erotica

en-noun

erotica (countable and uncountable, plural eroticas)

From neuter plural of Latin eroticus (“amatory”), from Ancient Greek ἐρωτικός (erōtikós). By surface analysis, erotic + -ica.

There's a fine line between erotica and pornography.

In fact, eighteenth-century British erotica has been the subject of unremitting attention for the last two decades.

2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 114:

(uncountable) Erotic literature, art, decoration, or other such work.


leprosy

leprosy (usually uncountable, plural leprosies)

From Norman leprosie, from Middle French leprosie (“leprosy & similar skin diseases”), probably from leprous (“leprous”) + -ie (“-y”) but possibly from Medieval Latin leprōsia (leprōsus + -ia) although this only historically attested in reference to leprosariums.
The shift of sense from psoriasis to Hansen's disease occurred in large part from the use of λέπρα (lépra) to translate Hebrew צרעת (“tzaraath”) in the Septuagint and its subsequent use in the New Testament and Late Latin.

der

(medicine, now usually proscribed) Similar contagious skin diseases causing light patches of scaly skin, particularly psoriasis, syphilis, vitiligo, scabies, and (biblical) the various diseases considered "tzaraath" in the Old Testament.


Luke

From Latin Lūcās, from Koine Greek Λουκᾶς (Loukâs). See the Greek entry for more.

Luk. (alternative)
Lk (alternative)
Luc. (alternative)

כרוזותא דלוקא

Kārōzūtā’ d'Lūqā’

ܟܪܘܙܘܬܐ ܕܠܘܩܐ

Kārōzūtā’ d'Lūqā’

Soiscéal Naofa Íosa Críost de réir Lúcáis

"Your parents like Cool Hand Luke, yes?" "I don't really know. Why?" "Why? Because they name you Luke." I was worried I might have to explain that my name wasn't all that uncommon, and, anyway, Claudia had named me after the alter ego of Hank Williams, Luke the Drifter.

2005, Dallas Hudgens, Drive Like Hell, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 94:

The engineers are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.

2025 February 2, Vittoria Elliott, “The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 2025-02-02:

Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.

Acts of the Apostles
Acts of the Apostles

Luke the Evangelist, an early Christian credited with the authorship of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles.

(biblical) The Gospel of St. Luke, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the third of the four gospels.

A town in Maryland, United States; named for papermaker William Luke.


lyric

en-adj

lyric (comparative more lyric, superlative most lyric)

more lyric (comparative)
most lyric (superlative)
lyrick (alternative)

From French lyrique, or its source, Latin lyricus, from Ancient Greek λυρικός (lurikós), from λύρα (lúra, “lyre”). Its English equivalent would be lyre + -ic.
The original Greek sense of "lyric poetry"—"poetry accompanied by the lyre" i.e. "words set to music"—eventually led to its use as "lyrics", first attested in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Stainer and Barrett used the word as a singular substantive: "Lyric, poetry or blank verse intended to be set to music and sung". By the 1930s, the present use of the plurale tantum "lyrics" had begun; it has been standard since the 1950s for many writers. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song by authorities such as Alec Wilder, Robert Gottlieb, and Stephen Sondheim. However, the singular form is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics.

(poetry) Of, or relating to a type of poetry (such as a sonnet or ode) that expresses subjective thoughts and feelings, often in a songlike style.


rhapsody

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

cog

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

狂想曲

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


stichomythia

en-noun

stichomythia (countable and uncountable, plural stichomythias)

/stɪkəˈmɪθɪə/

From Latin, from Ancient Greek στιχομυθία (stikhomuthía), from στίχος (stíkhos, “line of verse”) (see sticho-) + μῦθος (mûthos, “speech”).

The trial in the great hall under its high vaults, dusty sunlight shafting in, full of murmurers and growlers quietened by beadles and bailiffs, with howlers in the street held back with pikes, was by way of being a play without plot or exercise in what the Senecans term stichomythia.

1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man In Deptford:

The stichomythias are just as necessary in Sophocles' tragedies as are his choruses.

2006, Olga Freidenberg, Image and Concept, page 297:

The two modes have different effects: while a rhesis allows the speaker to give an account of himself, attempt to persuade his hearers, or move freely across a range of emotions or types of argument, stichomythia is better suited to swift exchange of information through question and answer, though it can also be used for spicy polemic, aggressive interrogation, or accusation and defence.

2012, R. B. Rutherford, Greek Tragic Style: Form, Language and Interpretation, page 165:

(poetry) A technique in drama or poetry, in which alternating lines, or half-lines, are given to alternating characters, voices, or entities.


dybbuk

dybbuks (plural)
dybbukim (plural)
dibbuk (alternative)

From Yiddish דיבוק (dibek), from Hebrew דבק (dovek, “cling”).

(mythology, Judaism) A malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person.


Deuteronomy

From the name which the book bears in the Septuagint (Ancient Greek Δευτερονόμιον (Deuteronómion) and in the Vulgate Latin Deuteronomium). This is based upon the erroneous Septuagint rendering of משנה התורה הזאת (mishneh ha-torah ha-zot) (17:18), which grammatically can mean only "a repetition [that is, a copy] of this law," but which is rendered by the Septuagint τὸ Δευτερονόμιον τοῦτο (tò Deuteronómion toûto), as though the expression meant "this repetition of the law."

uder

Δευτερονόμιον

pedia

Book of Deuteronomy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

The fifth of the Books of Moses in the Old Testament of the Bible, the fifth book in the Torah.


diegesis

Ancient Greek διήγησις (diḗgēsis, “narration”), from διηγέομαι (diēgéomai, “I narrate”)

uder

A novel like Sterne′s Tristram Shandy, however, simply embeds a number of different diegeses on the play-within-a-play model.

1985, Bill Nichols, Movies and Methods: An Anthology, page 504:

The standard distinction between mimesis and diegesis is usually referred to as that between showing and telling, between iconic and indexical signs on the one hand and symbolic signs on the other, between drama and recitation.

1991, Christopher Collins, The Poetics of the Mind's Eye: Literature and the Psychology of Imagination, page 4:

Extradiegetic music is a matter of pure convention. It constitutes an exception within Hollywood classical cinema, in which everything is to belong to diegesis in order to elaborate a fictive, realistic universe.

2004, Sarah Hatchuel, Shakespeare: From Stage to Screen, page 89:

(narratology) A narration or recitation.


enchiridion

en-noun

enchiridion (plural enchiridions or enchiridia)

enchiridions (plural)
enchiridia (plural)

Either via Latin enchīridion or directly, from Ancient Greek ἐγχειρίδιον (enkheirídion, “handbook, manual”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + a neuter suffix.

bor

If they queried the predictabilities and completions of story, Swift and Sterne were yet more suspicious of the totalisations and regularities of imposed rules, institutes, universal systems, cyclopaedias and enchiridions.

2009, Thomas Keymer, The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne, page 27:


climax

en-noun

climax (countable and uncountable, plural climaxes or (rare) climaces)

climaxes (plural)
climaces (plural rare)

From Latin clīmax, from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax, “ladder, staircase, [rhetorical] climax”), from κλίνω (klínō, “I lean, slant”).

bor

As a trafficker in climaxes and thrills and characterization and wonderful dialogue and suspense and confrontations, I had outlined the Dresden story many times.

1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., chapter 1, in Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 4:

(narratology) The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.

кулминация

turning point in a plot or dramatic action


climax

nl-noun

climax m (plural climaxen, diminutive climaxje n)

climaxen (plural)
climaxje (diminutive neuter)

Borrowed from Latin climax, from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax).

De climax van het verhaal was voor mijn gevoel wel erg snel afgelopen.

The climax of the story felt like it ended too quickly.

(literature) climax (culmination of a narrative's rising action)


mia

(classical studies) An ancient bluffing game played with dice.


mimesis

Learned borrowing from Latin mīmēsis, from Ancient Greek μῑ́μησις (mī́mēsis).

(art, literature) mimesis (representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions)


panorama

pl-noun

panorama f (related adjective panoramowy)

panoramowy (adjective)
panorama (nominative singular)
panoramy (nominative plural)
panoramy (genitive singular)
panoram (genitive plural)
panoramie (dative singular)
panoramom (dative plural)
panoramę (accusative singular)
panoramy (accusative plural)
panoramą (instrumental singular)
panoramami (instrumental plural)
panoramie (locative singular)
panoramach (locative plural)
panoramo (singular vocative)
panoramy (plural vocative)

Internationalism; compare English panorama, French panorama, German Panorama, ultimately from Ancient Greek ὅραμα (hórama).

(film, literature) panorama (comprehensive presentation of an issue in a literary work or film) [with genitive ‘of what’]


phantasm

phantasms (plural)
fantasm (alternative)
phantasim (alternative)
phantasma (alternative)

A learned variant of phantom; from Middle English fantosme, from Old French fantosme, fantasme, from Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma). Doublet of phantom.

But night comes in with a more genial spirit: we have done our worst and our bitterest; and we need a small space to indulge any little bit of cordiality that may be left in us. A thousand gay phantasms float in on the sunny south, which has left the far-off vineyards of its birth.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Success”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 75:

He declares that there seems to be no justification for regarding the phantasms of dreams as pure hallucinations; most dream-images are probably in fact illusions, since they arise from faint sense-impressions, which never cease during sleep.

1900, Sigmund Freud, translated by James Strachey, The Interpretation of Dreams: Avon Books, page 74:

Something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition.


phantom

Inherited from Middle English fantome, fanteme, from Old French fantosme, fantasme, from Latin phantasma (“an apparition, specter; (in Late Latin also) appearance, image”), from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “phantasm, an appearance, image, apparition, specter”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “I make visible”). Doublet of phantasm.


sutra

sutra (nominative singular)
sutry (nominative plural)
sutry (genitive singular)
sutr (genitive plural)
sutrze (dative singular)
sutrom (dative plural)
sutrę (accusative singular)
sutry (accusative plural)
sutrą (instrumental singular)
sutrami (instrumental plural)
sutrze (locative singular)
sutrach (locative plural)
sutro (singular vocative)
sutry (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Sanskrit सूत्र (sū́tra, “thread, yarn, string; rule”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *súHtram, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *súHtram, from Proto-Indo-European *súh₁trom, from *syuh₁- (“to sew”).

bor+

(literature) sutra (rule or thesis in Sanskrit grammar or Hindu law or philosophy)


hebdomadaire

From Latin hebdomadārius, from Latin hebdomas (English hebdomad), from Ancient Greek ἑβδομάς (hebdomás, “seven, group of seven”).

uder

M. Willis est aujourd’hui le directeur de la Feuille du foyer (Home Journal), journal hebdomadaire qui se publie à New-York et qui est consacré presque exclusivement à la littérature.

1857, Phillippe Athanase Cucheval-Clarigny, Histoire de la presse en Angleterre et aux États-Unis, page 472:

Mr Willis is today the director of the Home Journal, a weekly newspaper which is published in New York and which is dedicated almost exclusively to literature.


surrealism

en-noun

surrealism (countable and uncountable, plural surrealisms)

From French surréalisme. By surface analysis, sur- + realism and/or surreal + -ism.

(informal) Art with a surreal aesthetic or narrative, regardless of whether or not it is linked to the surrealist movement


قاموس

ar-noun

قَامُوس • (qāmūs) m (plural قَوَامِيس (qawāmīs))

قَامُوس (canonical)
qāmūs (romanization)
قَوَامِيس (plural)
قَامُوس (indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْقَامُوس (definite informal singular triptote)
قَامُوس (construct informal singular triptote)
قَامُوسٌ (indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْقَامُوسُ (definite nominative singular triptote)
قَامُوسُ (construct nominative singular triptote)
قَامُوسًا (accusative indefinite singular triptote)
الْقَامُوسَ (accusative definite singular triptote)
قَامُوسَ (accusative construct singular triptote)
قَامُوسٍ (genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْقَامُوسِ (definite genitive singular triptote)
قَامُوسِ (construct genitive singular triptote)
قَامُوسَيْن (dual indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْقَامُوسَيْن (definite dual informal singular triptote)
قَامُوسَيْ (construct dual informal singular triptote)
قَامُوسَانِ (dual indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْقَامُوسَانِ (definite dual nominative singular triptote)
قَامُوسَا (construct dual nominative singular triptote)
قَامُوسَيْنِ (accusative dual indefinite singular triptote)
الْقَامُوسَيْنِ (accusative definite dual singular triptote)
قَامُوسَيْ (accusative construct dual singular triptote)
قَامُوسَيْنِ (dual genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْقَامُوسَيْنِ (definite dual genitive singular triptote)
قَامُوسَيْ (construct dual genitive singular triptote)
قَوَامِيس (broken-form diptote indefinite informal plural)
الْقَوَامِيس (broken-form definite diptote informal plural)
قَوَامِيس (broken-form construct diptote informal plural)
قَوَامِيسُ (broken-form diptote indefinite nominative plural)
الْقَوَامِيسُ (broken-form definite diptote nominative plural)
قَوَامِيسُ (broken-form construct diptote nominative plural)
قَوَامِيسَ (accusative broken-form diptote indefinite plural)
الْقَوَامِيسَ (accusative broken-form definite diptote plural)
قَوَامِيسَ (accusative broken-form construct diptote plural)
قَوَامِيسَ (broken-form diptote genitive indefinite plural)
الْقَوَامِيسِ (broken-form definite diptote genitive plural)
قَوَامِيسِ (broken-form construct diptote genitive plural)

→ Hausa: ƙamus

→ Malay: kamus

→ Indonesian: kamus

→ Maranao: kamos

→ Northern Kurdish: qamûs

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: قاموس (kamus)
Turkish: kamus

→ Pashto: قاموس (qâmos)

→ Persian: قاموس (qâmus)

Tajik: қомус (qomus)

→ Somali: qaamuus

→ Sundanese: kamus

→ Swahili: kamusi

→ Kikuyu: kamusi

→ Luhya: ekamusi

→ Meru: kamusi

→ Urdu: قاموس (qāmūs)

→ Uyghur: قامۇس (qamus)

From Ancient Greek ὠκεανός (ōkeanós). Sense 1 stems from the title of Firuzabadi’s dictionary, the The Encompassing ὠκεανός, which became popular.

قَامُوسٌ جَيْبِيٌّ

يَضُمُّ ٱلْقَامُوسُ ٱلْجَدِيدُ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ 130 أَلْفَ كَلِمَةٍ وَعِبَارَةٍ

2014 August 30, “جديد أكسفورد قاموس رائد”, in Al-Akhbar:

The new dictionary covers more than 130 thousand words and expressions

yaḍummu l-qāmūsu l-jadīdu ʔakṯara min 130 ʔalfa kalimatin waʕibāratin


قاموس

Turkish: kamus

From Arabic قَامُوس (qāmūs), from Ancient Greek ὠκεανός (ōkeanós).


قاموس

head

قاموس • (qāmus) m

ps-noun

قاموس • (qāmus) m

qāmus (romanization)
قاموس (direct singular)
قاموسونه (direct plural)
قاموس (oblique singular)
قاموسونو (oblique plural)
قاموسه (singular vocative)
قاموسونو (plural vocative)


قاموس

head

قاموس • (qâmus)

fa-noun

قاموس • (qâmus)

Borrowed from Arabic قَامُوس (qāmūs), from Ancient Greek ὠκεανός (ōkeanós).


قاموس

ur-noun

قامُوس • (qāmūs) m (Hindi spelling क़ामूस)

قامُوس (canonical)
qāmūs (romanization)
क़ामूस (Hindi)


spook

Borrowed from Dutch spook (“ghost”), from Middle Dutch spooc (“spook, ghost”). Cognate with Middle Low German spôk, spûk (“apparition, ghost”), Middle High German gespük (“a haunting”), German Spuk, Danish spøge (“to haunt”), Swedish spöke (“ghost”).


spook

→ Northern Ndebele: isipoko

→ Xhosa: isiporho

→ Zulu: isipoki

From Dutch spook, from Middle Dutch spoke, spooc, from Proto-Germanic *spōk.


spook

nl-noun

spook n (plural spoken, diminutive spookje n)

desctree

Afrikaans: spook
→ Northern Ndebele: isipoko
→ Xhosa: isiporho
→ Zulu: isipoki

Negerhollands: spook

→ English: spook

→ Papiamentu: spoki, spooki

From Middle Dutch spoke, spooc, from spoke, spoocke, spoicke (“wizardry, witchcraft”), from Proto-Germanic *spōk. Further etymology unclear. Cognate with Middle Low German spôk, Low German spôk, Middle High German Spuch, and German Spuk.

het spook van de oorlog

an imaginary horror, conceptual nightmare


Numbers

For in the book of Numbers is it writ,
When the man dies, let the inheritance
Descend unto the daughter.

1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

The Book of Numbers, the fourth of the Books of Moses in the Old Testament of the Bible, the fourth book in the Torah.


notes

notesik (diminutive)
notes (nominative singular)
notesy (nominative plural)
notesu (genitive singular)
notesów (genitive plural)
notesowi (dative singular)
notesom (dative plural)
notes (accusative singular)
notesy (accusative plural)
notesem (instrumental singular)
notesami (instrumental plural)
notesie (locative singular)
notesach (locative plural)
notesie (singular vocative)
notesy (plural vocative)


ĉapitro

eo-head

ĉapitro (accusative singular ĉapitron, plural ĉapitroj, accusative plural ĉapitrojn)

ĉapitron (accusative singular)
ĉapitroj (plural)
ĉapitrojn (accusative plural)

Holonym: libro (“book”)


Shakespeare

Shakespeares (plural)
Shakespere (alternative)
Shakspeare (alternative)
Shakspere (alternative)

→ Vietnamese: Sếch-xpia

A common Middle English surname meaning spearman, corresponding to shake (“to brandish a weapon”) + spear.

William Shakespeare, an English playwright and poet of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.


smurf

Peyo
The Smurfs
fr:Les Schtroumpfs
nl:De Smurfen

Borrowed from Dutch smurf (via the Belgian comic De Smurfen, a translation of French Les Schtroumpfs), from French schtroumpf, a word that was created by Peyo based on German Strumpf (literally “stocking, sock”), either simply because it sounds funny to the French ear or based on a regional German use for “idiot”. Armand van Raalte was an employee for the Belgian publisher of Peyo's stories who felt that schtroumpf would not have the same effect in Dutch, so he tried to find a simple word that could be used both as a noun and a verb. The result was smurf. In other languages, the term was similarly altered; compare the translations below.

der

He occasionally used the proper noun of the restaurant as an adverb, the way a Smurf would.

2021 December 8, Geraldine DeRuiter, “Bros., Lecce: We Eat at The Worst Michelin Starred Restaurant, Ever”, in The Everywhereist:

(comics, fiction) A blue pixie with white stocking cap, from the media franchise The Smurfs.


smurf

nl-noun

smurf m (plural smurfen, diminutive smurfje n)

smurfen (plural)
smurfje (diminutive neuter)

Changed from the original French schtroumpf as described above.


smurf

smurf (indefinite nominative singular)
smurfs (genitive indefinite singular)
smurfen (definite nominative singular)
smurfens (definite genitive singular)
smurfar (indefinite nominative plural)
smurfars (genitive indefinite plural)
smurfarna (definite nominative plural)
smurfarnas (definite genitive plural)
smurf (indefinite nominative singular)
smurfs (genitive indefinite singular)
smurfen (definite nominative singular)
smurfens (definite genitive singular)
smurfer (indefinite nominative plural)
smurfers (genitive indefinite plural)
smurferna (definite nominative plural)
smurfernas (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed from Dutch smurf, from French schtroumpf.


open sesame

open sesames (plural)
open, Sesame (alternative)
open, sesame (alternative)
open Sesame (alternative)

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Antoine Galland
One Thousand and One Nights

From its use in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, translating French Sésame, ouvre-toi in Antoine Galland's version of the Ali Baba story in the One Thousand and One Nights, possibly based on an oral Arabic source.
Not, as some have purported, a corruption of Open, says me!.

"The blue topaz was bought by me, from the chieftain of the tribe to which Quacal belongs. It is an ‘open sesame’ to his favor."

1899, William Wallace Cook, “Aquastor”, in Overland Monthly, page 15:

He who can read a true book aright has an open sesame to audiences with the great and wise of all time.

1905, John Ruskin, The Works of John Ruskin, page lv:

Relevancy not always an open sesame having in mind the over-all authority and discretion of the trial judge.

1963, William J. Palmer, Trial Tactics in California, page 57:

When Mussolini was a young chap, he dabbled with socialism, imagining it to be an open sesame to a better society.

2001 September 24, Gareth McLean, “Sympathy for a devil”, in The Guardian:

Any successful means of achieving a result, especially means that are magical or technical, or otherwise beyond the understanding of most people.


Judith

→ Cebuano: Judith

Ultimately from Hebrew יְהוּדִית (Y'hudít, “woman from Judea, Jewess”). Doublet of Yehudit.

der

And Judith was left along in the tent, and Holofernes lying along upon his bed: for he was filled with wine. --- And she smote twice upon his neck with all her might, and she took away his head from him.

(biblical) The protagonist of the Biblical book of Judith.

And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.


Judith

From English Judith, from Hebrew יְהוּדִית (Y'hudít, “woman from Judea, Jewess”).

a female given name from English [in turn from Hebrew]

(biblical) the protagonist of the Biblical book of Judith


Judith

From Hebrew יְהוּדִית (Y'hudít, “woman from Judea, Jewess”).


CP

Initialism of cum privilegio, with privilege.


leabhar

head

leabhar m (genitive singular leabhair, nominative plural leabhair or leabhartha)

leabhair (genitive singular)
leabhair (nominative plural)
leabhartha (nominative plural)
leabhar (indefinite nominative singular)
leabhair (indefinite nominative plural)
a leabhair (indefinite singular vocative)
a leabhara (indefinite plural vocative)
leabhair (genitive indefinite singular)
leabhar (genitive indefinite plural)
leabhar (dative indefinite singular)
leabhair (dative indefinite plural)
an leabhar (definite nominative singular)
na leabhair (definite nominative plural)
an leabhair (definite genitive singular)
na leabhar (definite genitive plural)
leis an leabhar (dative definite singular)
don leabhar (dative definite singular)
leis na leabhair (dative definite plural)


leabhar

leabhar m (genitive singular leabhair, plural leabhraichean)

leabhair (genitive singular)
leabhraichean (plural)
leabhar (indefinite nominative singular)
leabhraichean (indefinite nominative plural)
leabhair (genitive indefinite singular)
leabhraichean (genitive indefinite plural)
leabhar (dative indefinite singular)
leabhraichean (dative indefinite plural)
leabhar (definite nominative singular)
an leabhar (definite nominative singular)
leabhraichean (definite nominative plural)
na leabhraichean (definite nominative plural)
leabhair (definite genitive singular)
an leabhair (definite genitive singular)
leabhraichean (definite genitive plural)
nan leabhraichean (definite genitive plural)
leabhar (dative definite singular)
an leabhar (dative definite singular)
leabhraichean (dative definite plural)
na leabhraichean (dative definite plural)
leabhar (definite singular vocative)
leabhraichean (definite plural vocative)

Seo an leabhar leamsa.


periodical

en-adj

periodical (comparative more periodical, superlative most periodical)

more periodical (comparative)
most periodical (superlative)

/ˌpɪɹiˈɑdɪkl̩/

/ˌpɪəɹiˈɒdɪkl̩/

influence opinion through the periodical press.

1882, William John Courthope, “Addison”, in Men of Letters:

Published at regular intervals of more than one day, especially weekly, monthly, or quarterly.


bevara

head

bevara (present bevarar, preterite bevarade, supine bevarat, imperative bevara)

bevarar (present)
bevarade (preterite)
bevarat (supine)
bevara (imperative)
bevara (active infinitive)
bevaras (infinitive passive)
bevarat (active supine)
bevarats (passive supine)
bevara (active imperative)
bevaren (active archaic)
bevarar (active indicative present)
bevarade (active indicative past)
bevaras (indicative passive present)
bevarades (indicative passive past)
bevara (active archaic present)
bevarade (active archaic past)
bevaras (archaic passive present)
bevarades (archaic passive past)
bevare (active dated present subjunctive)
bevarade (active dated past subjunctive)
bevares (dated passive present subjunctive)
bevarades (dated passive past subjunctive)
bevarande (active participle past present)
bevarad (active participle past)

From Old Swedish bevara, from Middle Low German bewaren, from Proto-Germanic *biwarōną from *bi- + *warōną. Equivalent to be- + vara (“to last”). Cognate with English beware, Danish bevare, Norwegian Bokmål bevare, Norwegian Nynorsk bevare, bevara, Dutch bewaren and German bewahren. Displaced native gömma in this sense.


decorum

decorum (nominative singular)
decora (nominative plural)
decorum (genitive singular)
decorów (genitive plural)
decorum (dative singular)
decorom (dative plural)
decorum (accusative singular)
decora (accusative plural)
decorum (instrumental singular)
decorami (instrumental plural)
decorum (locative singular)
decorach (locative plural)
decorum (singular vocative)
decora (plural vocative)
dekorum (alternative)

Unadapted borrowing from Latin decōrum. Doublet of dekoracja and dekorować.

(literature) decorum (principle of classical rhetoric, poetry, and theatrical theory concerning the fitness or otherwise of a style to a theatrical subject)


Simone

Ultimately from Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (shim'ón).


hamartia

en-noun

hamartia (usually uncountable, plural hamartias)

/ˌhæˌmɑɹˈtiː.ə/

/ˌhɑːˌmɑɹˈtiː.ə/

From Ancient Greek ἁμαρτία (hamartía, “tragic failure, sinful nature”), from the verb ἁμαρτάνω (hamartánō, “to miss the mark”).

der

Creon's main hamartia was his excessive pride.

Understanding hamartia as “ignorance of the injurious act,” Lacan distinguishes Greek tragedy from the Renaissance version on the basis that the latter supplants hamartia with the hero's privileged knowledge.

2006, David Ratmoko, On Spectrality: Fantasies of Redemption in the Western Canon, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 71:

The plot and the tragic figure at its center, destroyed through an act of hamartia, should be tailored to the production of pity and fear. Oedipus is not so much a person as he is a hamartia delivery system, a moving, empty center within the motions of the play, who through his vulnerability to hamartia and its disastrous consequences reveals the pitiable and the fearful to the audience.

2008, Daniel Greenspan, The Passion of Infinity: Kierkegaard, Aristotle and the Rebirth of Tragedy, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 81:

But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.

2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years […] ”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport):

(Greek drama) The tragic flaw of the protagonist in a literary tragedy.


Darth Vader

"Darth" is a blend of dark + death (the derivation from Dark Lord of the Sith is a later development).
"Vader" is traditionally explained as being from Dutch vader (“father”). However, the idea of Vader's fatherhood was only developed for The Empire Strikes Back (after the character was introduced), making this improbable. It is more likely a shortening of invader or from the surname Vader.

What's all this? Looks like Darth Vader's bathroom.

1982, “Knight of the Phoenix”, in Knight Rider, episode 1 (television production), spoken by Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff):

Darth Vader, a villain of the science-fantasy film series Star Wars.


heteronym

Coined around 1900, either from hetero- (“different”) + -onym (“name”) or from Ancient Greek ἑτερώνυμος (heterṓnumos), or perhaps both.

polyphone

a letter [or combination of letters] that can be pronounced in two or more different ways, such as 長 / 长 in Chinese, pronounced [cháng] in the sense of ’long’ and [zhǎng] in the sense of ’to grow’

(literature) A fictitious character created by an author for the purpose of writing in a different style.

heteronyymi

fictitious character writing in a different style


boing

Onomatopoeic. The “large breasts” sense is reborrowed from Japanese ボイン, in turn from English boing.

A representation of the sound of something bouncing.

(fandom slang, chiefly in the context of anime and comics) Announcing the presence of large, pert breasts, which are bouncy.


boing

→ Japanese: ボイン

→ English: boing

(fandom slang, chiefly in the context of anime and comics) Large breasts.


nursery rhyme

From how Victorian and Edwardian parents used to tell such rhymes to their children in the nursery, i.e. the children's bedroom.

A short poem or song for children, mostly anonymous or handed down by folklore


Columbia

From Columbus + -ia, the Latinized name of the European explorer, Christopher Columbus. Piecewise doublet of Colombia.

census-designated place
census-designated place

A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California.

Several places in the United States.
A town in Tolland County, Connecticut.

Several places in the United States.
A town in Herkimer County, New York.

Tuscarawas County
Tuscarawas County#English

An unincorporated community in Tuscarawas County, Ohio.

An unincorporated community in Fluvanna County, Virginia.


Seth

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σήθ (Sḗth), from Biblical Hebrew שֵׁת (Šet, literally “chosen one, appointed, placed”).

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

(biblical) The third son of Adam and Eve.


Seth

de-proper noun

Seth m (proper noun, strong, genitive Seths or Seth)

Seths (genitive)
Seth (genitive)
Set (alternative)

From Ancient Greek Σήθ (Sḗth), from Hebrew שֵׁת (Šet, literally “chosen one, appointed, placed”).

der

de:Set (Bibel)
de:Seth (Ägyptische Mythologie)


I Ching

/ˌiː ˈt͡ʃɪŋ/

From Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 易經／易经 (I⁴-ching¹).

A somewhat analogous situation exists in China. After the death of Mao Zedong and the gradual emergence of a market economy, UFOs, channeling and other examples of Western pseudoscience emerged, along with such ancient Chinese practices as ancestor worship, astrology and fortune telling—especially that version that involves throwing yarrow sticks and working through the hoary hexagrams of the I Ching. The government newspaper lamented that “the superstition of feudal ideology is reviving in our countryside.” It was (and remains) a rural, not primarily an urban, affliction.

1995, Carl Sagan, “The Most Precious Thing”, in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1st edition, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:

In search of inspiration, I picked up the I Ching, the ancient Chinese “Book of Changes” that has been consulted for centuries. I’ve held on to a dusty Bollingen Series text since my college days. To consult the oracle, you cast yarrow straws or, in a pinch, coins, and match the results with one of 64 hexagrams. Then you read and interpret the text that accompanies the hexagram. Got that?
Sitting at the dinner table with the I Ching and some pennies, I formed a question in my mind: “Is it time to begin investing again?”

2009 July 11, John Schwartz, “There’s No Future in Being an Oracle”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-26:

A Chinese classic text describing an ancient system of cosmology and philosophy which is at the heart of traditional Chinese cultural beliefs.


gens

la-noun

gēns f (genitive gentis); third declension

gēns (canonical feminine)
gentis (genitive)
gēns (nominative singular)
gentēs (nominative plural)
gentis (genitive singular)
gentium (genitive plural)
gentī (dative singular)
gentibus (dative plural)
gentem (accusative singular)
gentēs (accusative plural)
gentīs (accusative plural)
gente (ablative singular)
gentibus (ablative plural)
gēns (singular vocative)
gentēs (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

Aromanian: gintã (unusual)

Romanian: gint

Dalmatian:

ziant

Italo-Romance:

Italian: gente

desc

→ Sardinian: gente, genti, tzente, zente

Judeo-Italian: יֵינְטַה (yenəṭa /jenta/)

Neapolitan: gente

Sicilian: genti

W. Romance of N. Italy:

Friulian: int

Istriot: zento

Venetan: dente, xente, zente

Lombard: gent

Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: gens

desctree

Old French: gent
French: gens m pl
Norman: gens m pl
Walloon: djin m pl

Occitano-Romance:

Catalan: gent

Occitan: gent

Aragonese: chent

Ibero-Romance:

Asturian: xente

Leonese: xente

Mirandese: giente

Old Galician-Portuguese: gente

Galician: xente

Portuguese: gente

Old Spanish: yente

Ladino: djente

Spanish: gente (latin influence)

Borrowings:

→ Albanian: gjinde

→ Basque: jende

→ Romanian: gintă

→ English: gens, ⇒ genticide

From Proto-Italic *gentis, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis, from root *ǵenh₁- (“to produce, to beget, to give birth”).
See also generō, genus, gignō. Cognate with English kind, Sanskrit जाति (jāti), Ancient Greek γένος (génos) and Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis), whence English genesis.

(biblical, Christianity, Judaism) heathen, pagan


herald

From Latin heraldus, from Middle English herald, herauld, heraud, from Anglo-Norman heraud, from Old French heraut, hiraut (modern French héraut), from Frankish *heriwald, from Proto-Germanic *harjawaldaz, a compound consisting of Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“army”) + *h₂welh₁- (“to be strong”). Doublet of Harold, Harald; compare Walter, which has these elements reversed.

Daffodils are heralds of Spring.

A harbinger, giving signs of things to come.

բանբեր

a harbinger giving signs of things to come

Rouge Dragon is a herald at the College of Arms.

(heraldry) An official whose speciality is heraldry, especially one between the ranks of pursuivant and king-of-arms

သံတော်ဆင့်

an official whose speciality is heraldry

New this season will be a 20-sheet poster depicting 21 K-M elephants parading to local Chevrolet agencies. Deal calls for use of the 20-sheet on poster panels where the auto agency has space allotment. Smaller versions of the same art also will be used.
Circulation of Kelly-Miller heralds, which last season averaged between 5,000 and 6,000 copies per stand, will be in for one of the greatest boosts this year.

(advertising) A handbill consisting of an advertisement.


Philip

en-proper noun

Philip (countable and uncountable, plural Philips)

From Middle English Philip, ultimately from Ancient Greek Φίλιππος (Phílippos), name of ancient kings of Macedonia, from φίλιππος (phílippos, “fond of horses”), from φιλέω (philéō, “I love”) + ἵππος (híppos, “horse”).

af

(uncountable) One of the twelve disciples of Jesus in the Bible; one of the seven deacons.


gutter

Sranan Tongo: gotro

From Middle English gutter, guttur, goter, from Anglo-Norman guttere, from Old French goutiere (French gouttière), ultimately from Latin gutta (“drop”).

(comics) A space between comic strip panels.


Isaac

en-proper noun

Isaac (countable and uncountable, plural Isaacs)

→ Pohnpeian: Aisek

From Middle English Ysaac, from Latin Isaac, from Ancient Greek Ἰσαάκ (Isaák), from Hebrew יצחק (Yiṣḥāq, literally “he laughs, he will laugh”). Explained in Genesis as referring to his mother Sarah’s laughing when she was told she would have a son at her old age. The verb is masculine, however, perhaps due to its use as a boy’s name.

der

And Abraham circumciſed his ſonne Iſaac, being eight dayes old, as God had commanded him.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 21:4, column 1:

(biblical) The son of Abraham and Sarah, father of Esau and Jacob, from whom the Hebrew people trace their descent.


Isaac

Isaāc (canonical masculine singular)
Isaacus (alternative)

→ Old Irish: Isaác

Irish: Íosác

From Ancient Greek Ἰσαᾱ́κ (Isaā́k), from Biblical Hebrew יִצְחָק (Yiṣḥāq, literally “he laughs”).


Isaac

Borrowed from Latin Isaāc, from Ancient Greek Ἰσαάκ (Isaák), from Biblical Hebrew יצחק (Yiṣḥāq, literally “he laughs”).

Old English Heptateuch, Genesis 22:2

"Take your only-begotten son Isaac, whom you love, and quickly go to the land of Visionis, and sacrifice him there upon a mountain."

"Nim þīnne āncennedan sunu Īsaac, þe þū lufast, and far tō þām lande Visionis hraþe, and ġeoffra hine þǣr uppan ānre dūne."


Isaac

Y circuncidó Abraham á su hijo Isaac de ocho días, como Dios le había mandado.

1602, La Santa Biblia (antigua versión de Casiodoro de Reina), Génesis 21:4:

And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. (KJV)


cliffhanger

cliffhangers (plural)
cliff hanger (alternative)
cliff-hanger (alternative)

From cliff + hanger, evoking the image of someone left hanging from a cliff, thereby having an uncertain fate.
The term "cliffhanger" is considered to have originated with the serialised version of Thomas Hardy's "A Pair of Blue Eyes", published in Tinsley's Magazine in the 1870s, in which the character Henry Knight is left hanging off of a cliff. It was inspired by a real life story from his wife Emma's childhood, when she had to rescue one of her school friends from a similar position.

Back in the early 80s, the hit series Dallas kept the nation guessing with its season-ending cliffhanger "Who Shot J.R.?"

2007 July 2, Hilary Hylton, “Filming Texas in a Good Light”, in Time, archived from the original on 2009-03-15:

(narratology) An ending or stopping point calculated to leave a story unresolved, in order to create suspense.

cliffhanger

(narratology) an ending or stopping point

This presidential election is such a cliffhanger. Will it be the rising star Dmitry "Obamovich" Medvedev? Or the veteran Gennady "McCainovich" Zyuganov?

February 28 2008, Timothy Garton Ash, “Russia has run rings round the west”, in Guardian, retrieved 2009-02-02:

(by extension) An outcome which is awaited with keen anticipation, especially one which is delayed for a period of time or which is not known until the last minute.


obituary

/əˈbɪt͡ʃʊ(ə)ɹi/

/əˈbɪt͡ʃəˌwɛɹi/

/əˈbɪt͡ʃuˌɜɹi/

/əˈbɪt͡ʃəɹi/

Baldomero Lillo
La Nación
Susannah Maxwell

PIE word
 *h₁epi
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin obituārius (“obituary”) + English -ary (suffix denoting something relating to another thing or used in a place). Obituārius is derived from Latin obitus (“act of approaching or going toward, an approach; act of going down, setting; of the sun: sunset; death; destruction, downfall, ruin”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives and agent nouns); while obitus is a noun use of the perfect passive participle of obeō (“to go to meet, go towards; (figurative) to die, pass away, perish; (astronomy) to set”), from ob- (prefix meaning ‘toward’) + eō (“to go, move”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“to go”).

doodberig

brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper

(notice):

[N]ot one in fifty of the actual disasters and deaths by casualties in the fishery, ever finds a public record at home, however transient and immediately forgotten that record. Do you suppose that that poor fellow there, who this moment perhaps caught by the whale-line off the coast of New Guinea, is being carried down to the bottom of the sea by the sounding leviathan—do you suppose that that poor fellow's name will appear in the newspaper obituary you will read to-morrow at your breakfast?

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Affidavit”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 228:

The newspaper came in, as usual, after breakfast. I looked it over, and discovered this memorable entry, among the obituary announcements of the day:— "On the 29th inst., at Brighton, Michael Vanstone, Esq., formerly of Zurich, aged 77."

1862, [William] Wilkie Collins, “VIII. Chronicle for April and May.”, in No Name. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., […], →OCLC, between the scenes (Chronicle of Events: Preserved in Captain Wragge’s Despatch Box), page 21:

A brief notice of a person's death, especially one published in a newspaper or other publication; also (obsolete), the section of a newspaper where notices of deaths are published.


Uzziel

From Hebrew עֻזִּיאֵל (“strength of God”).

Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twelve.


romance

→ Indonesian: romansa

(literature, music, historical) an emotional popular-historical epic ballad

(literature, music) a sentimental love song or love story


romance

Borrowed from Old Occitan romans, from Medieval Latin, Vulgar Latin rōmānicē (“in a Roman manner”), from Latin rōmānicus (“Roman”, adjective), from rōmānus (“Roman”, noun), from Rōma (“Rome”).

(literature) novel (work of prose fiction)


reader

From Middle English reder, redar, redere, redare, from Old English rēdere, rǣdere (“a reader; scholar; diviner”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādāri, equivalent to read + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Räider (“advisor”), Dutch rader (“advisor”), German Rater (“advisor”).

They were dog-eared by the hands of many a publisher's-reader and postman.

1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, page 123:

A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.

قَارِئ

person employed by a publisher to read works and determine their merits

A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.

Übungsbuch

a book of exercises to accompany a textbook

Appletons’ School Readers

An elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages.

чыта́нка

an elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages

(advertising) A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.

[…] Q was a Queer-screen, that served as a blind; / R was a Reader, with flimsies well lined; […]

1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, page 60:

(obsolete, slang) A wallet or pocketbook.


cartoon

Punch (magazine)
Russian Bear
The Great Game
cartoon

→ Portuguese: cartune, cartum

→ Swahili: katuni

In British English first, from French carton (“sketch, cardboard, card”), from Italian cartone (“cardboard, carton, box”), augmentative of carta (“paper”), from Latin carta (“papyrus, paper”), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs) (see there for further etymology). Doublet of carton and card.

(comics) A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.

(comics) A drawing satirising current public figures.

tekenprent

animated cartoon — see also animated cartoon


cartoon

en-verb

cartoon (third-person singular simple present cartoons, present participle cartooning, simple past and past participle cartooned)

cartoons (present singular third-person)
cartooning (participle present)
cartooned (participle past)
cartooned (past)

(art, comics, animation) To draw a cartoon, a humorous drawing.


cartoon

Unadapted borrowing from English cartoon.


Jose

From Spanish José, from Latin Iōsēphus, from Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph), from Hebrew יוסף.


pulp fiction

Spekilas is a relatively large rock and ice planet known for its deposits of magnetically active periclase, which interferes with some starship scans. Conspiracy theories and pulp adventure claim that secret fortresses are concealed under the ice.

[2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Spekilas:

The kind of shocking and sensational fiction found in a pulp magazine.


Marie

Marie (nominative singular)
Marie (nominative plural)
Marie (genitive singular)
Marií (genitive plural)
Marii (dative singular)
Mariím (dative plural)
Marii (accusative singular)
Marie (accusative plural)
Marie (singular vocative)
Marie (plural vocative)
Marii (locative singular)
Mariích (locative plural)
Marií (instrumental singular)
Mariemi (instrumental plural)

a female given name, equivalent to English Mary


Marie

→ Danish: Mari, Marie

→ English: Marie

→ Georgian: მერი (meri)

→ German: Marie

→ Norwegian: Mari, Marie

→ Swedish: Mari, Marie

⇒ French: Manon (diminutive)

→ Dutch: Manon

⇒ French: Marion (diminutive)

→ English: Marion, Marian

⇒ French: Marise (diminutive)

→ Dutch: Marijse

a female given name, equivalent to English Mary, also a very common part in hyphenated female given names such as Anne-Marie or Marie-Pierre


Marie

English: Marie, Mary

Yola: Maree

From Old French Marie, from Latin Maria, from Ancient Greek Μαρία (María), Μαριάμ (Mariám).

Whãne marıe þe modır of ıhũ was ſpouſıd to ıoſeph .· bıfoꝛe þeı camen togıdere . ſche was founden hauynge of þe hoolı gooſt ın þe wombe /

c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Matheu 1:18, page 1r, column 2, lines 11–7 from the bottom; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:


macaroni

en-noun

macaroni (countable and uncountable, plural macaronis or macaronies)

macaronis (plural)
macaronies (plural)
maccaroni (alternative)
maccheroni (alternative)
mac (alternative)

→ Japanese: マカロニ (makaroni)

→ Korean: 마카로니 (makaroni)

→ Malay:

Arabic script: ماكاروني

Latin script: makaroni

→ Scottish Gaelic: macaroni

From Italian maccaroni, plural of maccarone, obsolete variant of maccheroni (“macaroni, fool”), of uncertain origin. Variously derived from late Byzantine Greek μακαρία (makaría, “food made from barley”), from Ancient Greek μακάριος (makários, “blessed, favored by the gods”), and from maccare (“to bruise, to crush”), archaic variant of ammaccare, from Latin maccāre (“to bruise, to crush”). Compare Sicilian maccarruni (“a single piece of macaroni”). As a fop, apparently from the British Macaroni Club rather than from Italian use of maccarone for fools and bumpkins. As a former form of currency, used to calque Spanish macuquino, 18th-century colonial Spanish slang for a similarly clipped coin.

cog

... political songs in Latin or in a maccaroni of Latin and English ...

1884, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, Six Centuries of Work and Wages, volume I, page 166:

(uncountable, literature, obsolete) A mix of languages in macaronic verse.


John Bull

In spite of these promptings to reflection, ignorance of his neighbours is the character of the typical John Bull. His is a domineering nature, steady in fight, imperious to command, but neither curious nor quick about the life of others.

1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Foreigner At Home”, in Memories and Portraits, New York: Charles Scribner, page 3:

Thatched cottages, manors, old mills, venerable churches and wooded lanes personify a John Bull fancy, neatly tucked into gentle hill folds.

2005, David W. Moore, The Other British Isles, →ISBN, page 183:

Next door to all that noble intention stood a bluff old John Bull of a hotel, Warners, now a pub and backpackers, and next to that, until 1993, a cinema, the last of several that had sprung up around the Square as temples of modernity.

2015, Fiona Farrell, The Villa at the Edge of the Empire, →ISBN, page 52:

(by extension) Something or someone that is stereotypically English.


Johnny Reb

Johnny Rebs (plural)
Johnnie Reb (alternative)

From the sense of Johnny as a placeholder name for any man and reb, US slang for a Confederate citizen or soldier.

Confederate States of America
Confederate States of America

(historical, colloquial) Synonym of Confederate: a citizen of the Confederate States of America, particularly a Confederate soldier.


Johnny Reb

When Lincoln heard the news about the fall,
All the folks thought he'd throw a great vict'ry ball,
But he asked the band to play the song "Dixie"
For you, Johnny Reb, and all that you believe.

Confederate States of America
Confederate States of America#English

(figurative) Synonym of Confederate States of America.


qasida

He was delighted to hear some music and listened with emotion to the wild qasidas that the old man sang – songs of the Arab canon full of the wild heart-sickness of the desert.

The qasida is a formal multithematic ode addressed to a member of the elite in praise.

2000, María Rosa Menocal, Raymond P. Scheindlin, The Literature of Al-Andalus:

An Arabic or Persian elegiac monorhyme poem, usually having a tripartite structure.


prayer book

prayer books (plural)
prayerbook (alternative)

Book of Common Prayer
Book of Common Prayer

(when capitalized) The Book of Common Prayer.


Samuel

From Latin Samuēl, from Ancient Greek Σαμουήλ (Samouḗl), from Biblical Hebrew שְׁמוּאֵל (šəmûʾēl, literally “name of God”) https://www.etymonline.com/word/samuel. It is also taken to mean "heard by God" or "asked of God."
According to 1 Samuel 1:20, the Biblical judge and prophet was given this name due to its similarity to a Hebrew word that means "heard by God."

der

One of two books of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.

Samuel (cf. Erstes Buch Samuel, 1. Buch Samuel, 1. Sam.; Zweites Buch Samuel, 2. Buch Samuel, 2. Sam.)

Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 1:20:

(biblical) The primary author and central character of the first book of Samuel.


Samuel

a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Samuel


Samuel

(biblical) Samuel (a Biblical figure; one of two books of the Bible)


Samuel

Samuel (nominative singular)
Samuelit (nominative plural)
Samuel (accusative nominative singular)
Samuelit (accusative nominative plural)
Samuelin (accusative genitive singular)
Samuelit (accusative genitive plural)
Samuelin (genitive singular)
Samuelien (genitive plural)
Samuelia (partitive singular)
Samueleja (partitive plural)
Samuelissa (inessive singular)
Samueleissa (inessive plural)
Samuelista (elative singular)
Samueleista (elative plural)
Samueliin (illative singular)
Samueleihin (illative plural)
Samuelilla (adessive singular)
Samueleilla (adessive plural)
Samuelilta (ablative singular)
Samueleilta (ablative plural)
Samuelille (allative singular)
Samueleille (allative plural)
Samuelina (essive singular)
Samueleina (essive plural)
Samueliksi (singular translative)
Samueleiksi (plural translative)
Samuelitta (abessive singular)
Samueleitta (abessive plural)
Samuelein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Samuelini (nominative singular)
Samuelini (nominative plural)
Samuelini (accusative nominative singular)
Samuelini (accusative nominative plural)
Samuelini (accusative genitive singular)
Samuelini (accusative genitive plural)
Samuelini (genitive singular)
Samuelieni (genitive plural)
Samueliani (partitive singular)
Samuelejani (partitive plural)
Samuelissani (inessive singular)
Samueleissani (inessive plural)
Samuelistani (elative singular)
Samueleistani (elative plural)
Samueliini (illative singular)
Samueleihini (illative plural)
Samuelillani (adessive singular)
Samueleillani (adessive plural)
Samueliltani (ablative singular)
Samueleiltani (ablative plural)
Samuelilleni (allative singular)
Samueleilleni (allative plural)
Samuelinani (essive singular)
Samueleinani (essive plural)
Samuelikseni (singular translative)
Samueleikseni (plural translative)
Samuelittani (abessive singular)
Samueleittani (abessive plural)
Samueleineni (comitative plural)
Samuelisi (nominative singular)
Samuelisi (nominative plural)
Samuelisi (accusative nominative singular)
Samuelisi (accusative nominative plural)
Samuelisi (accusative genitive singular)
Samuelisi (accusative genitive plural)
Samuelisi (genitive singular)
Samueliesi (genitive plural)
Samueliasi (partitive singular)
Samuelejasi (partitive plural)
Samuelissasi (inessive singular)
Samueleissasi (inessive plural)
Samuelistasi (elative singular)
Samueleistasi (elative plural)
Samueliisi (illative singular)
Samueleihisi (illative plural)
Samuelillasi (adessive singular)
Samueleillasi (adessive plural)
Samueliltasi (ablative singular)
Samueleiltasi (ablative plural)
Samuelillesi (allative singular)
Samueleillesi (allative plural)
Samuelinasi (essive singular)
Samueleinasi (essive plural)
Samueliksesi (singular translative)
Samueleiksesi (plural translative)
Samuelittasi (abessive singular)
Samueleittasi (abessive plural)
Samueleinesi (comitative plural)
Samuelimme (nominative singular)
Samuelimme (nominative plural)
Samuelimme (accusative nominative singular)
Samuelimme (accusative nominative plural)
Samuelimme (accusative genitive singular)
Samuelimme (accusative genitive plural)
Samuelimme (genitive singular)
Samueliemme (genitive plural)
Samueliamme (partitive singular)
Samuelejamme (partitive plural)
Samuelissamme (inessive singular)
Samueleissamme (inessive plural)
Samuelistamme (elative singular)
Samueleistamme (elative plural)
Samueliimme (illative singular)
Samueleihimme (illative plural)
Samuelillamme (adessive singular)
Samueleillamme (adessive plural)
Samueliltamme (ablative singular)
Samueleiltamme (ablative plural)
Samuelillemme (allative singular)
Samueleillemme (allative plural)
Samuelinamme (essive singular)
Samueleinamme (essive plural)
Samueliksemme (singular translative)
Samueleiksemme (plural translative)
Samuelittamme (abessive singular)
Samueleittamme (abessive plural)
Samueleinemme (comitative plural)
Samuelinne (nominative singular)
Samuelinne (nominative plural)
Samuelinne (accusative nominative singular)
Samuelinne (accusative nominative plural)
Samuelinne (accusative genitive singular)
Samuelinne (accusative genitive plural)
Samuelinne (genitive singular)
Samuelienne (genitive plural)
Samuelianne (partitive singular)
Samuelejanne (partitive plural)
Samuelissanne (inessive singular)
Samueleissanne (inessive plural)
Samuelistanne (elative singular)
Samueleistanne (elative plural)
Samueliinne (illative singular)
Samueleihinne (illative plural)
Samuelillanne (adessive singular)
Samueleillanne (adessive plural)
Samueliltanne (ablative singular)
Samueleiltanne (ablative plural)
Samuelillenne (allative singular)
Samueleillenne (allative plural)
Samuelinanne (essive singular)
Samueleinanne (essive plural)
Samueliksenne (singular translative)
Samueleiksenne (plural translative)
Samuelittanne (abessive singular)
Samueleittanne (abessive plural)
Samueleinenne (comitative plural)
Samuelinsa (nominative singular)
Samuelinsa (nominative plural)
Samuelinsa (accusative nominative singular)
Samuelinsa (accusative nominative plural)
Samuelinsa (accusative genitive singular)
Samuelinsa (accusative genitive plural)
Samuelinsa (genitive singular)
Samueliensa (genitive plural)
Samueliaan (partitive singular)
Samueliansa (partitive singular)
Samuelejaan (partitive plural)
Samuelejansa (partitive plural)
Samuelissaan (inessive singular)
Samuelissansa (inessive singular)
Samueleissaan (inessive plural)
Samueleissansa (inessive plural)
Samuelistaan (elative singular)
Samuelistansa (elative singular)
Samueleistaan (elative plural)
Samueleistansa (elative plural)
Samueliinsa (illative singular)
Samueleihinsa (illative plural)
Samuelillaan (adessive singular)
Samuelillansa (adessive singular)
Samueleillaan (adessive plural)
Samueleillansa (adessive plural)
Samueliltaan (ablative singular)
Samueliltansa (ablative singular)
Samueleiltaan (ablative plural)
Samueleiltansa (ablative plural)
Samuelilleen (allative singular)
Samuelillensa (allative singular)
Samueleilleen (allative plural)
Samueleillensa (allative plural)
Samuelinaan (essive singular)
Samuelinansa (essive singular)
Samueleinaan (essive plural)
Samueleinansa (essive plural)
Samuelikseen (singular translative)
Samueliksensa (singular translative)
Samueleikseen (plural translative)
Samueleiksensa (plural translative)
Samuelittaan (abessive singular)
Samuelittansa (abessive singular)
Samueleittaan (abessive plural)
Samueleittansa (abessive plural)
Samueleineen (comitative plural)
Samueleinensa (comitative plural)

From Latin Samūēl, from Ancient Greek Σαμουήλ (Samouḗl), from Biblical Hebrew שְׁמוּאֵל (šəmûʾēl).


Samuel

la-proper noun

Samuēl m sg (genitive Samuēl or Samuēlis); indeclinable, variously declined, third declension

Samuēl (canonical masculine singular)
variously declined (canonical)
Samuēl (genitive)
Samuēlis (genitive)
Samuēl (nominative singular)
Samuēl (genitive singular)
Samuēlis (genitive singular)
Samuēl (dative singular)
Samuēlī (dative singular)
Samuēl (accusative singular)
Samuēlem (accusative singular)
Samuēl (ablative singular)
Samuēle (ablative singular)
Samuēl (singular vocative)

Italian: Samuele

[ˈs̠ämueːɫ̪]

From Ancient Greek Σαμουήλ (Samouḗl), from Biblical Hebrew שְׁמוּאֵל (šəmūʾḗl).


Samuel

Samuel (nominative singular)
Samuelowie (nominative plural)
Samuela (genitive singular)
Samuelów (genitive plural)
Samuelowi (dative singular)
Samuelom (dative plural)
Samuela (accusative singular)
Samuelów (accusative plural)
Samuelem (instrumental singular)
Samuelami (instrumental plural)
Samuelu (locative singular)
Samuelach (locative plural)
Samuelu (singular vocative)
Samuelowie (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin Samuel, from Ancient Greek Σαμουήλ (Samouḗl), from Biblical Hebrew שְׁמוּאֵל (šəmūʾḗl).


Samuel

(biblical) Samuel (one of two books of the Bible)

(biblical) Samuel (a leader of ancient Israel)


Samuel

sk-proper noun

Samuel m pers (genitive singular Samuela, nominative plural Samuelovia, declension pattern of chlap)

Samuela (genitive singular)
Samuelovia (nominative plural)
chlap (declension-pattern-of)
Samuel (nominative singular)
Samuelovia (nominative plural)
Samuela (genitive singular)
Samuelov (genitive plural)
Samuelovi (dative singular)
Samuelom (dative plural)
Samuela (accusative singular)
Samuelov (accusative plural)
Samuelovi (locative singular)
Samueloch (locative plural)
Samuelom (instrumental singular)
Samuelami (instrumental plural)


deconstruction

en-noun

deconstruction (countable and uncountable, plural deconstructions)

(philosophy, literature) A philosophical theory of textual criticism; a form of critical analysis that emphasizes inquiry into the variable projection of the meaning and message of critical works, the meaning in relation to the reader and the intended audience, and the assumptions implicit in the embodied forms of expression.

αποδομισμός

a philosophical theory of textual criticism


phrasebook

phrasebooks (plural)
phrase book (alternative)
phrase-book (alternative)

A book containing common phrases in two or more languages, used to learn a foreign language.


kill off

en-verb

kill off (third-person singular simple present kills off, present participle killing off, simple past and past participle killed off)

kills off (present singular third-person)
killing off (participle present)
killed off (participle past)
killed off (past)

The writers are killing off lots of people in the soap opera.

television series
television series#English

(film, television, literature) Of writers or producers, to take a character out of a television series or other work by purposefully and deliberately having them killed within the plot.


pull a Homer

pull a Homer (third-person singular simple present pulls a Homer, present participle pulling a Homer, simple past and past participle pulled a Homer)

pulls a Homer (present singular third-person)
pulling a Homer (participle present)
pulled a Homer (participle past)
pulled a Homer (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pull a Homer.wav

From pull (“to copy or emulate the actions associated with”). Coined in the Simpsons episode "Homer Defined", after the regular character Homer who stops a nuclear meltdown via eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

(fandom slang, humorous) To succeed despite idiocy.


brillig

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe

A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky, explained by Humpty Dumpty as "four o'clock in the afternoon — the time when you begin broiling things for dinner."


yearbook

en-noun

yearbook (countable and uncountable, plural yearbooks)

yearbooks (plural)
year-book (alternative)

From year + book. Compare West Frisian jierboek (“yearbook”), Dutch jaarboek (“yearbook”), German Jahrbuch (“yearbook”), Swedish årsbok (“yearbook”), Faroese árbók (“annal, record”).

(countable) A reference book, published annually.


e-book

e-books (plural)
ebook (alternative)
eBook (alternative)

Contraction of electronic book: e- + book.

The hype around e-books was electrifying in the year 2000 when Stephen King became the first celebrity writer to publish an e-novel.

2004, Sunil Saxena, Breaking News: The Craft and Technology of Online Journalism:

Electronic book, a book published in electronic form.


e-book

Unadapted borrowing from English e-book.


e-book

e-book (nominative singular)
e-booki (nominative plural)
e-booka (genitive singular)
e-booków (genitive plural)
e-bookowi (dative singular)
e-bookom (dative plural)
e-book (accusative singular)
e-booki (accusative plural)
e-bookiem (instrumental singular)
e-bookami (instrumental plural)
e-booku (locative singular)
e-bookach (locative plural)
e-booku (singular vocative)
e-booki (plural vocative)


fantasia

Borrowed from Latin phantasia, from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía).


Pixar

Conceived as a faux-Spanish word meaning “to make pictures”. See pix (“pictures”) and Spanish -ar (verb-forming suffix).

Pixar Animation Studios, a computer-generated imagery (CGI) company known for its animated films.


ultraism

ultraism (countable and uncountable, plural ultraisms)

The eight young signers of this “Ultra manifesto” could not have known at the time how accurate and prescient their declaration was. Spanish ultraism, born as a movement with that document, would be distinguished, ironically, by its indiscriminate and eclectic borrowings from the other European vanguard tendencies.

1981, Thorpe Running, Borges' Ultraist Movement and its Poets, Lathrup Village, Mich.: International Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 1:

(poetry) A Spanish poetic movement opposed to modernism.


deadhead

From dead + head. Some senses are derived from theater jargon (originally spelled dead head) for audience members admitted without paying, which probably arose in analogy to dead weight or deadwood in reference to their lack of contribution to revenue or in reference to their unenthusiastic (dead) response to performances. Perhaps even from Latin caput mortuum, alchemy term for distillation residue. As Paul Quinion writes: Similarly, the term was applied to a dull or lazy person, one who contributes nothing to an enterprise, only in the early years of the twentieth century, well after the theatrical and transport senses had become well established.

(slang) Alternative form of Deadhead (“fan of the rock band The Grateful Dead”)


Darth

From the Star Wars universe, where it is used as a title for Sith Lords. (There are Darth Vader, Darth Tyranus, Darth Maul etc.) Blend of dark + death (the derivation from Dark Lord of the Sith is a later development).

Consider the threat of an evil hacker, Darth, who can not only eavesdrop on your network connection but also alter the messages that are sent.

2000, David G. Messerschmitt, Understanding Networked Applications: A First Course (textbook), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, page 400

[…] glaring malevolently across his desk at me in the manner that had earned him the nickname “Darth” among his elite cadre of audio penetration officers.

2000, Antonio J. Mendez, Malcolm McConnell, The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA, HarperCollins, published 2000, →ISBN, page 186:

The evil Darth Leonard steals the formula and a young couple must get it back (real life Ward Leonard is a legendary recluse who has hiked the Appalachian Trail something like 20-30 times).

2005, John Illig, Pacific Dream: A Pacific Crest Trail Through-Hike, Elderberry Press, →ISBN, page 74:

I’m sure Darth Hoodie has some other illegal way of messing with inexperienced quarterbacks on the road.

2015 November 27, Jimmy Kempski quoted in "Patriots-Broncos prediction roundup" in Boston Globe

(humorous) Used as a title or name for an evil person.


picaresque

en-adj

picaresque (comparative more picaresque, superlative most picaresque)

more picaresque (comparative)
most picaresque (superlative)

From picaro (“adventurer, rogue”) + -esque (suffix meaning ‘in the style or manner of’ forming adjectives), modelled after Spanish picaresco (“in the style or manner of a picaro; picaresque”), from pícaro (“rogue”) + -esco (suffix forming adjectives indicating a relation). Compare French picaresque (attested later than the English word), Italian picaresco, Portuguese picaresco.

der

A mere piece of roguery told in the abstract, without the proper picaresque ornaments, its manifold sinuosities and dexterities, has no interest for the reader; it may recommend the executor of it to the administration of a cat-o-nine-tails, or to an honourable post in the gallies: but there is no music in it without the proper accompaniments.

1822, “Art. I.—Primera, y Segunda Parte de Guzman de Alfarache, por Matheo Aleman, Criado del Rey nuestro Senor, Natural, y Vezino de Sevilla. Madrid, 1723. 4to. The Rogue; or, The Life of Guzman de Alfarache. Written in the Spanish by Matheo Aleman, Servant to His Catholic Majestie, and Borne in Sevill. London, printed for Edward Blount, 1623.”, in The Retrospective Review, volume V, part II, London: Charles Baldwyn, […], →OCLC, pages 189–190:

Spain became celebrated about the end of this century for her novels in the picaresque style, of which Lazarillo de Tormes is the oldest extant specimen.

1839, Henry Hallam, “Section III. On Works of Fiction.”, in Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, volume II, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, paragraph 41, pages 435–436:

He [Daniel Defoe] produced an amazing variety of wares: newspapers, magazines, ghost stories, biographies, journals, memoirs, satires, picaresque romances, essays on religion, reform, trade, projects, – in all more than two hundred works.

1923, William J[oseph] Long, “Eighteenth-century Literature”, in Outlines of English Literature: […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Ginn and Company, →OCLC, page 189:

Opening in France just before the Revolution and concluding just after the attack on the Tuileries, [Rafael] Sabatini's novel deftly combines historical romance, picaresque novel and revenge tragedy.

2009 November 1, Neil McDonald, “Scaramouche and the Swashbuckler”, in Quadrant, volume LIII, number 11 (number 461 overall), Sydney, N.S.W.: Quadrant Magazine Limited, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-04-15, page 103:

The picaresque novel finds its origins in the humanist search for an expansion of the historiographical genre. [...] The protagonist of the picaresque novel is the pícaro, a character of lowly descent who, by passing through a wide array of professions, attempts to rise in social standing.

2014, Konstantin Mierau, Binne de Haan, “Introduction: Bringing together Microhistory and the Picaresque Novel: Studying Menocchio, Guzmán de Alfarache, and Kin”, in Binne de Haan, Konstantin Mierau, editors, Microhistory and the Picaresque Novel: A First Exploration into Commensurable Perspectives, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 2:

(literature) Characteristic of a genre of Spanish satiric novel dealing with the adventures of a roguish hero.

приключенски

characteristic of a genre of Spanish satiric novel dealing with the adventures of a roguish hero


picaresque

Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas [From the sublime to the ridiculous there is only one step]; and that step in Spain was taken by Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (already dealt with in his higher walk), the originator of the Picaresque, or low rogue's march novels, of which his Lazarillo de Tormes was the type— [...]

1850 September, “Art. I.—History of Spanish Literature. By George Ticknor. 3 vols. 8vo. London, 1849. [book review]”, in John Taylor Coleridge, editor, The Quarterly Review, volume LXXXVII, number CLXXIV, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 326:

[T]he word picaro, which is almost synonymous with rogue, [...] has given a name to a whole series of novels in Spain called "Picaresques," the heroes of which are adventurers.

1856, Louis de Loménie, chapter XXVII, in Henry S. Edwards, transl., Beaumarchais and His Times. Sketches of French Society in the Eighteenth Century from Unpublished Documents. [...] In Four Volumes, international copyright edition, volume IV, London: Addey and Co., […], →OCLC, page 121:

And we had agreed completely as to the main stream in the history of the novel … as to its passing from Lope da Vega and the Spanish picaresques, by way of [Danie] Defoe and Richardson, to [Denis] Diderot, Stendahl and [Gustave] Flaubert [...]

1937, Ford Madox Ford, “[Theodore] Drieser”, in Portraits From Life: […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; […], →OCLC, page 175:

In picaresques, the protagonist usually acts as narrator to provide coherence and unity to the genre's inherent structural weakness—its episodic plot.

1992, Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola, “The New England Frontier and the Picaresque in Sarah Kemble Knight’s Journal”, in Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola, editor, Early American Literature and Culture: Essays Honoring Harrison T. Meserole, Newark, N.J.: University of Delaware Press; Cranbury, N.J.; London: Associated University Presses, →ISBN, pages 122–123:


have a cow

en-verb

have a cow (third-person singular simple present has a cow, present participle having a cow, simple past and past participle had a cow)

has a cow (present singular third-person)
having a cow (participle present)
had a cow (participle past)
had a cow (past)

Unknown. Popularized by the TV show The Simpsons where it was one of the catchphrases of Bart Simpson.

My mom had a cow when I came in late.

Dad says I'm too young to go steady and seems to think I'm going to drag a girl up the aisle instead of to a school dance. He won't let me watch rock 'n' roll shows, and he'd "have a cow" if he knew I watched 77 Sunset Strip.

1959 April 1, The Des Moines Register, page 9:

"Of all the fates on heaven and earth, why did this one befall me?" "Don't have a cow, dad."

1990, “The Call of the Simpsons” (0:12:10 from the start), in The Simpsons, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Homer Simpson and Bart Simpson (Dan Castellaneta and Nancy Cartwright):

“Pregnant. Holy shit.” “Alyson!” “Oh, Mummy, don't have a cow.”

2007, Julia Spencer-Fleming, In the Bleak Midwinter: A Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 69:

“Dammit, Kayla, you're pregnant. Don't pick up a suitcase,” her husband demanded. “It's just a little one.” “Put it down now.” “Don't have a cow, Patrick. I'm pregnant, not incapacitated.”

2014, Susan Mallery, THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 115:


chthonian

en-adj

chthonian (not generally comparable, comparative more chthonian, superlative most chthonian)

more chthonian (comparative)
most chthonian (superlative)

From Ancient Greek χθόνιος (khthónios, “in or under the ground”), from χθών (khthṓn, “ground”).

uder

Consus, moreover, is regarded as a god of the lower world, or Chthonian divinity—another circumstance which connects him with Poseidôn, whose character becomes more and more Chthonian the farther his cultus is traced into the East, where also his phase as lord of knowledge and wisdom appears more manifestly.

1872, Robert Brown, Poseidôn: A Link between Semite, Hamite, and Aryan, page 70:

...I intend to apply the name chthonian to all gods and spirits of the earth, whether their functions are concerned with agriculture or with the grave and the world beyond, or (as often) with both.

1950, W. K. C. Guthrie, The Greeks and Their Gods, Beacon Press, published 1955, page 219:

The Olympian religion is truly Olympian when it rests on Chthonian grounds, and the Chthonian religion is truly Chthonian when it stands in the Olympian light.

1969, Vincent Vycinas, Earth and Gods: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger, page 196:

Even an “Olympian” deity such as Athena Polias at Athens may have chthonian features, such as her association with the snake, a creature symbolic of the earth.

2007, Jennifer Lynn Larson, Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide, page 12:

For example, the Oresteia, 'that treasure house of chthonian concepts' (Scullion 1994: 111), categorizes gods in ways that do not match the rigid terms of the foundational scholarship on Olympian versus chthonian deities.

2015, Susan Deacy, “Gods—Olympian or Chthonic”, in Esther Eidinow, Julia Kindt, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, page 359:

Pertaining to the underworld; being beneath the earth.

chthonien

pertaining to the underworld; being beneath the earth


stile

stilez (plural)
stiel (alternative)
styell (alternative)
style (alternative)

English: style, stile (obsolete) (see there for further descendants)

Scots: style

Borrowed from Medieval Latin stylus and Old French estile, style, from Latin stilus.


lipogram

From Ancient Greek λειπογγράμμα (leipongrámma), from λείπω (leípō, “leaving out”) + γράμμα (grámma, “letter”), 18th c.

der

λειπογγράμμα

compound

"Transubstantiationalists" is a particularly long single-word lipogram, not using the letter "e".

(literature) A word or writing that does not use a particular symbol or symbols.


censor

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

(classical studies) censor; a Roman census administrator


aubade

Princess Christina of the Netherlands
Rosalía de Castro

PIE word
 *albʰós
Borrowed from French aubade, from Old French albade, from Old Spanish albada (“musical or poetic composition to be performed in the morning”), from alba (“dawn”), from Vulgar Latin *alba (“dawn; sunrise”), from Latin albus (“bright, clear; white”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós (“white”).

beuregan

And there he lingered till the crowing cock, / The Alectryon of the farmyard and the flock, / Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear, / To tell the sleeping world that dawn was near.

1873 August, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[I. Tales of a Wayside Inn.] The Student’s Tale. Emma and Eginhard.”, in Aftermath, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 27:

Alladad Khan woke to the far crying of kampong cocks in the dark. That noise had been the farmyard aubade in the Punjab in his dream.

1956, Anthony Burgess, chapter 11, in Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), London: William Heinemann, published 1968, →ISBN, page 155:

(music, poetry) A poem or song evoking or greeting the dawn or early morning.

(music, specifically) A morning love song, or a song of lovers parting in the morning.

aubade

morning love song; song of lovers parting in the morning


aubade

→ Dutch: aubade
→ Indonesian: aubade

→ English: aubade


resolution

en-noun

resolution (countable and uncountable, plural resolutions)

/ˌɹɛzəˈluːʃ(ə)n/

Recorded since 1412, as Middle English resolucioun (“dissolution”), either from Anglo-Norman resolucion or directly from Latin resolūtiō (“a loosening, solution”), from resolvō (“I loosen”), itself from the intensive prefix re- + solvō (“I loosen”).

der

Near-synonym: dénouement

(literature) The moment in which the conflict ends and the outcome of the action is clear.

развръзка

moment when the outcome of action is clear


nook

From Middle English noke, nok (“nook, corner, angle”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old English hnoc, hnocc (“hook, angle”), from Proto-Germanic *hnukkaz, *hnukkô (“a bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *knewg- (“to turn, press”), from Proto-Indo-European *ken- (“to pinch, press, bend”).
If so, then also related to Scots nok (“small hook”), Norwegian dialectal nok, nokke (“hook, angle, bent object”), Danish nok (“hook”), Swedish nock (“ridge”), Faroese nokki (“crook”), Icelandic hnokki (“hook”), Dutch nok (“ridge”) or Dutch hoek (“corner”), Low German Nocke (“tip”), Old Norse hnúka (“to bend, crouch”), Old English ġehnycned (“drawn, pinched, wrinkled”). Also cognate with Scots neuk, nuk (“corner, angle of a square, angular object”).

cog

You must note, that two Fardells of Land make a Nooke of Land, and two Nookes make halfe a Yard of Land.

a. 1634, W. Noye, The Complete Lawyer, section 57:

Nook, an old legal term for 12+¹⁄₂ acres of land; still in use at Alston.

1903, English Dialectical Dictionary, volume IV, page 295:

They poured their wine by the aume or the fust, and cut their cloth by the goad—not to be confused with the gawd, which was a measure of steel. Their nook was not cosy; it covered 20 acres.

(historical) An English unit of land area, originally ¹⁄₄ of a yardland but later 12+¹⁄₂ or 20 acres.

virgate

unit of area; An English unit of land area, originally ¹⁄₄ of a yardland but later 12+¹⁄₂ or 20 acres.

acre

various fractions & for further subdivisions


walker

→ Irish: válcaeir

→ Persian: واکر (vâker)

From Middle English walkere (“one who walks, traveller”), equivalent to walk + -er.

inh

I would ask for the pleasure of your company, Mr. Knightley, but I am a very slow walker, and my pace would be tedious to you; and, besides, you have another long walk before you, to Donwell Abbey.

1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 118:

We hired a walker for the dogs during the day.

2005, Carlo De Vito, 10 Secrets My Dog Taught Me: Life Lessons from a Man's Best Friend, page 88:

A distracted walker also may be missing an opportunity to bond with their dog, says Burch of the American Kennel Club. “Interacting and having fun together forms a bond that can last a lifetime,” she says.

2023 July 2, Brandon Griggs, “We’re multitasking while walking our dogs. Animal experts say this is a problem”, in CNN:

To better help you in your quest, we asked multiple podiatrists and seasoned long-distance walkers exactly what to look for when selecting the best walking shoes.

2024 September 6, Isla Harvey, “The 10 most comfortable walking shoes, according to podiatrists and shoe experts”, in CNN:

The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.

(often in the plural) A shoe designed for comfortable walking.

(cricket) A batsman or batswoman who directly walks off the field when out without waiting for the umpire's decision.

A single mother of three, Rachel is what Facebook users call as ^([sic]) “walker,” or an online sex worker. Using a dummy account, she posts her sexy photos and informs page visitors that she’s available for sex in exchange for money.

2019 June 22, Charisse Ursal, “Social media lures young people to engage in sex for money”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer:

(Philippines) A prostitute, streetwalker.


manifesto

Learned borrowing from Latin manifestus.

(literature) programmatic text of a literary school or literary movement


tablet

tablettes (plural)
tabelett (alternative)
tabelet (alternative)
tabblet (alternative)
tabulet (alternative)
tabulette (alternative)

English: tablet

Scots: taiblet

From Old French tablete; equivalent to table + -et.

(biblical) The Ten Commandments in physical form handed down from heaven.


firmament

en-noun

firmament (countable and uncountable, plural firmaments)

From Middle English firmament, furmament (“heaven; sky”), from Old French firmament (“firmament”), or from its etymon Latin firmāmentum (“support; sky”), from
firmāre (“to strengthen”) + -mentum (suffix indicating an instrument or medium, or the result of an action). Firmāre is the present active infinitive of firmō (“to make firm, strengthen”), from firmus (“firm, strong, stable”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to hold; to support”).
The Latin word was used in the Vulgate version of the Bible to translate the
Ancient Greek στερέωμα (steréōma, “foundation, framework; firmament”) in the Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), which in turn was used to translate the Hebrew רָקִיעַ (rāqī́aʿ, “celestial dome, vault of heaven”), from the root ר־ק־ע (r-q-`); in Classical Syriac the similar root ܪ ܩ ܥ (related to compacting) gave rise to ܪܩܝܥܐ (rəqīʿā, “compact; firm; firmament, heavens, sky; celestial sphere”).

ref

From Petrus Apianus, Gemma Frisius (1539) Petri Apiani cosmographia, per Gemmam Phrysium, apud Louanienses medicum ac mathematicum insignem, restituta: additis de adem re ipsius Gemmae Phry. libellis, ut sequens pagina docet, Antwerp: In pingui gallina Arnoldo Berckma[n]no [Arnold Birckmann], →OCLC.

ሰማይ

vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky

ala

field or sphere of an activity or interest — see also field, sphere

Praiſe ye the Lord. Praiſe God in his Sanctuarie: Praiſe him in the firmament of his power.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalm 150:1, column 1:

(uncountable, obsolete except biblical) The abode of God and the angels; heaven.


webmag

(informal) A magazine that is only published on the Internet.


Psalms

en-proper noun

the Psalms pl (normally plural, singular Psalm)

the Psalms (canonical plural)
Psalm (singular)

(biblical) A book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and of the Tanakh.


villainy

en-noun

villainy (countable and uncountable, plural villainies)

From Middle English vileinie, vileynye, from Anglo-Norman vilenie, from Old French vilanie.

Mos Eisley spaceport- you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

1977, Star Wars, spoken by Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness):

(uncountable) Evil or wicked character or behaviour.

(uncountable, obsolete) Ill-treatment, indignity, degrading or shameful treatment of someone.

(uncountable, obsolete) The state of being a villein or serf, and by extension servitude or low estate in life.

(uncountable, obsolete) Boorishness, rudeness, bad cultivation or manners.


Necronomicon

/ˌnɛkɹəˈnɒmɪkən/

/ˌnɛkɹəˈnɒmɪkɒn/

/ˌnɛkɹəˈnɑmɪkən/

/ˌnɛkɹəˈnɑmɪkɑn/

Pseudo-loan from Ancient Greek as if formed from a compound of νεκρός (nekrós, “dead”) + νόμος (nómos, “law”) + εἰκών (eikṓn, “image”), literally “an image of the law of the dead”. Coined by American writer H. P. Lovecraft.

coinage

So matters went till that night when Williams brought home the infamous Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred ... he had always wondered why men paled when they spoke of it. The old bookseller had told him that only five copies were known to have survived the shocked edicts of the priests and lawgivers against it and that all of these were locked up with frightened care by custodians who had ventured to begin a reading of the hateful black-letter.

c. 1926, H.P. Lovecraft, The Descendant:

The container was a set of ceramic rune-stones and their accompanying manual. The book was The Necronomicon.

2002, Calpernia Sarah Addams, Mark 947: A Life Shaped by God, Gender and Force of Will, page 81:

2004, Stephen Prince, The Horror Film, page 172,
Death Scenes is introduced and narrated by the famous occultist and leader of the Church of Satan, Dr. Anton Szandor LaVey, who describes the film in his wandering introduction as "a road map featuring the many avenues by which we encounter death . . . a brutally graphic collection of horrid indiscretions, a true necronomicon." "What mysterious force draws us to such a dark, challenging subject?" inquires LaVey in his sardonic monotone.

A fictional grimoire of arcane and forbidden knowledge whose contents can drive a person mad.

Selected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft V (1934–1937)


bookcrossing

pl-noun

bookcrossing m inan (related adjective bookcrossingowy)

bookcrossingowy (adjective)
bookcrossing (nominative singular)
bookcrossingu (genitive singular)
bookcrossingowi (dative singular)
bookcrossing (accusative singular)
bookcrossingiem (instrumental singular)
bookcrossingu (locative singular)
bookcrossingu (singular vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English bookcrossing.

ubor

bookcrossing (practice of leaving a book in a public location to be found and read by others, who then do the same)


bocadillo

rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines

diminutive of bocado (“mouthful”), from bocado + -illo.

(comics) speech bubble (rounded outline, containing words, representing speech)


dán

head

dán m (genitive singular dáin, nominative plural dánta or dána)

dáin (genitive singular)
dánta (nominative plural)
dána (nominative plural)
dán (indefinite nominative singular)
dánta (indefinite nominative plural)
a dháin (indefinite singular vocative)
a dhánta (indefinite plural vocative)
dáin (genitive indefinite singular)
dánta (genitive indefinite plural)
dán (dative indefinite singular)
dánta (dative indefinite plural)
an dán (definite nominative singular)
na dánta (definite nominative plural)
an dáin (definite genitive singular)
na ndánta (definite genitive plural)
leis an dán (dative definite singular)
don dán (dative definite singular)
leis na dánta (dative definite plural)

From Old Irish dán m (“gift, skill, poem”), from Proto-Celtic *dānus, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃nom. Cognate with Latin dōnum (“gift”).


zombi

es-noun

zombi m or f by sense (plural zombis or zombies)

zombis (plural)
zombies (plural)
zombie (alternative)


beatitude

en-noun

beatitude (countable and uncountable, plural beatitudes)

From Middle English beatitude, beatytude, from Middle French béatitude, from Latin beātitūdō (“happiness, blessedness”), from beātus (“happy, blessed”).

der

Any of the Biblical blessings given by Jesus in Matthew 5:3–12. E.g.: "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth" (Matthew 5:5).


graphic novel

(comics) A comic book containing a single and full nonepisodic story.


graphic novelist

en-noun

graphic novelist (plural graphic novelists)

graphic novel + -ist or graphic + novelist

(comics) A person who creates fiction using a succession of pictures interspersed with text (i.e. a comic book).


strip cartoon

(comics) A series of illustrations depicting a humorous narrative.

comic

illustrations depicting humorous narrative


cartoonist

→ Indonesian: kartunis

(comics) One who creates a cartoon or strip cartoon.

cartooniste m or f dessinateur de dessins animés

(comics) One who both writes and illustrates comic books or graphic novels.

sarjakuvataiteilija

person who writes and illustrates comic books


echolalia

echolalia (nominative singular)
echolalii (genitive singular)
echolalii (dative singular)
echolalię (accusative singular)
echolalią (instrumental singular)
echolalii (locative singular)
echolalio (singular vocative)

(rhetoric, poetry) echolalia (stylistic device consisting of the repetition of identical or similar vocal groups solely in order to emphasise the rhythmic or melodic character of the text)


shojo

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From the Japanese 少女 (shōjo, “young woman”).

(anime, manga) A style of anime and manga intended for young women.


shojo

Borrowed from Japanese 少女 (shōjo, “a young woman”).

bor+

shōjo (alternative)
shoujo (alternative)

Poradnik podaje bardzo precyzyjnie - krok po kroku - metodę tworzenia scen i postaci charakterystycznych dla dziewczęcej, romantycznej mangi shojo. Można tu też znaleźć opis podstawowych materiałów i narzędzi używanych do tworzenia mangi.

2008 October 10, “Sztuka rysowania mangi. Shojo”, in Empik:

The guide gives a very precise, step-by-step method for creating scenes and characters characteristic of girlish, romantic shojo manga. There is also a description of basic materials and tools used to create manga.

shojo - czyli tytuły, które są skierowane dla dziewczynek mniej więcej od 7 do 18 roku życia, dotyczą one przede wszystkim relacji między bohaterami, czyli różnymi zawirowaniami miłosnymi

2021 July 22, “Jakie są rodzaje i gatunki anime?”, in Wywrota:

shojo - that is, titles that are aimed at girls more or less from 7 to 18 years old, they are mainly about the relationship between the characters, that is, various love turmoil

Shojo - jest to gatunek mangi, w którym bohaterką jest młoda, piękna dziewczyna. Fabuła przeważnie dotyczy zawodów miłosnych głównej bohaterki, która mimo przeciwieństw losu gotowa jest poświęcić dla miłości wszystko.

2022, “Manga;-)”, in 日本 ;-), archived from the original on 2022-02-06:

Shojo - is a genre of manga, in which the main character is a young, beautiful girl. The plot mostly concerns the love disappointments of the main character, who, despite the odds, is ready to sacrifice everything for love.


Romans

(biblical) The sixth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle of St Paul to the Christians in Rome.


HP

Sense "home page" is a borrowing from Japanese HP (HP, “home page”), from English home page.

Overall, this is the first HP game to even get near to living up to the quality of JK Rowling's books and the accompanying films.

2009 July 16, Steve Boxer, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, in Guardian, Technology news & features, page 2:


scrapbook

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A book, similar to a notebook or journal, in which personal or family memorabilia and photos are collected and arranged.


conscience

en-noun

conscience (countable and uncountable, plural consciences)

From Middle English conscience, from Old French conscience, from Latin conscientia (“knowledge within oneself”), from consciens, present participle of conscire (“to know, to be conscious (of wrong)”), from com- (“together”) + scire (“to know”).

der

(chiefly fiction, narratology) A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral lessons and advices.


حقيقة

ar-noun

حَقِيقَة • (ḥaqīqa) f (plural حَقَائِق (ḥaqāʔiq))

حَقِيقَة (canonical)
ḥaqīqa (romanization)
حَقَائِق (plural)
حَقِيقَة (ar-infl-a indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْحَقِيقَة (ar-infl-a definite informal singular triptote)
حَقِيقَة (ar-infl-a construct informal singular triptote)
حَقِيقَةٌ (ar-infl-a indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْحَقِيقَةُ (ar-infl-a definite nominative singular triptote)
حَقِيقَةُ (ar-infl-a construct nominative singular triptote)
حَقِيقَةً (accusative ar-infl-a indefinite singular triptote)
الْحَقِيقَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a definite singular triptote)
حَقِيقَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a construct singular triptote)
حَقِيقَةٍ (ar-infl-a genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْحَقِيقَةِ (ar-infl-a definite genitive singular triptote)
حَقِيقَةِ (ar-infl-a construct genitive singular triptote)
حَقِيقَتَيْن (ar-infl-a dual indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْحَقِيقَتَيْن (ar-infl-a definite dual informal singular triptote)
حَقِيقَتَيْ (ar-infl-a construct dual informal singular triptote)
حَقِيقَتَانِ (ar-infl-a dual indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْحَقِيقَتَانِ (ar-infl-a definite dual nominative singular triptote)
حَقِيقَتَا (ar-infl-a construct dual nominative singular triptote)
حَقِيقَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a dual indefinite singular triptote)
الْحَقِيقَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a definite dual singular triptote)
حَقِيقَتَيْ (accusative ar-infl-a construct dual singular triptote)
حَقِيقَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a dual genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْحَقِيقَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a definite dual genitive singular triptote)
حَقِيقَتَيْ (ar-infl-a construct dual genitive singular triptote)
حَقَائِق (broken-form diptote indefinite informal plural)
الْحَقَائِق (broken-form definite diptote informal plural)
حَقَائِق (broken-form construct diptote informal plural)
حَقَائِقُ (broken-form diptote indefinite nominative plural)
الْحَقَائِقُ (broken-form definite diptote nominative plural)
حَقَائِقُ (broken-form construct diptote nominative plural)
حَقَائِقَ (accusative broken-form diptote indefinite plural)
الْحَقَائِقَ (accusative broken-form definite diptote plural)
حَقَائِقَ (accusative broken-form construct diptote plural)
حَقَائِقَ (broken-form diptote genitive indefinite plural)
الْحَقَائِقِ (broken-form definite diptote genitive plural)
حَقَائِقِ (broken-form construct diptote genitive plural)

desc

→ Middle Armenian: հաղիղաթ (haġiġatʻ), հաղիաթ (haġiatʻ), հաղէղէթ (haġēġētʻ), հաղիղէթ (haġiġētʻ)

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: حقیقت (hakikat)
Turkish: hakikat

→ Persian: حقیقت (haqiqat)
→ Azerbaijani: həqiqət
→ Bashkir: хәҡиҡәт (xəqiqət)
→ Bengali: হকিকত (hokikot)
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: हक़ीक़त (haqīqat)
Urdu: حَقِیقَت (haqīqat)
→ Indonesian: hakikat
→ Kazakh: ақиқат (aqiqat)
→ Kyrgyz: акыйкат (akıykat)
→ Malay: hakikat
→ Tausug: hakīkat
→ Turkish: hakikat
→ Turkmen: hakykat
→ Uzbek: haqiqat

→ Swahili: hakika

→ Uyghur: ھەقىقەت (heqiqet)


underworld

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(religion or mythology) The world of the dead, located underneath the world of the living; the afterlife.

тот свет m (tot svet, literally “that world”)


Juan

→ Carolinian: Wan

→ Classical Nahuatl: Juan

→ Chinese: 胡安 (Hú'ān) (transliteration)

Don Juan → Chinese: 唐璜 (transliteration)

→ English: Juan

→ Tagalog: Juan

Inherited from Old Spanish Johan, from Latin Iohannes, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוחנן (yókhanan, literally “Yahweh is gracious”).

der

Y aconteció en aquellos días, que Jesús vino de Nazaret de Galilea, y fué bautizado por Juan en el Jordán.

1602, La Santa Biblia (antigua versión de Casiodoro de Reina), Marcos 1:9:

And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.

a male given name, equivalent to English John or Sean


Juan

Juán (canonical)
ᜑᜓᜏᜈ᜔ (Baybayin)
Suan (alternative)

Borrowed from Spanish Juan. As a common noun, either above or as a shortening of Juan dela Cruz.

(biblical) John (book of the New Testament)


Jacques

Haitian Creole: Jak

→ Albanian: Zhak, Xhak, Xhakë

→ Dutch: Sjaak

→ English: Jacques, Jack (more often a diminutive of John)

→ Latvian: Žaks

→ Chinese: 雅克 (Yǎkè) (transliteration)

From Latin Iācōbus, possibly a semi-learned borrowing (compare inherited Old French James, source of English James), from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb), from Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (Yaʿăqōḇ). Doublet of Jacob, a learned borrowing.


publisher

(Christianity) A preacher who is a Jehovah's Witness.


Larry

No one gets named Larry anymore. It's had it as a name. Think of someone called Larry and you automatically conjure up a guy drinking beer in a sixties rec room.

1998, Carol Shields, Larry's Party, Penguin, →ISBN, page 254:

"Larry, name's Larry." I smiled, it was too ridiculous. He was worried about me calling him Lawrence instead of Larry with a rogue zombie climbing out of the dirt.

2002, Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned, JOVE, →ISBN, page 149:

A diminutive of the male given name Laurence or Lawrence, popular as a male given name in the U.S. in the 1940s and the 1950s.


Bhagavad Gita

/ˈbɑːɡəvɑːd ˈɡiːtə/

Transliteration of Sanskrit भगवद्गीता (bhagavadgītā).

translit

Bhagavad-gita (alternative)
Bhagavad-gītā (alternative)

An epic poem from Mahabharata where Krishna gives Arjuna a discourse on ethics.


bestseller

bestseller (nominative singular)
bestsellery (nominative plural)
bestsellera (genitive singular)
bestselleru (genitive singular)
bestsellerów (genitive plural)
bestsellerowi (dative singular)
bestsellerom (dative plural)
bestseller (accusative singular)
bestsellery (accusative plural)
bestsellerem (instrumental singular)
bestsellerami (instrumental plural)
bestsellerze (locative singular)
bestsellerach (locative plural)
bestsellerze (singular vocative)
bestsellery (plural vocative)
bestseler (alternative)

Unadapted borrowing from English bestseller.


Leviticus

From Middle Dutch leviticus, from Latin Lēvīticus, from Koine Greek Λευιτικόν (Leuitikón).