Acheron

Borrowed from Latin Acherōn, from Ancient Greek Ἀχέρων (Akhérōn), probably Pre-Greek but folk-etymologically said to be from ἄχος (ákhos, “pain, distress”) + ῥέον (rhéon, “stream”).

af

And pull her out of Acheron by the heels

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

Acheron and Phlegeton, which a subterraneous fire causes to boil, are the billows of that hell which was visited by Æneas.

1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[[Book XIII. Vesuvius and the plain of Naples.] Chap[ter] IV.] The extempore effusion of Corinna on the Plain of Naples.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 234:

Behold! I rise from primal silence / As a storm crushing dismal shores ov Acheron

(Greek mythology) A river in the infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets, it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf.


minor

From Middle English minor, menor, menour, etc., from Latin minor (“lesser; young; young person”) both directly and via Norman and Middle French menor, menour, etc. Doublet of minus but not mini-. Cognate with minister, minify, Minorca, Menshevik, and possibly minnow. Compare Latin minimum and minuō, Old High German minniro, Cornish minow.

byvak

subject of secondary undergraduate study

(Scots law, obsolete) An adolescent, a person above the legal age of puberty but below the age of majority.


Delphi

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δελφοί (Delphoí).

(rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek, as well a diminutive of Delphine.

A city, the county seat of Carroll County, Indiana, United States.


papa

From Sanskrit पाप (pāpa, “bad, evil, low”).


czar

See tsar. The spelling czar, the older spelling in English, comes from Sigismund von Herberstein's Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii ("Notes on Muscovite Affairs") of 1549. The alternative tsar began to replace it in the 19th century.

drug czar

cyberczar

The federal mental health czar is calling for more money to expand services to help people suffering amid the social isolation imposed by the coronavirus pandemic […]

2020 May 8, Jayne O'Donnell, “'Deaths of despair': Coronavirus pandemic could push suicide, drug deaths as high as 150k, study says”, in USA Today, archived from the original on 2020-05-09:

(informal, US politics, Philippine politics) An appointed official tasked to regulate or oversee a specific area.


cartouche

Borrowed from French cartouche, from Italian cartuccia, from carta, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs). Doublet of cartridge.

Besides the uncial writing on the convex side of the sherd at the top, painted in dull red, on what had once been the lip of the amphora, was the cartouche already mentioned as being on the scarabaeus, which we had also found in the casket.

1887, H. Rider Haggard, chapter 3, in She:

In 1762, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, a French priest who was a scholar of Eastern languages, had made the inspired guess that the cartouches set off words of great importance, such as the names of gods or rulers.

2013, Margalit Fox, The Riddle of the Labyrinth, Profile 2014, page 49:

(Egyptology, hieroglyphs) An oval figure containing the characters of an important personal name, such as that of royal or divine people.


raw

From Middle English rawe, raw, rau, from Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrau, from Proto-Germanic *hrawaz, *hrēwaz (“raw”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”).
Cognate with Scots raw (“raw”), Dutch rauw (“raw”), German roh (“raw”), Swedish rå (“raw”), Icelandic hrár (“raw”), Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked”), Irish cró (“blood”), Lithuanian kraujas (“blood”), Russian кровь (krovʹ, “blood”). Related also to Old English hrēow, hrēoh (“rough, fierce, wild, angry, disturbed, troubled, sad, stormy, tempestuous”). More at ree.

(anime fandom slang) A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.

生肉

anime fandom: a recording or rip that has not been fansubbed

(manga fandom slang) A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated.

生肉

manga fandom: a scan that has not been cleaned and scanlated


decennial

From Latin decennialis, from decennium (“10-year period”) + -ālis, from decennis (“10-year”) + -ium (“-ium”, suffix forming abstract nouns), from decem (“ten”) + annus (“year”) + -is (suffix forming compound adjectives).

Roman coins mentioning the vota publica for Macrinus are RIC IV.1 5–13; on vota publica for the decennials and vicennials of emperors in the 2nd and 3rd c. ad, see Chastagnol 1984.

2022, Martin Hallmannsecker, Roman Ionia..., p. 110

(historical) Synonym of decennalia, the festival and religious ritual held in the 10th year of a Roman emperor's reign.


fawn

English: faun


Sinhala

Borrowed from Sinhalese සිංහල (siṁhala), itself borrowed from Sanskrit सिंहल (siṃhala, literally “lionlike”), from सिंह (siṃhá, “lion”) + -ल (-la), recorded as the name of the island of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from about the 10th to 12th century, but presumably older, as it is also the source of the name Ceylon in western geographic tradition.
The name is sometimes glossed as "abode of lions", referring to a supposed former abundance of lions on the island ( The Asiatic Journal 20 (1836), p. 30). Doublet of Ceylon and Elu.


Sinhala

(Mahabharata) The kingdom in the island of Sri Lanka mentioned in the Mahabharata.


oasis

en-noun

oasis (plural oases or (rare, sometimes proscribed) oasises)

oases (plural)
oasises (plural proscribed rare sometimes)

From Late Latin Oasis, from Ancient Greek Ὄασις (Óasis), from Demotic wḥj, from Egyptian wḥꜣt (“oasis, cauldron”), G43-V28-G1-X1:N25 Compare Sahidic Coptic ⲟⲩⲁϩⲉ (ouahe) and Arabic وَاحَة (wāḥa).

It was the Lost Oasis, the Oasis of the vision in the sand. […] Deep-hidden in the hollow, beneath the cliffs, it lay; and round it the happy verdure spread for many a rood. […] Yes, the quest was ended, the Lost Oasis was the Found!

1892, James Yoxall, chapter 7, in The Lonely Pyramid:

On the edge of the dunes lies the oasis town of Dunhuang, a key strategic crossroads on the Silk Road as the routes divided to the west to skirt the Taklamakan to the north and south.

2015, Michael Welland, “Barriers and Corridors, Imports and Exports”, in The Desert: Lands of Lost Borders, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 317:

A spring of fresh water, surrounded by a fertile region of vegetation, in a desert.


oasis

From Late Latin Oasis, from Ancient Greek Ὄασις (Óasis), from Demotic wḥj, from Egyptian wḥꜣt (“oasis, cauldron”), G43-V28-G1-X1:N25Doublet of wahah.

a spring of fresh water, surrounded by a fertile region of vegetation, in a desert.

(figuratively) a quiet, peaceful place or situation separated from surrounding noise or bustle.

(figuratively) a place or situation of fruitfulness or abundance separated from surrounding barrenness or scarcity.


synthesis

synthesis (countable and uncountable, plural syntheses)

From Latin synthesis, from Ancient Greek σύνθεσις (súnthesis, “a putting together; composition”), from συντίθημι (suntíthēmi, “put together, combine”), from συν- (sun-, “together”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “set, place”). Doublet of sandhi.

der

(chemistry) The reaction of elements or compounds to form more complex compounds.

اِصْطِنَاع

chemistry: reaction of elements or compounds

The Saturnalia was apparently the only occasion, however, when the synthesis could be worn in public with decorum.

1918, American Philological Association, Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, page 132:


Venus

From Middle English Venus, from Latin Venus.

Coordinate term: (Greek counterpart) Aphrodite

Their figures are universally models for brunette Venuses, and their feet arch like rainbows, and are Cinderellian in size.

1888 June 2, “Senoritas of Brazil. [Chicago Mail.]”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, volume XLVI, number 154, page 13, column 3:

(Roman mythology) The goddess of love, beauty, fertility, and sexuality;


Venus

(Roman mythology) the goddess of love, beauty, and natural productivity;


Venus

Venus (nominative singular)
Venukset (nominative plural)
Venus (accusative nominative singular)
Venukset (accusative nominative plural)
Venuksen (accusative genitive singular)
Venukset (accusative genitive plural)
Venuksen (genitive singular)
Venusten (genitive plural)
Venuksien (genitive plural)
Venusta (partitive singular)
Venuksia (partitive plural)
Venuksessa (inessive singular)
Venuksissa (inessive plural)
Venuksesta (elative singular)
Venuksista (elative plural)
Venukseen (illative singular)
Venuksiin (illative plural)
Venuksella (adessive singular)
Venuksilla (adessive plural)
Venukselta (ablative singular)
Venuksilta (ablative plural)
Venukselle (allative singular)
Venuksille (allative plural)
Venuksena (essive singular)
Venuksina (essive plural)
Venukseksi (singular translative)
Venuksiksi (plural translative)
Venuksetta (abessive singular)
Venuksitta (abessive plural)
Venuksin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Venukseni (nominative singular)
Venukseni (nominative plural)
Venukseni (accusative nominative singular)
Venukseni (accusative nominative plural)
Venukseni (accusative genitive singular)
Venukseni (accusative genitive plural)
Venukseni (genitive singular)
Venusteni (genitive plural)
Venuksieni (genitive plural)
Venustani (partitive singular)
Venuksiani (partitive plural)
Venuksessani (inessive singular)
Venuksissani (inessive plural)
Venuksestani (elative singular)
Venuksistani (elative plural)
Venukseeni (illative singular)
Venuksiini (illative plural)
Venuksellani (adessive singular)
Venuksillani (adessive plural)
Venukseltani (ablative singular)
Venuksiltani (ablative plural)
Venukselleni (allative singular)
Venuksilleni (allative plural)
Venuksenani (essive singular)
Venuksinani (essive plural)
Venuksekseni (singular translative)
Venuksikseni (plural translative)
Venuksettani (abessive singular)
Venuksittani (abessive plural)
Venuksineni (comitative plural)
Venuksesi (nominative singular)
Venuksesi (nominative plural)
Venuksesi (accusative nominative singular)
Venuksesi (accusative nominative plural)
Venuksesi (accusative genitive singular)
Venuksesi (accusative genitive plural)
Venuksesi (genitive singular)
Venustesi (genitive plural)
Venuksiesi (genitive plural)
Venustasi (partitive singular)
Venuksiasi (partitive plural)
Venuksessasi (inessive singular)
Venuksissasi (inessive plural)
Venuksestasi (elative singular)
Venuksistasi (elative plural)
Venukseesi (illative singular)
Venuksiisi (illative plural)
Venuksellasi (adessive singular)
Venuksillasi (adessive plural)
Venukseltasi (ablative singular)
Venuksiltasi (ablative plural)
Venuksellesi (allative singular)
Venuksillesi (allative plural)
Venuksenasi (essive singular)
Venuksinasi (essive plural)
Venukseksesi (singular translative)
Venuksiksesi (plural translative)
Venuksettasi (abessive singular)
Venuksittasi (abessive plural)
Venuksinesi (comitative plural)
Venuksemme (nominative singular)
Venuksemme (nominative plural)
Venuksemme (accusative nominative singular)
Venuksemme (accusative nominative plural)
Venuksemme (accusative genitive singular)
Venuksemme (accusative genitive plural)
Venuksemme (genitive singular)
Venustemme (genitive plural)
Venuksiemme (genitive plural)
Venustamme (partitive singular)
Venuksiamme (partitive plural)
Venuksessamme (inessive singular)
Venuksissamme (inessive plural)
Venuksestamme (elative singular)
Venuksistamme (elative plural)
Venukseemme (illative singular)
Venuksiimme (illative plural)
Venuksellamme (adessive singular)
Venuksillamme (adessive plural)
Venukseltamme (ablative singular)
Venuksiltamme (ablative plural)
Venuksellemme (allative singular)
Venuksillemme (allative plural)
Venuksenamme (essive singular)
Venuksinamme (essive plural)
Venukseksemme (singular translative)
Venuksiksemme (plural translative)
Venuksettamme (abessive singular)
Venuksittamme (abessive plural)
Venuksinemme (comitative plural)
Venuksenne (nominative singular)
Venuksenne (nominative plural)
Venuksenne (accusative nominative singular)
Venuksenne (accusative nominative plural)
Venuksenne (accusative genitive singular)
Venuksenne (accusative genitive plural)
Venuksenne (genitive singular)
Venustenne (genitive plural)
Venuksienne (genitive plural)
Venustanne (partitive singular)
Venuksianne (partitive plural)
Venuksessanne (inessive singular)
Venuksissanne (inessive plural)
Venuksestanne (elative singular)
Venuksistanne (elative plural)
Venukseenne (illative singular)
Venuksiinne (illative plural)
Venuksellanne (adessive singular)
Venuksillanne (adessive plural)
Venukseltanne (ablative singular)
Venuksiltanne (ablative plural)
Venuksellenne (allative singular)
Venuksillenne (allative plural)
Venuksenanne (essive singular)
Venuksinanne (essive plural)
Venukseksenne (singular translative)
Venuksiksenne (plural translative)
Venuksettanne (abessive singular)
Venuksittanne (abessive plural)
Venuksinenne (comitative plural)
Venuksensa (nominative singular)
Venuksensa (nominative plural)
Venuksensa (accusative nominative singular)
Venuksensa (accusative nominative plural)
Venuksensa (accusative genitive singular)
Venuksensa (accusative genitive plural)
Venuksensa (genitive singular)
Venustensa (genitive plural)
Venuksiensa (genitive plural)
Venustaan (partitive singular)
Venustansa (partitive singular)
Venuksiaan (partitive plural)
Venuksiansa (partitive plural)
Venuksessaan (inessive singular)
Venuksessansa (inessive singular)
Venuksissaan (inessive plural)
Venuksissansa (inessive plural)
Venuksestaan (elative singular)
Venuksestansa (elative singular)
Venuksistaan (elative plural)
Venuksistansa (elative plural)
Venukseensa (illative singular)
Venuksiinsa (illative plural)
Venuksellaan (adessive singular)
Venuksellansa (adessive singular)
Venuksillaan (adessive plural)
Venuksillansa (adessive plural)
Venukseltaan (ablative singular)
Venukseltansa (ablative singular)
Venuksiltaan (ablative plural)
Venuksiltansa (ablative plural)
Venukselleen (allative singular)
Venuksellensa (allative singular)
Venuksilleen (allative plural)
Venuksillensa (allative plural)
Venuksenaan (essive singular)
Venuksenansa (essive singular)
Venuksinaan (essive plural)
Venuksinansa (essive plural)
Venuksekseen (singular translative)
Venukseksensa (singular translative)
Venuksikseen (plural translative)
Venuksiksensa (plural translative)
Venuksettaan (abessive singular)
Venuksettansa (abessive singular)
Venuksittaan (abessive plural)
Venuksittansa (abessive plural)
Venuksineen (comitative plural)
Venuksinensa (comitative plural)


Venus

is-proper noun

Venus f (proper noun, genitive singular Venusar)

Venusar (genitive singular)
Venus (indefinite nominative singular)
Venus (accusative indefinite singular)
Venusi (accusative indefinite singular)
Venus (dative indefinite singular)
Venusi (dative indefinite singular)
Venusar (genitive indefinite singular)


Venus

la-proper noun

Venus f (genitive Veneris); third declension

Veneris (genitive)
Venus (nominative singular)
Venerēs (nominative plural)
Veneris (genitive singular)
Venerum (genitive plural)
Venerī (dative singular)
Veneribus (dative plural)
Venerem (accusative singular)
Venerēs (accusative plural)
Venere (ablative singular)
Veneribus (ablative plural)
Venus (singular vocative)
Venerēs (plural vocative)

→ French: Vénus

→ Italian: Venere

→ Middle English: Venus
English: Venus

→ Portuguese: Vénus, Vênus (Brazil)

Sicilian: Vènniri

→ Spanish: Venus

From venus (“loveliness”), see there for more.

sine Cerere et Līberō frīget Venus

161 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Eunuchus 732

without Ceres and Liber, Venus freezes
(without food and wine, love doesn't thrive)

(Roman mythology) Venus (goddess of love and beauty)


Venus

English: Venus

The Roman goddess governing love and sexuality; Venus.


Venus

Borrowed from French Vénus, from Latin Venus.


hydra

hydra (nominative singular)
hydry (nominative plural)
hydry (genitive singular)
hyder (genitive plural)
hydře (dative singular)
hydrám (dative plural)
hydru (accusative singular)
hydry (accusative plural)
hydro (singular vocative)
hydry (plural vocative)
hydře (locative singular)
hydrách (locative plural)
hydrou (instrumental singular)
hydrami (instrumental plural)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὕδρα (húdra). Doublet of vydra.

bor+

Král nařizoval, aby Herakles zabil hydru, která děsila lidi a ničila kraj kolem města Lernu.

2010, Jana Eislerová, Staré řecké báje a pověsti, Fragment, →ISBN, page 21:

The king ordered Herakles to kill Hydra, which had been frightening people and destroying the land around the city of Lerna.

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology, singular only) Hydra, a mythological serpent with seven heads


harpe

(Ancient Greece) A type of curved weapon or implement, variously described as a sickle, a pruning hook, or a curved sword like a scimitar. In later depictions it became a combination of a straight sword on one side and a curved blade on the other.


hecatombe

Learned borrowing from Latin hecatombē, from Ancient Greek ἑκατόμβη (hekatómbē).


Nineve

la-proper noun

Nīnevē f sg (genitive Nīnevēs); first declension

Nīnevē (canonical feminine singular)
Nīnevēs (genitive)
Nīnevē (nominative singular)
Nīnevēs (genitive singular)
Nīnevēs (dative singular)
Nīnevēn (accusative singular)
Nīnevē (ablative singular)
Nīnevē (singular vocative)
Nīnevae (locative singular)


libra

libras (plural)
librae (plural)
contexts (Roman)

From Latin lībra (“pound”), partially via Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese libra. Doublet of lira, livre, libbre, liter, rottol, and arratel.

doublet

Ancient Roman units of measurement#Weight

pound

Portuguese contexts, but more often used for the arratel

(historical) Synonym of pound, a notional pound of silver as a money of account, especially in medieval contexts.


pugio

The Pugio or Dagger was used by the Romans, a species of that weapon called the Hand Seax was worn by the Saxons, with which they massacred the English on Salisbury Plain in 476.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 34:

(historical) A dagger or poignard, especially the kind used by the Ancient Romans.


metropolis

en-noun

metropolis (plural metropolises or metropoleis or metropoles or metropolizes or metropoli or (obsolete) metropolisses or (obsolete) metropolis's)

metropolises (plural)
metropoleis (plural)
metropoles (plural)
metropolizes (plural)
metropoli (plural)
metropolisses (obsolete plural)
metropolis's (obsolete plural)

Borrowed from Late Latin mētropolis, from Ancient Greek μητρόπολις (mētrópolis, “mother city”), from μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”) + πόλις (pólis, “city (state)”). By surface analysis, metro- + -polis. Doublet of metropole.

der

Colonies certainly did not become "clones" of their metropolises, but it is equally false that their colonial heritages were not influenced by the organization of the metropolises.

2010, James Mahoney, Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective:

(history, especially Ancient Greece) The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony.


hierophant

en-noun

hierophant (plural hierophants or hierophantes)

hierophants (plural)
hierophantes (plural)

/ˈhaɪəɹəˌfænt/

From Ancient Greek ἱεροφάντης (hierophántēs, from ἱερός (hierós, “holy”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I show, make known”)).

bor

The exhibition of ancient statues, relics, and symbols, concealed from daily adoration (as in the Catholic festivals of this day), probably, made a main duty of the Hierophant.

1837, Edward Lytton Bulwer [i.e., Edward Bulwer-Lytton], Athens: Its Rise and Fall: […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, book I, page 59:

If books are as provocative as you suggest, one would expect every librarian to utter the shrill screams of a hierophant, to clash ecstatic castanets in his silent alcoves!

1919, Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC:

Most scholars name the rectangular enclosure anaktoron, locate in it the throne of the hierophant, and suppose that from it emanated the central revelation which occurred, in Plutarch's phrase, ‘when the anaktora were opened’.

2005, Robert Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 351:

Eleusinian Mysteries
Eleusinian Mysteries

(Ancient Greece) An ancient Greek priest who interpreted sacred mysteries, especially the priest of the Eleusinian Mysteries.


nymphe

→ Turkish: nemf

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French nimphe, borrowed from Latin nympha or nymphē (“nymph”), from Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “young woman, nymph”).


nymphe

la-noun

nymphē f (genitive nymphēs); first declension

nymphē (canonical feminine)
nymphēs (genitive)
nymphē (nominative singular)
nymphae (nominative plural)
nymphēs (genitive singular)
nymphārum (genitive plural)
nymphae (dative singular)
nymphīs (dative plural)
nymphēn (accusative singular)
nymphās (accusative plural)
nymphē (ablative singular)
nymphīs (ablative plural)
nymphē (singular vocative)
nymphae (plural vocative)

From Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “bride, nymph”).


vehicle

Borrowed from French véhicule, from Latin vehiculum (“a carriage, conveyance”), from vehere (“to carry”).

uder

(Hinduism) An animal or (rarely) a plant on which a Hindu deity rides or sits.

वाहन

Hinduism: animal or plant on which a Hindu deity sits


manticore

/ˈmæntɪˌkɔɹ/

From Latin mantichōras, from Ancient Greek μαρτιχόρας (martikhóras, “man-eater; tiger”), from Old Persian *martyahvārah (“man-eater”), from 𐎶𐎼𐎫𐎡𐎹 (m-r-t-i-y /martyaʰ/, “man”).

der

Now may I present to you the basilisk?
Please down your goggles if you wish to resist
From the fiery depths of the planet’s core
The never sleeping for want of eating unholy stench of the manticore

2005, “Circus Maximus”, performed by Clutch:

(Greek mythology) A beast with the body of a lion (usually red), the tail of a scorpion, and the head/face of a man with a mouth filled with multiple rows of sharp teeth (like a shark), said to be able to shoot spikes from its tail or mane to paralyse prey. It may be horned, winged, or both; its voice is described as a mixture of pipes and trumpets.


Pharao

Borrowed from Latin Pharao, from Ancient Greek Φαραώ (Pharaṓ), from Biblical Hebrew פַּרְעֹה (par‘ōh), from Egyptian pr:aA (pr-ꜥꜣ, “palace”, “pharaoh”).

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Third World

Our district has many immigrants from Third World countries

developing countries
developing countries

(sometimes derogatory) developing countries, especially that of Africa, Asia and Latin America


First World

(historical, politics) Those countries aligned with the West during the Cold War, particularly in contrast to those aligned with the East (Second World).

第一世界

first-world problems

(informal) Wealthy, developed nations, contrasted with the Third World.


Second World

Those countries aligned with the East during the Cold War, particularly in contrast to those aligned with the West (First World).


vallum

From Latin vallum. Doublet of wall comes from this word via a Proto-Germanic borrowing from Latin.

(historical, Ancient Rome) A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification.


centaur

From Latin centaurus, from Ancient Greek κένταυρος (kéntauros), from Κένταυρος (Kéntauros, “a member of a savage race from Thessaly”).

(Greek mythology) A mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.


centaur

centaur (nominative singular)
centaury (nominative plural)
centaura (genitive singular)
centaurów (genitive plural)
centaurowi (dative singular)
centaurom (dative plural)
centaura (accusative singular)
centaury (accusative plural)
centaurem (instrumental singular)
centaurami (instrumental plural)
centaurze (locative singular)
centaurach (locative plural)
centaurze (singular vocative)
centaury (plural vocative)

(Greek mythology) centaur (mythical half-man, half-horse)


Khmer Rouge

/ˈkmɛəɹ ˈɹuːʒ/

/kəˈmɛəɹ ˈɹuːʒ/

From French Khmer rouge (“red Khmer”), from Khmer (“Khmer”) + rouge (“red”).

(historical) A Cambodian communist guerrilla force active from the 1970s to the 1990s under the leadership of Pol Pot.


Saturn

From Old English Sætern, from Latin Sāturnus, probably from Etruscan 𐌔𐌀𐌕𐌓𐌄 (satre), plausibly influenced by Latin satus, past participle of serere (“to sow”).

(Roman mythology) The god of fertility and agriculture, equivalent to the Greek Kronos.


Saturn

Saturn (nominative singular)
Saturna (genitive singular)
Saturnovi (dative singular)
Saturnu (dative singular)
Saturna (accusative singular)
Saturne (singular vocative)
Saturnovi (locative singular)
Saturnu (locative singular)
Saturnem (instrumental singular)


Saturn

de-proper noun

Saturn m (proper noun, strong, genitive Saturns or Saturn)

Saturns (genitive)
Saturn (genitive)
Saturn (nominative singular)
Saturns (genitive singular)
Saturn (genitive singular)
Saturn (dative singular)
Saturn (accusative singular)


Saturn

Saturn (nominative singular)
Saturna (genitive singular)
Saturnowi (dative singular)
Saturna (accusative singular)
Saturnem (instrumental singular)
Saturnie (locative singular)
Saturnie (singular vocative)


Saturn

Sàturn (canonical masculine)
Са̀турн (Cyrillic)
Saturn (nominative singular)
Saturna (genitive singular)
Saturnu (dative singular)
Saturn (accusative singular)
Saturna (accusative singular)
Saturne (singular vocative)
Saturnu (locative singular)
Saturnom (instrumental singular)


Saturn

Satúrn (animate canonical masculine)
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Satúrn (nominative singular)
Satúrna (genitive singular)
Satúrnu (dative singular)
Satúrn (accusative singular)
Satúrnu (locative singular)
Satúrnom (instrumental singular)
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Satúrn (nominative singular)
Satúrna (genitive singular)
Satúrnu (dative singular)
Satúrna (accusative singular)
Satúrnu (locative singular)
Satúrnom (instrumental singular)


ping pong

en-noun

ping pong (countable and uncountable, plural ping pongs)

→ Chinese: 乒乓球 (pīngpāngqiú)

→ Greek: πινγκ πονγκ (pingk pongk)

→ Italian: ping pong

→ Japanese: ピンポン (pin pon)

→ Korean: 핑퐁 (pingpong)

→ Portuguese: pingue-pongue

→ Russian: пинг-понг (ping-pong)

→ Spanish: ping pong

Onomatopoeic. The name “ping-pong” was in wide use before British manufacturer J. Jaques & Son Ltd trademarked it in 1901. Jaques sold the rights to the “ping-pong” name in the United States to Parker Brothers. Registered in the United States in 1930, Ping-Pong (with dash) is still a registered wordmark of Parker Brothers, Inc. Contrary to a common misconception, the word does not originate from Chinese 乒乓 (pīngpāng), though there are possibilities that the coiners encountered Chinese themselves.

(UK politics) The exchange of proposed amendments between the two Houses of Parliament, particularly at the end of a session when compromises have to be made to complete the legislative process within the limited time available.


incubus

From Late Latin incubus, from Latin incubō (“nightmare, one who lies down on the sleeper”), from incubō (“to lie upon, to hatch”, from in- (“on”) + cubō (“to lie down”)).

der

Coordinate term: succubus

(mediaeval folklore) An evil spirit supposed to oppress people while asleep, especially to have sex with women as they sleep.


succubus

Alteration in Middle English (based on incubus m) of Late Latin succuba (“strumpet, especially a mythological fiend in female form who has intercourse with men in their sleep”), from Latin succubo (“to lie under”), from sub- (“under”) + cubare (“to lie down”).

Coordinate term: incubus

1977 Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Part 2, Chapter 5, 1969. Translated from Italian by William Weaver.
When the Sabbath is caught by the first ray of the rising sun, all the witches and the vampires, incubi and succubi, take flight, some transforming themselves into noctules, some into other bats, some into still other species of Chiroptera.

(mediaeval folklore) A female demon which comes to men, especially monks, in their dreams to seduce them and have sexual intercourse, drawing energy from the men to sustain themselves, often until the point of exhaustion or death.


ren

Learned borrowing from Egyptian rn, r:n-A2

For the Ren did not belong to the man, but came out of the Celestial Waters to enter an infant in the hour of his birth and might not stir again until it was time to go back.

(Egyptian mythology) One’s name, as part of the soul in ancient Egyptian mythology.


interregnum

interregnum (nominative singular)
interregna (nominative plural)
interregnum (genitive singular)
interregnów (genitive plural)
interregnum (dative singular)
interregnom (dative plural)
interregnum (accusative singular)
interregna (accusative plural)
interregnum (instrumental singular)
interregnami (instrumental plural)
interregnum (locative singular)
interregnach (locative plural)
interregnum (singular vocative)
interregna (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin interrēgnum.

lbor

(Ancient Rome, historical) interregnum (period of time between consuls' terms of office)


nympha

la-noun

nympha f (genitive nymphae); first declension

nymphae (genitive)
nympha (nominative singular)
nymphae (nominative plural)
nymphae (genitive singular)
nymphārum (genitive plural)
nymphae (dative singular)
nymphīs (dative plural)
nympham (accusative singular)
nymphās (accusative plural)
nymphā (ablative singular)
nymphīs (ablative plural)
nympha (singular vocative)
nymphae (plural vocative)

Asturian: ninfa

Catalan: nimfa

desctree

Old French: nimphe
French: nymphe
→ Middle Dutch: nymphe
Dutch: nimf
→ Middle English: nimphe, nymphe, nemphe
English: nymph

Italian: ninfa

Portuguese: ninfa

Romanian: nimfă

Sicilian: ninfa

Spanish: ninfa

Welsh: nymff

Derived from Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “bride, nymph”). Compare with Latin lympha.

der+

(Greek mythology) nymph (mythical demigoddess)


nymph

From Middle English nimphe, from Old English nymphē and Old French nimphe, both from Latin nympha (“nymph, bride”), from Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “bride”). Doublet of nympha.

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Any female nature spirit associated with water, forests, grotto, wind, etc.

нимфа

mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit


nymph

en-verb

nymph (third-person singular simple present nymphs, present participle nymphing, simple past and past participle nymphed)

nymphs (present singular third-person)
nymphing (participle present)
nymphed (participle past)
nymphed (past)

Kuster meanwhile nymphed the middle of the Snag. When I joined him, I threw my streamer between the main channel's flow and the skinnier side-channel flow, […]

2019, James W. White, Fly-fishing the Arctic Circle to Tasmania, page 253:

(fishing) To fish using a nymph larva as bait.


lira

lire (plural)
lira (plural)
liras (plural)

From Italian lira, from Latin lībra (partly via Turkish lira, Arabic لِيرَة (līra), Maltese lira, Greek λίρα (líra), and Hebrew לִירָה (“lirá”), all of which are originally from the Italian). Doublet of libra and livre.

The former currency of Italy, Malta, San Marino, Cyprus and the Vatican City, superseded by the euro


lira

Borrowed from Maltese lira, from Italian lira, from Latin lībra.

(historical) lira (former unit of currency of Malta)


adhere

adhere (third-person singular simple present adheres, present participle adhering, simple past and past participle adhered)

adheres (present singular third-person)
adhering (participle present)
adhered (participle past)
adhered (past)

From Middle English *adheren (suggested by Middle English adherande (“adhering, adherent”, present participle)), from Latin adhaerēre, adhaesum: ad (“to”) + haerēre (“to stick”). Compare French adhérer.

cog

The Dictionary of the Scots Language
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(intransitive, Scots law) To affirm a judgment.


advise

en-verb

advise (third-person singular simple present advises, present participle advising, simple past and past participle advised)

advises (present singular third-person)
advising (participle present)
advised (participle past)
advised (past)
advise (infinitive)

From Middle English avisen (“to perceive, consider, inform”), from Old French aviser, from avis, or from Late Latin advisō, from ad + visō, from Latin videō (“to see”), visum (“past participle of videō”). See also advice.

inh

(Scots law) To deliver judgment after a case has been reserved for further consideration.


sphinx

From Middle English Spynx, from Latin Sphinx, from Ancient Greek Σφίγξ (Sphínx), perhaps either from σφίγγω (sphíngō, “to squeeze, to strangle”) (whence also sphincter), of Pre-Greek origin, or from Egyptian Szp:p-A53-anx-n:x (šzp-ꜥnḫ, “divine image”, literally “living image”).

der

<i class="Latn mention" lang="egy">šzp-ꜥnḫ</i>


sphinx

fr-noun

sphinx m (plural sphinx, feminine sphinge)

Borrowed from Latin sphinx f, from Ancient Greek Σφίγξ (Sphínx).

(Egyptian mythology, Greek mythology) sphinx


maniple

From Late Middle English maniple, manyple (“scarf worn as vestment, maniple”), borrowed from Middle French, Old French maniple, manipule (“handful; troop of soldiers; scarf worn as vestment”) (modern French manipule), from Latin manipulus (“bundle, handful; troop of soldiers”), from manus (“hand”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon, signal”)) + the weakened root of pleō (“to fill; to fulfil”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)). The English word is cognate with Italian manipulo (“scarf worn as vestment”) (obsolete), manipolo (“handful; troop of soldiers; scarf worn as vestment”).
Sense 2 (“part of a priest’s vestments”) is probably from the fact that the item was originally carried in the hand. It may originate from a handkerchief or napkin worn by Roman consuls as an indication of rank.

cog

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Holonym: legion

[T]hey divided the Haſtati, Principes, and Triaris, each of them into 10 companies, making of thoſe three ſorts of ſouldiers 30 ſmall regiments, which they called Manipuli: And again, they ſubdivided each maniple into two equall parts, and called them Ordines, which was the leaſt company in a legion, and according to the rate ſet down by Polybius, contained 60 ſouldiers. […] By this therefore it may appear that a legion conſiſted of four ſorts of ſouldiers, which were reduced into ten cohorts, and every cohort contained three maniples, and every maniple two orders, and every order had his Centurion marching in the head of the troop, and every Centurion had his Optionem, or Lieutenant, that ſtood in the tail of the troop.

1655, Clement Edmond[e]s, “The Second Commentary of the Wars in Gallia. [Observation.]”, in Julius Caesar, translated by Clement Edmond[e]s, The Commentaries of C. Julius Cæsar, of His Warres in Gallia, and the Civile Warres betwixt Him and Pompey, Translated into English: […], revised edition, London: […] R[oger] Daniel; and are to be sold by Henry Tvvyford, […], Nathaniel Ekins […], and Iohn Place […], →OCLC, book II, page 43:

And preſently changing the Order of his March, made his Flank which was next the Enemy thrice as ſtrong as it was before; plac'd ſeveral Spearmen and Slingers between the Battalions or Maniples of foot; planted all the Cavalry in the Wings; And after a brief Excitation to his Soldiers, caus'd the Army in this Figure to file off to the Left, and towards the Plain.

1709, Caius Crispus Sallustius [i.e., Gaius Sallustius Crispus], “The History of Caius Crispus Sallustius: Containing an Account of the Jurgurthine War”, in John Rowe, transl., Caius Crispus Sallustius the Historian Made English. […], London: […] Richard Sare, […], →OCLC, page 126:

Crossing the ditch, he was followed first by the men of his own maniple, and then by the whole legion.

1828, Titus Livius [i.e., Livy], “Book XXV.—Chapter XIV.”, in [anonymous], transl., The History of Rome by Titus Livius, the Twentieth to the Thirtieth Books Inclusive, […], volume I, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] D. A. Talboys and J. Vincent, →OCLC, page 317:

Our Army, besides being of an insignificant strength compared with the physical force of the country, and so detached and scattered as to be mere maniples of men, has been so frequently into its original elements of citizenship, and has at all times so mingled with our social institutions, as to appear a homogeneous part of the grand community, and only a better regulated and more effective body of militia.

1833 June, “Art. II.—Documents Communicated to Congress by the President, at the Opening of the Second Session of the Twenty-second Congress, Accompanying the Report of the Secretary of War.”, in American Quarterly Review, volume XIII, number XXVI, Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey, [Isaac] Lea & Blanchard […], →OCLC, page 298:

He [Ignatius of Antioch] was taken to Rome in the custody of a maniple of ten soldiers.

1945, H. Burn-Murdoch, “Ignatius, Bishop and Martyr, a.d. 110”, in Church, Continuity & Unity, 1st paperback edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, published 2014, →ISBN, page 120:

There was an insane delight to be taken in their mission. They were but two maniples. If the alarm were raised, thousands of Syracusan defenders would rise from their beds, drunk or not, and annihilate them. If it weren't, the rewards would be immeasurable.

2014, Ben Kane, Hannibal: Clouds of War, London: Arrow Books, Random House, →ISBN, page 426:

(Ancient Rome, military) A division of the Roman army numbering 120 (or sometimes 60) soldiers exclusive of officers; (generally, obsolete) any small body of soldiers.


World War I

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(history) The war from 1914 to 1918 between the Entente Powers of the British Empire, Russian Empire, France, Italy, the United States and other allied nations, against the Central Powers represented by the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria.

第１次世界大戦

だいいちじせかいたいせん


вата

ru-noun+

ва́та • (váta) f inan (genitive ва́ты, nominative plural ва́ты, genitive plural ват, relational adjective ва́тный, diminutive ва́тка)

ва́та (canonical)
váta (romanization)
ва́ты (genitive)
ва́ты (nominative plural)
ват (genitive plural)
ва́тный (adjective relational)
ва́тка (diminutive)
ва́та (nominative singular)
ва́ты (nominative plural)
ва́ты (genitive singular)
ва́т (genitive plural)
ва́те (dative singular)
ва́там (dative plural)
ва́ту (accusative singular)
ва́ты (accusative plural)
ва́той (instrumental singular)
ва́тою (instrumental singular)
ва́тами (instrumental plural)
ва́те (prepositional singular)
ва́тах (plural prepositional)

→ Kildin Sami: ва̄та (vāta)

→ Yakut: баата (baata)

Borrowed from German Watte or French ouate.

ватник ватник

(slang, derogatory, collective, politics) Russian nationalists (compare ватник)


pedo

(Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece) a shepherd's crook


dung

Sino-Vietnamese word from 容 (“to tolerate; facial traits”). Also from Chinese 婦容 /妇容 (phụ dung, “wifely look”).

der

(Confucianism) beauty, one of the tứ đức (“four virtues”) that women are supposed to have


trace

From Latin thraecem, from Ancient Greek Θρᾷξ (Thrâix).

(historical, Ancient Rome) a gladiator bearing Thracian equipment


Lombard

en-proper noun

Lombard (countable and uncountable, plural Lombards)

From Middle English Lombard, Lumbard, borrowed from Old French Lombard, Lombart (“a Lombard”), from Late Latin langobardus, longobardus (“a Lombard”), from Germanic, derived from the Proto-Germanic elements *langaz + *bardaz; equivalent to long + beard. Some sources derive the second element instead from Proto-Germanic *bardǭ, *barduz (“axe”), related to German Barte (“axe”). Doublet of Langobard. Compare longbeard. Compare with Old English Langbeardas (“Lombards”).

Broadwater County
Broadwater County#English

A ghost town in Broadwater County, Montana, United States, named after A. G. Lombard.


demon

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From Middle English demon, a borrowing from Medieval Latin dēmōn, daemōn (“lar, familiar spirit, guardian spirit”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, god, protective spirit”). Doublet of daimon.

daimon

now chiefly in reference to the ancient Greek spirit

(Greek mythology) A tutelary deity or spirit intermediate between the major Olympian gods and mankind, especially a deified hero or the entity which supposedly guided Socrates, telling him what not to do.


demon

demon (indefinite nominative singular)
demons (genitive indefinite singular)
demonen (definite nominative singular)
demonens (definite genitive singular)
demoner (indefinite nominative plural)
demoners (genitive indefinite plural)
demonerna (definite nominative plural)
demonernas (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn).

jävel

used in the sense of being a demon at something

(Greek mythology) a demon (neutral spirit)


yang

From Malay yang, from Proto-Malayic *hiaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *hiaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *hiaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qiaŋ.

(Hinduism) hyang: An unseen spirit with supernatural powers, in ancient Indonesian mythology.


farao

farao m anim or (canonical neuter)
farao (nominative singular)
faraoni (nominative plural)
faraonové (nominative plural)
faraona (genitive singular)
faraonů (genitive plural)
faraonovi (dative singular)
faraonu (dative singular)
faraonům (dative plural)
faraona (accusative singular)
faraony (accusative plural)
faraone (singular vocative)
faraoni (plural vocative)
faraonové (plural vocative)
faraonovi (locative singular)
faraonu (locative singular)
faraonech (locative plural)
faraonem (instrumental singular)
faraony (instrumental plural)
farao (nominative singular)
faraa (nominative plural)
faraa (genitive singular)
faraí (genitive plural)
farau (dative singular)
faraům (dative plural)
farao (accusative singular)
faraa (accusative plural)
farao (singular vocative)
faraa (plural vocative)
farau (locative singular)
faraech (locative plural)
faraem (instrumental singular)
faray (instrumental plural)


farao

head

farao c (singular definite faraoen, plural indefinite faraoer or faraoner)

faraoen (definite singular)
faraoer (indefinite plural)
faraoner (indefinite plural)
farao (indefinite nominative singular)
faraoen (definite nominative singular)
faraoer (indefinite nominative plural)
faraoner (indefinite nominative plural)
faraoerne (definite nominative plural)
faraonerne (definite nominative plural)
faraos (genitive indefinite singular)
faraoens (definite genitive singular)
faraoers (genitive indefinite plural)
faraoners (genitive indefinite plural)
faraoernes (definite genitive plural)
faraonernes (definite genitive plural)

From Late Latin pharaō, from Ancient Greek φαραώ (pharaṓ), from Hebrew פַּרְעֹה (par‘ōh), from Egyptian pr-ꜥꜣ (“palace, pharaoh”), literally pr (“house”) + ꜥꜣ (“great, big”).


farao

nl-noun

farao m (plural farao's, diminutive faraootje n)

farao's (plural)
faraootje (diminutive neuter)


farao

faraoen (definite singular)
faraoer (indefinite plural)
faraoene (definite plural)

a pharaoh (supreme ruler of ancient Egypt)


farao

faraoen (definite singular)
faraoar (indefinite plural)
faraoane (definite plural)


farao

farao class V (canonical)
mafarao class VI (plural)


farao

farao (indefinite nominative singular)
faraos (genitive indefinite singular)
faraon (definite nominative singular)
faraons (definite genitive singular)
faraoner (indefinite nominative plural)
faraoners (genitive indefinite plural)
faraonerna (definite nominative plural)
faraonernas (definite genitive plural)

Inherited from Old Swedish pharao, from Late Latin Pharaō, from Ancient Greek Φαραώ (Pharaṓ), from Hebrew פַּרְעֹה (par‘ōh).


pharaoh

en-noun

pharaoh (countable and uncountable, plural pharaohs)

From Middle English pharao (also as pharaon, farao, faraon, etc.), from Old English Pharao, from Late Latin Pharaō, from Ancient Greek Φαραώ (Pharaṓ), from Hebrew פַּרְעֹה (par‘ōh), from Egyptian pr-ꜥꜣ (“palace, pharaoh”, literally “pr (“house”) + ꜥꜣ (“great, big”)”).

der

And the Egyptians ſhall know that I am the Lord, when I haue gotten me honour vpon Pharaoh, vpon his charets, and vpon his horſemen.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 14:18, column 1:

(historical) The supreme ruler of Ancient Egypt; a formal address for the sovereign seat of power as personified by the "king" in an institutional role of Horus son of Osiris; often used by metonymy for Ancient Egyptian sovereignty


cornucopia

en-noun

cornucopia (countable and uncountable, plural cornucopias or cornucopiae or (archaic) cornucopiæ)

cornucopias (plural)
cornucopiae (plural)
cornucopiæ (archaic plural)

Borrowed from Latin cornūcōpia (“mythical horn of plenty”), from cornū (“horn”) + cōpia (“abundance”).

bor+

Device, an anchor held by a hand from the clouds: behind the anchor are a kind of brackets, in the form of cornucopiæ, croſſed; […]

1786, Typographical Antiquities: or An Historical Account of the Origin and Progress of Printing in Great Britain and Ireland: […], volume II, London: […] [F]or the Editor, and sold by Mr. T. Payne and Son, […], page 1163:

It soon came: as they were on their way to a transparency of their majesties, not a little larger than life—with Bellona, in a very handsome helmet, on one side, and Peace, with a cornucopia and a full blown wreath of roses, on the other—the path was interrupted by a little knot of gentlemen.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Fête”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 59:

So far as Swedenborg’s elucidation extends, it is comprised in seven groupings of this family; and, possibly, the Hebraic forms of the several names which are included in them, may at some future period, like so many cornucopiæ of wisdom, yield abundance of precious fruit to the Biblical student.

1849, Elihu Rich, A Biographical Sketch of Emanuel Swedenborg: With an Account of His Works, London: E. Rich, […], page 139:

A head of Trajan, between two cornucopiæ, under which is a winged foot, with a caduceus and a dolphin.

1851, B[ram] Hertz, Catalogue of the Collection of Assyrian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Indian, Peruvian and Mexican Antiquities, London: […], page 46:

On these the details of the cornucopiae resemble those familiar in the Hellenistic world: from the horn, filleted and filled to overflowing with bunches of grapes, […]

1975, Yaʻaḳov Meshorer, Nabataean Coins, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, page 25:

The three cornucopiae which branch out to hold the candles are apparently unparalleled and this in itself offers some encouragement for regarding the pieces as by Giuseppe, for the majority of his designs seem to have been cast once only (counting for this purpose a pair as a unique item, as with the lower parts of the Victoria and Albert Museum firedogs).

1981, Charles Avery, Studies in European Sculpture, Christie’s, →ISBN, page 66:

There are other mysteries expressed by the bison horn, the Paleolithic original of which the classical cornucopia is a copy: the horn of plenty is the universal vulva from which emerge all the creatures of life, plants, animals, and humans.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 105:

The two cornucopiae carried by the figure likely identify her as Isis, but they also make clear her inanimate status.

2021, Stephanie Pearson, “[The Lure of Egyptian Treasures] Egyptian Gods as Lamp Stands”, in The Triumph and Trade of Egyptian Objects in Rome: Collecting Art in the Ancient Mediterranean, De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 69:

(Greek mythology) A goat's horn endlessly overflowing with fruit, flowers and grain; or full of whatever its owner wanted: or, an image of a such a horn, either in two or three dimensions.

قرن الوفرة

mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink


cornucopia

la-noun

cornūcōpia f (genitive cornūcōpiae); first declension

cornūcōpia (canonical feminine)
cornūcōpiae (genitive)
cornūcōpia (nominative singular)
cornūcōpiae (nominative plural)
cornūcōpiae (genitive singular)
cornūcōpiārum (genitive plural)
cornūcōpiae (dative singular)
cornūcōpiīs (dative plural)
cornūcōpiam (accusative singular)
cornūcōpiās (accusative plural)
cornūcōpiā (ablative singular)
cornūcōpiīs (ablative plural)
cornūcōpia (singular vocative)
cornūcōpiae (plural vocative)

→ English: cornucopia

→ Italian: cornucopia

→ Portuguese: cornucópia

→ Spanish: cornucopia

From cornū (“horn”) + cōpia (“abundance”)


GPS

GPS (genitive)
GPS (nominative singular)
GPS (genitive singular)
GPS (dative singular)
GPS (accusative singular)

Grüne Partei der Schweiz
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(Swiss politics) Initialism of Grüne Partei der Schweiz (“Green Party of Switzerland”).


Celt

From Latin Celtae (singular Celta) from Ancient Greek Κελτοί (Keltoí).
English Celts is from the 17th century. Until the mid 19th century, /sɛlt/ is the only recorded pronunciation. A consciously archaizing pronunciation /kɛlt/ was advocated during Irish and Welsh nationalism beginning in the 1850s.

(historical) A member of one of the ancient peoples of Western Europe called Celtae by the Romans.


Celt

cy-noun

Celt m (plural Celtiaid, feminine Celtes)

Celtiaid (plural)
Celtes (feminine)
Celt
Gelt (soft)
Nghelt
Chelt


pileus

Borrowed from Latin pīleus, a form of pilleus (“a felt cap”).

Coordinate term: Phrygian cap

Among the Romans the cap of felt was the emblem of liberty. When a slave obtained his freedom he had his head shaved, and wore instead of his hair an undyed pileus.

1859, William Smith, editor, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 920:

(historical, Ancient Rome) A conical felt hat worn in Ancient Rome and Greece.

plisi

felt hat worn in ancient Rome and Greece


centurion

Borrowed from Latin centuriōnem. By surface analysis, centurie + -on.

(Ancient Rome, military) centurion (Roman officer)


reduce

en-verb

reduce (third-person singular simple present reduces, present participle reducing, simple past and past participle reduced)

reduces (present singular third-person)
reducing (participle present)
reduced (participle past)
reduced (past)

From Middle English reducen, from Old French reduire, from Latin redūcō (“reduce”); from re- (“back”) + dūcō (“lead”). See duke, and compare with redoubt.

(transitive, Scots law) To annul by legal means.


shilling

Sranan Tongo: sren

From Middle English schilling, shilling, from Old English sċilling, from Proto-Germanic *skillingaz, equivalent to skill + -ing. Doublet of scalding and schilling.

look as if one had lost a shilling and found sixpence

A great bargain also had been[…]the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.

1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:

(historical) A coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth countries worth twelve old pence, or one twentieth of a pound sterling.


decimalisation

en-noun

decimalisation (usually uncountable, plural decimalisations)

Specifically, conversion of the currencies of the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1971 from pounds, shillings and pence to a decimal system in which one pound was worth 100 new pence (later renamed simply pence).


Thatcherism

From Thatcher + -ism. Popularized by Jamaican-born British sociologist and cultural theorist Stuart Hall in an article in Marxism Today, see quotations.

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Thus “Thatcherism” is—give or take one or two elements—the corresponding political bedfellow of a period of capitalist recession: the significant differences between this and other variants of Tory “philosophy” being conceived as without any specific pertinent political or ideological effects.

1979 January, Stuart Hall, “The Great Moving Right Show”, in Marxism Today, page 14:

(UK politics) The political ideology attributed to the governments of British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990), characterised by, among other things, a free market economy, privatisation, low taxation, austerity and opposition to unionisation.

撒切爾主義 /撒切尔主义

political ideology of Thatcher's governments


Thatcherite

en-adj

Thatcherite (comparative more Thatcherite, superlative most Thatcherite)

more Thatcherite (comparative)
most Thatcherite (superlative)

/ˈθæt͡ʃəɹaɪt/

From Thatcher + -ite, named after British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013).

named-after

a Thatcherite policy

Morgan, by his own description represented the new spirit of Thatcherite enterprise.

(UK politics) Of or relating to Thatcherism.

He has a Thatcherite outlook on life.


Thatcherite

/ˈθæt͡ʃəɹaɪt/

(UK politics) An advocate of Thatcherism.


Thatcher's children

She has not begun to stem the tide of British ugliness—the yobbish teenagers shivering in their torn gear; the shoddy streets littered with fast-food packaging; the drunks urinating on London's tube platforms; the drug culture. It is facile to call those concerned “Thatcher's children”: she is not responsible for their actions.

London's financial district, like New York's, had its “big bang,” after which, as though from dragon's teeth, Yuppies sprang up, armed with Porsches and mobile telephones. They included, inevitably, some unattractive specimens, and much of their wealth has proved evanescent. To call them “Thatcher's children” is both unfair and unhistorical. Just the same corner-cutting, money-obsessed types can be found in the novels of Trollope and Galsworthy. At the other end of the scale are the workers in moribund industries, the unmarried mothers, and the feckless young, all those who have come to expect more from the welfare state than the welfare state could ever provide: They too are called “Thatcher's children”: but their problems would have existed whatever government was in power.

1990, Anthony Lejeune, “Class”, in National Review, volume 42, number 21, pages 81–84:

Negus (2002), for example, characterizes intermediaries in the music industry in London as “public schoolboys”; in Manchester they have been seen as “Thatcher's children,” the unemployed and disaffected.

2005, Justin O'Connor, “Cities, Culture and ‘Transitional Economies’: Developing Cultural Industries in St. Petersburg”, in John Hartley, editor, Creative Industries, Wiley-Blackwell, page 255:

The social group in Britain that came to be known as ‘Thatcher's children’ (benefiting from the right-wing monetarist policies of Margaret Thatcher's government) were also called ‘yuppies’ (young, upwardly-mobile professionals, especially those working in money markets and the Stock Exchange). They often originated in the south-east of England and their profit motives were legitimised by government policy in favour of free market economics.

2007, Nikolas Coupland, Style: Language Variation and Identity, Cambridge University Press, page 96:

Non-unionism was now the norm across swathes of the private sector so that only an estimated 16% of employees were organised by trade unions by 2006. Increasingly younger workers aged between sixteen and twenty-four – known as Thatcher's children – saw little point in being trade union members.

2007, Anthony Seldon, Blair's Britain, 1997–2007, Cambridge University Press, page 228:

People who grew up or were born in the United Kingdom during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990) and who adopted the ideology of Thatcherism.


سنت

سَنْت (canonical)
sant (romanization)
संत (Hindi)


Adonis

The Phœnician Adonis was identical with Tammūz.

1866, Sabine Baring-Gould, Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, S. George:

1900, James Frazer, The Golden Bough, Chapter 42: Osiris and the Sun,
A strong reason for interpreting the death of Osiris as the decay of vegetation rather than as the sunset is to be found in the general, though not unanimous, voice of antiquity, which classed together the worship and myths of Osiris, Adonis, Attis, Dionysus, and Demeter, as religions of essentially the same type. The consensus of ancient opinion on this subject seems too great to be rejected as a mere fancy. So closely did the rites of Osiris resemble those of Adonis at Byblus that some of the people of Byblus themselves maintained that it was Osiris and not Adonis whose death was mourned by them.

1921, Jessie Weston, From Ritual to Romance, Chapter X: The Secret of the Grail (1) - The Mysteries,
As Sir J. G. Frazer has before now pointed out, there are parallel and over-lapping forms of this cult, the name of the god, and certain details of the ritual, may differ in different countries, but whether he hails from Babylon, Phrygia, or Phoenicia, whether he be called Tammuz, Attis, or Adonis, the main lines of the story are fixed, and invariable. Always he is young and beautiful, always the beloved of a great goddess; always he is the victim of a tragic and untimely death, a death which entails bitter loss and misfortune upon a mourning world, and which, for the salvation of that world, is followed by a resurrection.

(Greek mythology) A beautiful young man loved by Aphrodite.


Adonis

la-proper noun

Adōnis m sg (genitive Adōnidis); third declension

Adōnis (canonical masculine singular)
Adōnidis (genitive)
Adōnis (nominative singular)
Adōnidis (genitive singular)
Adōnis (genitive singular)
Adōnidī (dative singular)
Adōnidem (accusative singular)
Adōnem (accusative singular)
Adōnim (accusative singular)
Adōnin (accusative singular)
Adōnide (ablative singular)
Adōne (ablative singular)
Adōni (singular vocative)

[äˈd̪oːnɪs̠]


Adonis

Adonis (nominative singular)
Adonisa (genitive singular)
Adonisowi (dative singular)
Adonisa (accusative singular)
Adonisem (instrumental singular)
Adonisie (locative singular)
Adonisie (singular vocative)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἄδωνῐς (Ádōnĭs).

lbor

(Greek mythology) Adonis (beautiful young man loved by Aphrodite)


Adonis

Ȁdonis (canonical masculine)
А̏донис (Cyrillic)


Adonis

[ʔɐˈd̪oː.n̪ɪs]

Borrowed from Spanish Adonis, from Ancient Greek Ἄδωνις (Ádōnis).


PDD

People Demand Democracy
w:People Demand Democracy

(UK politics) Initialism of People Demand Democracy.


Holy Grail

the Holy Grail (canonical)
Holy Grails (plural)

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

From Middle English Holy Grayle.
(web page layout): So called because it was traditionally difficult to achieve with the available markup.

(Arthurian legend) An artifact in Arthurian mythology, being the cup used by Christ at the Last Supper and in which some of his blood was caught during the crucifixion.


tema

Borrowed from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma). Doublet of teima.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) theme; skin (colour schemes, sounds, artwork of an application)


theme

-iːmi (for the sense dealing with the Byzantine empire only)

From Middle English teme, from Old French teme, tesme (French thème), from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma), from τίθημι (títhēmi, “I put, place”), reduplicative from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, do”) (whence also English do). Doublet of thema.

Theme

computing: collection of color schemes, sounds, artwork etc.

(linguistics) Topic, what is generally being talked about.

aihe

linguistics: topic, what is generally being talked about


panic

en-adj

panic (comparative more panic, superlative most panic)

more panic (comparative)
most panic (superlative)

The adjective is borrowed from Middle French panique, a word itself borrowed from Ancient Greek πανικός (panikós, “pertaining to Pan”); Pan, the Greek god of fields and woods, was believed to be the source of mysterious sounds that caused contagious, groundless fear in herds and crowds, or in people in lonely spots.
Adjective sense 3 (“pertaining to or resulting from overpowering fear or fright”) is partly an attributive use of the noun.
The noun is derived from the adjective, while the verb is derived from the noun. Verb sense 1.3 (“to highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show”) is derived from noun sense 4 (“a highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show”).

der

(Greek mythology, archaic) Alternative letter-case form of Panic (“pertaining to the Greek god Pan”)


provost

From Middle English, from late Old English prōfost, prāfost, from Late Latin prōpositus, variant of Latin praepositus (“[one] placed in command”). In some senses, via Anglo-Norman provolt; via Anglo-Norman and Old French provost (modern French prévôt). As a Central European ecclesiastical office, via German Propst, Danish provst, etc.

steward

deputy overseeing medieval estates or fees

police officer

deputy overseeing medieval law enforcement; military police

One placed in charge: a head, a chief, particularly:

(religion) The minister of the chief Protestant church of a town or region in Germany, the Low Countries, and Scandinavia.


Uranus

Borrowed from Latin Ūranus, from Ancient Greek Οὐρανός (Ouranós), from οὐρανός (ouranós, “sky, heaven”).

(Greek mythology) The Greek god who personified the sky and heavens and fathered the Titans. Roman counterpart: Caelus.


Uranus

(Roman mythology) Caelus (Roman deity) Note: The Greek deity Uranus is Ouranos


Uranus

de-proper noun

Uranus m (proper noun, strong, genitive Uranus)

Pluto

traditionally; by the IAU founded in 1919 only till 2006


Uranus

la-proper noun

Ūranus m sg (genitive Ūranī); second declension

Ūranus (canonical masculine singular)
Ūranī (genitive)
Ūranus (nominative singular)
Ūranī (genitive singular)
Ūranō (dative singular)
Ūranum (accusative singular)
Ūranō (ablative singular)
Ūrane (singular vocative)
Ūranī (locative singular)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Οὐρανός (Ouranós), from οὐρανός (ouranós, “sky, heaven”)

(Greek mythology) Uranus (god of the sky)


Neptune

From Middle English Neptune, Neptunus, a borrowing from Latin Neptūnus, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰ-tu-s (“damp, cloudy”) (source of Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos), Sanskrit नभस् (nábhas), etc.), with the sense of "wet, moist."
Puhvel, however, connects it with Proto-Italic *nepōts from Proto-Indo-European *népōts by analogy to Portūnus, cognate with Vedic Apām Napāt and Avestan Apąm Napāt, Child (cf: neve, nephew) of the Water as part of an Indo-European 'Fire in the Water' myth.

der

Neptune
Neptune (disambiguation)#Places
Neptune (god)

(Roman mythology) The god of the ocean and of earthquakes, equivalent to Poseidon in Greek mythology.


Neptune

(Roman mythology) Neptune (Roman god of the sea)


Pluto

From Latin Plūtō, from Ancient Greek Πλούτων (Ploútōn, “god of the underworld”). Venetia Burney is often credited as having suggested the name for the celestial body.

bor

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Greco-Roman god of the underworld.


Pluto

cs-proper noun

Pluto m anim (relational adjective Plutonův or Plutův)

Plutonův (adjective relational)
Plutův (adjective relational)
Pluto (nominative singular)
Plutona (genitive singular)
Plutonovi (dative singular)
Plutona (accusative singular)
Plutone (singular vocative)
Plutonovi (locative singular)
Plutonem (instrumental singular)

cs:Pluto (mytologie)
cs:Pluto (trpasličí planeta)

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Pluto


Pluto

Pluto (nominative singular)
Plutot (nominative plural)
Pluto (accusative nominative singular)
Plutot (accusative nominative plural)
Pluton (accusative genitive singular)
Plutot (accusative genitive plural)
Pluton (genitive singular)
Plutojen (genitive plural)
Plutoa (partitive singular)
Plutoja (partitive plural)
Plutossa (inessive singular)
Plutoissa (inessive plural)
Plutosta (elative singular)
Plutoista (elative plural)
Plutoon (illative singular)
Plutoihin (illative plural)
Plutolla (adessive singular)
Plutoilla (adessive plural)
Plutolta (ablative singular)
Plutoilta (ablative plural)
Plutolle (allative singular)
Plutoille (allative plural)
Plutona (essive singular)
Plutoina (essive plural)
Plutoksi (singular translative)
Plutoiksi (plural translative)
Plutotta (abessive singular)
Plutoitta (abessive plural)
Plutoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Plutoni (nominative singular)
Plutoni (nominative plural)
Plutoni (accusative nominative singular)
Plutoni (accusative nominative plural)
Plutoni (accusative genitive singular)
Plutoni (accusative genitive plural)
Plutoni (genitive singular)
Plutojeni (genitive plural)
Plutoani (partitive singular)
Plutojani (partitive plural)
Plutossani (inessive singular)
Plutoissani (inessive plural)
Plutostani (elative singular)
Plutoistani (elative plural)
Plutooni (illative singular)
Plutoihini (illative plural)
Plutollani (adessive singular)
Plutoillani (adessive plural)
Plutoltani (ablative singular)
Plutoiltani (ablative plural)
Plutolleni (allative singular)
Plutoilleni (allative plural)
Plutonani (essive singular)
Plutoinani (essive plural)
Plutokseni (singular translative)
Plutoikseni (plural translative)
Plutottani (abessive singular)
Plutoittani (abessive plural)
Plutoineni (comitative plural)
Plutosi (nominative singular)
Plutosi (nominative plural)
Plutosi (accusative nominative singular)
Plutosi (accusative nominative plural)
Plutosi (accusative genitive singular)
Plutosi (accusative genitive plural)
Plutosi (genitive singular)
Plutojesi (genitive plural)
Plutoasi (partitive singular)
Plutojasi (partitive plural)
Plutossasi (inessive singular)
Plutoissasi (inessive plural)
Plutostasi (elative singular)
Plutoistasi (elative plural)
Plutoosi (illative singular)
Plutoihisi (illative plural)
Plutollasi (adessive singular)
Plutoillasi (adessive plural)
Plutoltasi (ablative singular)
Plutoiltasi (ablative plural)
Plutollesi (allative singular)
Plutoillesi (allative plural)
Plutonasi (essive singular)
Plutoinasi (essive plural)
Plutoksesi (singular translative)
Plutoiksesi (plural translative)
Plutottasi (abessive singular)
Plutoittasi (abessive plural)
Plutoinesi (comitative plural)
Plutomme (nominative singular)
Plutomme (nominative plural)
Plutomme (accusative nominative singular)
Plutomme (accusative nominative plural)
Plutomme (accusative genitive singular)
Plutomme (accusative genitive plural)
Plutomme (genitive singular)
Plutojemme (genitive plural)
Plutoamme (partitive singular)
Plutojamme (partitive plural)
Plutossamme (inessive singular)
Plutoissamme (inessive plural)
Plutostamme (elative singular)
Plutoistamme (elative plural)
Plutoomme (illative singular)
Plutoihimme (illative plural)
Plutollamme (adessive singular)
Plutoillamme (adessive plural)
Plutoltamme (ablative singular)
Plutoiltamme (ablative plural)
Plutollemme (allative singular)
Plutoillemme (allative plural)
Plutonamme (essive singular)
Plutoinamme (essive plural)
Plutoksemme (singular translative)
Plutoiksemme (plural translative)
Plutottamme (abessive singular)
Plutoittamme (abessive plural)
Plutoinemme (comitative plural)
Plutonne (nominative singular)
Plutonne (nominative plural)
Plutonne (accusative nominative singular)
Plutonne (accusative nominative plural)
Plutonne (accusative genitive singular)
Plutonne (accusative genitive plural)
Plutonne (genitive singular)
Plutojenne (genitive plural)
Plutoanne (partitive singular)
Plutojanne (partitive plural)
Plutossanne (inessive singular)
Plutoissanne (inessive plural)
Plutostanne (elative singular)
Plutoistanne (elative plural)
Plutoonne (illative singular)
Plutoihinne (illative plural)
Plutollanne (adessive singular)
Plutoillanne (adessive plural)
Plutoltanne (ablative singular)
Plutoiltanne (ablative plural)
Plutollenne (allative singular)
Plutoillenne (allative plural)
Plutonanne (essive singular)
Plutoinanne (essive plural)
Plutoksenne (singular translative)
Plutoiksenne (plural translative)
Plutottanne (abessive singular)
Plutoittanne (abessive plural)
Plutoinenne (comitative plural)
Plutonsa (nominative singular)
Plutonsa (nominative plural)
Plutonsa (accusative nominative singular)
Plutonsa (accusative nominative plural)
Plutonsa (accusative genitive singular)
Plutonsa (accusative genitive plural)
Plutonsa (genitive singular)
Plutojensa (genitive plural)
Plutoaan (partitive singular)
Plutoansa (partitive singular)
Plutojaan (partitive plural)
Plutojansa (partitive plural)
Plutossaan (inessive singular)
Plutossansa (inessive singular)
Plutoissaan (inessive plural)
Plutoissansa (inessive plural)
Plutostaan (elative singular)
Plutostansa (elative singular)
Plutoistaan (elative plural)
Plutoistansa (elative plural)
Plutoonsa (illative singular)
Plutoihinsa (illative plural)
Plutollaan (adessive singular)
Plutollansa (adessive singular)
Plutoillaan (adessive plural)
Plutoillansa (adessive plural)
Plutoltaan (ablative singular)
Plutoltansa (ablative singular)
Plutoiltaan (ablative plural)
Plutoiltansa (ablative plural)
Plutolleen (allative singular)
Plutollensa (allative singular)
Plutoilleen (allative plural)
Plutoillensa (allative plural)
Plutonaan (essive singular)
Plutonansa (essive singular)
Plutoinaan (essive plural)
Plutoinansa (essive plural)
Plutokseen (singular translative)
Plutoksensa (singular translative)
Plutoikseen (plural translative)
Plutoiksensa (plural translative)
Plutottaan (abessive singular)
Plutottansa (abessive singular)
Plutoittaan (abessive plural)
Plutoittansa (abessive plural)
Plutoineen (comitative plural)
Plutoinensa (comitative plural)


Pluto

de-proper noun

Pluto m (proper noun, strong, genitive Plutos or Pluto)

Plutos (genitive)
Pluto (genitive)
Pluto (nominative singular)
Plutos (genitive singular)
Pluto (genitive singular)
Pluto (dative singular)
Pluto (accusative singular)

Learned borrowing from Latin Plūtō, Plūtōn, from Ancient Greek Πλούτων (Ploútōn, “god of the underworld”).


Pluto

Pluto (nominative singular)
Plutót (accusative singular)
Plutónak (dative singular)
Plutóval (instrumental singular)
Plutóért (causal-final singular)
Plutóvá (singular translative)
Plutóig (singular terminative)
Plutoként (essive-formal singular)
Plutóban (inessive singular)
Plutón (singular superessive)
Plutónál (adessive singular)
Plutóba (illative singular)
Plutóra (singular sublative)
Plutóhoz (allative singular)
Plutóból (elative singular)
Plutóról (delative singular)
Plutótól (ablative singular)
Plutóé (singular)
Plutóéi (singular)
Plutóm (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
Plutód (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
Plutója (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
Plutónk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
Plutótok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
Plutójuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)


Pluto

la-proper noun

Plūtō m sg (genitive Plūtōnis); third declension

Plūtō (canonical masculine singular)
Plūtōnis (genitive)
Plūtō (nominative singular)
Plūtōnis (genitive singular)
Plūtōnī (dative singular)
Plūtōnem (accusative singular)
Plūtōne (ablative singular)
Plūtō (singular vocative)

[ˈpɫ̪uːt̪oː]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πλούτων (Ploútōn, “god of the underworld”).

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Pluto (god of the underworld)


Pluto

English: Pluto

From Latin Pluto, from Ancient Greek Πλούτων (Ploútōn).

(mythology) The Roman god governing the underworld; Pluto.


Mesopotamia

From the Classical Latin Mesopotamia, from the Koine Greek Μεσοποταμία (Mesopotamía), a feminine substantive form of the adjective Μεσοποτάμιος (Mesopotámios, “between rivers”), from the Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos, “between”) + ποτᾰμός (potămós, “river”) + -ιος (-ios), so called because Mesopotamia is located between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Also used as a translation of the Biblical Hebrew נַהֲרַיִם (naharáyim), the dual form of נָהָר (nahár, “river”).

It was purchased by the Isle of Wight Railway in 1882, and continued to work between Brading and Bembridge until 1917, when it was taken over by the War Department, and sent overseas for war service in Mesopotamia, whence it never returned. It survived until at least 1921, when it was observed on the quayside at Basra.

1948 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “The Isle of Wight Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 217:

A region in Southwest Asia spanning from the rivers Euphrates and Tigris that is the site of one of the most ancient civilizations in the history of man.


Tutankhamun

Borrowed from Egyptian i-mn:n-t-w&t-anx (twt-ꜥnḫ-jmn, literally “Living Image of Amun”). The variant spellings of the final vowel are taken from variant forms of the name of the god Amun as found in various different sources: u from Coptic ⲁⲙⲟⲩⲛ (amoun), o from Ancient Greek Ἄμμων (Ámmōn), and e from the purely conventional system of Egyptological pronunciation.

bor

Ancient Egyptian pharaoh known for his young age and his tomb, which was preserved intact to the modern age.

تُوت عَنْخ آمُون

tūt ʕanḵ ʔāmūn


Caesarean

Shortening of Caesarean section; see also Caesarean section § Etymology.


reincarnation

en-noun

reincarnation (countable and uncountable, plural reincarnations)

/ˌɹiːɪŋkɑː(ɹ)ˈneɪʃən/

a reincarnation of an old video game


diet

From Middle English diet, dyet, from Old French diete, from Medieval Latin diēta, diaeta (“a public assembly; set day of trial; a day's journey”), from Ancient Greek δῐ́αιτα (dĭ́aita, “way of living, living space; decision, judgement”), influenced by Latin diēs (“day”).

der

(Scots law) A criminal proceeding in court.


toga

togas (plural)
togae (plural)
togæ (plural)

Borrowed directly from Latin toga, from tegō (“I clothe”). Doublet of toge.
The Philippine (and Indonesian) senses are due to the resemblance of the white ceremonial gowns worn by graduates of institutions to the loose outer garment worn by the citizens of Ancient Rome.

Or think of a decent young citizen in a toga - perhaps too much dice, you know - coming out here in the train of some prefect, or tax-gatherer, or trader even, to mend his fortunes.

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 196:

A loose outer garment worn by the citizens of Ancient Rome.


toga

toga (nominative singular)
togi (nominative plural)
togi (genitive singular)
tog (genitive plural)
tóg (genitive plural)
todze (dative singular)
togom (dative plural)
togę (accusative singular)
togi (accusative plural)
togą (instrumental singular)
togami (instrumental plural)
todze (locative singular)
togach (locative plural)
togo (singular vocative)
togi (plural vocative)

Coordinate term: stola

(Ancient Rome, historical) toga (traditional garment of men in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the stola worn by women)


toga

Borrowed from Spanish toga, from Latin toga.

toga (garment used by the citizens of ancient Rome)


ward

en-noun

ward (countable and uncountable, plural wards)

→ Swahili: wodi

From Middle English ward, warde, from Old English weard (“watching, ward, protection, guardianship; advance post; waiting for, lurking, ambuscade”), from Proto-West Germanic *wardu, from Proto-Germanic *wardō (“protection, attention, keeping”), an extension of the stem *wara- (“attentive”) (English wary, beware), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover”).
Cognate with German Warte (“watchtower”), warten (“wait for”); English guard is a parallel form which came via Old French.

inh

(historical, Scots law) Land tenure through military service.

Protection, defence.
Land tenure through military service.


deva

Transliteration of Sanskrit देव (deva, “deity, god”). Doublet of daeva.

translit

Coordinate term: devi

A god in Vedic mythology, Hinduism and Buddhism.


deva

(Hinduism, Buddhism) deva, a Hindu or Buddhist deity


chromatic

en-adj

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

more chromatic (comparative)
most chromatic (superlative)

Borrowed from French chromatique (“chromatic”) or directly from its etymon Latin chrōmaticus, from Ancient Greek χρωματικός (khrōmatikós, “relating to colour; one of the three types of tetrachord in Greek music”), from χρῶμα (khrôma, “colour; pigment; chromatic scale in music; music”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to grind; to rub; to stroke; to remove”), perhaps in the sense of the grinding of pigments) + -τῐκός (-tĭkós, suffix forming adjectives); analysable as chroma + -tic.

der

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(Ancient Greece, historical) One of three types of tetrachord (the others being the diatonic and enharmonic), with an interval between half and four-fifths of the total interval of a tetrachord.


नाम

nām (romanization)
نام (Urdu)
नाम (direct singular)
नाम (direct plural)
नाम (oblique singular)
नामों (oblique plural)
नाम (singular vocative)
नामो (plural vocative)

From Sanskrit नाम (nā́ma). Also influenced by Classical Persian نام (nām). Cognate of English name.


Vulgar Latin

(linguistics, historical) The Latin language as spoken by the Roman people, as opposed to Classical Latin as written in formal literature. Developed into Proto-Romance and descendant languages in the Early Middle Ages.


bias

en-noun

bias (countable and uncountable, plural biases or biasses)

c. 1520 in the sense "oblique line". As a technical term in the game of bowls c. 1560, whence the figurative use (c. 1570).
From Middle French biais, adverbially ("sideways, askance, against the grain") c. 1250, as a noun ("oblique angle, slant") from the late 16th century.
The French word is likely from Old Occitan biais, itself of obscure origin, most likely from Vulgar Latin *biaxius (“with two axes”).

Coordinate term: ult

The last thing you want is for your camera to die when you finally get that selca with your bias.

2015, "Top 10 Tips For Travelling To Korea", UKP Magazine, Winter 2015, page 37

Sweet, sensitive, and impossibly sassy, V is many fans' bias, and an integral member of the group.

2019, Katy Sprinkel, The Big Book of BTS: The Deluxe Unofficial Bangtan Book, unnumbered page:

One in particular, Minho, really caught my eye. He became what is called my bias or favorite member.

2019 May 7, Joelle Weatherford, “Can't stop the K-Pop train”, in The Eagle, Northeast Texas Community College, page 8:

(South Korean idol fandom) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.


cyclops

cyclops (plural cyclops or cyclopes or cyclopses)

cyclops (plural)
cyclopes (plural)
cyclopses (plural)

Borrowed from Latin cyclōps, from Ancient Greek Κύκλωψ (Kúklōps, “Cyclops”).

der

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A one-eyed giant from Greek and Roman mythology.


Ulixes

la-proper noun

Ulixēs m sg (genitive Ulixis or Ulixī or Ulixeī); third declension

Ulixēs (canonical masculine singular)
Ulixis (genitive)
Ulixī (genitive)
Ulixeī (genitive)
Ulixēs (nominative singular)
Ulixis (genitive singular)
Ulixī (genitive singular)
Ulixeī (genitive singular)
Ulixī (dative singular)
Ulixem (accusative singular)
Ulixēn (accusative singular)
Ulixe (ablative singular)
Ulixēs (singular vocative)

Catalan: Ulisses

English: Ulysses

French: Ulysse

Italian: Ulisse

Old English: Aulixes

Sicilian: Ulissi

Spanish: Ulises

[ʊˈlʲɪks̠eːs̠]

According to Visser, from dialectal (probably Doric) Ancient Greek Οὐλίξης (Oulíxēs, “Odysseus”), itself from a Pre-Greek source tentatively reconstructed by Beekes as *Od/lukʸeu. Compare Etruscan 𐌖𐌈𐌖𐌆𐌄 (uθuze) and Sicel Οὐλίξης (Oulíxēs).


Aeneas

From Latin Aenēās, from Ancient Greek Αἰνείας (Aineías).

(Greek mythology) A Trojan hero and the legendary ancestor of Romans.


Aeneas

la-proper noun

Aenēās m sg (genitive Aenēae); first declension

Aenēās (canonical masculine singular)
Aenēae (genitive)
Aenēās (nominative singular)
Aenēae (genitive singular)
Aenēae (dative singular)
Aenēān (accusative singular)
Aenēam (accusative singular)
Aenēā (ablative singular)
Aenēā (singular vocative)

[äe̯ˈneːäːs̠]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Αἰνείᾱς, Αἰνέᾱς (Aineíās, Ainéās).

bor

Αἰνείᾱς, Αἰνέᾱς


South Yemen

People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen

(historical) A former country in the Middle East from 1967 until 1990; full name People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.


North Yemen

(historical) A country in the Middle East until 1990.


nomen

From Latin nōmen (“name”), a clipping of nōmen gentīle (“family name”). Doublet of name and noun.

Greeks and other provincials who gained Roman citizenship kept their Greek names as cognomens, to which they added Roman nomens and praenomens—usually those of the ones to whom they owed their citizenship.

1990, Richard N. Longenecker, Galatians (Word Biblical Commentary; 41), Zondervan, →ISBN, page 2:

(historical) The family name of an Ancient Roman, designating their gens.

The adytum is unsculptured, but two monoliths within it bear the name of Physcon and Cleopatra; and in the front chamber of the naos is that of the Ethiopian king “Ashar (Atar)-Amun*, the everliving,” who in some of his nomens is called “the beloved of Isis.”

1843, [John] Gardner Wilkinson, Modern Egypt and Thebes: Being a Description of Egypt; Including the Information Required for Travellers in That Country, volume II, London: John Murray, […], page 308:

The following is a list of the prenomens and nomens of Egyptian kings which are of common occurrence, with transliterations into Roman letters.

1906, E[rnest] A[lfred] Wallis Budge, Cook’s Handbook for Egypt and the Sûdân, 2nd edition, London: Tho[ma]s Cook & Son, […]; Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., page 189:

(historical) The birth name of a pharaoh, the fifth of the five names of the royal titulary, traditionally encircled by a cartouche and preceded by the title zꜣ-rꜥ.

Over the decades and centuries, Linnaeus’s binominal system reached ever greater prominence as a standard to categorize and stabilize organismal biology, and it became necessary to trace taxon names, so that duplication and confusion could be addressed or avoided. As a consequence, different areas of biology developed 'codes' of nomenclature, according to which the availability of such nomina could be governed.

2023, Wolfgang Denzer, Hinrich Kaiser, “Naming And Gaming: The Illicit Taxonomic Practice Of 'Nomenclatural harvesting' And How To Avoid It”, in Journal of Zoology, volume 320, number 3, page 161:


pontifex

sk-noun

pontifex m pers (relational adjective pontifikálny)

pontifikálny (adjective relational)
nominative
pontifex (singular)
pontifikovia (plural)
genitive
pontifika (singular)
pontifikov (plural)
dative
pontifikovi (singular)
pontifikom (plural)
accusative
locative
pontifikoch (plural)
instrumental
pontifikom (singular)
pontifikmi (plural)


senior

senior (nominative singular)
seniorzy (nominative plural)
seniory (derogatory nominative plural)
seniora (genitive singular)
seniorów (genitive plural)
seniorowi (dative singular)
seniorom (dative plural)
seniora (accusative singular)
seniorów (accusative plural)
seniorem (instrumental singular)
seniorami (instrumental plural)
seniorze (locative singular)
seniorach (locative plural)
seniorze (singular vocative)
seniorzy (plural vocative)

(historical) during the period of the division of Poland into districts, the oldest of the Piasts who exercised supreme power and to whom the other princes ruling the various districts were subordinate


ala

ala (nominative singular)
ale (nominative plural)
ali (genitive singular)
al (genitive plural)
ali (dative singular)
alom (dative plural)
alę (accusative singular)
ale (accusative plural)
alą (instrumental singular)
alami (instrumental plural)
ali (locative singular)
alach (locative plural)
alo (singular vocative)
ale (plural vocative)

(historical, Ancient Rome) ala (Roman allied military unit)


magus

From Latin magus, from Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos, “magician”), from Μάγος (Mágos, “Magian”), of an indeterminate Old Iranian origin (see Μάγος for details). Doublet of mage.

Court astrologers, who were drawn from the race of the Magi, were among those that formed the royal court [...]

1922, Maneckji Nusserwanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization, page 230:

Mocenigo / [satisfied at last] / Good! Now, tell me, Prior, / What is Rome’s greatest fear? What gives the Pope / More night-mares than bad sausage? / Prior Gabrielli / Heresy! / The rendering of the seamless robe of truth. / This rabble of mountebanks and maguses / Who shout reform, defile the Eucharist, / Flout all authority, elect false bishops, / Deny the Trinity and saving grace, / Abolish marriage, set their private minds / Against the long tradition of the Faith / And Peter’s dictates and the Holy Writ . . .

1969, Morris L[anglo] West, The Heretic: A Play in Three Acts […], New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, Inc., →LCCN, pages 11–12:


magus

la-noun

magus m (genitive magī); second declension

magī (genitive)
magus (nominative singular)
magī (nominative plural)
magī (genitive singular)
magōrum (genitive plural)
magō (dative singular)
magīs (dative plural)
magum (accusative singular)
magōs (accusative plural)
magō (ablative singular)
magīs (ablative plural)
mage (singular vocative)
magī (plural vocative)

→ Dutch: magiër

→ English: Magi, mage, magus

Catalan: magi

French: mage

→ Hungarian: mágus

Italian: mago

Piedmontese: mago

Portuguese: mago

Romanian: mag

→ Spanish: mago

→ Cebuano: mago

From Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos, “magician”), from Μάγος (Mágos, “Magian”), of an indeterminate Old Iranian origin (see Μάγος (Mágos) for details).


Amazon

From Middle English, from Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἀμαζών (Amazṓn); perhaps Ionian Greek pronunciation of Old Persian *hamazan- (“warrior”), as the Amazon women were known warriors. A popular folk etymology, of Ancient Greek provenance, claims that the word derives from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + μαζός (mazós, “breast”), referencing the belief that Amazons cut off their right breast so that it would not hinder their ability to fire a bow or throw a spear.

When, therefore, one envisions a matriarchy, one should not conjure up visions of a gang of Amazons lopping off breasts and testicles to rule by force of arms.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 149:

(Greek mythology) A member of a mythical race of female warriors inhabiting the Black Sea area.


Germanic

en-adj

Germanic (comparative more Germanic, superlative most Germanic)

more Germanic (comparative)
most Germanic (superlative)

/d͡ʒɜːˈmæn.ɪk/

Learned borrowing from Latin germānicus.

a Germanic tribe

Relating to the Germanic peoples (such as Germans, Scandinavians or Anglo-Saxons).


album

pl-noun

album m inan (diminutive albumik, related adjective albumowy)

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

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

ref

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

(Ancient Rome) album (white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded)


Okinawa

/ˌɒkiːˈnɑːwə/

/ˌəʊkiːˈnɑːwə/

Borrowed from Japanese 沖縄(おきなわ) (Okinawa).

Okinawa City
Okinawa Island
Okinawa Islands
Okinawa Prefecture

(historical, World War II) The Battle of Okinawa, which took place there in 1945.


gente

From Latin gentem, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis. Doublet of genesi via Ancient Greek, and compare etymology 1.

(historical, Ancient Rome) gens (legally defined unit of Roman society)


gente

From Old Galician-Portuguese gente, from Latin gentem, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis.

(historical, Ancient Rome) gens (in Ancient Rome, a group of people descending from a common ancestor)


para

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian pàra/па̀ра, from Ottoman Turkish پاره (pare, para), from Persian پاره (pâre).

She managed things with so much economy that she was enabled to save two paras every day, out of the piastre which he gave her.

1854, Bayard Taylor, A Journey to Central Africa; or, Life and Landscapes from Egypt...:

(historical) A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions.


para

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پاره (para, “money”), from Persian پاره (pâre, “piece”).


mummy

en-noun

mummy (countable and uncountable, plural mummies)

From Middle English mummie, from Anglo-Norman mumie, from Middle French momie, from Medieval Latin mumia, from Arabic مُومِيَاء (mūmiyāʔ), from Persian مومیا (mumyâ), from موم (mum, “wax”). Doublet of mumijo.

der

Arabic مُومِيَاء (mūmiyāʔ)

For many, mummies fascinate more than repel. Our horrific connotations lie not so much with the mummy itself, but in associated fears. The mummy serves, of course, as a general reminder of our own mortality and our fear of death, but this alone is not enough to make it a monster.

2007, S. T. Joshi, Icons of Horror and the Supernatural: An Encyclopedia of Our Worst Nightmares, volume 1, page 376:

(countable, by extension) A reanimated embalmed human corpse, as a stock character in horror films.


gaulois

fr-adj

gaulois (feminine gauloise, masculine plural gaulois, feminine plural gauloises)

gauloise (feminine)
gaulois (masculine plural)
gauloises (feminine plural)

Old French galois, from galer, from Frankish, related to galant.


UKIP

UK Independence Party
UK Independence Party#English


UK Independence Party

A Euro-sceptic political party in the United Kingdom.


frank

head

frank (genitive frangi, partitive franki)

frangi (genitive)
franki (partitive)
frank (nominative singular)
frangid (nominative plural)
frank (accusative nominative singular)
frangid (accusative nominative plural)
frangi (accusative genitive singular)
frangid (accusative genitive plural)
frangi (genitive singular)
frankide (genitive plural)
franki (partitive singular)
franke (partitive plural)
frankisid (partitive plural)
franki (illative singular)
frangisse (illative singular)
frankidesse (illative plural)
frangesse (illative plural)
frangis (inessive singular)
frankides (inessive plural)
franges (inessive plural)
frangist (elative singular)
frankidest (elative plural)
frangest (elative plural)
frangile (allative singular)
frankidele (allative plural)
frangele (allative plural)
frangil (adessive singular)
frankidel (adessive plural)
frangel (adessive plural)
frangilt (ablative singular)
frankidelt (ablative plural)
frangelt (ablative plural)
frangiks (singular translative)
frankideks (plural translative)
frangeks (plural translative)
frangini (singular terminative)
frankideni (plural terminative)
frangina (essive singular)
frankidena (essive plural)
frangita (abessive singular)
frankideta (abessive plural)
frangiga (comitative singular)
frankidega (comitative plural)


frank

frank (nominative singular)
franki (nominative plural)
franka (genitive singular)
franków (genitive plural)
frankowi (dative singular)
frankom (dative plural)
franka (accusative singular)
franki (accusative plural)
frankiem (instrumental singular)
frankami (instrumental plural)
franku (locative singular)
frankach (locative plural)
franku (singular vocative)
franki (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French franc, from Middle French franc, from Medieval Latin Franc, from Frankish *frankō (“a Frank”). Doublet of Frank.

(historical) franc (former unit of currency of Belgium)

(historical) franc (former unit of currency of France)

(historical) franc (former unit of currency of Luxembourg)

(historical) franc (former unit of currency of Monaco)


scanlation

en-noun

scanlation (countable and uncountable, plural scanlations)

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


aegis

Borrowed from Latin aegis, from Ancient Greek αἰγίς (aigís, “goatskin; shield of Athena”), probably from αἴξ (aíx, “goat”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“goat”).
The plural form aegides (IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ˈiːd͡ʒɪdiːz/) is borrowed from Latin aegides, from Ancient Greek αἰγῐ́δες (aigĭ́des).

IPA

IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ˈiːd͡ʒɪdiːz/

покровителство

endorsement, sponsorship — see also endorsement, sponsorship

The goat Amalthea, which had suckled Jove, being dead, that god is said to have covered his buckler with the skin thereof, whence the appellation Aegis, from αιξ, αιγις, a she-goat. Jupiter afterwards restoring the goat to life, covered it with a new skin, and placed it among the stars. This buckler, which was the work of Vulcan, he gave to Minerva, who having killed the Gorgon Medusa, nailed her head to the middle of the Aegis, which henceforth possessed the faculty of converting to stone all who beheld it, as Medusa herself had while alive.

1790, “AEGIS”, in Bell’s New Pantheon; or, Historical Dictionary of the Gods, Demi-gods, Heroes, and Fabulous Personages of Antiquity: … In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Printed by and for J[ohn] Bell, […], →OCLC, page 20, column 1:

Herodotus, as proof of this origin of Minerva, says, that the Greeks had taken from the Libyan women, the dress and the ægis with which her statues were represented: this dress was of leather: the ægis, as its name implies, was simply a goatskin died red and worn over the shoulders like a mantle: the extremity of it was cut into shreds or tassels, which the lively fancy of the Grecian artists converted into serpents.

1822, James Millingen, Painted Greek Vases, from Collections in Various Countries: […] (Ancient Unedited Monuments; series 1), London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 3:

The robe and aegides of the statues of Minerva the Greeks have made in imitation of the Lybians, for except that the robe among the Lybians is of leather and the fringes of the aegis are not serpents but strips of leather, the adorning is entirely the same. And the very name is an acknowledgement that the vesture of the palladium is derived from Lybia, for the Lybian women put around the robe their goat skins tasselled and stained with madder (ἐρευθεδάνω) and from these goat skins, (ἐχ δὲ τῶν αἰγἑων τουτἑων) the Greeks have taken the word aegis.

1837, F. M. Hubbard, quoting Herodotus, “Article III. An Inquiry into the Commerce of Ancient Egypt.”, in B[ela] B[ates] Edwards, editor, The American Biblical Repository, volume X, number 27, New York, N.Y.: Gould & Newman, publishers and printers, Boston, Mass.: Perkins & Marvin and Crocker & Brewster, Cincinnati, Oh.: Truman & Smith, →OCLC, page 49:

In her right hand Minerva bore a beaming lance, and in her left a buckler, called the Egis. The Egis of Minerva had embossed upon it the head of Medusa.

1849, [Eliza Robbins], “Minerva”, in Elements of Mythology; or, Classical Fables of the Greeks and Romans: […], 11th improved edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Published and for sale by Hogan & Thompson […], →OCLC, page 57:

Cattle grazed where now is the Forum Romanum, and the Capitol, now glittering with gold, was covered then with brambles; nevertheless a god already dwelt there, even Jupiter himself, whose right hand had oft been seen to shake the aegis and summon the storm-clouds.

1934 November, Theodor Haecker, “Leader and Mission”, in A[rthur] W[esley] Wheen, transl., Virgil, Father of the West (Essays in Order; no. 14), London: Sheed & Ward, →OCLC, page 65:

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A mythological shield associated with the Greek deities Zeus and Athena (and their Roman counterparts Jupiter and Minerva) shown as a short cloak made of goatskin worn on the shoulders, more as an emblem of power and protection than a military shield. The aegis of Athena or Minerva is usually shown with a border of snakes and with the head of Medusa in the center.


aegis

la-noun

aegis f (genitive aegidos or aegidis); third declension

aegidos (genitive)
aegidis (genitive)
aegis (nominative singular)
aegides (nominative plural)
aegidēs (nominative plural)
aegidos (genitive singular)
aegidis (genitive singular)
aegidum (genitive plural)
aegidī (dative singular)
aegidibus (dative plural)
aegida (accusative singular)
aegidem (accusative singular)
aegidas (accusative plural)
aegidēs (accusative plural)
aegide (ablative singular)
aegidibus (ablative plural)
aegis (singular vocative)
aegi (singular vocative)
aegides (plural vocative)
aegidēs (plural vocative)

Catalan: ègida

English: aegis

French: égide

German: → Ägis, → Ägide
→ Ukrainian: егі́да (ehída)

Italian: egida

→ Polish: egida

Portuguese: égide

Romanian: egidă

Russian: эги́да (egída)

Sicilian: èggida

Spanish: égida

the aegis, or shield. See Aegis; αἰγίς.
of Zeus or Jupiter

… Pallās, prō ducibus nostrīs aegida semper habē.

… Pallas, always hold your aegis before our leaders.
(‘‘Pallas’’ was an epithet for the Greek goddess Athena, syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva.

the aegis, or shield. See Aegis; αἰγίς.
of Athena or Minerva

transferred senses
transferred sense#English

(in the writings of Ovid) the jewelry by which maidens try to conceal their ugliness