partitive singular)
Saulejamme (partitive plural)
Saulissamme (inessive singular)
Sauleissamme (inessive plural)
Saulistamme (elative singular)
Sauleistamme (elative plural)
Sauliimme (illative singular)
Sauleihimme (illative plural)
Saulillamme (adessive singular)
Sauleillamme (adessive plural)
Sauliltamme (ablative singular)
Sauleiltamme (ablative plural)
Saulillemme (allative singular)
Sauleillemme (allative plural)
Saulinamme (essive singular)
Sauleinamme (essive plural)
Sauliksemme (singular translative)
Sauleiksemme (plural translative)
Saulittamme (abessive singular)
Sauleittamme (abessive plural)
Sauleinemme (comitative plural)
Saulinne (nominative singular)
Saulinne (nominative plural)
Saulinne (accusative nominative singular)
Saulinne (accusative nominative plural)
Saulinne (accusative genitive singular)
Saulinne (accusative genitive plural)
Saulinne (genitive singular)
Saulienne (genitive plural)
Saulianne (partitive singular)
Saulejanne (partitive plural)
Saulissanne (inessive singular)
Sauleissanne (inessive plural)
Saulistanne (elative singular)
Sauleistanne (elative plural)
Sauliinne (illative singular)
Sauleihinne (illative plural)
Saulillanne (adessive singular)
Sauleillanne (adessive plural)
Sauliltanne (ablative singular)
Sauleiltanne (ablative plural)
Saulillenne (allative singular)
Sauleillenne (allative plural)
Saulinanne (essive singular)
Sauleinanne (essive plural)
Sauliksenne (singular translative)
Sauleiksenne (plural translative)
Saulittanne (abessive singular)
Sauleittanne (abessive plural)
Sauleinenne (comitative plural)
Saulinsa (nominative singular)
Saulinsa (nominative plural)
Saulinsa (accusative nominative singular)
Saulinsa (accusative nominative plural)
Saulinsa (accusative genitive singular)
Saulinsa (accusative genitive plural)
Saulinsa (genitive singular)
Sauliensa (genitive plural)
Sauliaan (partitive singular)
Sauliansa (partitive singular)
Saulejaan (partitive plural)
Saulejansa (partitive plural)
Saulissaan (inessive singular)
Saulissansa (inessive singular)
Sauleissaan (inessive plural)
Sauleissansa (inessive plural)
Saulistaan (elative singular)
Saulistansa (elative singular)
Sauleistaan (elative plural)
Sauleistansa (elative plural)
Sauliinsa (illative singular)
Sauleihinsa (illative plural)
Saulillaan (adessive singular)
Saulillansa (adessive singular)
Sauleillaan (adessive plural)
Sauleillansa (adessive plural)
Sauliltaan (ablative singular)
Sauliltansa (ablative singular)
Sauleiltaan (ablative plural)
Sauleiltansa (ablative plural)
Saulilleen (allative singular)
Saulillensa (allative singular)
Sauleilleen (allative plural)
Sauleillensa (allative plural)
Saulinaan (essive singular)
Saulinansa (essive singular)
Sauleinaan (essive plural)
Sauleinansa (essive plural)
Saulikseen (singular translative)
Sauliksensa (singular translative)
Sauleikseen (plural translative)
Sauleiksensa (plural translative)
Saulittaan (abessive singular)
Saulittansa (abessive singular)
Sauleittaan (abessive plural)
Sauleittansa (abessive plural)
Sauleineen (comitative plural)
Sauleinensa (comitative plural)


Saul

la-proper noun

Saūl m sg (genitive Saūl or Saūlis); indeclinable, variously declined, third declension

Saūl (canonical masculine singular)
variously declined (canonical)
Saūl (genitive)
Saūlis (genitive)
Saūl (nominative singular)
Saūl (genitive singular)
Saūlis (genitive singular)
Saūl (dative singular)
Saūlī (dative singular)
Saūl (accusative singular)
Saūlem (accusative singular)
Saūl (ablative singular)
Saūle (ablative singular)
Saūl (singular vocative)

From Biblical Hebrew שָׁאוּל (shaúl, “asked for”).


Saul

Saul (nominative singular)
Saul (accusative singular)
Saules (genitive singular)
Saule (dative singular)

From Latin Saūl, from Koine Greek Σαούλ (Saoúl), from Biblical Hebrew שָׁאוּל (šāʾûl).


James

en-prop

James (countable and uncountable, plural Jameses)

⇒ English: Jim (diminutive)

⇒ English: Jimmy, Jimmie, Jimmi, Jimi (diminutive)

⇒ English: Jimbo (diminutive)

→ Hindi: जिम्बो (jimbo)

→ Hawaiian: Kimo

⇒ English: Jem (diminutive)

⇒ English: Jemmy (diminutive)

⇒ English: Jamie, Jamey (diminutive)

⇒ English: Jay (diminutive)

desc

→ Chinese: 詹姆斯 (Zhānmǔsī) (transliteration)

→ Cornish: Jammes, Jamma

→ Danish: James

→ Fijian: Semesa

→ Icelandic: James

desctree

→ Irish: Séamas, Séamus, Seumas
→ English: Seamus, Shamus

→ Manx: Jayms

→ Maori: Hemi

→ Samoan: Semisi

→ Scottish Gaelic: Seumas
→ English: Hamish

→ Swedish: James

→ Welsh: Siâms

The English New Testament form of Jacob, from Middle English James, from Old French James, from Vulgar Latin Iacomus, spoken and altered pronunciation of Latin Iacobus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb), from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (Yaʿăqōḇ). Doublet of Jacques, Jacob, Iago, Jago, Yago, Hamish, Seamus, Tiago, and Santiago. In reference to the Ecuadorian island, a modification of the earlier name Duke of York's Island after its eponymous duke's coronation as James II of England.
See Occitan Jacme for an intermediary between Old French James and Catalan Jaume.

der

Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (Yaʿăqōḇ)

doublet

(biblical) The twentieth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the general epistle of James.


James

desctree

⇒ English: James
⇒ English: Jim (diminutive)
⇒ English: Jimmy, Jimmie, Jimmi, Jimi (diminutive)
⇒ English: Jimbo (diminutive)
→ Hindi: जिम्बो (jimbo)
→ Hawaiian: Kimo
⇒ English: Jem (diminutive)
⇒ English: Jemmy (diminutive)
⇒ English: Jamie, Jamey (diminutive)
⇒ English: Jay (diminutive)
→ Chinese: 詹姆斯 (Zhānmǔsī) (transliteration)
→ Cornish: Jammes, Jamma
→ Danish: James
→ Fijian: Semesa
→ Icelandic: James
→ Irish: Séamas, Séamus, Seumas
→ English: Seamus, Shamus
→ Manx: Jayms
→ Maori: Hemi
→ Samoan: Semisi
→ Scottish Gaelic: Seumas
→ English: Hamish
→ Swedish: James
→ Welsh: Siâms

⇒ Scots: Jeams

⇒ Scots: Jeamie, Jeemie, Jamie, Jaimie (diminutive)

⇒ Scots: Jeamock (diminutive)

⇒ Scots: Jamesie (diminutive)

⇒ Scots: Jizer (diminutive)

⇒ Scots: Peem, Pim (diminutive)

⇒ Scots: Pimmie (diminutive)

⇒ Scots: Peemser (diminutive)

Yola: Jaames

From Old French James, from Vulgar Latin Iacomus, spoken and altered pronunciation of Latin Iacobus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb), from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (Yaʿăqōḇ).

der

Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (Yaʿăqōḇ)

Ȝame (alternative)
Gemes (alternative)
Iam (alternative)
Iames (alternative)
Iamys (alternative)
Iame (alternative)
Ieme (alternative)

James (a male given name from Old French)


Jacob

From Middle English Iacob, from Late Latin Iācōbus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (yaʿăqōḇ, literally “he will/shall heel”), from עָקֵב (ʿāqēḇ, “heel”). Doublet of James.

And the boyes grew; and Eſau was a cunning hunter, a man of the fielde: and Iacob was a plaine man, dwelling in tents.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 25:27, column 2:

(biblical) One of the sons of Isaac and Rebecca, and twin brother of Esau; father of the Israelites (Jews and Samaritans) by 12 sons by 4 consorts, most famously Judah and Joseph who fathered Manasseh; was renamed to Israel.


Jacob

From English Jacob, from Late Latin Iacobus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Hebrew יעקב (ya'aqóbh; Modern: Yaakov, “Jacob”, literally “he will/shall heel”), from עקב (‘aqev, “heel of the foot”). Also from Spanish Jacob.


Jacob

→ Alemannic German: Jakob

⇒ Alemannic German: Jakobli (diminutive)

⇒ Alemannic German: Joggi (diminutive)

⇒ Alemannic German: Jockel (diminutive)

⇒ Alemannic German: Jockeli (diminutive)

⇒ Alemannic German: Köbi, Chöbi (diminutive)

→ Bavarian: Jakob

⇒ Bavarian: Jackl (diminutive)

Central Franconian:

Hunsrik: Jakob

German: Jakob, Jacob

⇒ German: Jakobi, Jakobi

⇒ German: Jakobchen (diminutive)

⇒ German: Köb, Köbes, Koeeb (diminutive)

⇒ German: Jäggi, Joggi (diminutive)

⇒ German: Jeckel, Jäckel (diminutive)

⇒ German: Jockel, Jokel (diminutive)

→ English: yokel (noun)

Learned borrowing from Latin Iācōbus, borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb), borrowed from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב, from עקב.

etymon

(biblical) Jacob (one of the sons of Isaac and Rebecca)


Jacob

Y crecieron los niños, y Esaú fué diestro en la caza, hombre del campo: Jacob empero era varón quieto, que habitaba en tiendas.

1602, La Santa Biblia (antigua versión de Casiodoro de Reina), Génesis 25:27:

And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents. (KJV)


fringer

(scrapbooks) A device for making paper fringes


Sappho

la-proper noun

Sapphō f sg (genitive Sapphūs or Sapphōnis); variously declined, fourth declension, third declension

Sapphō (canonical feminine singular)
variously declined (canonical)
Sapphūs (genitive)
Sapphōnis (genitive)
Sapphō (nominative singular)
Sapphūs (genitive singular)
Sapphō (accusative singular)
Sapphō (ablative singular)
Sapphō (singular vocative)
Sapphō (nominative singular)
Sapphōnis (genitive singular)
Sapphōnī (dative singular)
Sapphōnem (accusative singular)
Sapphōne (ablative singular)
Sapphō (singular vocative)

, Plinius, Naturalis Historia, lib. XXII, cap. IX, num. 20; in: Pliny Natural History with an English translation in ten volumes Volume VI Libri XX-XXIII By W. H. S. Jones, 1951, page 308f.

This, it is said, is how Phaon of Lesbos too won the love of Sappho, there being much idle trifling on this subject not only among the Magi but also among the Pythagoreans.ᵈ
ᵈ As is suggested by the punctuation of Detlefsen and Mayhoff, this sentence is taken to be part of the indirect speech, with multa ablative. With a full stop at Sappho, it could be taken as a comment of Pliny, with multa neuter plural.

ob hoc et Phaonem Lesbium dilectum a Sappho, multa circa hoc non Magorum solum vanitate, sed etiam Pythagoricorum.

, Guntherus Cisterciensis, De oratione jejunio et eleemosyna libri tredecim, lib. III, cap. V; in: Patrologiae cursus completus sive bibliotheca universalis, integra, uniformis, commoda, oeconomica, omnium SS. patrum, doctorum scriptorumque ecclesiaticorum. Series secunda. Patrologiae tomus CCXII, edited by J.-P. Migne, 1855, col. 131

(please add an English translation of this quotation)

Curiose afficiunt, quae ipso auditu libidinem incitant, ut lyrica Sapphonis, elegiae Nasonis, comoediae Menandri, Plauti vel Terentii.


Togarmah

From Biblical Hebrew תּוֹגַרְמָה (tōḡarmā).

They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.

(biblical) A grandson of Japheth in the Old Testament; traditional ancestor of Armenians, sometimes also of Georgians.


yoink

Coined by writer George Meyer for the TV show The Simpsons; perhaps from yank, or imitative of the sound effect (a quick upward slide on a violin) that accompanies something being snatched in classic comedies.

Marge: But you look better, you don't sweat when you eat any more, and look – [holds up a wad of cash] You've saved more than a hundred dollars. I found it in your pants.
Homer: [snatches money] Yoink!

1993, “Duffless”, episode of the Simpsons [television]

Yoink! He snatched Granny Glee's frilly pink hat with his little feet.

2012, John Sazaklis, Candy Store Caper, →ISBN, page 24:

The way I've always done this stunt is to grab my partner and jump us over together. It's absolute hell on my knees. I lean toward Brando and raise my eyebrows. “Yoink.” “Definite yoink,” he replies, equally inspired.

2014, G. T. Almasi, Hammer of Angels: A Novel of Shadowstorm, →ISBN:

YOINK! Coach Pittman snatched the puck out of midair.

2015, Marty McKnight, Jim Nasium Is a Hockey Hazard, →ISBN, page 42:

2021 (November 13) "Olivia & Yunan" (Amphibia s3e7b) Yunan grabbing a crossbow
Ooh, ominous. After you, milady. Yoink!

(colloquial) Onomatopoeic, accompanying or describing a yank, swipe, or snatch.


verse

en-noun

verse (countable and uncountable, plural verses)

From Middle English vers, from a mixture of Old English fers and Old French vers; both from Latin versus (“a line in writing, and in poetry a verse; (originally) row, furrow”), from vertō (“to turn around”).

uder

Restoration literature is well known for its carefully constructed verse.

A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.

نَظْم

Holonym: chapter

A small section of a holy book (Bible, Quran etc.)


verse

en-verb

verse (third-person singular simple present verses, present participle versing, simple past and past participle versed)

verses (present singular third-person)
versing (participle present)
versed (participle past)
versed (past)

playing on pipes of corn and versing love

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

(transitive) To tell in verse, or poetry.


blank verse

en-noun

blank verse (countable and uncountable, plural blank verses)

Milton's command of blank verse exceeds even Shakespeare's.

[T]here is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and beeing an absolute Iohannes fac totum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey.

1592, Robert Greene, Groats-Worth of Witte, Bought with a Million of Repentance, London: imprinted for William Wright, folio F¹v:

I could have spoken in blank verse of Shakespearean beauty, all sorts of great ideas flashed through my mind; it was as though the bonds of my flesh had been loosened, and left the spirit free to soar to the empyrean of its native power.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “The Spirit of Life”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 288:

Soon after Surrey's translation of Virgil, blank verse became a persuasive rival to the heroic couplet.

2006, Philip Hobsbaum, “The heroic couplet”, in Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form, Routledge, →ISBN, page 18:

(poetry) A poetic form with regular meter, particularly iambic pentameter, but no fixed rhyme scheme.


zombie

zombies (plural)
zombi (alternative)
zomby (alternative)
zumbi (alternative)

First attested in 1871.
From a Bantu language. Compare Kongo nzambi (“god”), zumbi (“fetish”), and Kimbundu nzumbi (“ghost”) (see Portuguese zumbi), and Caribbean folklore's jumbee (“a spirit or demon”).
Origin from Spanish sombra (“shadow, phantom”) has also been suggested.
May have come through Louisiana Creole [Term?]. See also French zombi (1832).

Betsy Connell: I don't know about zombies, doctor. Just what is a zombie? / Dr. Maxwell: A ghost. A living dead. It's also a drink.

1943, Curt Siodmak, Ardel Wray, I Walked with a Zombie (motion picture):

The zombies were having fun
The party had just begun
The guests included Wolf-Man, Dracula, and his son.

1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers:

Ashley: Dad passed on a few years back. He's probably still watching, though.
Shepard: He's not a zombie, is he?

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: SSV Normandy:

The zombies first show up 20 minutes in, after Melanie volunteers herself as the next child to mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night. That’s when we learn that Melanie and her classmates are all “hungries,” or people infected with a toxic fungus that turns them into mindless flesh-eating animals.

2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club:

(voodoo, horror) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his or her own.


Romeo and Juliet couple

Romeo and Juliet couple (plural Romeo and Juliet couples)

After the eponymous characters in Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

There are, for example, the Romeo and Juliet couples, who come from warring or enemy nations and escape to a neutral third country […]

1988, Dugan Romano, Intercultural marriage: promises and pitfalls:

The incidence there was especially high among Indian and Pakistani teens, Romeo-and-Juliet couples.

By analogy with the two Shakespearean characters, a couple consisting of one member from each of two opposing families, parties, or countries.


Ravana

(Hinduism) The king of the asuras, ruler of Lanka and killed by Rama in Ramayana.


book burning

book burning (countable and uncountable, plural book burnings)

(literally) A mass burning of books, intended as a form of political and/or religious censorship.

Exhuming McCarthy (meet me at the book burning, meet me at the book burning)

1987, “Exhuming McCarthy”, in Document (R.E.M. No. 5), performed by R.E.M.:

(by extension, idiomatic) Any mass destruction, removal, or recalling of books, motion pictures, broadcasts, or electronic works as a form of censorship, especially motivated by religious or political objections to the material.


Grim Reaper

/ˈɡɹɪm ˈɹiː.pə/

/ˈɡɹɪm ˈɹi.pɚ/

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From grim + reaper, first attested 1847. The word grim previously had a stronger meaning ("fierce, angry, sinister") and had more of an association with ghostliness (compare Old English grima (“specter, apparition”), English grim (n.)). The association between grim and death dates back to at least the late 16th century (the line "grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine image" appears in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew around 1590). The reaper element comes from the personification of Death as a reaper (harvester) of souls in connection to to the popular depiction of Death wielding a scythe. The symbol of the scythe itself comes from a partially unintentional conflation of Cronus (the Titan associated with the harvest, said to have used his scythe to castrate his father Uranus) and Chronos (the personification of Father Time).

cog

Her husband was dead, and Werper fancied that he could replace in the girl’s heart the position which had been vacated by the act of the grim reaper.

1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar:

"Golly, I feel like the devil!" muttered Anthony dispassionately. Relaxing, he tumbled back upon his pillow. "Bring on your grim reaper!"

1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book 2, page 220:

Mary, will you be mine? Shall we go round together? Will you fix up a match with me on the links of life which shall end only when the Grim Reaper lays us both a stymie?

1922, P. G. Wodehouse, The Clicking of Cuthbert:

On the one hand, we had a scenario where, effectively, the American admiral just went "You know what, all the destroyers attack", at which point they mowed through the Japanese destroyers like a Grim Reaper through a harvest of very, very dead gorn, especially with the Brooklyns in support.

2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 25:58 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!, archived from the original on 2022-07-04:

But that is the likely outcome if the railway waits for Treasury's grim reaper to come a-calling.

2021 January 13, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Make freight an equal priority”, in Rail, page 3:

A personification of Death as an old man, or a skeleton, carrying a scythe, taking souls to the afterlife.

Chronos
Cronus
The Taming of the Shrew
Uranus_(mythology)

стару́ха с косо́й f (starúxa s kosój, literally “old woman with scythe”)


septet

A group of seven, particularly
(poetry) A set of seven lines.

A group of seven, particularly
A set of seven lines.


Hanuman

Hooniman (alternative)
Hoonimaun (alternative)

A Hindu demi-god who was a devotee of Lord Rama. He was born to Anjana and Vayu, plays the role of a god’s servant in Ramayana, and is also known as the "monkey god". He represents loyalty to the Lord and Master.


Force

Coined by American filmmaker George Lucas

coin

(Star Wars) force (always proceeded with la), the invisible omnipresent energy that the Jedi and the Sith wield in Star Wars


Shakespearean

en-adj

Shakespearean (comparative more Shakespearean, superlative most Shakespearean)

more Shakespearean (comparative)
most Shakespearean (superlative)
Shakespearian (alternative)
Shakesperian (alternative)
Shaksperian (alternative)

[…]there were those who had them set far over back—wide-awake men, who wanted a clear prospect; while careless men, who did not know, or care, how their hats sat, had them shaking about in all directions. The various hats, in fact, were quite a Shakespearean study.

1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter XI, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume I, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC:

The boisterous Bulmer playfully made a pass at him with his drawn sword, going forward with the lunge in the proper fencing fashion, and making a somewhat too familiar Shakespearean quotation about a rodent and a Venetian coin.

1922, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Hole in the Wall”, in The Man Who Knew Too Much […] , London: Cassell and Company, pages 80–81:

Meanwhile, I presided over the Senate. I also dined quite frequently with the President who continued to delight and fascinate me with his conversation, not to mention his wonderful malice which was positively Shakespearean in its variety.

There was indeed something Shakespearean about both the service in the abbey and the marches that surrounded it. By Shakespearean I mean there was a blend of pageantry, procession, music and mystery.

2023 May 7, Michael Billington, “The Coronation review – immaculately rehearsed, touching and Shakespearean”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(literature) Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, associated with, or suggestive of William Shakespeare (an English playwright), his works, or his authorship, or the time in which he lived.

Derivative of Shakespeare's works or authorship.


Shakespearean sonnet

en-noun

Shakespearean sonnet (plural Shakespearean sonnets)

Named after English playwright and poet William Shakespeare (1564–1616) and strongly associated with his authorship.

named-after

(poetry) A sonnet comprising three quatrains and a final couplet, in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.


Spenserian sonnet

en-noun

Spenserian sonnet (plural Spenserian sonnets)

Named after English poet Edmund Spenser (1552/1553–1599) and associated with his authorship.

named-after

(poetry) A sonnet comprising three quatrains with the latter rhyme part being carried over from one quatrain to the next, and a concluding couplet, therefore comprising a rhyme scheme of abab bcbc cdcd ee.


shade

en-noun

shade (countable and uncountable, plural shades)

From Middle English schade, from Old English sċeadu, sċadu (“shadow; shade”), from Proto-West Germanic *skadu, from Proto-Germanic *skadwaz (“shadow; shade”). More at shadow.

inh

Too long have I been haunted by that shade.

The adventurer was attacked by a shade.

Swift as thought the flitting shade / Thro' air his momentary journey made.

1700, [John] Dryden, “Ceyx and Alcyone”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

Still, Birch House (a sop to the shade of the murdered Perak Resident) had no more than its normal share of flagellation[.]

1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 39:

(chiefly literary and fantasy) A ghost or specter; a spirit.


echo poem

After a technique developed by Aurélien Dauguet in 1972.

A poem constructed by the surrealist technique of alternately writing a stanza and then "mirroring" it in some fashion to create the following stanza.

An encyclopedia of surrealist techniques


Petrarchan sonnet

en-noun

Petrarchan sonnet (plural Petrarchan sonnets)

Named after Italian scholar, poet and humanist Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374), who did not invent but made large use of this form in his authorship.

named-after

(poetry) A sonnet comprising an octave and a closing sestet, following the rhyme scheme of either abba abba cde cde or abba abba cd cd cd or abba abba cce dde or abba abba cdd cee.


vend

venda (definite singular)
vender (indefinite plural)
vendene (definite plural)

(poetry, music) a stanza, or the tune of one


עבר

Cognate to Arabic عَبَرَ (ʕabara), and Akkadian ebēru.


OED

(linguistics) Initialism of Oxford English Dictionary.


מרים

→ Classical Syriac: ܡܪܝܡ (maryam)

→ Arabic: مريم (maryam) (see there for further descendants)

desc

→ Ancient Greek: Μαρία (María), Μαριᾱ́μ (Mariā́m) (see there for further descendants)


מרים

he-proper noun

מִרְיָם • (miryám) f

מִרְיָם (canonical)
miryám (romanization)

desctree

→ Aramaic: מרים (maryám)
→ Classical Syriac: ܡܪܝܡ (maryam)
→ Arabic: مريم (maryam) (see there for further descendants)
→ Ancient Greek: Μαρία (María), Μαριᾱ́μ (Mariā́m) (see there for further descendants)

→ Czech: Miriam

→ Danish: Mirjam, Miriam

→ Dutch: Mirjam, Miriam

→ English: Miriam

→ Estonian: Mirjam

→ Faroese: Miriam

→ Finnish: Mirjami

→ French: Myriam, Miryam

→ German: Miriam, Mirjam

→ Hawaiian: Miriama, Miliama

→ Norwegian: Mirjam, Miriam

→ Portuguese: Maria, Miriam, Miriã

→ Slovene: Mirjam

→ Slovak: Miriam

→ Spanish: Miriam

→ Swedish: Mirjam, Miriam

→ Turkish: Meryem

Uncertain. Proposals include derivation from the root מ־ר־ר (m-r-r, “to be bitter”), or from the root מ־ר־י (m-r-y, “to mutiny, rebellion, disobedience”), or from Egyptian mry (“beloved”).

a female given name, Miriam
(biblical) Miriam


Miriam

From Hebrew מִרְיָם (Miryam), possibly from Aramaic מרים (Maryām, “bitter”), from a root מר (m-r) meaning "to be bitter". The meaning of this name which is the Old Testament equivalent of Mary has been debated for centuries. Some other explanations are mutiny / rebellion / disobedience from a root מרי (m-r-y).

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 15:20:

(biblical) The sister of Moses and Aaron and the daughter of Amram and Jochebed.


לאה

he-proper noun

לֵאָה • (Le'a)

From Proto-Semitic *layʾ-at- ~ laʾay-at- (“cow”), possibly from verbal root *l-ʾ-y "to be strong, mighty". Cognate with Akkadian 𒀖 (lītum, “cow”) and Arabic لَآة (laʔāh, “wild cow”).


לאה

yi-proper noun

לאה • (leye) f, diminutive לאהלע (leyele)

leye (romanization)
leyele (romanization)


Leah

And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well-favoured.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 29:16-17::

(biblical) The elder daughter of Laban, sister to Rachel, and first wife of Jacob.


רחל

→ German: Rahel

→ Ancient Greek: Ῥαχήλ (Rhakhḗl)

→ Old Armenian: Ռաքէլ (Ṙakʻēl)

→ Armenian: Ռաքել (Ṙakʻel)

→ Late Latin: Rachel

→ English: Rachel

→ Chinese: 拉結 /拉结 (Lājiē)

→ Yiddish: רייטשעל (reytshel)

→ Danish: Rakel

→ Greenlandic: Alaakkilli

→ Dutch: Rachel

→ Esperanto: Raĥel

→ Estonian: Raahel

→ Finnish: Raakel

→ French: Rachel

→ Galician: Raquel

→ German: Rachel

→ Hungarian: Ráchel

→ Icelandic: Rakel

→ Italian: Rachele

→ Lithuanian: Rachelė

→ Norman: Râché

→ Norwegian: Rakel

→ Polish: Rachela

→ Portuguese: Raquel

→ Japanese: ラケル (Rakeru)

→ Spanish: Raquel

→ Swedish: Rakel

→ Russian: Рахи́ль (Raxílʹ)

→ Hawaiian: Rāhela, Lāhela

→ Maori: Rāhera

→ Yiddish: רחל (Rokhl)

/rɔːˈħeːl/ [ʀɔˑˈħeː.el]

From Proto-Semitic *raḫil- (“ewe”). Cognate with Aramaic רַחְלָא (raḥlā) (absolutive: רְחֵל (rəḥēl)), Arabic رَخِل (raḵil) (also رِخْل (riḵl)).


רחל

From Hebrew רָחֵל (rakhél). Doublet of רייטשעל (reytshel).


Rachel

From Late Latin Rāchēl, from Ancient Greek Ῥαχήλ (Rhakhḗl), from Biblical Hebrew רָחֵל (rāḫēl, “ewe”). Doublet of Raquel.

Rachael (alternative)
Rachelle (alternative)
Rach (alternative)

And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured. And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 29:16–18:

(biblical) Younger daughter of Laban, sister to Leah, and second wife of Jacob.


Rachel

de-proper noun

Rachel f (proper noun, genitive Rachels or (with an article) Rachel)

Rachels (genitive)
Rachel (genitive)
Rachel (nominative singular)
Rachels (definite nominative plural)
Racheln (definite nominative plural)
Rachels (genitive singular)
Rachel (genitive singular)
Rachels (definite genitive plural)
Racheln (definite genitive plural)
Rachel (dative singular)
Rachels (dative definite plural)
Racheln (dative definite plural)
Rachel (accusative singular)
Rachels (accusative definite plural)
Racheln (accusative definite plural)
Rahel (alternative)


קווידיץ׳

he-noun

קְווִידִיץ׳ • (kwidich) m

קְווִידִיץ׳ (canonical)
kwidich (romanization)


הוגוורטס

he-proper noun

הוֹגווֹרטְס • (Hogworts) m

הוֹגווֹרטְס (canonical)
Hogworts (romanization)


novell

head

novell (genitive novelli, partitive novelli)

novelli (genitive)
novelli (partitive)
novell (nominative singular)
novellid (nominative plural)
novell (accusative nominative singular)
novellid (accusative nominative plural)
novelli (accusative genitive singular)
novellid (accusative genitive plural)
novelli (genitive singular)
novellide (genitive plural)
novelli (partitive singular)
novelle (partitive plural)
novellisid (partitive plural)
novelli (illative singular)
novellisse (illative singular)
novellidesse (illative plural)
novellesse (illative plural)
novellis (inessive singular)
novellides (inessive plural)
novelles (inessive plural)
novellist (elative singular)
novellidest (elative plural)
novellest (elative plural)
novellile (allative singular)
novellidele (allative plural)
novellele (allative plural)
novellil (adessive singular)
novellidel (adessive plural)
novellel (adessive plural)
novellilt (ablative singular)
novellidelt (ablative plural)
novellelt (ablative plural)
novelliks (singular translative)
novellideks (plural translative)
novelleks (plural translative)
novellini (singular terminative)
novellideni (plural terminative)
novellina (essive singular)
novellidena (essive plural)
novellita (abessive singular)
novellideta (abessive plural)
novelliga (comitative singular)
novellidega (comitative plural)


plot

From Middle English plot, plotte, from Old English plot (“a plot of ground”), from Proto-Germanic *plataz, *platjaz (“a patch”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Middle Low German plet (“patch, strip of cloth, rags”), German Bletz (“rags, bits, strip of land”), and possibly Gothic 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄 (plat, “a patch, rags”). See also plat. See also complot for an influence on or source of sense 5.
Sense 9 is a back-formation of for the plot.

cog

If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before.

c. 1725, Alexander Pope, View of the Epic Poem:

(narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.


plot

From Dutch plot, from English plot, from Middle English plot, plotte, from Old English plot (“a plot of ground”), from Proto-Germanic *plataz, *platjaz (“a patch”), of uncertain origin.


abece

q

obsolete <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">absey</i>

English: ABC (obsolete absey)

Scots: ABC, aw-bay-say

From A + B + C, the first three letters of the Latin alphabet, standing for the whole alphabet.

A. B. C. (alternative)
a.b.c. (alternative)
ABC (alternative)
abc (alternative)
abbesse (alternative)
abce (alternative)
abcy (alternative)
abicee (alternative)
abse (alternative)
a-pece (alternative)
apecy (alternative)
apsy (alternative)


autor

es-noun

autor m (plural autores, feminine autora, feminine plural autoras)

autores (plural)
autora (feminine)
autoras (feminine plural)

→ Bikol Central: awtór, otor

→ Tagalog: awtór, otor

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin auctor.


measure

→ Japanese: メジャー (mejā)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-measure.wav

From Middle English mesure, from Old French mesure, from Latin mēnsūra (“a measure”), from mēnsus, past participle of mētīrī (“to measure”). Displaced native Old English metan (“to measure”) and ġemet (“a measure”).

lainsäädäntötoimenpide

piece of legislation as course of action

a poem in iambic measure

(poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.

runomitta

poetry: manner of ordering and combining the quantities


מוגל

he-noun

מוּגְל • (mugl) m (plural indefinite מוּגְלְגִים)

מוּגְל (canonical)
mugl (romanization)
מוּגְלְגִים (indefinite plural)


fantasma

→ Cebuano: pantasma

Borrowed from Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “image, phantom”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to make visible”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to cause to appear, bring to light”). Compare Sicilian fantàsimu (“dumb”). Cognate with English phantom.

der

El fantasma de la ópera.


consuetudinary

From Medieval Latin cōnsuetudinārius, from Latin cōnsuetudō. By surface analysis, consuetude + -in- + -ary.

surf

Winchester itself was an early centre of the manufacture of chanlons, which were rugs used for coverlets or counterpanes, and in the consuetudinary of the city, which dates back at least to the early years of the thirteenth century, the looms are divided into two classes, the 'great looms' used for burel weaving paying 5s. per year, and the 'little looms' for chanlons paying 6d. or 12d., according to their size.

1964, L.F. Salzman, English Industries of the Middle Ages, page 200:

A ritual book containing the forms and ceremonies used in the services of a particular monastery, cathedral or religious order.


were-

Back-formation of werewolf (“man-wolf”), from Old English werewulf, derived from wer (“man”) + wulf (“wolf”).

lycanthrope, used with animal names to indicate a person who changes shape into that animal.


ホラー

ja-noun

ホラー • (horā)

ホラー映画

2002 January 17, Yukiru Sugisaki, “STAGE(ステージ)３(さん) Vol.(ボリューム)５(ご)”, in [D](ディー)・[N](エヌ)・[ANGEL](エンジェル)・ [D.N.Angel], volume 6 (fiction), Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, →ISBN, page 10:

A movie!? They went to the Movie Area instead of the Attraction Area!? Oh no!! Is there a screening of that popular horror movie called One Hand now!?

映画ですってぇ⁉アトラクションエリアじゃなくてムービーエリアに行っちゃったの⁉大変‼もしかして 今 大人気の「片手」とかゆうホラームービー⁉

Eiga desuttē⁉ Atorakushon Eria ja nakute Mūbī Eria ni itchatta no⁉ Taihen‼ Moshikashite ima daininki no “Wan Hando” toka yū horā mūbī⁉

horror (as a genre or element of fiction)

Daijisen#Online_search_engines
Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
ja:ホラー


מלכה

he-proper noun

מִלְכָּה • (milká) f [pattern: קִטְלָה]

מִלְכָּה (canonical)
milká (romanization)


bard

(15th c.) from Scottish Gaelic bàrd, from Old Irish bard, from Proto-Celtic *bardos (“bard, poet”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“praise”), and reinforced by Latin bardus, borrowed from Celtic. Cognate with Latin grātus (“grateful, pleasant, delightful”), Sanskrit गृणाति (gṛṇāti, “calls, praises”), Old Church Slavonic жрьти (žrĭti, “to sacrifice”).

cog

Shakespeare is known as the bard of Avon.


bard

head

bard m (genitive singular baird, nominative plural baird)

baird (genitive singular)
baird (nominative plural)
bard (indefinite nominative singular)
baird (indefinite nominative plural)
a bhaird (indefinite singular vocative)
a bharda (indefinite plural vocative)
baird (genitive indefinite singular)
bard (genitive indefinite plural)
bard (dative indefinite singular)
baird (dative indefinite plural)
an bard (definite nominative singular)
na baird (definite nominative plural)
an bhaird (definite genitive singular)
na mbard (definite genitive plural)
leis an mbard (dative definite singular)
don bhard (dative definite singular)
leis na baird (dative definite plural)
bard
bhard
mbard
bárd (alternative)

From Old Irish bard, from Proto-Celtic *bardos.


bard

bard m (genitive baird, nominative plural baird)

baird (genitive)
baird (nominative plural)
bard (nominative singular)
bard (dual nominative)
baird (nominative plural)
baird (singular vocative)
bard (dual vocative)
bardu (plural vocative)
bard (accusative singular)
bard (accusative dual)
bardu (accusative plural)
baird (genitive singular)
bard (dual genitive)
bard (genitive plural)
bard (dative singular)
bardaib (dative dual)
bardaib (dative plural)
bard
mbard

Irish: bard

Manx: bard

Scottish Gaelic: bàrd
→ English: bard


d'oh

Audio (US)

Imitative. Popularised by the cartoon character Homer Simpson in the TV show The Simpsons. Voice actor Dan Castellaneta has said that he modelled his version on the drawn-out "do-o-o-o" sound made by Jimmy Finlayson in the films of Laurel and Hardy.
The OED has references from the BBC as far back as 1945.

—I just paid for our food. —You didn't have to. It's free. —D'oh!

Expresses frustration or anger, especially at one’s own stupidity.

British Broadcasting Corporation
Homer Simpson
Jimmy Finlayson
Laurel and Hardy
Oxford English Dictionary
The Simpsons


prose

en-noun

prose (usually uncountable, plural proses)

From Middle English prose, from Old French prose, from Latin prōsa (“straightforward”) from the term prōsa ōrātiō (“a straightforward speech – i.e. without the ornaments of verse”).
further etymology and related terms
The term prōsa (“straightforward”), a colloquial form of prorsa (“straight forwards”), the feminine form prorsus (“straight forwards”), from Old Latin prōvorsus (“moving straight ahead”), from pro- (“forward”) + vorsus (“turned”), form of vertō (“I turn”). Compare verse.

der

Though known mostly for her prose, she also produced a small body of excellent poems.

...Or if Sion Hill
Delight thee more, and Siloa's Brook that flow’d
Faft by the Oracle of God; I thence
Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song,
That with no middle flight intends to soar
Above th’ Ionian Mounts while it pursues
Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime...

1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost (1st ed):

Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.


prosa

From Old Galician-Portuguese prosa, from Latin prōsa (“straightforward”) in the term prōsa ōrātio (“straightforward speech”), alteration of prōrsa, from the feminine form of prōrsus (“straight, forwards”), from Old Latin prōvorsus (“moving straight ahead”), from prō- (“forward”) + vorsus (“turned”).

(literature, uncountable) prose (written language not intended as poetry)


אבטיח

he-noun

אֲבַטִּיחִים

אֲבַטִּיחַ • (avatíakh, 'avaṭṭíaḥ) m (plural indefinite אֲבַטִּיחִים)

אֲבַטִּיחַ (canonical)
avatíakh (romanization)
'avaṭṭíaḥ (romanization)
אֲבַטִּיחִים (indefinite plural)

Cognate with Aramaic אֲבַטִּיחָא and Arabic بَطِيخ (baṭīḵ), mentioned once, in the plural form, in the Hebrew Bible, Numbers 11:5 "זָכַרְנוּ אֶת־הַדָּגָה אֲשֶׁר־נֹאכַל בְּמִצְרַיִם חִנָּם; אֵת הַקִּשֻּׁאִים וְאֵת הָאֲבַטִּחִים". In the King James Version, אבטיחים is translated into "melons" rather than "watermelons": "We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks".

cog

Aramaic אֲבַטִּיחָא

lang

זָכַרְנוּ אֶת־הַדָּגָה אֲשֶׁר־נֹאכַל בְּמִצְרַיִם חִנָּם אֵת הַקִּשֻּׁאִים וְאֵת הָאֲבַטִּחִים וְאֶת־הֶחָצִיר וְאֶת־הַבְּצָלִים וְאֶת־הַשּׁוּמִים׃

Tanach, [[s:he:T0411#יא_ה|11:5]], with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

We remember the fish, which we were wont to eat in Egypt for nought; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;

zakhárnu et-hadagá ashér-nokhál b'mitsráyim khinám ét hakishu'ím v'ét ha'avatikhím v'et-hekhatsír v'et-hab'tsalím v'et-hashumím.
zāḵárnū ʾeṯ-haddāḡā ʾăšer-nōḵal bəmiṣráyim ḥinnām ʾēṯ haqqiššūʾīm wəʾēṯ hāʾăḇaṭṭīḥīm wəʾeṯ-heḥāṣīr wəʾeṯ-habbəṣālīm wəʾeṯ-haššūmīm.

(biblical) some species of fruit similar to the modern watermelon or melon


辞書

From Middle Chinese compound 辤書 /辤书 (zi syo, literally “quit + writing”).

a formal document of abdication when one emperor steps down and a new emperor ascends the throne


hapax legomenon

From Ancient Greek ἅπαξ λεγόμενον (hápax legómenon, “(something) said only once”), from ἅπαξ (hápax, “once”) and λεγόμενον (legómenon), passive participle of λέγω (légō, “say”).

der

ἅπαξ λεγόμενον

άγνως is a New Testament hapax legomenon. άγνός occurs two other times in Paul, both occurrences are in 2 Cor.

1999, Casey Wayne Davis, Oral Biblical Criticism: The Influence of the Principles of Orality on the Literary Structure of Paul's Epistle to the Philippians, page 89, footnote:

There is a lovely technical term for a word that appears once in a body of text: a hapax legomenon (plural: hapax legomena), Greek for “once said.” The term comes from philology, the study of old texts.

[2000, Steven Pinker, Words and Rules, →ISBN, page 172:

In our case this means that πρωτοβαθρέω is an absolute hapax legomenon, if one assumes that the occurrences of βάθρον in Isa and διαβάθρη in Sam II are the result of corruptions.

2005, Hanna Kahana, Esther: Juxtaposition of the Septuagint Translation with the Hebrew Text, page 129, footnote:

The research discovered 510 different terms. Of these 164 (approximately 32%) were hapax legomena (i.e., there was only once instance in the data), while 107 (approximately 21%) were attested by 10 or more citations.

2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 5:

(linguistics) A word occurring only once in a given corpus.


hapax legomenon

de-noun

hapax legomenon n (strong, genitive hapax legomenon, plural hapax legomena)

hapax legomenon (genitive)
hapax legomena (plural)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἅπαξ λεγόμενον (hápax legómenon). See English hapax legomenon.

bor+

ἅπαξ λεγόμενον

"Ein altgeorgisches hapax legomenon"

1994, Jost Gippert, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

So entstehen die Werke des Genies immer nur unter ganz besondern, nur einmal so zusammentreffenden Innern und äußern Bedingungen; sie sind hapax legomena. »Einmal ist alles Wahre nur.«

1848, Ludwig Feuerbach, Das Wesen des Christentums - Zweiter Teil.:

1873, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (transl. by Carl Schaarschmidt), Neue Abhandlungen über den menschlichen Verstand - Viertes Buch. Von der Erkenntnis
Dies muß sich dann ganz ebenso verhalten, als ob das von ihnen Bemerkte zur Zahl der hapax legomena gehörte, dessen, was nur einmal gesagt worden ist, worüber Menagius ein Buch verfassen wollte.

Alternative letter-case form of Hapax Legomenon


AQ

[ʔaː˧˧ kwi˧˧]

[ʔaː˧˧ kwɪj˧˧]

[ʔaː˧˧ wɪj˧˧]

Phép thắng lợi tinh thần là tạo ra những thắng lợi trong tưởng tượng mà thực chất là thất bại. Người khác đánh AQ, AQ bị thua, AQ cho rằng nó đánh mình chẳng khác gì nó đánh bố nó.

2019, Đinh Thị Quỳnh Mai, “Mỗi tuần một cuốn sách: AQ CHÍNH TRUYỆN (LỖ TẤN) (A Book Every Week: The True Story of Ah Q by Lu Xun)”, in Department of Education and Training of Hà Tĩnh Province - hatinh.edu.vn:

The Method of Psychological Victory is the creation of victories in one's own imagination from defeats in reality. Another man beat Ah Q, Ah Q was defeated; yet Ah Q thought that him beating (Ah Q) was not different from him beating his own father.

Ah Q; the main character in Lu Xun's The True Story of Ah Q


clay

en-noun

clay (usually uncountable, plural clays)

soul

antonym(s) of “material of the human body”

From Middle English cley, clay, from Old English clǣġ (“clay”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaij, from Proto-Germanic *klajjaz (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to glue, paste, stick together”).
Cognate with Dutch klei (“clay”), Low German Klei (“clay”), German Klei, Danish klæg (“clay”); compare Ancient Greek γλία (glía), Latin glūten (“glue”) (whence ultimately English glue), Russian глина (glina, “clay”). Related also to clag, clog.

der

Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about...thou hast made me as the clay.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 10:8-9:

But now, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou art our potter; and we are the work of thy hand.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 64:8:

(biblical) The material of the human body.


ark

head

ark c (singular definite arken, plural indefinite arker)

arken (definite singular)
arker (indefinite plural)
ark (indefinite nominative singular)
arken (definite nominative singular)
arker (indefinite nominative plural)
arkerne (definite nominative plural)
arks (genitive indefinite singular)
arkens (definite genitive singular)
arkers (genitive indefinite plural)
arkernes (definite genitive plural)

From Old Danish ark, Old Norse ǫrk, from Proto-Germanic *arkō, borrowed from Latin arca (“chest, coffin; ark”).

(biblical) ark (Noah's Ark or the Ark of the Convenant)


octave

From Latin octavus (“eighth”). Doublet of octavo, ochava, and oitava.

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

With mournful melody it continued this octave.

a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:

(poetry) A poetic stanza consisting of eight lines; usually used as one part of a sonnet.


trickster

1991, Alan R. Velie (compiler and editor), American Indian Literature: An Anthology, Revised edition, page 44,
The trickster is one of the oldest and most widespread of mythological and literary figures. […] As the name implies, the trickster is, on one level—probably the most important—an amoral practical joker who wanders about playing pranks on unsuspecting victims […] With all the fluctuations, certain things about the trickster are predictable: he is always a wanderer, always hungry, and usually oversexed.
Tricksters abound in folktales […] .

And let us begin with those sympathetic elements, the tricksters who obtain the lovers and the land, always at the expense of fools and knaves, sometimes at the expense of other tricksters.

2015, J. Douglas Canfield, Tricksters and Estates: On the Ideology of Restoration Comedy, page 31:

(mythology, literature) Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions, who use guile and secret knowledge to challenge authority and play tricks and pranks on others with their acts of trickery; any similar figure in literature.


conperson

en-noun

conperson (plural conpeople or conpersons)

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(informal) A fictional person, especially one supposed to inhabit a conworld and speak a conlang.


balrog

From Sindarin, a fictional language created by J.R.R. Tolkien, meaning something akin to "mighty demon".

The Balrog made no answer. The fire in it seemed to die, but the darkness grew. It stepped forward slowly on to the bridge, and suddenly it drew itself up to a great height, and its wings were spread from wall to wall […]

1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring:

What was released was a demon, a balrog of pure sexual energy which had been denied for too long.

2004, post on newsgroup, alt.sex.bondage:

[…] is just a big goofy Balrog as far as I'm concerned, he might make a "Green Dot" poster scared; the big dweeb.

2004, post on newsgroup, rec.skiing.alpine:

[And now, a warp-drive round of Confirm or Deny.][...]
Gandalf the Grey was cooler than Gandalf the White.
Hmm, that’s a tough one. I think in some ways he was cooler, but he kind of needed to defeat the Balrog in order to become a better wizard, I guess, and play a bigger role in defeating Sauron. But he was definitely more chill as Gandalf the Grey and had a better sense of humor.

2020 July 25, Maureen Dowd, Elon Musk, “Elon Musk, Blasting Off in Domestic Bliss”, in New York Times, archived from the original on 2020-07-25:


gollumish

en-adj

gollumish (comparative more gollumish, superlative most gollumish)

more gollumish (comparative)
most gollumish (superlative)

2003: "I do feel a bit Gollumish about it…" —alt.support.low-carb, 12 Nov 2003

2004: "With the gollumish Tony Blair never far away, urging him on, George W Bush doggedly climbed his own Mt Doom and thrust the Coalition of the Willing into the fire – along with a few thousand apparently expendable human lives." —The New Zealand Listener, Vol 191, "2003 reloaded", 27 Jan 2004

(informal) Having similar traits to the fictional character Gollum, including obsessiveness, sinisterness or talking in an unusual manner often punctuated by hissing sounds.


wraith

Borrowed from Middle Scots wraith, first attested in 1513 as a translation of the Aeneid.
The word has no certain etymology. J. R. R. Tolkien favored a link with writhe. Also compared are Scots warth and Old Norse vǫrðr (“watcher, guardian”), whence Icelandic vörður (“guard”). See also wray/bewray, from Middle English wreien. Perhaps from wrath as a wraith can be a vengeful spirit.

We might indeed have been the wraiths of the departed dead upon the dead sea of that dying planet for all the sound or sign we made in passing.

1912 February–July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Under the Moons of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “Sola Tells Me Her Story”, in A Princess of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1917 October, →OCLC, pages 159–160:

Like wraiths with the impediments of bodies they stumbled in the direction of Salthill faces.

2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 80:

A ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death.

привидение

A ghost or specter, especially seen just after a person's death


sure

head

sure (definite accusative sureyi, plural sureler)

sureyi (accusative definite)
sureler (plural)
sure (nominative singular)
sureler (nominative plural)
sureyi (accusative definite singular)
sureleri (accusative definite plural)
sureye (dative singular)
surelere (dative plural)
surede (locative singular)
surelerde (locative plural)
sureden (ablative singular)
surelerden (ablative plural)
surenin (genitive singular)
surelerin (genitive plural)

From Ottoman Turkish سوره (sure), from Arabic سُورَة (sūra).