printer

→ Azerbaijani: printer

→ Georgian: პრინტერი (ṗrinṭeri)

→ Japanese: プリンター (purintā)

→ Korean: 프린터 (peurinteo)

→ Russian: при́нтер (prínter)

→ Serbo-Croatian: prìnter, прѝнтер

The use of the Hughes type printer is extending on the main circuits, where speed of transmission is a great object; but it is highly improbable that it will ever be adopted, except on main circuits.

1872 February 24, “Telegraph Instruments”, in The Mechanics’ Magazine and Journal of Science, Arts, and Manufactures, volume XCVI, London: Mechanics' Magazine Offices, 166, Fleet Street, and 85, Gracechurch Street, E.C., →OCLC, page 172, column 1:

By the use of these keys in conjunction with the other keys, the operator has perfect control over the receiving printer at the distant station.

1903, “The Rowland Multiplex Printing Telegraph System”, in Telegraph Age. A Semi-monthly Journal Devoted to Telegraphy, volume XX, New York, N.Y.: J[ohn] B. Taltavall, →OCLC, page 461, column 1:

For long distance messages, reports, etc., the use of the printer telegraph renders a highly satisfactory and efficient service, especially where the line circuits are derived through a composite or phantom circuit without the exclusive use of wires for this circuit. The Union Pacific recently installed a two-channel multiplex automatic printer on a simplexed circuit, thereby eliminating the necessity for at least one additional overland wire, and also speeding up the service and reducing the cost for each message.

1924, Railway Signaling and Communications, volume 17, number 1, Bristol, Conn.: Simmons-Boardman Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36, column 1:

In a telegraph system, a multiplex transmission circuit in which the signals transmitted comprise equal-impulse code combinations, a receiving distributor for separating the successive combinations into separate channels, a simplex printer for each channel, and local means including said distributor for generating start and rest impulses for each printer.

1928 August 18, Robert F. Dirkes, Vernon R. Kimball, James W. Long, Operating Simplex Printers in a Multiplex System, US Patent US1802240A, claim 3, page 5, column 1:

Top-quality prints in minutes, at savings up to 80%, are said to be possible with the Satellite printer. Printer is sold by Eugene Dietzgen Co, Chicago, Ill.

1959 September, “Compact Printer”, in Air Conditioning, Heating and Ventilating, volume 56, New York, N.Y.: Industrial Press, →OCLC, page 103:

Much like a regular printer can print out a picture or text file, these machines can turn a digital 3-D model into a real, tangible object, and they are becoming more and more widespread. All over the world, makerspaces (places where people can gather, share ideas, learn, and use tools like 3-D printers to let their dreams become reality) are opening the doors.

2015, Nicki Peter Petrikowski, “Introduction”, in Getting the Most out of Makerspaces to Create with 3-D Printers (Makerspaces series), New York, N.Y.: Rosen Publishing, →ISBN, page 5:

(computer hardware) A device, usually attached to a computer, used to print text or images onto paper; an analogous device capable of producing three-dimensional objects.

rekenaardrukker

computing: device used to print text or images


antediluvian

en-adj

antediluvian (comparative more antediluvian, superlative most antediluvian)

more antediluvian (comparative)
most antediluvian (superlative)
antedeluvian (alternative)

PIE word
 *dwís
From ante- (prefix meaning ‘prior to in time’) + Latin dīluvium (“a flood”) + -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives; and forming agent nouns), referring the story of Noah’s Ark, through which God rescues Noah, his family, and examples of all the world’s animals from the great flood, which is related in Genesis 6–9 of the Bible. Dīluvium is derived from dīluō (“to wash away”) (from dis- (prefix meaning ‘apart, asunder, in two’) + lavō (“to wash”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”))) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns). The English word is analyzable as ante- + diluvian.
Sense 2 (“long extinct”) is from the fact that such animals and plants were originally believed to have perished in the biblical flood referred to above.

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[P]erhaps ſome perſons might outlive Methuſelah; the Text intending onely the maſculine line of Seth, conduceable unto the Genealogy of our Saviour, and the antediluvian Chronology.

1646, Thomas Browne, “Of Methuselah”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 7th book, pages 343–344:

For Noah, vvho had no doubt preach'd againſt the Vices of the Antediluvian VVorld, and againſt Drunkenneſs among the reſt, muſt certainly knovv the Uſe of the Vine, and the Abuſe of it too; hovv elſe did he come to plant it at all, and to preſs the Juice out for Drinking it at all?

1727, [Daniel Defoe], “Of what Shapes the Devil Assum’d in His First Appearances to the Magicians, and Others, in the First Ages of the World; and whether He is, or has been,, Allow’d to Assume a Human Shape, or No”, in A System of Magick; or, A History of the Black Art. […], London: […] J. Roberts […], →OCLC, page 95:

The great Egyptian age is but a remnant of the Atlantean culture / The antediluvian kings colonized the world / All the gods who play in the mythological dramas / In all legends from all lands were from fair Atlantis

1968 November, Donovan Leitch (lyrics and music), “Atlantis”, in Barabajagal, performed by Donovan, New York, N.Y.: Epic Records, →OCLC:

(biblical) Belonging or pertaining to, or existing in, the time prior to the great flood described in Genesis, or (by extension) to a great or destructive flood or deluge described in other mythologies.

անդրջրհեղեղյան

belonging or pertaining to, or existing in, the time prior to the great flood described in Genesis

անդրջրհեղեղյան

belonging or pertaining to, or existing in, the time prior to a great or destructive flood or deluge described in other mythologies


antediluvian

(biblical) A person who lived in the time prior to the great flood described in Genesis, especially one of the biblical patriarchs.


leven

nl-noun

leven n (plural levens, diminutive leventje n)

levens (plural)
leventje (diminutive neuter)
leeven (alternative)

Afrikaans: lewe

From Middle Dutch leven. Gerund of the verb leven. The literary sense is likely a semantic loan from Medieval Latin vīta.

In zijn jonge jaren schreef hij een leven van Petrarca, maar dat is nooit gepubliceerd.

In his youth he wrote a life of Petrarch, but that was never published.

(literature) life, biography (particularly, but not necessarily a hagiography)


escritor

es-noun

escritor m (plural escritores, feminine escritora, feminine plural escritoras)

escritores (plural)
escritora (feminine)
escritoras (feminine plural)

Inherited from Latin scriptor, scriptōrem. Equivalent to escrito + -or.


essay

Since late 16th century, borrowed from Middle French essay, essai (“essay”), meaning coined by Montaigne in the same time, from the same words in earlier meanings 'experiment; assay; attempt', from Old French essay, essai, assay, assai, from Latin exagium (“weight; weighing, testing on the balance”), from exigere + -ium.

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In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.”

2013 January 7, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 2017-02-09, page 64:

(authorship) A written composition of moderate length, exploring a particular issue or subject.

(obsolete) A test, experiment; an assay.

(philately, finance) A proposed design for a postage stamp or a banknote.


ensayo

Borrowed from Spanish ensayo (“essay”), from Late Latin exagium.


narrative

en-noun

narrative (countable and uncountable, plural narratives)

The plot is full of holes, but the narrative is extremely compelling.

The player is free to create their own narrative within a much larger set of possible designed narrative options, or, given the geographic and dialogical openness of Morrowind, to refuse the creation of any narrative but their own and wander aimlessly through the game.

2015, Angus Slater, “Prophecy, Pre-destination, and Free-form Gameplay: The Nerevarine Prophecy in Bethesda’s ‘Morrowind’”, in Online: Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet, volume 7, →DOI, page 175:

(creative writing) A manner of conveying a story, fictional or otherwise, in a body of work.


Semitic

From Semite + -ic (18th century), from German semitisch, from Ancient Greek Σήμ (Sḗm), from the Hebrew שֵׁם (Šēm, “Shem”), the name of the eldest son of Noah in biblical tradition (Genesis 5.32, 6.10, 10.21), considered the forefather of the Semitic peoples. Perhaps derived from Akkadian 𒈬 (šumu, literally “name" or "son”). The word was coined and first applied to the Semitic languages by August Ludwig von Schlözer in 1781.

uder

semitic (alternative)
Shemitic (alternative)
shemitic (alternative)

Of or pertaining to the Semites; of or pertaining to one or more Semitic peoples.

(biblical) Of or pertaining to the descendants of Shem, the eldest of three sons of Noah.


fronte

Inherited from Latin frontem (“forehead”). For sense 2 compare the Latin etymon and derivatives in Italian like sfrontato (“shameless”).

inh+

(poetry, prosody) the two initial quatrains of an Italian sonnet


hlava

hlavový (adjective relational)
hlava (nominative singular)
hlavy (nominative plural)
hlavy (genitive singular)
hlav (genitive plural)
hlavě (dative singular)
hlavám (dative plural)
hlavu (accusative singular)
hlavy (accusative plural)
hlavo (singular vocative)
hlavy (plural vocative)
hlavě (locative singular)
hlavách (locative plural)
hlavou (instrumental singular)
hlavami (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Old Czech hlava, from Proto-Slavic *golva.


hlava

nominative
hlava (singular)
hlavy (plural)
genitive
hlavy (singular)
hláv (plural)
dative
hlave (singular)
hlavám (plural)
accusative
hlavu (singular)
locative
hlavách (plural)
instrumental
hlavou (singular)
hlavami (plural)


author

authors (plural)
aucthor (alternative)
aucthour (alternative)
auctor (alternative)
auctour (alternative)
auctoure (alternative)
authour (alternative)
authoure (alternative)
autor (alternative)
autour (alternative)
autoure (alternative)

[ˈɔ(ː)θ(ə)ɹ]

From Middle English auctour, from Anglo-Norman autour, from Old French autor, from Latin auctor, from augeō (“to increase, originate”). The h, also found in Middle French autheur, is unetymological as there is no h in the original Latin spelling. The OED attributes the h to contamination by authentic. Doublet of auteur.

The copyright of any original writing belongs initially and properly to its author.

Have you read any Corinthian authors?

This paper has three authors.

Eternal King; thee, Author of all being.

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

During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]

1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond:

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, Preface:

The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition; or, one of the creators of a collaborative work.

We hear […]of fratricidal murders, and stern reprisals on their authors.

1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 10, page 158:

Accomplices of a crime or an offence shall incur the same punishment as the authors of such a crime or offence, except when the law will have disposed otherwise.

1894, Franco-Siamese Mixed Court, The Case of Kieng Chek (Kham Muon) before the Franco-Siamese Mixed Court, Bangkok: n.p., page 4:

(obsolete, criminal law) Principal; the primary participant in a crime.

Let me inform you en passant, Ladies, that those Villains the Heathens, as my Authors tell me, (and I thought it wou'd^([sic]) not be amiss to communicate such a nice Observation to this House) used to call our Saviour Chrestus, and not Christus, by way of Contempt and Derision […]

1699, Seven new Colloquies translated out of Erasmus:

'Wanting the hat,' continues my author, Kirstie, whom I but haltingly follow, for she told this tale like one inspired, 'wanting guns, for there wasna twa grains o' pouder in the house, wi' nae mair weepons than their sticks into their hands, the fower o' them took the road.

1896, Robert Louis Stevenson, Weir of Hermiston:

(archaic) One's authority for something: an informant.


Thomas

en-proper noun

Thomas (countable and uncountable, plural Thomases)

→ Hawaiian: Kamaki

→ Maori: Tāmati

→ Scottish Gaelic: Tòmas

Thomas of Bayeux
Thomas the Presbyter
Thomas the Slav

Inherited from Middle English Thomas, from Latin Thōmās m (as in the Vulgate), from Ancient Greek Θωμᾶς m (Thōmâs), the Biblical Greek transcription of Aramaic תאומא or תאמא (“twin”), the nickname of one of the Twelve Apostles.
In the gospel of John (11:16, 20:24), the Aramaic nickname is also translated into Greek, as δίδυμος m (dídumos). Used as a given name since the Middle Ages, e.g. Thomas the Presbyter (7th century), Thomas the Slav (8th century), Thomas of Bayeux (died 1100).
(infidel or doubter): In reference to the doubting Apostle.

A number of places in the United States:

A number of townships in the United States, listed under Thomas Township.


Thomas

→ Greenlandic: Tuumarsi


Thomas

Inherited from Middle Dutch thomas, from Latin Thōmās m, from Ancient Greek Θωμᾶς m (Thōmâs), from Aramaic תאומא.


Thomas

→ Vietnamese: Tô-ma, Tôma, Thô-ma

Ultimately borrowed from Latin Thōmās m.
 Inherited from Middle French Thomas m, inherited from Old French Tumas m, inherited from Latin Thōmās m.
Compare Occitan Tomàs m.

Il n’est pas rare aujourd’hui que le garçon bouvier se nomme Arthur, Alfred ou Alphonse, et que le vicomte — s’il y a encore des vicomtes — se nomme Thomas, Pierre ou Jacques. Ce déplacement qui met le nom « élégant » sur le plébéien et le nom campagnard sur l’aristocrate n’est autre chose qu’un remous d’égalité. L’irrésistible pénétration du souffle nouveau est là comme en tout.

1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 2, in Les Misérables, Tome I : Fantine, book 4; republished as Isabel F. Hapgood, transl., 1887:

It is not rare for the neatherd's boy nowadays to bear the name of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are still any vicomtes--to be called Thomas, Pierre, or Jacques. This displacement, which places the "elegant" name on the plebeian and the rustic name on the aristocrat, is nothing else than an eddy of equality. The irresistible penetration of the new inspiration is there as everywhere else.


Thomas

de-proper noun

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

a male given name originating from the Bible


Thomas

la-proper noun

Thōmās m (genitive Thōmae); first declension

Thōmās (canonical masculine)
Thōmae (genitive)
Thōmās (nominative singular)
Thōmae (genitive singular)
Thōmae (dative singular)
Thōmān (accusative singular)
Thōmā (ablative singular)
Thōmā (singular vocative)

Eastern Romance:

>? Romanian: Toma

>? Italian: Tommaso

→ Sicilian: Tummasu

Navarro-Aragonese:

Aragonese: Tomás

Old Leonese:

Asturian: Tomás

desctree

>? Old French: Tumas m
Middle French: Thomas m
French: Thomas m
→ Vietnamese: Tô-ma, Tôma, Thô-ma

Old Occitan:

Catalan: Tomàs m

Occitan: Tomàs

>? Old Galician-Portuguese: Thomas

Galician: Tomás, Tomé

desc

Portuguese: Tomás, Thomás m (dated), Tomé

>? Old Spanish:

desctree

Spanish: Tomás
→ Cebuano: Tomas
→ Tagalog: Tomas
→ Chinese: 托馬斯 /托马斯 (Tuōmǎsī) (transliteration)

Norman: Thonmas, Thomas

Piedmontese: Tomà

Sicilian: Tumasi

Venetan: Tomà

→ Basque: Tomas

→ Czech: Tomáš

→ Danish: Thomas, Tomas
→ Greenlandic: Tuumarsi

→ Estonian: Toomas

→ Faroese: Tummas

→ Finnish: Tuomas

→ German: Thomas

→ Hungarian: Tamás

→ Icelandic: Tómas

→ Irish: Tomás

→ Latvian: Toms, Tomass

→ Lithuanian: Tomas

→ Maltese: Tumas

→ Manx: Thomaase

→ Middle English: Thomas
English: Thomas
→ Hawaiian: Kamaki
→ Maori: Tāmati
→ Scottish Gaelic: Tòmas

→ Norwegian: Thomas, Tomas

→ Polish: Tomasz

→ Sami: Dommá, Duomis, Duommá

→ Scottish Gaelic: Tàmhas, Tòmas

→ Slovak: Tomáš

→ Slovene: Tomaž

→ Swedish: Tomas, Thomas

→ Welsh: Tomos

→ West Frisian: Tomas

[ˈt̪ʰoːmäːs̠]

From Ancient Greek Θωμᾶς m (Thōmâs), the Biblical Greek transcription of Aramaic תאומא or תאמא (“twin”), the nickname of one of the Twelve Apostles.


Thomas

English: Thomas
→ Hawaiian: Kamaki
→ Maori: Tāmati
→ Scottish Gaelic: Tòmas

And here on þͤ othir ſyde folowyth the moſte pytevous tale of the morte Arthure ſaunz Gwerdon · Ꝑ le ſhyvalere ẜ Thomᷓs Malleorre knyȝt

1470–1483 (date produced), Thom̃s Malleorre [i.e., Thomas Malory], “[Launcelot and Guinevere]”, in Le Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678), [England: s.n.], folio 449, recto, lines 18–21:

And here on the other side followeth the most piteous tale of the mort d’Arthur sans guerdon, par le chevalier Sir Thomas Malory, knight.


Thomas

From Vulgate Medieval Latin Thōmās m, from Ancient Greek Θωμᾶς m (Thōmâs), from Aramaic ܬܐܘܡܐ or תאומא (“Thomas”), from ܬܐܡܐ or תאמא (“twin”). Recorded as a given name in Norway since the 13th century.


Thomas

Borrowed from Latin Thōmās m, from Ancient Greek Θωμᾶς m (Thōmâs).

c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 20:24

Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came.

Witodlice Thomas, an of þam twelfum, þe ys gecweden Didimus, þæt ys Gelicost, on ure geþeode, he næs mid him, þa se Haelend com


Thomas

a male given name of popular usage, variant of Tomas


Joseph

en-proper noun

Joseph (countable and uncountable, plural Josephs)

→ Maori: Hohepa

From Middle English Ioseph, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew יוֹסֵף (Yoséf, literally “(God) shall add”); a son of Jacob.

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Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 37:3:

A few shocks of corn in a corner of the fallow stood up as if alive; she imagined them bowing; perhaps her son would be a Joseph.

1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 2, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

(biblical) Eleventh and favorite son of Jacob, by his wife Rachel.

A city in Wallowa County, Oregon; named for Nez Perce chief Hinmatóowyalahtq̓it (called "Chief Joseph" in English).

A town in Sevier County, Utah; named for Mormon apostle Joseph Angell Young.

A ghost town in Idaho County, Idaho; named for Hinmatóowyalahtq̓it (Chief Joseph).


Quidditch

Coined by British author J. K. Rowling in her 1997 book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. In Quidditch Through the Ages, Rowling gives some etymological information, hinting that the word evolved from Queerditch (compound of queer + ditch), with some spelling variation as would be expected in real life Middle English, namely Kwidditch, Kweerditch.

Maybe you wish your parents were smarter or funnier or richer or better looking, but you might as well wish for a spot on the local Quidditch team.

2003, “Universal Lifts the Veil on a Harry Potter Park”, in New York Times:

Turn to the south, and you see the Central Acropolis, a five-story palace where the nobles might have sat to watch plaza ceremonies or the famous Quidditch-like Mayan ball games.

2007 December 16, Ethan Todras-Whitehill, “In Tikal, Temples in the Mist”, in New York Times:

Whichever team gets Yegor holds the edge. This is like Quidditch in hell.

2007, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007:

Eton’s playing fields are famous, not least because of the Eton Field Game. It’s played only there. It’s sort of like Quidditch for real people.

2010 May 8, Brooks Barnes, “Wait, Wait... Don’t Tell Me!”, in National Public Radio:

A fictional ball game played between two teams of seven players riding flying broomsticks, using four balls and six elevated ring-shaped goals.


AU

a.u. (alternative)
A.U. (alternative)
A. U. (alternative)

(numismatics) Initialism of almost uncirculated.


AU

en-noun

AU (countable and uncountable, plural AUs)

AUs (plural)
a.u. (alternative)
A.U. (alternative)
A. U. (alternative)

alopecia universalis
alopecia universalis#English

(medicine, dermatology) Initialism of alopecia universalis.

(physics, metrology) Initialism of angstrom unit.

alternate universe
alternate universe#English

(fandom slang) Initialism of alternate universe.


biblio-

Etymology tree
Ancient Greek βιβλίον (biblíon)der.
Polish biblio-
Derived from Ancient Greek βιβλίον (biblíon).

der+

biblio- + -mania → bibliomania


festschrift

en-noun

festschrift (plural festschrifts or festschriften)

festschrifts (plural)
festschriften (plural)
Festschrift (alternative)
Festschrift (alternative)

Borrowed from German Festschrift, from Fest (“celebration; festival”) + Schrift (“writing (work of an author)”).

compound

Great preparations are being made and no effort spared to render the meeting a success. [...] The City of Berlin will present a Festschrift.

1890 April 1, “Gossip. [The International Medical Congress in Berlin.]”, in The Dental Record: A Monthly Journal of Dental Science, Art, and Literature. […], volume X, number 4, London, Manchester: Published by The Dental Manufacturing Company, Limited, […], →OCLC, page 179:

So many people of so many different kinds have been influenced by [Burrhus Frederic] Skinner's work and writings; who should be invited to contribute to a Festschrift volume?

1970, P[eter] B. Dews, “Preface”, in P. B. Dews, editor, Festschrift for B. F. Skinner (Century Psychology series), New York, N.Y.: Appleton-Century-Crofts, →ISBN, page x; republished New York, N.Y.: Irvington Publishers, 1977, →ISBN, page x:

At the present time a scholar of religion who lectures, reads papers and publishes will inevitably find his various products dispersed over a number of periodicals, Festschriften and other volumes, mostly published in different countries and often in different languages.

1981, “General Editor’s Preface”, in Wilfred Cantwell Smith, On Understanding Islam: Selected Studies (Religion and Reason; 19), The Hague: Mouton Publishers, →ISBN, page v:

The result can be an incoherent festschrift, which only the press of the university to which the recipient's career had been dedicated would undertake to publish. Certainly commercial publishers regard such festschriften as drugs on the market.

1987, W[illiam] A[rthur] Speck, “Geoffrey Holmes: An Appreciation”, in Clyve Jones, editor, Britain in the First Age of Party 1680–1750: Essays Presented to Geoffrey Holmes, London, Ronceverte, W. Va.: The Hambledon Press, →ISBN, page xi:

As much as they are tributes to scholars of extraordinary significance, festschrifts by their very nature are journeys taken together. Nurtured by previous journeys of the participants, they fuse the personal and professional, the sentimental and intellectual, which is exactly what gives any festschrift its special and distinctive character.

1991, David R. Maines, “Reflections, Framings, and Appreciations”, in David R. Maines, editor, Social Organization and Social Progress: Essays in Honor of Anselm Strauss, Hawthorne, N.Y.: Aldine de Gruyter, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 3:

Incandenza's burial in Québec's L'Islet County was twice delayed by annular hyperfloration cycles. Cornell University Press announced plans for a festschrift.

1996, David Foster Wallace, “As of Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment”, in Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 65:

Now that I have the privilege of publishing these remarks in Lauri Carlson's Festschrift, I want, by way of conclusion, to briefly address an issue he brought up in his contribution [...] to my Festschrift.

2012, Fred Karlsson, “Is there a Crisis in Generative Linguistics?”, in Diana Santos, Krister Lindén, Wanjiku Ng’ang’a, editors, Shall We Play the Festschrift Game?: Essays on the Occasion of Lauri Carlson’s 60th Birthday, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, →ISBN, page 4:

Many thanks are due to Prof. Ilse Feinauer for her support in conceptualising this festschrift in honour of Prof. Rufus Gouws, [...]

2013, Willem Botha, “Preface”, in Willem Botha, Paul Mavoungou, Dion Nkomo, editors, Festschrift Rufus H. Gouws, Stellenbosch, Western Cape: Sun Press, Sun Media, →ISBN, page xi:

Traditional Festschrifts (or Festschriften) are designed by students and colleagues in honour of a person (usually soon to be or a retiree) they know. This action is very noble. However, Michael Taffart observes in "Gardens or Graveyards of a scholarship?" that the most common failings of Festschriften are lack of "themes, insufficient evidence of strong editorial hands and uneven quality throughout the collection." [...] It is no wonder then that in most festschrifts, people usually send their old, sometimes rejected papers, to be published in such collections.

2014, G. M. T. Emezue, Inge Kosch, Maurice Kangel, “Introduction”, in G. M. T. Emezue, Inge Kosch, Maurice Kangel, editors, Justice and Human Dignity in Africa: Collection of Essays in Honour of Professor Austin Chukwu, [s.l.]: HPC Books, →ISBN, page 11:

The writers featured are an eclectic mix of critics, storytellers, ardent readers, academics, pasticheurs, homageurs, and people coerced to read the works of Christine Brooke-Rose for the sole purpose of contributing to this festschrift.

2014, G. N. Forester, M. J. Nicholls, “Preface”, in G. N. Forester, M. J. Nicholls, editors, Christine Brooke-Rose: Festschrift, volume 1, Singapore: Verbivoracious Press, →ISBN, page ix:

A collection of articles, essays, etc., published together as a memorial or tribute to an academic or some other respected person.

տոնագիր

collection published as a memorial or tribute to a scholar


dystopia

dystopia (nominative singular)
dystopie (nominative plural)
dystopii (genitive singular)
dystopii (genitive plural)
dystopij (archaic genitive plural)
dystopii (dative singular)
dystopiom (dative plural)
dystopię (accusative singular)
dystopie (accusative plural)
dystopią (instrumental singular)
dystopiami (instrumental plural)
dystopii (locative singular)
dystopiach (locative plural)
dystopio (singular vocative)
dystopie (plural vocative)

(film, literature) dystopia (vision of a future that is a corrupted (usually beyond recognition) utopian society)


Tower of Babel

(biblical) A tower erected at Babel by the descendants of Noah's son Ham to reach the sky, and whose completion God thwarted by making the workers speak different languages so that they were unable to understand one another.


odo

eo-head

odo (accusative singular odon, plural odoj, accusative plural odojn)

odon (accusative singular)
odoj (plural)
odojn (accusative plural)

Ido: odo

From Latin ōda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”). Compare English, Italian and French ode, German Ode, Yiddish אָדע (ode), Polish oda, Russian о́да (óda).


odo

Borrowed from Esperanto odo, English ode, French ode, German Ode, Italian ode, Russian о́да (óda), Spanish oda.


kirja

kirja (nominative singular)
kirjat (nominative plural)
kirja (accusative nominative singular)
kirjat (accusative nominative plural)
kirjan (accusative genitive singular)
kirjat (accusative genitive plural)
kirjan (genitive singular)
kirjojen (genitive plural)
kirjain (genitive plural rare)
kirjaa (partitive singular)
kirjoja (partitive plural)
kirjassa (inessive singular)
kirjoissa (inessive plural)
kirjasta (elative singular)
kirjoista (elative plural)
kirjaan (illative singular)
kirjoihin (illative plural)
kirjalla (adessive singular)
kirjoilla (adessive plural)
kirjalta (ablative singular)
kirjoilta (ablative plural)
kirjalle (allative singular)
kirjoille (allative plural)
kirjana (essive singular)
kirjoina (essive plural)
kirjaksi (singular translative)
kirjoiksi (plural translative)
kirjatta (abessive singular)
kirjoitta (abessive plural)
kirjoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
kirjani (nominative singular)
kirjani (nominative plural)
kirjani (accusative nominative singular)
kirjani (accusative nominative plural)
kirjani (accusative genitive singular)
kirjani (accusative genitive plural)
kirjani (genitive singular)
kirjojeni (genitive plural)
kirjaini (genitive plural rare)
kirjaani (partitive singular)
kirjojani (partitive plural)
kirjassani (inessive singular)
kirjoissani (inessive plural)
kirjastani (elative singular)
kirjoistani (elative plural)
kirjaani (illative singular)
kirjoihini (illative plural)
kirjallani (adessive singular)
kirjoillani (adessive plural)
kirjaltani (ablative singular)
kirjoiltani (ablative plural)
kirjalleni (allative singular)
kirjoilleni (allative plural)
kirjanani (essive singular)
kirjoinani (essive plural)
kirjakseni (singular translative)
kirjoikseni (plural translative)
kirjattani (abessive singular)
kirjoittani (abessive plural)
kirjoineni (comitative plural)
kirjasi (nominative singular)
kirjasi (nominative plural)
kirjasi (accusative nominative singular)
kirjasi (accusative nominative plural)
kirjasi (accusative genitive singular)
kirjasi (accusative genitive plural)
kirjasi (genitive singular)
kirjojesi (genitive plural)
kirjaisi (genitive plural rare)
kirjaasi (partitive singular)
kirjojasi (partitive plural)
kirjassasi (inessive singular)
kirjoissasi (inessive plural)
kirjastasi (elative singular)
kirjoistasi (elative plural)
kirjaasi (illative singular)
kirjoihisi (illative plural)
kirjallasi (adessive singular)
kirjoillasi (adessive plural)
kirjaltasi (ablative singular)
kirjoiltasi (ablative plural)
kirjallesi (allative singular)
kirjoillesi (allative plural)
kirjanasi (essive singular)
kirjoinasi (essive plural)
kirjaksesi (singular translative)
kirjoiksesi (plural translative)
kirjattasi (abessive singular)
kirjoittasi (abessive plural)
kirjoinesi (comitative plural)
kirjamme (nominative singular)
kirjamme (nominative plural)
kirjamme (accusative nominative singular)
kirjamme (accusative nominative plural)
kirjamme (accusative genitive singular)
kirjamme (accusative genitive plural)
kirjamme (genitive singular)
kirjojemme (genitive plural)
kirjaimme (genitive plural rare)
kirjaamme (partitive singular)
kirjojamme (partitive plural)
kirjassamme (inessive singular)
kirjoissamme (inessive plural)
kirjastamme (elative singular)
kirjoistamme (elative plural)
kirjaamme (illative singular)
kirjoihimme (illative plural)
kirjallamme (adessive singular)
kirjoillamme (adessive plural)
kirjaltamme (ablative singular)
kirjoiltamme (ablative plural)
kirjallemme (allative singular)
kirjoillemme (allative plural)
kirjanamme (essive singular)
kirjoinamme (essive plural)
kirjaksemme (singular translative)
kirjoiksemme (plural translative)
kirjattamme (abessive singular)
kirjoittamme (abessive plural)
kirjoinemme (comitative plural)
kirjanne (nominative singular)
kirjanne (nominative plural)
kirjanne (accusative nominative singular)
kirjanne (accusative nominative plural)
kirjanne (accusative genitive singular)
kirjanne (accusative genitive plural)
kirjanne (genitive singular)
kirjojenne (genitive plural)
kirjainne (genitive plural rare)
kirjaanne (partitive singular)
kirjojanne (partitive plural)
kirjassanne (inessive singular)
kirjoissanne (inessive plural)
kirjastanne (elative singular)
kirjoistanne (elative plural)
kirjaanne (illative singular)
kirjoihinne (illative plural)
kirjallanne (adessive singular)
kirjoillanne (adessive plural)
kirjaltanne (ablative singular)
kirjoiltanne (ablative plural)
kirjallenne (allative singular)
kirjoillenne (allative plural)
kirjananne (essive singular)
kirjoinanne (essive plural)
kirjaksenne (singular translative)
kirjoiksenne (plural translative)
kirjattanne (abessive singular)
kirjoittanne (abessive plural)
kirjoinenne (comitative plural)
kirjansa (nominative singular)
kirjansa (nominative plural)
kirjansa (accusative nominative singular)
kirjansa (accusative nominative plural)
kirjansa (accusative genitive singular)
kirjansa (accusative genitive plural)
kirjansa (genitive singular)
kirjojensa (genitive plural)
kirjainsa (genitive plural rare)
kirjaansa (partitive singular)
kirjojaan (partitive plural)
kirjojansa (partitive plural)
kirjassaan (inessive singular)
kirjassansa (inessive singular)
kirjoissaan (inessive plural)
kirjoissansa (inessive plural)
kirjastaan (elative singular)
kirjastansa (elative singular)
kirjoistaan (elative plural)
kirjoistansa (elative plural)
kirjaansa (illative singular)
kirjoihinsa (illative plural)
kirjallaan (adessive singular)
kirjallansa (adessive singular)
kirjoillaan (adessive plural)
kirjoillansa (adessive plural)
kirjaltaan (ablative singular)
kirjaltansa (ablative singular)
kirjoiltaan (ablative plural)
kirjoiltansa (ablative plural)
kirjalleen (allative singular)
kirjallensa (allative singular)
kirjoilleen (allative plural)
kirjoillensa (allative plural)
kirjanaan (essive singular)
kirjanansa (essive singular)
kirjoinaan (essive plural)
kirjoinansa (essive plural)
kirjakseen (singular translative)
kirjaksensa (singular translative)
kirjoikseen (plural translative)
kirjoiksensa (plural translative)
kirjattaan (abessive singular)
kirjattansa (abessive singular)
kirjoittaan (abessive plural)
kirjoittansa (abessive plural)
kirjoineen (comitative plural)
kirjoinensa (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *kirja. Originally meant something like "carved mark or decoration" or "embroidered decoration", and some derived terms get their meaning from these former senses (e.g. kirjonta (“embroidery”)). The modern sense developed after the introduction of writing and has developed somewhat differently in related languages (compare e.g. Estonian kiri (“writing, letter”)).

book (collection of sheets of paper bound together containing printed or written material)


kirja

kirja (nominative singular)
kirjat (nominative plural)
kirjan (genitive singular)
kirjoin (genitive plural)
kirjaa (partitive singular)
kirjoja (partitive plural)
kirjaa (illative singular)
kirjoi (illative plural)
kirjaas (inessive singular)
kirjois (inessive plural)
kirjast (elative singular)
kirjoist (elative plural)
kirjalle (allative singular)
kirjoille (allative plural)
kirjaal (adessive singular)
kirjoil (adessive plural)
kirjalt (ablative singular)
kirjoilt (ablative plural)
kirjaks (singular translative)
kirjoiks (plural translative)
kirjanna (essive singular)
kirjaan (essive singular)
kirjoinna (essive plural)
kirjoin (essive plural)
kirjant (exessive singular)
kirjoint (exessive plural)

From Proto-Finnic *kirja. Cognates include Finnish kirja and Estonian kiri.

pattern (on a traditional piece of clothing)


kirja

head

kirja (genitive kirjan, partitive kirjua)

kirjan (genitive)
kirjua (partitive)
kirja (nominative singular)
kirjat (nominative plural)
kirjan (genitive singular)
kirjojen (genitive plural)
kirjua (partitive singular)
kirjoja (partitive plural)
kirjah (illative singular)
kirjoih (illative plural)
kirjašša (inessive singular)
kirjoissa (inessive plural)
kirjašta (elative singular)
kirjoista (elative plural)
kirjalla (adessive singular)
kirjoilla (adessive plural)
kirjalta (ablative singular)
kirjoilta (ablative plural)
kirjakši (singular translative)
kirjoiksi (plural translative)
kirjana (essive singular)
kirjoina (essive plural)
kirjoineh (comitative plural)
kirjatta (abessive singular)
kirjoitta (abessive plural)
kirja (nominative singular)
kirjat (nominative plural)
kirjan (genitive singular)
kirjoin (genitive plural)
kirjua (partitive singular)
kirjoida (partitive plural)
kirjah (illative singular)
kirjoih (illative plural)
kirjašša (inessive singular)
kirjoissa (inessive plural)
kirjašta (elative singular)
kirjoista (elative plural)
kirjalla (adessive singular)
kirjoilla (adessive plural)
kirjalda (ablative singular)
kirjoilda (ablative plural)
kirjakši (singular translative)
kirjoiksi (plural translative)
kirjana (essive singular)
kirjoina (essive plural)
kirjanke (comitative singular)
kirjoinke (comitative plural)
kirjatta (abessive singular)
kirjoitta (abessive plural)
kirjani (first-person possessive)
kirjaš (possessive second-person)
kirjah (possessive third-person)

krl-decl-table

type 4/<i class="Latn mention" lang="krl">kala</i>, no gradation

type 4/<i class="Latn mention" lang="krl">kala</i> no gradation

From Proto-Finnic *kirja. Cognate to Finnish kirja and Estonian kiri.


novel

Borrowed from Latin novella, feminine of novellus.

The normal and natural relationship of emperor and churchman was summed up by Justinian in one of his novels […]

1979, Jeffrey Richards, The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages, 476–752, page 15:

(classical studies, historical) A new legal constitution in ancient Rome.


novel

From Dutch novelle, from Italian novella, from Latin novella, feminine of novellus. Doublet of novela and novelet.

(literature) novel: a work of prose fiction, longer than a novella.


novella

Borrowed from Italian novella. Doublet of novel.

(historical) Synonym of novel (“new legal constitution in Ancient Rome”)


novella

novellák (plural)
novella (nominative singular)
novellák (nominative plural)
novellát (accusative singular)
novellákat (accusative plural)
novellának (dative singular)
novelláknak (dative plural)
novellával (instrumental singular)
novellákkal (instrumental plural)
novelláért (causal-final singular)
novellákért (causal-final plural)
novellává (singular translative)
novellákká (plural translative)
novelláig (singular terminative)
novellákig (plural terminative)
novellaként (essive-formal singular)
novellákként (essive-formal plural)
novellában (inessive singular)
novellákban (inessive plural)
novellán (singular superessive)
novellákon (plural superessive)
novellánál (adessive singular)
novelláknál (adessive plural)
novellába (illative singular)
novellákba (illative plural)
novellára (singular sublative)
novellákra (plural sublative)
novellához (allative singular)
novellákhoz (allative plural)
novellából (elative singular)
novellákból (elative plural)
novelláról (delative singular)
novellákról (delative plural)
novellától (ablative singular)
novelláktól (ablative plural)
novelláé (singular)
novelláké (plural)
novelláéi (singular)
novellákéi (plural)
novellám (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
novelláim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
novellád (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
novelláid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
novellája (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
novellái (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
novellánk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
novelláink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
novellátok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
novelláitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
novellájuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
novelláik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

Borrowed from Italian novella, from Latin novella.

(literature) (relatively short) short story


novelist

(obsolete) An innovator; one who introduces something new; one who favours novelty.


cowabunga

/ˌkæɔəˈbaŋɡə/

/ˌkaʊəˈbʌŋɡə/

/ˌkaʊəˈbʌŋɡə/

Unknown, but was popularized (as Kowa-Bunga) by Chief Thunderthud on the American children's show Howdy Doody in the late 1940s or early 1950s, and became associated with American surfing culture. By the early 1980s, it was used as the catch-phrase of Cookie Monster on the American television show Sesame Street, and gained popularity with a broader audience after its use in the American cartoon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the late 1980s and early 1990s. (For further treatment, see here.)

Kowa-Bunga (alternative)
cowabonga (alternative)
kawabonga (alternative)
kowabonga (alternative)
kowabunga (alternative)

Cowabunga, dude!

Kowa-Bunga! Then Me Fix You Good! You Be Sorry.

Shouting the surfer's cry ‘Cowabunga!’ they climb a 12-ft. wall of water and ‘take the drop’ off its shoulder.

Both words turn up in the same sentence—as in ‘Cowabunga, it's humongous!’—when the children crowd around some toy.

1991 December 9, The New Yorker, page 115:

(slang, originally US, usually humorous) Expressing amazement, enthusiasm, or joy.

Cookie Monster
Howdy Doody
surfing culture


arco

Inherited from Latin arcus (whence English archery), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo- (“bow, arrow”). In some senses inherited, in others borrowed directly from Latin. Cognate with English arrow, arc, and arch.


Martha

* From Latin Martha, from Ancient Greek Μάρθα (Mártha), from Aramaic מָרְתָא (mārtā, “mistress”), feminine of מרא (mārā). Doublet of Marfa.
* (humidity chamber): From the use of Martha Stewart-branded storage closets in the construction of early units.

They wanted to call her Helen, but I did put my foot down there. Knowing what her mother and father looked like! I tried hard for Martha or Dorcas or something sensible - but it was no good - waste of breath.

1947, Agatha Christie, The Labours of Hercules:

A female given name from Aramaic of biblical origin.


Martha

Marthas (genitive)
Martha (genitive)
Marta (alternative)


Martha

la-proper noun

Martha f (genitive Marthae); first declension

Marthae (genitive)
Martha (nominative singular)
Marthae (nominative plural)
Marthae (genitive singular)
Marthārum (genitive plural)
Marthae (dative singular)
Marthīs (dative plural)
Martham (accusative singular)
Marthās (accusative plural)
Marthā (ablative singular)
Marthīs (ablative plural)
Martha (singular vocative)
Marthae (plural vocative)

→ Catalan: Marta

→ Czech: Marta

→ Danish: Martha

→ Dutch: Marta

→ English: Martha

→ Hawaiian: Maleka

→ Maori: Māta

→ Estonian: Marta

→ Faroese: Marta

→ Finnish: Martta, Marppa

→ French: Marthe

→ Galician: Marta

→ German: Marta, Martha

→ Hungarian: Márta

→ Icelandic: Marta

→ Italian: Marta

→ Latvian: Marta

→ Lithuanian: Morta

→ Northern Sami: Mártá

→ Norwegian: Marte, Martha, Marthe

→ Polish: Marta

→ Portuguese: Marta

→ Romanian: Marta

→ Slovak: Marta

→ Slovene: Marta

→ Spanish: Marta

→ Swedish: Marta

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μάρθα (Mártha), from Aramaic מָרְתָא (mārtā).


bogey

bogeys (plural)
bogie (alternative)
bogy (alternative)

Probably related to or alteration of bogle, akin to or from a variant of Middle English bugge (“frightening specter, scarecrow”) (whence partly bug), of uncertain origin: perhaps from obsolete Welsh bwg (“ghost, hobgoblin”) (compare Welsh bwgwl (“threat”, older “fear”), Irish bagairt (“threat”)), from Proto-Celtic [Term?], or from Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”) (compare Norwegian bugge (“big man”), dialectal Low German Bögge and Alemannic German Böögg (“goblin”, “snot”)); see also Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”), whence obsolete English puck. Perhaps the Middle English and Welsh words come from a word related to buck and originally referred to a goat-shaped specter. Compare also booger.
The golf sense is from the devil as an imaginary player.

m+

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

A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.


epistola

epistola (nominative singular)
epistolat (nominative plural)
epistola (accusative nominative singular)
epistolat (accusative nominative plural)
epistolan (accusative genitive singular)
epistolat (accusative genitive plural)
epistolan (genitive singular)
epistoloiden (genitive plural)
epistoloitten (genitive plural)
epistolain (genitive plural rare)
epistolaa (partitive singular)
epistoloita (partitive plural)
epistolassa (inessive singular)
epistoloissa (inessive plural)
epistolasta (elative singular)
epistoloista (elative plural)
epistolaan (illative singular)
epistoloihin (illative plural)
epistolalla (adessive singular)
epistoloilla (adessive plural)
epistolalta (ablative singular)
epistoloilta (ablative plural)
epistolalle (allative singular)
epistoloille (allative plural)
epistolana (essive singular)
epistoloina (essive plural)
epistolaksi (singular translative)
epistoloiksi (plural translative)
epistolatta (abessive singular)
epistoloitta (abessive plural)
epistoloin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
epistolani (nominative singular)
epistolani (nominative plural)
epistolani (accusative nominative singular)
epistolani (accusative nominative plural)
epistolani (accusative genitive singular)
epistolani (accusative genitive plural)
epistolani (genitive singular)
epistoloideni (genitive plural)
epistoloitteni (genitive plural)
epistolaini (genitive plural rare)
epistolaani (partitive singular)
epistoloitani (partitive plural)
epistolassani (inessive singular)
epistoloissani (inessive plural)
epistolastani (elative singular)
epistoloistani (elative plural)
epistolaani (illative singular)
epistoloihini (illative plural)
epistolallani (adessive singular)
epistoloillani (adessive plural)
epistolaltani (ablative singular)
epistoloiltani (ablative plural)
epistolalleni (allative singular)
epistoloilleni (allative plural)
epistolanani (essive singular)
epistoloinani (essive plural)
epistolakseni (singular translative)
epistoloikseni (plural translative)
epistolattani (abessive singular)
epistoloittani (abessive plural)
epistoloineni (comitative plural)
epistolasi (nominative singular)
epistolasi (nominative plural)
epistolasi (accusative nominative singular)
epistolasi (accusative nominative plural)
epistolasi (accusative genitive singular)
epistolasi (accusative genitive plural)
epistolasi (genitive singular)
epistoloidesi (genitive plural)
epistoloittesi (genitive plural)
epistolaisi (genitive plural rare)
epistolaasi (partitive singular)
epistoloitasi (partitive plural)
epistolassasi (inessive singular)
epistoloissasi (inessive plural)
epistolastasi (elative singular)
epistoloistasi (elative plural)
epistolaasi (illative singular)
epistoloihisi (illative plural)
epistolallasi (adessive singular)
epistoloillasi (adessive plural)
epistolaltasi (ablative singular)
epistoloiltasi (ablative plural)
epistolallesi (allative singular)
epistoloillesi (allative plural)
epistolanasi (essive singular)
epistoloinasi (essive plural)
epistolaksesi (singular translative)
epistoloiksesi (plural translative)
epistolattasi (abessive singular)
epistoloittasi (abessive plural)
epistoloinesi (comitative plural)
epistolamme (nominative singular)
epistolamme (nominative plural)
epistolamme (accusative nominative singular)
epistolamme (accusative nominative plural)
epistolamme (accusative genitive singular)
epistolamme (accusative genitive plural)
epistolamme (genitive singular)
epistoloidemme (genitive plural)
epistoloittemme (genitive plural)
epistolaimme (genitive plural rare)
epistolaamme (partitive singular)
epistoloitamme (partitive plural)
epistolassamme (inessive singular)
epistoloissamme (inessive plural)
epistolastamme (elative singular)
epistoloistamme (elative plural)
epistolaamme (illative singular)
epistoloihimme (illative plural)
epistolallamme (adessive singular)
epistoloillamme (adessive plural)
epistolaltamme (ablative singular)
epistoloiltamme (ablative plural)
epistolallemme (allative singular)
epistoloillemme (allative plural)
epistolanamme (essive singular)
epistoloinamme (essive plural)
epistolaksemme (singular translative)
epistoloiksemme (plural translative)
epistolattamme (abessive singular)
epistoloittamme (abessive plural)
epistoloinemme (comitative plural)
epistolanne (nominative singular)
epistolanne (nominative plural)
epistolanne (accusative nominative singular)
epistolanne (accusative nominative plural)
epistolanne (accusative genitive singular)
epistolanne (accusative genitive plural)
epistolanne (genitive singular)
epistoloidenne (genitive plural)
epistoloittenne (genitive plural)
epistolainne (genitive plural rare)
epistolaanne (partitive singular)
epistoloitanne (partitive plural)
epistolassanne (inessive singular)
epistoloissanne (inessive plural)
epistolastanne (elative singular)
epistoloistanne (elative plural)
epistolaanne (illative singular)
epistoloihinne (illative plural)
epistolallanne (adessive singular)
epistoloillanne (adessive plural)
epistolaltanne (ablative singular)
epistoloiltanne (ablative plural)
epistolallenne (allative singular)
epistoloillenne (allative plural)
epistolananne (essive singular)
epistoloinanne (essive plural)
epistolaksenne (singular translative)
epistoloiksenne (plural translative)
epistolattanne (abessive singular)
epistoloittanne (abessive plural)
epistoloinenne (comitative plural)
epistolansa (nominative singular)
epistolansa (nominative plural)
epistolansa (accusative nominative singular)
epistolansa (accusative nominative plural)
epistolansa (accusative genitive singular)
epistolansa (accusative genitive plural)
epistolansa (genitive singular)
epistoloidensa (genitive plural)
epistoloittensa (genitive plural)
epistolainsa (genitive plural rare)
epistolaansa (partitive singular)
epistoloitaan (partitive plural)
epistoloitansa (partitive plural)
epistolassaan (inessive singular)
epistolassansa (inessive singular)
epistoloissaan (inessive plural)
epistoloissansa (inessive plural)
epistolastaan (elative singular)
epistolastansa (elative singular)
epistoloistaan (elative plural)
epistoloistansa (elative plural)
epistolaansa (illative singular)
epistoloihinsa (illative plural)
epistolallaan (adessive singular)
epistolallansa (adessive singular)
epistoloillaan (adessive plural)
epistoloillansa (adessive plural)
epistolaltaan (ablative singular)
epistolaltansa (ablative singular)
epistoloiltaan (ablative plural)
epistoloiltansa (ablative plural)
epistolalleen (allative singular)
epistolallensa (allative singular)
epistoloilleen (allative plural)
epistoloillensa (allative plural)
epistolanaan (essive singular)
epistolanansa (essive singular)
epistoloinaan (essive plural)
epistoloinansa (essive plural)
epistolakseen (singular translative)
epistolaksensa (singular translative)
epistoloikseen (plural translative)
epistoloiksensa (plural translative)
epistolattaan (abessive singular)
epistolattansa (abessive singular)
epistoloittaan (abessive plural)
epistoloittansa (abessive plural)
epistoloineen (comitative plural)
epistoloinensa (comitative plural)

Borrowed from Late Latin epistola, from Ancient Greek ἐπιστολή (epistolḗ).


Paul

From Latin Paulus, from paulus (“small”). Doublet of Pablo and Paolo.

An unincorporated community in Conecuh County, Alabama, United States, named after Paul the Apostle.

A city in Minidoka County, Idaho, United States.

An unincorporated community in Otoe County, Nebraska, United States.

St Buryan, Lamorna and Paul
St Buryan, Lamorna and Paul

A village south of Newlyn in Penzance parish, south-west Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW4627). The civil parish of Paul (abolished 2021) did not include the village in latter years, and is now included in St Buryan, Lamorna and Paul.


Paul

Haitian Creole: Pòl


hic

Onomatopoeia, from the sobbing sound. Compare hức (“sob; hic”).

(comics, Internet slang) dang; darn; aw man; man


super

For quotations using this term, see Citations:super.


bucolic

From Latin būcolicum, neuter substantive of būcolicus.


clavis

From Latin clāvis (“a key”). Doublet of clave and clef.

Iron clavis, the solid web-shaped at the edges to fit the wards in the lock, and having a pointed broach and a kite-formed looped haft.

1873, “Proceedings of the Association”, in Journal of the British Archaeological Association, volume 29, April 9th, page 202:


senior

From Middle English senior, from Latin senior (“older”), comparative form of senex (“old”); see senate. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, señor, senyor, signore, sir, and sire.

doublet

Then Peter full of the holy gooſt ſayd vnto them. Ye ruelars of the people / and ſeniours of iſrahel[…].

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts :[8], folio clviij, recto:

(obsolete, biblical) An elder or presbyter in the early Church.


reboot

(narratology) The restarting of a series' storyline, discarding all previous continuity.

reboot

the restarting of a series' storyline, discarding all previous continuity


arse

(poetry, music) arsis (the stronger part of a measure or foot)


smut

en-noun

smut (countable and uncountable, plural smuts)

From Middle English smutten (“to defile, debase”), related to German Schmutz (“filth, dirt, smut”) and schmutzen (“to make dirty, stain”). Doublet of schmutz.
Compare also Old English smitta (“smear; blot; mark; stain; pollution”), Old English besmītan (“to besmut; defile; dirty; pollute; contaminate”).

cog

He does not stand upon decency […] but will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room.

1711 June 5 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, May 25, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 39; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

(uncountable) Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.


fold

The verb is from Middle English folden, from Old English fealdan, from Proto-Germanic *falþaną (“to fold”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”). The noun is from Middle English folde,falde, itself derived from the verb.

Newspaper editors know the importance of putting the most important information “above the fold,” that is, visible when the paper is folded and on the rack.

2007, Jennifer Niederst Robbins, Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 43:

(newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.


alba

First attested in 1821; borrowed from Occitan alba, ultimately from Latin albus (“white”); compare Spanish alba (“dawn”).

(poetry) A type of lyrical poetry, traditionally Provençal, about lovers who must part at dawn.


alba

alba (nominative singular)
alby (nominative plural)
alby (genitive singular)
alb (genitive plural)
albie (dative singular)
albom (dative plural)
albę (accusative singular)
alby (accusative plural)
albą (instrumental singular)
albami (instrumental plural)
albie (locative singular)
albach (locative plural)
albo (singular vocative)
alby (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Occitan alba. First attested in the 20th century.

ref

Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “alba”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN

(historical, poetry) alba (genre of Old Occitan lyric poetry)


bizarro

en-adj

bizarro (comparative more bizarro, superlative most bizarro)

more bizarro (comparative)
most bizarro (superlative)

Variant of bizarre, equivalent to bizarre + -o; see that entry for more information. In the sense of “logical inverse”, derived via the comic book character Bizarro, an inverted version of Superman from a planet where “good” means “bad” and so on, and popularized by "The Bizarro Jerry", a 1996 episode of the sitcom Seinfeld.

An incredibly fucked-up parody of B-horror movies with a bizarro slant.

2010, Caris O'Malley, The Egg Said Nothing, Caris O'Malley, →ISBN, page 97:

(literature) Pertaining to bizarro fiction.


bizarro

en-noun

bizarro (countable and uncountable, plural bizarros)

Often described as "the Citizen Kane of dismemberment movies," this cult-movie masterpiece set the standards for the "bizarros-who-turn-their-home-into-a-human-slaughterhouse" horror genre.

1997, Harold Schechter, The Manly Movie Guide, Boulevard, →ISBN:

Showgirl breasts and round hips that swayed to a sultry beat when she walked and drew heartbreakers and bizarros from the four corners of the earth.

2008, Cindy Gerard, Whisper No Lies, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 1:

BOOM!, he can't walk, can't talk, he's in a ward at a state institution with thirty retarded bizarros, many of them bizzare^([sic]) […]

2009, Martin Drapkin, Now and at the Hour, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 1:


album

pl-noun

album m inan (diminutive albumik, related adjective albumowy)

albumik (diminutive)
albumowy (adjective)
album (nominative singular)
albumy (nominative plural)
albumu (genitive singular)
albumów (genitive plural)
albumowi (dative singular)
albumom (dative plural)
album (accusative singular)
albumy (accusative plural)
albumem (instrumental singular)
albumami (instrumental plural)
albumie (locative singular)
albumach (locative plural)
albumie (singular vocative)
albumy (plural vocative)

Borrowed from German Album or French album. First attested in 1609.

ref

Jadwiga Chotkowska (11.06.2019) “ALBUM”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]

(art) album, sketchbook, sketch pad (book or pad with blank pages for sketching)


monster

→ German: Monster

→ Japanese: モンスター (monsutā)

→ Korean: 몬스터 (monseuteo)

From Middle English monstre, from Old French monstre, mostre, moustre, from Latin mōnstrum.

non-player character
non-player character

(gaming) A non-player character that player(s) fight against in role-playing games; a mob


golem

bor

גולם \ גֹּלֶם


ghoul

Portuguese: ghoul

From Persian غول (ğul) from Arabic غُول (ḡūl). Compare French goule, of the same origin.

Restored to bumptiousness, Peter arrived jauntily in the kitchen, to survey Mrs Dibble's body as a spectacle new to him, and remark, "So the old trout's done herself in properly this time, I'm told. About time she did, the way she's been going on here." "Shut up, you old ghoul, and help Dr Grimsby to carry her upstairs."

1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 195:

(derogatory, colloquial) A person with a callous or uncaring attitude to human life and suffering, particularly when prioritizing economic concerns.


vampire

vampires (plural)
vampyre (alternative)
wampyr (alternative)

desc

ভ্যাম্পায়ার

→ Bengali: ভ্যাম্পায়ার (bhêmpaẏar)

→ Irish: vaimpír

→ Japanese: ヴァンパイア (vanpaia), バンパイア (banpaia)

→ Marathi: व्हॅम्पायर (vhĕmpāyar)

→ Thai: แวมไพร์ (wɛm-paai)

→ Scottish Gaelic: bhampair

→ Swahili: vampiri

→ Turkish: vampir

→ Welsh: fampir

From French vampire, from German Vampir, via Hungarian from a Slavic word, probably Serbo-Croatian вампир (vàmpīr), proposed to be a variant of unattested *upir, from Proto-Slavic *ǫpyrь, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ōpur (“witch, gluttonous beast”) q.v. Compare Russian упы́рь (upýrʹ), Polish upiór, Polish wąpierz, Turkish obur, Chuvash вупӑр (vup̬ăr), Kazakh обыр (obyr, “tumor, cancer”) etc. Doublet of oupire.

der

(colloquial) A person with the medical condition Porphyria cutanea tarda, colloquially known as vampirism, with effects such as photosensitivity and brownish-red stained teeth.


vampire

→ Armenian: վամպիր (vampir)

→ Asturian: vampiru

→ Belarusian: вампір (vampir)

→ Catalan: vampir

→ Czech: vampýr

→ English: vampire (see there for further descendants)

→ Galician: vampiro

→ Georgian: ვამპირი (vamṗiri)

→ Greek: βαμπίρ (vampír)

→ Italian: vampiro

→ Malagasy: vampira

→ Occitan: vampire

→ Romanian: vampir

→ Russian: вампир (vampir) (see there for further descendants)

→ Slovak: vampír

→ Spanish: vampiro, vampira

→ Basque: banpiro

→ Cebuano: bampira

→ Tagalog: bampira

→ Waray-Waray: bampira

→ Ottoman Turkish: وامپیر (vampir)

Turkish: vampir

→ Ukrainian: вампір (vampir)


zed

en-verb

zed (third-person singular simple present zeds, present participle zedding, simple past and past participle zedded)

zeds (present singular third-person)
zedding (participle present)
zedded (participle past)
zedded (past)

From Middle English zed, zedde, zede, from Old French zede, from Late Latin zeta, from Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta), from Hebrew ז (zayin) with influence from beta, eta and theta. Letter had rare nonstandard usage in Old English, such as in bezt, where it represented "ts" (compare the German, Italian, and Finnish pronunciation of Z). For the sleep sense, see zzz. The zombie sense comes from the initial letter. Doublet of zeta. Cognate to Spanish zeta, German Zett, French zède, Italian zeta, and perhaps Portuguese zê.

Zedding hogs. Sleep sippers and spitters. Look at 'em cooking in their own snoring heat. One nose after another.

I guess I must have zedded, for I find a police officer, the same one that nicked me, shaking me.

1992, David Robins, Tarnished vision: crime and conflict in the inner city:

"Zedding away." "God, I was having the most awful dream. That you'd got lost by the sea and I couldn't find you and something was chasing me, me and Evie."

(intransitive, informal) To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)


ordbog

head

ordbog c (singular definite ordbogen, plural indefinite ordbøger)

ordbogen (definite singular)
ordbøger (indefinite plural)
ordbog (indefinite nominative singular)
ordbogen (definite nominative singular)
ordbøger (indefinite nominative plural)
ordbøgerne (definite nominative plural)
ordbogs (genitive indefinite singular)
ordbogens (definite genitive singular)
ordbøgers (genitive indefinite plural)
ordbøgernes (definite genitive plural)

→ Greenlandic: ordbogi

From ord (“word”) + bog (“book”). Compare Swedish ordbok, English wordbook, German Wörterbuch.

dictionary, lexicon (a reference work with a compilation of words from a language or type of language with explanations or translations)


scanlation

en-noun

scanlation (countable and uncountable, plural scanlations)

scanlations (plural)
scanslation (alternative)

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

(comics, chiefly manga) The process of scanning and translating foreign-language comics (especially Japanese manga or Korean manhwa) into the translator's language, for free distribution over the Internet.

(comics) A comic that has been scanned, translated, and with translation overlaid onto the original text to produce a second-language version of the comic; a scanlated comic.


retrograde

en-adj

retrograde (comparative more retrograde, superlative most retrograde)

more retrograde (comparative)
most retrograde (superlative)

The adjective is derived from Middle English retrograd, retrograde (“of a planet: appearing to move in a direction opposite to the order of the zodiac signs, retrograde; unfortunate”), from Middle French retrograde and Old French retrograde (“of a celestial object: appearing to move backwards; moving backwards; reverse; palindromic; opposed to change”) (modern French rétrograde), and from their etymon Latin retrōgradus (“of a celestial object: appearing to move backwards”) (compare Late Latin retrōgradus (“reverse; palindromic”)), from retrō (“back, backwards; behind; before, formerly”) + gradus (“pace, step”). By surface analysis, retro- + -grade.
The adverb and noun are derived from the adjective.

cog

/ˈɹɛtɹə(ʊ)ɡɹeɪd/

/ˈɹɛtɹəˌɡɹeɪd/

retrògrad

reverting to an inferior or less developed state — see also declining, regressing

(poetry, archaic) Of verse: reading the same forwards or backwards; palindromic.


Frankenstein

en-proper noun

Frankenstein (countable and uncountable, plural Frankensteins)

From German Frankenstein, various places named for Franken (“Franks, Frankish”) + Stein (“stone”). The use of referencing mad scientists derives from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, where Victor Frankenstein assembles a man from pieces of various corpses and brings him to life with electricity. Use of the reference to the monster itself is an ellipsis of the earlier Frankenstein's monster, with the monster's usual modern appearance derived from Boris Karloff's performance in the 1931 film Frankenstein.

In the same year, a kiln of the same size was built in Frankenstein in the Silesian region, but the purpose of this kiln was to treat low-grade nickel ore, and it had a capacity for treating 80,000 tons a year.

1998, Akira Kudō, chapter 5, in J.A.A. Stockwin, editor, Japanese-German Business Relations: Co-operation and Rivalry in the Interwar Period, London: Routledge, published 2001, →ISBN, page 90:

Ząbkowice Śląskie
Ząbkowice Śląskie#English

Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Lower Silesian Voivodeship#English

(historical) A former name of Ząbkowice Śląskie, a town in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.

(fiction) Victor Frankenstein, a fictional character and the main protagonist and title character in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.

(fiction, sometimes proscribed) The unnamed monster created by Victor Frankenstein: a fictional character who first appeared in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus as the main antagonist.


Frankenstein

de:Frankenstein
de:Frankenstein (Familienname)
de:Frankenstein (Pfalz)

de-proper noun

Frankenstein m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Frankensteins or (with an article) Frankenstein, feminine genitive Frankenstein, plural Frankensteins)

Frankensteins (genitive masculine)
Frankenstein (genitive masculine)
Frankenstein (feminine genitive)
Frankensteins (plural)
Frankenstein (masculine nominative singular)
Frankenstein (feminine nominative singular)
Frankensteins (definite nominative plural)
Frankensteins (genitive masculine singular)
Frankenstein (genitive masculine singular)
Frankenstein (feminine genitive singular)
Frankensteins (definite genitive plural)
Frankenstein (dative masculine singular)
Frankenstein (dative feminine singular)
Frankensteins (dative definite plural)
Frankenstein (accusative masculine singular)
Frankenstein (accusative feminine singular)
Frankensteins (accusative definite plural)

English: Frankenstein

French: Frankenstein

Occitan: Franquenstein

Spanish: Frankenstein

[ˈfʁaŋkŋ̩ˌʃtaɪ̯n]

Literally, “stone of the Franks,” from Franken + Stein.


metro

eo-head

metro (accusative singular metron, plural metroj, accusative plural metrojn)

metron (accusative singular)
metroj (plural)
metrojn (accusative plural)


metro

Borrowed from French mètre, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”).

der

(poetry, music) metre (the rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition)


metro

→ Tagalog: metro


Abilene

(biblical) A region of Syria south and southeast of Damascus.


absurdist

absurdisten (definite singular)
absurdister (indefinite plural)
absurdistene (definite plural)

From absurdisme or absurd + -ist, first parts both stem from the word absurd (“absurd”), from Latin absurdus (“incongruous, dissonant, out of tune”), from both ab- (“from, away from, off”), from Latin ab (“from, away from, on, in”), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”) + and from surdus (“silent, deaf, dull-sounding”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to resound; ringing, whistling”). Last part from French -iste (“-ist, -istic”), from Latin -ista (“-ist; one who practises or believes”), from Ancient Greek -ιστής (-istḗs), alternative form of -τής (-tḗs), from Proto-Hellenic *-tās, probably from Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ (forms nouns representing state of being).

«Mens vi venter på Godot» [av Samuel Beckett] sto lenge som absurdistenes bibel

1971, Anton Rønneberg, Ti års fjernsynsteater, page 212:

"While We Wait for Godot" [by Samuel Beckett] stood for a long time as the Bible of the absurdists

de virkelige absurdister hevder … at sproget hverken har sammenheng eller mening

the real absurdists claim… that language has neither context nor meaning

han overveide å ta toakteren tilbake, men den gang trengte absurdistene all den støtte de kunne få

1992, Finn Alnæs, Restdjevelens karneval, page 462:

he considered taking the two act play back, but at that time the absurdists needed all the support they could get

den franske absurdisten og filosofen Albert Camus

the French absurdist and philosopher Albert Camus

an absurdist (an advocate of absurdism, in particular a writer of absurd topics)


Abner

From Hebrew אבנר (Abner, “father of light”). From אָב (av, “father”) + נור (nur, “light”).

And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 17:55:

(biblical) A cousin of Saul mentioned in the Old Testament.


셋

(biblical) Seth (the third son of Adam and Eve)


keeper

From Middle English kepere, equivalent to keep + -er.

England should have capitalised on their growing momentum to win, but Darren Bent failed to reproduce the finishing touches that have brought him goals in three successive appearances. He was blocked by Diego Benaglio when he was played in by Wilshere then blazed over the top of an open goal late on after Young's shot was saved by Switzerland's keeper.

2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 2 Switzerland”, in BBC:

(sports) The player charged with guarding a goal or wicket. Short form of goalkeeper, wicketkeeper. In quidditch (both Muggle quidditch and the game in the original Harry Potter series), this is someone responsible for guarding the three goalposts.


bludger

A ball used in the sports of Quidditch and Muggle Quidditch.


chaser

Inherited from Middle English chaser, chacer, chasour, borrowed from Old French chaceür, chaceor, from chacier (“to chase, hunt”); later senses from or influenced by chase (“pursue”) + -er. Doublet of chasseur.

преследва́ч

person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases

(fiction, Harry Potter) In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player responsible for passing the quaffle and scoring goals with it.


beater

From Middle English beter, betere, bettere, from Old English bēatere (“a beater; boxer, fighter; champion”), equivalent to beat + -er. Related to beetle (“a type of mallet”).

inh

In the sport Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player a who attempts to hit the opposing team's players with bludgers and to block the bludgers from hitting their own team's players.


menneske

mennesket (definite singular)
mennesker (indefinite plural)
menneska (definite plural)
menneskene (definite plural)

From Old Norse manneskja (“human being”).

min færd kan jeg forsvare for Gud og mennesker

1874, Henrik Ibsen, De unges forbund, page 119:

my conduct I can defend before God and men

det er jo ikke så godt for et ensligt fruentimmer at stå imod, kan jeg tro. – Vi er jo alle sammen mennesker

1886, Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm, page 167:

it is not so good for a single lady to resist, I can believe. - We are all human

han havde tigget Gud om kraft og naade til at bli et nyt menneske

1905, Amalie Skram, Samlede Værker II, page 490:

he had begged God for power and grace to become a new man

det gamle menneske

the fallen man (who has not accepted Jesus Christ)

det nye mennesket

(biblical) man (humans created in the image of God)

(biblical) man (the opposite of God, the fallen, as opposed to the heavenly and sacred)

syvti til otteti favne er menneskens alder

seventy to eighty fathoms is the age of man

menneskens sind

1906, Hans E. Kinck, Livsaanderne, page 61:

ligedan er det i menneskens ark

1904, Knut Hamsun, Det vilde Kor, page 68:

menneskens sønn

(biblical, obsolete, singular definite with genitive) mankind's


snitch

Origin uncertain. Perhaps an alteration of Middle English snacche (“a trap, snare”), snacchen (“to seize (prey)”, whence modern English snatch). Compare also Middle English snik snak (“a sudden blow, snap”). Alternatively, perhaps from a dialectal variant of sneak, from Middle English sniken, from Old English snīcan (“to creep; crawl”). More at sneak.

cog

A ball used in the sport of Quidditch: the Golden Snitch.


klonken

klonkarna (plural)
klonken (definite nominative singular)
klonkarna (definite nominative plural)
klonkens (definite genitive singular)
klonkarnas (definite genitive plural)


seeker

From Middle English sekar, sekere (also sechar, sechere), equivalent to seek + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Säiker (“seeker”), West Frisian syker (“seeker”), Dutch zoeker (“seeker”), German Low German Söker (“seeker”), German Sucher (“seeker”).

In Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, the player who is supposed to to catch the snitch.


mugglare

mugglare (indefinite nominative singular)
mugglares (genitive indefinite singular)
mugglaren (definite nominative singular)
mugglarens (definite genitive singular)
mugglare (indefinite nominative plural)
mugglares (genitive indefinite plural)
mugglarna (definite nominative plural)
mugglarnas (definite genitive plural)


deus ex machina

en-noun

deus ex machina (plural dei ex machina or dei ex machinis or deus ex machinas)

dei ex machina (plural)
dei ex machinis (plural)
deus ex machinas (plural)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-deus ex machina.wav

Unadapted borrowing from Latin deus ex māchinā (literally “god from a machine [i.e., a device, scaffolding, contrivance]”), a calque of Ancient Greek ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός (apò mēkhanês theós).

ubor

god from a machine 􂀿i.e., a device, scaffolding, contrivance􂁀

calque

ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός

The women who merge in the final pages leave me unsettled and depressed. Their future is grim. There is no deus ex machina to save them.

1975 December 13, Regina Kahney, “Sister Gin (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 24, page 13:

The repeated tactic of deus ex machina (without a deus) has a deplorable effect on both the plot and the dialogue.

2007 August 12, Christopher Hitchens, “Harry Potter: The Boy Who Lived”, in New York Times:

Despite the government shutdown, at the end of the last season Knope is able to put on a children's concert in the abandoned lot she's been trying to turn into a park due to a quick deus ex machina.

2011 January 20, Dave Thier, “‘Parks and Recreation’: Comedy Imitates Life (Sort Of)”, in The Atlantic:

Compared to that, the season-four finale “Server Error” felt comparatively tame, focusing mostly on Richard’s maniacal efforts to create a new kind of internet, which were helped along by a confusing deus ex machina.

2017 June 26, David Sims, “How Will ‘Silicon Valley’ Work Without T.J. Miller?”, in The Atlantic:

suspension of disbelief
suspension of disbelief

(narratology) Any resolution to a story that does not pay due regard to the story's internal logic and that is so unlikely that it challenges suspension of disbelief, and presumably allows the author, director, or developer to end the story in the way that they desired.

I was going to wait for Monsieur Hyppolyte and, like a craven, hand the whole thing over to him. Let the deus ex machina fly in out of the clouds...

1959, Mary Stewart, chapter XVII, in Nine Coaches Waiting, M. S. Mill Company, page 268:

(historical, literary) A deity in Greek and Roman drama who was brought in by stage machinery to intervene in a difficult situation (i.e., to resolve a crisis, or untangle issues surrounding it, a character logically expected to do so).


deus ex machina

id-noun

deus ex machina (plural deus-deus ex machina)

Unadapted borrowing from Latin deus ex machina, calque of Ancient Greek ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός (apò mēkhanês theós, literally “god from the machine”).

calque

ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός


deus ex machina

Unadapted borrowing from Latin deus ex māchinā, itself a calque of Ancient Greek ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός (apò mēkhanês theós).

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ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός

(literary, narratology) deus ex machina (contrived plot resolution)


deus ex machina

pt-noun

deus ex machina m (plural deuses ex machina or dei ex machina)

deuses ex machina (plural)
dei ex machina (plural)

(narratology) deus ex machina (contrived plot resolution)


dirge

From Middle English dirige, from Latin dirige (“steer, direct”), from the beginning of the first antiphon in matins for the dead, Dirige, Domine, deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam. Doublet of dirige.

lang

Therefore our ſometimes Siſter, now our Queen, / Th’ imperiall Ioyntreſſe of this warlike State, / Haue we, as ’twere, with a defeated ioy, / With one Auſpicious, and one Dropping eye, / With mirth in Funerall, and with Dirge in Marriage, / In equall Scale weighing Delight and Dole / Taken to Wife […]

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 153, column 2, lines 8–14:

While I watched the tempest, so beautiful yet terrific, I wandered on with a hasty step. This noble war in the sky elevated my spirits; I clasped my hands, and exclaimed aloud, “William, dear angel! this is thy funeral, this thy dirge!”

1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:

It was as if the night sang dirges with clenched teeth.

1878 January–December, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], published 1878, →OCLC:

Over six sections – a prologue, a life-story, a dream-quest, a dirge, a masque and an epilogue – they meditate on their lives, their hopes, their losses, and on the human condition.

2010 April 9, Glyn Maxwell, “WH Auden's ‘The Age of Anxiety’”, in The Guardian:

A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.


國語

/ku̯ɔ³⁵ y²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/kʷɔːk̚³ jyː¹³/

/kɔk̚⁵⁵ ᵑɡui²¹⁻²¹⁵/

/kuɛt̚⁵ ˈn̠ʲy²¹³/

/kuoʔ²⁴⁻³⁵ ŋy³³/

/kɔk̚³²⁻⁴ ɡu⁵³/

/kɔk̚⁵⁻²⁴ ɡɯ⁵⁵⁴/

/kɔk̚³²⁻⁵ ɡi⁵³/

/kɔk̚⁵⁻²⁴ ɡi⁵⁵⁴/

/kɔk̚³²⁻⁴ ɡi⁴¹/

/kɔk̚³⁻⁴ u⁴⁴⁵/

/koʔ³³ n̠ʲy⁴⁴/

/ku̯ɔ³⁵ y²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/kʷɔːk̚³ jyː¹³/

/kɔk̚⁵⁵ ᵑɡui²¹⁻²¹⁵/

/kuɛt̚⁵ ˈn̠ʲy²¹³/

/kuoʔ²⁴⁻³⁵ ŋy³³/

/kɔk̚³²⁻⁴ ɡu⁵³/

/kɔk̚⁵⁻²⁴ ɡɯ⁵⁵⁴/

/kɔk̚³²⁻⁵ ɡi⁵³/

/kɔk̚⁵⁻²⁴ ɡi⁵⁵⁴/

/kɔk̚³²⁻⁴ ɡi⁴¹/

/kɔk̚³⁻⁴ u⁴⁴⁵/

/koʔ³³ n̠ʲy⁴⁴/

GT - General Taiwanese (not particular region identified)

你會說國語嗎？

你会说国语吗？

national language; language specific to or of official usage in a nation

(chiefly Taiwanese and Philippine Hokkien, colloquial in Hong Kong, dated in Mainland China, obsolete in Malaysia) Mandarin Chinese; Standard Chinese


Beelzebub

First attested as Old English Belzebub, from Latin Beelzebūb, the Vulgate's form of Ancient Greek Βεελζεβούλ (Beelzeboúl), from Hebrew בעל זבוב (ba‘al-z'vúv, “fly-lord”), mentioned in 2 Kings chapter 1 as “the god of Ekron”.

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Baalzebub (alternative)
Belzebuth (alternative)
Beëlzebub (alternative)
Beelzebul (alternative)

But when the Phariſees heard it, they ſaid, This fellow doeth not caſt out deuils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the deuils.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 12:24, column 1:

(biblical) A Canaanite deity worshipped at Ekron.

Mamma mia, let me go / Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me!

1975, Freddie Mercury (lyrics and music), “Bohemian Rhapsody”, in A Night at the Opera, performed by Queen:

𐔱𐔴𐔾𐔵𐔴𐔱𐕒𐕡𐔾

a Semitic deity, another name for the Devil


Beelzebub

[beˈɛɫ̪z̪ɛbʊb]

Translating Ancient Greek Βεελζεβούλ (Beelzeboúl) and Biblical Hebrew בעל זבוב (Ba‘al-z'būb, “fly-lord”); perhaps a corruption of Beelzebul, meaning Lord of the Dwelling, with -bul altered to -bub to change the meaning to Lord of the Flies.

(biblical) the god of the Philistine city of Ekron.


Sapphic

Sappho (Ancient Greek Σαπφώ (Sapphṓ)) + -ic, whence Latin Sapphicus. Sense related to sexuality alludes to Sappho's poetry discussing love between women (see also lesbian).

(poetry) Of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five metrical feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl.


Sapphic

Sapphics (plural)
Sapphick (alternative)

His Sapphics, on the story of Bacchus and Ariadne, are easy, elegant, and poetical.

1824, Vicesimus Knox, The Works of Vicesimus Knox, D.D.: With a Biographical Preface:

The first line (which goes by the name of Aristophanes) is a Sapphic without the initial trochees.

1887, Horace, Horace: The Odes, Carmen Seculare, and Epodes, page 174:

"A real Sapphic," said Crane, dropping into a poetical tone, as an elocutionist does when he is hungry for an opportunity to recite a favorite sketch.

1888, Maurice Thompson, A Fortnight of Folly, page 41:


gentile

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

Borrowed from French gentil (“gentile”), from Latin gentīlis (“of or belonging to the same people or nation”), morphologically from gēns (“clan; tribe; people, family”) + adjective suffix -īlis (“-ile”). Doublet of gentle, genteel, jaunty, and Gentoo. See also gens, gender, genus, and generation.

doublet

This ſhall bring down the Judgment upon Rome, preſently after the Appearance of Antichriſt: and as upon Rome, ſo alſo upon all the Gentile Chriſtians, who have a Name to live but are dead, being fallen away from their Firſt Love and Faith, and ſo having made themſelves Veſſels fit for Deſtruction, when this ſore Judgment ſhall go forth.

1711, [John Hildrop], “The Preface”, in A Treatise of the Three Evils of the Last Times: […], London: Printed by M. J. for R[obert] Knaplock […], R. and J. Bonwicke […], and H. Clements […], →OCLC, pages lxxiv–lxxv:

If we read the Epistles of St. Paul, we shall soon discover what efforts the Jewish converts made to bring the Gentile converts into the observance of every Jewish custom compatible with christianity:^([sic]) and as we do not discover in those Epistles any traces of a dispute on this head between the Jewish and Gentile converts, we may fairly conclude that the Gentile converts adopted without hesitation the time-honoured manner of praising the true God made use of by the Jewish converts, instead of the Pagan mode of singing, which was then associated in their minds with every thing unclean and abominable.

1847, William Kelly, “Introduction”, in A Grammar of Gregorian, or Plain Chant Music, London: Thomas Richardson and Son, […], →OCLC, pages 11–12:

Down in the workshop all the elves were makin' toys
For the good gentile girls and the good gentile boys

1996, "Weird Al" Yankovic (lyrics and music), “The Night Santa Went Crazy”, in Bad Hair Day:

There is further evidence of the fact that both Romans and the Herodians distinguished Jewish from Gentile areas and treated them differently. Herod did not produce pagan coins, bearing an image of Augustus or himself, but rather good Jewish coins. It is noteworthy that he built numerous pagan buildings, including temples honouring Augustus and an amphitheater for Greek games, and he donated gymnasia to territories that he did not govern: […] But (and this is a very big "but") he put none of these Gentile/pagan buildings in the Jewish parts of his domain.

2001, E[d] P[arish] Sanders, “Jesus in Galilee”, in Doris Donnelly, editor, Jesus: A Colloquium in the Holy Land, New York, N.Y., London: Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 14:


gentile

Yea farther, ſo glorious, and raviſhing were the firſt dawnings of Goſpel light, which brought ſuch glad tidings of Salvation to Mankind, as that not only the Jews, but alſo ſome ſober minded, inquiſitive Gentiles rejoyced in this Light for a ſeaſon […] who yet never had a through work of Converſion on their hearts: […]

1671, Theophilus Gale, “Of the Academicks, and New Platonicks of Alexandria”, in The Court of the Gentiles: or, A Discourse Touching the Original of Human Literature, both Philologie, and Philosophie, from the Scriptures, and Jewish Church: […], part II (Of Philosophie), Oxford: Printed by Will[iam] Hall, for Tho[mas] Gilbert, →OCLC, book III, page 253:

If a Jew cheated a Gentile one sixth in the purchase or in the sale of any commodity, the Gentile was without remedy; not so if a Gentile imposed on a Jew to the same amount. Theft likewise by a Gentile from a Jew was death, not so if the parties were changed: and the same odious injustice they manifested in their law on homicide. […] it is rather extraordinary, that Plato should say, the penalty for the death of a native and of a foreigner should be different.

1810, George Ensor, “What Should Disqualify Persons from Being Electors or Representatives”, in On National Government, … In Two Volumes, volume II, London: Printed for J[oseph] Johnson, […]; for the benefit of the Literary Fund, →OCLC, pages 32–33:


olim

For ōle, olle, ōlus, ollus, archaic forms of ille, with locative ending -im, = illō tempore.

† Turned conjunction with original meaning somewhat dissimulated° Rare‡only used as a conjunction


Hannah

en-proper noun

Hannah (countable and uncountable, plural Hannahs)

From previous romanizations of Hebrew חַנָּה (Ḥannâ), chiefly for the mother of Samuel, from חַנָּה (ḥannâ, “grace, gracious, graced with child”). As a Wren with the Royal Marines, after Hannah Snell (1723–1792) who disguised herself as a man to serve in the British military. Doublet of Ann, Anne, Anna, and Ana.

Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am I not better to thee than ten sons?

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 1:8:

(biblical) Mother of the prophet Samuel in the Old Testament.


Peter

en-prop

Peter (countable and uncountable, plural Peters)

From Middle English Peter, from Old English Petrus, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”). Doublet of Pedro, Piers, and Boutros.

(biblical) The epistles of Peter in the New Testament of the Bible, 1 Peter and 2 Peter attributed to St. Peter.


Peter

From Old Norse Pétr, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”), related to πέτρα (pétra). Later reinforced by the German Peter.


Peter

Petres (genitive)
petir (alternative)
Petir (alternative)
petur (alternative)
petre (alternative)
peiter (alternative)

English: Peter

Scots: Peter

Yola: Beedher, Peedher, Peether

From Old English Petrus, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”).

Stille þou be peter. Wel i þe icnowe. / þou wolt fur ſake me þrien . ar þe coc him crowe.

c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 36-37; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 2019 May 29:

"Quiet now, Peter. I know you well; / You'll forsake me three times when the cock crows."


monitor

pl-noun

monitor m inan (related adjective monitorowy)

monitorowy (adjective)
monitor (nominative singular)
monitory (nominative plural)
monitora (genitive singular)
monitorów (genitive plural)
monitorowi (dative singular)
monitorom (dative plural)
monitor (accusative singular)
monitory (accusative plural)
monitorem (instrumental singular)
monitorami (instrumental plural)
monitorze (locative singular)
monitorach (locative plural)
monitorze (singular vocative)
monitory (plural vocative)

(computer hardware) monitor, screen (output device that displays information in pictorial or textual form)


komputer

ms-noun

komputer (Jawi spelling کومڤوتر, plural komputer-komputer, informal 1st possessive komputerku, 2nd possessive komputermu, 3rd possessive komputernya)

کومڤوتر (Jawi)
komputer-komputer (plural)
komputerku (first-person informal possessive)
komputermu (possessive second-person)
komputernya (possessive third-person)


loa

ᜎᜓᜏ (Baybayin)
lowa (alternative)
luwa (alternative)

poetic panegyric of eulogy (usually in praise of the Virgin Mary and the saints)


story

desctree

Sranan Tongo: tori
Aukan: toli
→ Dutch: tori

→ Welsh: stori

→ Persian: استوری (estori)

→ Portuguese: estória

From Middle English storie, storye, from Anglo-Norman estorie by aphesis. The Anglo-Norman word itself comes from Latin historia, a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā, “learning through research”). Doublet of history and storey.

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...it must be exploded for fabulous, with other relics of ancient story...

1673, William Temple, An Essay upon the Advancement of Trade in Ireland:

June 1861, Edinburgh Review, The Kingdom of Italy
Venice, with its unique city and its impressive story...

The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

So, what happened?
It's quite a long story actually...
Really? Don't worry about it then.

2006 Feb. 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4

Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:

The book tells the story of two roommates.

What will she do without being able to watch her stories?

He stood on the doorstep for a minute, listening for sounds inside the house — a radio, a TV tuned to one of the stories […]

(US, colloquial, usually pluralized) A soap opera.

What's the story with him?

I tried it again; same story, no error message, nothing happened.

The images it captured help tell a story of extreme loss: 25 percent of its ice and four of its 19 glaciers have disappeared since 1957.

A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.


werewolf

werewolves (plural)
warwolf (alternative)
wehrwolf (alternative)
were wolf (alternative)
were-wolf (alternative)
werwolf (alternative)

From Middle English werwolf, from Old English werewulf, from Proto-West Germanic *werawulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wer (“man”) + *wulf (“wolf”). By surface analysis, were- + wolf. Cognate with Dutch weerwolf, Low German Warwulf, German Werwolf, Danish varulv, Swedish varulv, and even possibly Finnish vironsusi.
Compare also French garou, in loup-garou, French dialectal gairou, varou (“werewolf”), Medieval Latin gerulphus, garulphus (“werewolf”), all from Germanic, probably Frankish *werawulf.

Near-synonym: dogman

(mythology) A person who is transformed or can transform into a wolf or a wolflike human, often said to do so during a full moon.


lycanthrope

From Ancient Greek λυκάνθρωπος (lukánthrōpos).

More generally, any sort of werecreature.


lycanthrope

fr-noun

lycanthrope m or f by sense (plural lycanthropes)

From Ancient Greek λυκάνθρωπος (lukánthrōpos, “human-wolf”).


mythos

en-noun

mythos (countable and uncountable, plural mythoi or mythoses)

Borrowed from Late Latin mȳthos (“myth”), from Ancient Greek μῦθος (mûthos, “report, tale, story”). Doublet of myth.
The plural form mythoi is from Ancient Greek μῦθοι (mûthoi), and the form mythoses from mythos + -es.

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To get most benefit from the four mythoi, one must avoid making two errors. First, a work embodying the comic mythos may be called comic but should not be confused with comedy since the latter term has too many meanings that are exclusively dramatic. The same stricture applies to tragedy and the tragic mythos. The second error is to assume that a work embodying the ironic mythos is an anti-romance.

1984, Kathryn Hume, “Fantasy as a Function of Form”, in Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature, New York, N.Y.: Methuen, →ISBN; republished Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2014, →ISBN, part III (The Functions of Fantasy: why Use Fantasy?), page 151:

In addition to mythoi drawn from myths and fairy tales, romances also employ mythoi derived from chivalric romances.

2011, Laura Vivanco, “Mythoi”, in John Lennard, editor, For Love and Money: The Literary Art of the Harlequin Mills & Boon Romance (Genre Fiction Monographs), Penrith, Cumbria: Humanities-Ebooks, →ISBN, page 76:

(literature) A recurring theme; a motif.


present

en-verb

present (third-person singular simple present presents, present participle presenting, simple past and past participle presented)

presents (present singular third-person)
presenting (participle present)
presented (participle past)
presented (past)
præsent (alternative)
ps. (alternative)

From Middle English presenten, from Old French presenter, from Latin praesentāre (“to show”), from praesent-, praesens, present participle of praeesse (“be in front of”).

Sherlock’s gender performance itself remains unchanged, with the exception of the hormonal changes he goes through after presenting as an omega.

2018, Ninna Ilias, "Reimagining Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Gender Performativity", thesis submitted to Radboud University, page 59

People “present” their secondary genders during puberty, so girls and boys are raised without knowing if they will be alphas, betas, or omegas.

2019, Tessa Baron, "Just Go Find Yourself a Nice Alpha: Gender and Consent in Supernatural Fandom's Alpha/Beta/Omega Universe", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 17

Deans kräftige Statur und Größe kommen eher dem stereotypischen Körperbau eines Alphas nahe als dem eines Omegas, was die große Enttäuschung seines Vaters verursachte, der erwartete, dass er als Alpha präsentiert.

2020, Goldmann, Julia Elena, “Wie schreibt man Haus... Mpreg Fan Fiction und Konzepte von Körpern, Geschlecht und Familie [How to Write House… Mpreg Fan Fiction and Concepts of Bodies, Gender and Family]”, in Hausbacher, Eva, Herbst, Liesa, Ostwald, Julia, Thiele, Martina, editors, geschlecht_transkulturell: Aktuelle Forschungsperspektiven [gender_transcultural: current research perspectives], 1st edition, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, published 2020, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 262:

Dean’s strong build and height come closer to the stereotypical build of an Alpha than to an Omega, which caused the huge disappointment for his father, who expected him to present as an Alpha.

(fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, to have one's secondary sex (alpha, omega, or beta) become apparent, typically at puberty.


embiggen

embiggen (third-person singular simple present embiggens, present participle embiggening, simple past and past participle embiggened)

embiggens (present singular third-person)
embiggening (participle present)
embiggened (participle past)
embiggened (past)

From em- + biggen or big + em- -en, possibly analogous to belittle. The morphology parallels that of enlarge (en- + large) or embolden (em- + bold + -en).
The verb's first recorded use is in an 1884 edition of the British journal Notes and Queries: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc. by C. A. Ward (see quotation below).
The word’s current popularity follows its deployment as an intentionally ungainly form by television writer David X. Cohen for The Simpsons episode “Lisa the Iconoclast” in 1996.

Are there not, however, barbarous verbs in all languages? ἀλλ’ ἐμεγάλυνεν αυτοὺς ὁ λαός, but the people magnified them, to make great or embiggen, if we may invent an English parallel as ugly. After all, use is nearly everything.

1884, C.A. Ward, “New Verbs”, in Notes and Queries: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc, volume 10, page 135:

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

1996, “Lisa the Iconoclast”, in The Simpsons, season 7, episode 3F13, spoken by Jebediah Springfield (Harry Shearer):

[Page 24] For large P, the three-form fluxes are dilute, and the gradient of the Myers potential encouraging an anti-D3 to embiggen is very mild.
[Page 26] While in both cases for P anti-D3-branes the probe approximation is clearly not good, in the set up of this paper we could argue that there is a competing effect which can overcome the desire of the anti-D3s to embiggen, namely their attraction towards the wrapped D5s.

2007 January 23, Riccardo Argurio, Matteo Bertolini, Sebastián Franco, Shamit Kachru, “Gauge/gravity duality and meta-stable dynamical supersymmetry breaking”, in Journal of High Energy Physics, pages 24, 26:

As I joyfully embiggen myself into the vague silhouette of Chewbacca, I have time to reflect on just what it is about big hair that I find so elementally appealing.

2012 4 Feb, Caitlin Moran, “Hair: a big issue”, in The Times:

Train stations: how busy is yours? Victoria Station in 1927. Click image to embiggen.

2013 May 19, “Every train station in Britain listed and mapped: find out how busy each one is”, in The Guardian, picture caption:

You can hide enemies, stack them up high, embiggen them with a Super Mushroom, hide coins in pipes, and so much more!

2019, 1:24 from the start, in Super Mario Maker 2 Direct 5.15.2019 (Nintendo Direct), Nintendo:

(nonstandard, usually humorous, ergative) To enlarge; to make or become bigger.

David X. Cohen
Lisa the Iconoclast
Notes and Queries
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Simpsons


tren

trenowy (adjective)
tren (nominative singular)
treny (nominative plural)
trenu (genitive singular)
trenów (genitive plural)
trenowi (dative singular)
trenom (dative plural)
tren (accusative singular)
treny (accusative plural)
trenem (instrumental singular)
trenami (instrumental plural)
trenie (locative singular)
trenach (locative plural)
trenie (singular vocative)
treny (plural vocative)

(poetry) threnody (poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy)


omer

omers (plural)
gomer (alternative)
Omer (alternative)

From Biblical Hebrew עומר / עֹמֶר ('ómer, “sheaf”).

...that Omer which was every mans daily portion of Manna, is computed to have bin more then might have well suffic'd the heartiest feeder thrice as many meals.

And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.

(historical units of measure) A former small Hebrew unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L or 2.1 quarts.


page

From Old French page, possibly via Italian paggio, from Late Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of "boy from the rural regions". Used in English from the 13th century onwards.

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(in libraries) The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.