decimate

en-verb

decimate (third-person singular simple present decimates, present participle decimating, simple past and past participle decimated)

decimates (present singular third-person)
decimating (participle present)
decimated (participle past)
decimated (past)

Borrowed from Latin decimāre (“to take or offer a tenth part”), from decimus (“tenth”). As a noun, via Latin decimatus (“tithing area; tithing rights”).

tertiate

reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part

God sometimes decimates or tithes delinquent persons, and they died for a common crime, according as God hath cast their lot in the decrees of predestination.

Said to have been martyred as a Christian legionary commander of late Roman times for having refused an imperial order to kill one in ten (that is, decimate in the Roman meaning of the word) of the soldiers of another legion which had gone into revolt...

1989, Basil Davidson, “The Ancient World and Africa”, in Egypt Revisited, page 49:

...where Caesar threatened to disband Legio X after a mutiny. The men begged him to decimate them instead, and Caesar relented in the same way that Titus refrained from executing this cavalryman after his comrades’ appeal.

1998, Adrian Goldsworthy, The Roman Army at War, page 263:

Shall we decimate them? That sounds good, nice word. Remove one-tenth of the population!

2007, Russell T. Davies, “The Sound of Drums”, in Doctor Who:

(archaic) To kill one-tenth of (a group), (historical, specifically) as a military punishment in the Roman army selected by lot, usually carried out by the surviving soldiers.

delmar

Roman history: to kill one out of ten men

...there will be eight hundred and ten laborers producing as nine hundred, while, to accomplish their purpose, they would have to produce as one thousand... Here, then, we have a society which is continually decimating itself...

1840, P.J. Proudhon, What is Property?, page 164:

To destroy or remove one-tenth of (something).

For example, in multiplying 3 by 0.2, the 3 units have to be decimated—that is, divided into 10 equal parts, obtaining 3 “deci-units” for each part, and then 2 such parts taken, giving as the answer 6 deci-units, or 0.6.

1910 January, “Multiplication of Decimals”, in The Practical Teacher, volume 30, number 7, page 414:

(obsolete) To divide into tenths; to decimalize.

In this dramatic picture, the nation is literally decimated, and even the tenth which remains is subjected to a further destruction.

1998, H. Wayne House, editor, Israel, the Land and the People, page 63:

African slaves were needed to replace Native American populations that had been decimated (literally reduced to one-tenth their size) by European conquest.

2003, Susan S. Hunter, Black Death, page 58:

In the New World, European colonists initially enslaved Native Americans, decimating the indigenous populations to one-tenth of their original sizes.

2005, Wilma A. Dunaway, “Put in Master’s Pocket”, in Appalachians and Race, page 116:

(proscribed) To reduce to one-tenth: to destroy or remove nine-tenths of (something).

A decimate tool allows us to obtain a more coarse-grained view of the data over the full n-dimensional space.

1999, Mihalisin & al., "Visualizing Multivariate Functions, Data and Distributions" in Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think, page 122

However, many times it is more practical to decimate existing high-res models because of time, money or manpower issues.

Given this initial fine mesh, we smooth and decimate it to a desired mesh resolution.

2004, Geremy Heitz et al., “Automatic Generation of Shape Models using Nonrigid Registration with a Single Segmented Template Mesh”, in Vision Modeling and Visualization 2004, page 74:

(computer graphics) To replace (a high-resolution model) with another of lower but acceptable quality. (Usually algorithmically)

alentaa resoluutiota

computer graphics: to replace with lower resolution


aarti

en-noun

aarti (countable and uncountable, plural aartis)

Borrowed from Hindi आरती (ārtī), from Sanskrit आरात्रिक (ārātrika).

The kings of Mewar always visited the Brindabani Temple, did arati, touched the Blue One's feet, ate prasad, and distributed largesse amongst the subjects of Chittor on Janmashtami.

1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 165:

(Hinduism) A particular Hindu prayer ritual, involving candles made from clarified butter.


Keb

(Egyptian mythology) Alternative form of Geb


deus ex machina

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

der

ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός

(Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, drama, historical, literary) deus ex machina (plot resolution in ancient tragedy involving the sudden and unexpected appearance of a deity)

(Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, drama, historical, literary) deus ex machina (deity in Greek and Roman drama who was brought in by stage machinery to intervene in a difficult situation)


kitara

kitara (nominative singular)
kitary (nominative plural)
kitary (genitive singular)
kitar (genitive plural)
kitarze (dative singular)
kitarom (dative plural)
kitarę (accusative singular)
kitary (accusative plural)
kitarą (instrumental singular)
kitarami (instrumental plural)
kitarze (locative singular)
kitarach (locative plural)
kitaro (singular vocative)
kitary (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára). Doublet of cytra and gitara.

lbor

(Ancient Greece) cithara (ancient Greek stringed instrument, which could be considered a forerunner of the guitar)


sitzkrieg

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Borrowed from German Sitzkrieg (“sitting war”), a pun on Blitzkrieg (“lightning war”).

Warfare without any military operations or campaigns; a stalemate.


Blueshirt

(Ireland, derogatory) A member of Ireland's Fine Gael political party, which O'Duffy's followers joined after their own organization was dissolved.


Babylon

Partially inherited from Old English Babilōn/Babȳlōn, partially from Latin Babylōn, from Ancient Greek Βαβυλών (Babulṓn), from Akkadian 𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠 (Bābilim, literally “Gate of God”); the name of the ancient Chaldean capital and Biblical city of the Apocalypse. Doublet of Babel.

der

An unincorporated community in Fulton County, Illinois, United States.


이

Sino-Korean word from 理, from the Middle Korean reading 리〯 (Yale: lǐ), from Middle Chinese 理 (MC liX).

(East Asian philosophy, especially Confucianism) li, the underlying ordering principle of the cosmos

East Asian philosophy; especially Confucianism; East Asian philosophy; especially Confucianism

the hanja entry at 理 for Sino-Korean compounds of 이


pundit

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *pro-
Proto-Indo-Iranian *pra-
Sanskrit प्र- (pra-)
Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-
Sanskrit ज्ञा (jñā)
Sanskrit प्रज्ञा (prajñā)
Prakrit 𑀧𑀡𑁆𑀡𑀸 (paṇṇā)bor.?
Sanskrit पण्डा (paṇḍā)
Sanskrit -इत (-ita)
Sanskrit पण्डित (paṇḍita)bor.
Hindi पंडित (paṇḍit)bor.
English pundit
Borrowed from Hindi पंडित (paṇḍit) / Urdu پنڈت (panḍit), from Sanskrit पण्डित (paṇḍita, “scholar, learned man, teacher, philosopher”). Doublet of pandit.

bor

Pundits in black gowns, with spectacles on their noses and undigested wisdom in their insides; bearded headmen of the wards; [...] all these people and more also you might find in the white room.

1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘On the City Wall’, In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 430:

A learned person in India; someone with knowledge of Sanskrit, philosophy, religion and law; a Hindu scholar.


folle

Borrowed from Latin follem (“money bag”).

bor+

(historical, Ancient Rome) follis (bronze coin)


anna

From Hindi अन्न (ann, “food, grain”), आना (ānā), from Sanskrit अन्न (anna).


fisc

Partly from Middle French fisc and partly from its etymon, Latin fiscus (“basket, money-bag, public treasury”); see fiscal.

bor

(Ancient Rome) The public treasury of Rome.


World War II

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As students all over the United States knuckle down to learning, the rumble of war drums once more proclaims Mars high man in Europe. Discarding morbid curiosity, every student should consider it vitally necessary to get a general picture of the causes, movements, and possible effects of World War II. The average U. S. citizen's knowledge of World War II will probably decide his role in it.

1939 November 10, “Following The War”, in The Chart, volume I, number 1, Joplin, Missouri: Joplin Junior College, page 4, column 1:

Nothing since the beginning of World War II, a year ago last September, has boosted British morale or given them greater courage to fight on as has this brilliant Libyan campaign.

1941 March, Frederick M. Barrows, “The War in Africa”, in Command and General Staff School Military Review, volume XXI, number 80, →OCLC, page 23, column 1:

If Demandt's essay served as a strident example of the German desire for normalcy, a more subtle example was provided by a brief allohistorical depiction of a Nazi victory in World War II written by German historian Michael Salewski in 1999.

2005 May 23, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 182:

The tiny island of Tinian was the launch point for American planes carrying atomic bombs to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Now a new runway is being carved from the jungle, just south of World War II ruins inked with mildew.

2023 March 25, Damien Cave, “An Anxious Asia Arms for a War It Hopes to Prevent”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-25:

(history) The war from 1939 to 1945 of the Allied forces, including the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, the United States, France, and China, against the Axis Powers, including Germany, Italy, and Japan.

מִלְחֶמֶת הָעוֹלָם הַשְּׁנִיָּה \ מלחמת העולם השנייה

Great Patriotic War

primarily in a Soviet or Russian context


World War III

One time ago a crazy dream came to me / I dreamt I was walking into World War Three

1963, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Talkin' World War III Blues”, in The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan:

And I also wanted to be sure to keep Chiang Kai-shek, who had some notion of starting a World War Number Three, from going into China and doing just that.

1964, Harry S. Truman, 2:16 from the start, in MP2002-410 Several Cuts of Former President Truman Talking about Wars and Korea, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:

The WOPR [War Operations Planning Response] has already fought World War III as a game time and time again.

1983, Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes, WarGames, spoken by Paul Richter:

A hypothetical world war following World War II.

اَلْحَرْبُ اَلْعَالَمِيَّةُ اَلثَّالِثَة


lingam

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit लिङ्गम् (liṅgam, nominative singular of लिङ्ग (liṅga, “sign, mark”)).

lbor

nominative singular of <i class="Deva mention" lang="sa">लिङ्ग</i> (liṅga, “sign, mark”)

Then we have the very numerous lingams (conventional representations of the male organ) to be seen, scores and scores of them, in the arcades and cloisters of the Hindu Temples - to which women of all classes, especially those who wish to become mothers, resort, anointing them copiously with oil, and signalizing their respect and devotion to them in a very practical way.

1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 182:

(Shaivism) The aniconic phallic representation traditionally worshipped as a symbol of or in connection with Shiva.


Jérusalem

Jerusalem (the claimed (and de-facto) capital city of Israel; the claimed capital city of Palestine)


eques

From Latin eques (“horseman, knight; equestrian”).

uder

(historical, Ancient Rome) A member of the equestrian order (Latin: ordo equester), the lower of the two aristocratic classes of Ancient Rome, ranking below the patricians.


scarab

→ Irish: scarab

→ Welsh: sgarab

From Middle French scarabée, from Latin scarabaeus (“beetle”). Doublet of scarabaeus, now obsolete.

The scarab, which is a very small one, Leo had insisted upon having set in a massive gold ring, such as is generally used for signets, and it was this very ring that I now picked up.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

A symbol, seal, amulet, or gem fashioned to resemble the sacred beetle.


picayune

The noun is borrowed from southern French picaillon, pécaillon, picayon (“type of small foreign coin; (informal, especially in the plural) cash, money”), and from its etymon Occitan picalhon, picaioun (“cheaply made Savoyan-Piedmontese coin that was rapidly demonetized; (by extension) cash, money”), probably from Occitan piquar (“to ring (bells); to knock, strike”) (referring to the clinking of coins in a pocket), originally imitative.
The adjective is derived from the noun.

ref

From the collection of the Missouri History Museum in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

der

(especially Louisiana, historical) A small coin of the value of six-and-a-quarter cents; a Spanish coin with a value of half a real; a fippenny bit.


picayune

en-adj

picayune (comparative more picayune, superlative most picayune)

more picayune (comparative)
most picayune (superlative)

Childishly spiteful; tending to go on about unimportant things; small-minded.


agger

From Middle English agger (“heap, pile”), from Latin agger (“earthwork, rubble, rampart”), from ad- (“toward, towards”) + gerere (“to carry”).

der

By the Augustan period, however, the old ashlar circuit with its earthen agger was beginning to be dismantled in some places.

2012, Seth G. Bernard, “Continuing the Deabte on Rome's Earliest Circuit Walls”, in Papers of the British School at Rome, number 80, page 2:

(historical) Synonym of earthwork in ancient Roman contexts, particularly a defensive wall or mound.


Avesta

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

(Zoroastrianism) The primary collection of religious texts of Zoroastrianism, composed in the Avestan language.

الأَبِسْتَاق

the sacred texts of Zoroastrianism, composed in the Avestan language.


feu

(Scots law, property law, historical) Land held in feudal tenure.


feu

en-verb

feu (third-person singular simple present feus, present participle feuing, simple past and past participle feued)

feus (present singular third-person)
feuing (participle present)
feued (participle past)
feued (past)

1813, "Keith", Entry in Nicholas Carlisle, A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland, Volume II, unnumbered page,
The Village of OLD KEITH is of ancient date, having been partly feued by the predecessors of the Family of Forbes, and partly feued by the Ministers, and stands upon the glebe: this Village is greatly on the decline, and almost a ruin.—About the year 1750, the late Lord FINDLATER divided a barren Muir, and feued it out in small lots […] .

1841, Alexander Dunlop, J. M. Bell, John Murray, James Donaldson (reporters), Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Volume 3, 2nd Series, page 620,
The prohibition of feuing beyond a certain extent was clearly implied; […] .

But in effect, whereas Heriot's knew that their feuing conditions were subordinate to the law of contract, the Earl of Moray knew by 1822 that as a result of the Lords' decision in 1818 estate development could not be controlled by contract law and the feuing plan.[…]The impact on the Moray estate was that[…]despite a recession in the Edinburgh property market generally after 1826, virtually the entire estate was feued by 1836.

2001, Richard Rodger, “The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century”, in Paperback, Cambridge University Press, published 2004, page 68:

(Scots law, transitive) To bring (land) under the system of feudal tenure.


feu

(Scots law, property law) feud, tenure, piece of land held by that tenure


kama

The place of kāma or the pursuit of love and pleasure in the balanced Hindu scheme of life derives from the importance attached to the life of the married householder (grhastha).

1958, V. Raghavan, “Chapter XII: Kāma, The Third End of Man”, in Stephen N Hay, William Theodore De Bary, editors, Sources of Indian Tradition, volume 2, page 258:

Ancient Indian thought divides the principal aims of human existence into dharma (religion, morality, social obligations), artha (economics, politics, power), and kāma (erotic pleasure, sexual interaction, sexual gratification).

2006, “Indian Erotology”, in Alan Soble, editor, Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia, Volume 1: A-L, page 493:

(Hinduism) The act or process of wishing; longing, desire (with or without sexual connotations); one of the goals of life in Hindu tradition.


kama

kȃma (canonical masculine)
ка̑ма (Cyrillic)
kama (nominative singular)
kame (nominative plural)
kame (genitive singular)
kama (genitive plural)
kami (dative singular)
kamama (dative plural)
kamu (accusative singular)
kame (accusative plural)
kamo (singular vocative)
kame (plural vocative)
kami (locative singular)
kamama (locative plural)
kamom (instrumental singular)
kamama (instrumental plural)

(Hinduism) one of the four main goals of the material existence


mag

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

(historical, Zoroastrianism) magus (priest in Zoroastrianism and earlier Iranian religions)


kitsune

(Japanese mythology) A Japanese fox spirit, often but not exclusively female, said to have powers such as shape-shifting, and whose power is symbolized by increase in number of tails.


tanuki

Borrowed from Japanese 狸(たぬき) (tanuki, “raccoon dog”).

(Japanese mythology) A folkloric figure in the form of a tanuki, regarded as a shapeshifter and renowned for its enormous scrotum and testicles.


Ahti

(Finnic mythology) The god of depths, water, and fishing in Finnish mythology.

(Egyptian mythology) A goddess in Egyptian mythology.


Ahti

Ahti (nominative singular)
Ahti (accusative nominative singular)
Ahdin (accusative genitive singular)
Ahdin (genitive singular)
Ahtia (partitive singular)
Ahdissa (inessive singular)
Ahdista (elative singular)
Ahtiin (illative singular)
Ahdilla (adessive singular)
Ahdilta (ablative singular)
Ahdille (allative singular)
Ahtina (essive singular)
Ahdiksi (singular translative)
Ahditta (abessive singular)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Ahtini (nominative singular)
Ahtini (accusative nominative singular)
Ahtini (accusative genitive singular)
Ahtini (genitive singular)
Ahtiani (partitive singular)
Ahdissani (inessive singular)
Ahdistani (elative singular)
Ahtiini (illative singular)
Ahdillani (adessive singular)
Ahdiltani (ablative singular)
Ahdilleni (allative singular)
Ahtinani (essive singular)
Ahdikseni (singular translative)
Ahdittani (abessive singular)
Ahtisi (nominative singular)
Ahtisi (accusative nominative singular)
Ahtisi (accusative genitive singular)
Ahtisi (genitive singular)
Ahtiasi (partitive singular)
Ahdissasi (inessive singular)
Ahdistasi (elative singular)
Ahtiisi (illative singular)
Ahdillasi (adessive singular)
Ahdiltasi (ablative singular)
Ahdillesi (allative singular)
Ahtinasi (essive singular)
Ahdiksesi (singular translative)
Ahdittasi (abessive singular)
Ahtimme (nominative singular)
Ahtimme (accusative nominative singular)
Ahtimme (accusative genitive singular)
Ahtimme (genitive singular)
Ahtiamme (partitive singular)
Ahdissamme (inessive singular)
Ahdistamme (elative singular)
Ahtiimme (illative singular)
Ahdillamme (adessive singular)
Ahdiltamme (ablative singular)
Ahdillemme (allative singular)
Ahtinamme (essive singular)
Ahdiksemme (singular translative)
Ahdittamme (abessive singular)
Ahtinne (nominative singular)
Ahtinne (accusative nominative singular)
Ahtinne (accusative genitive singular)
Ahtinne (genitive singular)
Ahtianne (partitive singular)
Ahdissanne (inessive singular)
Ahdistanne (elative singular)
Ahtiinne (illative singular)
Ahdillanne (adessive singular)
Ahdiltanne (ablative singular)
Ahdillenne (allative singular)
Ahtinanne (essive singular)
Ahdiksenne (singular translative)
Ahdittanne (abessive singular)
Ahtinsa (nominative singular)
Ahtinsa (accusative nominative singular)
Ahtinsa (accusative genitive singular)
Ahtinsa (genitive singular)
Ahtiaan (partitive singular)
Ahtiansa (partitive singular)
Ahdissaan (inessive singular)
Ahdissansa (inessive singular)
Ahdistaan (elative singular)
Ahdistansa (elative singular)
Ahtiinsa (illative singular)
Ahdillaan (adessive singular)
Ahdillansa (adessive singular)
Ahdiltaan (ablative singular)
Ahdiltansa (ablative singular)
Ahdilleen (allative singular)
Ahdillensa (allative singular)
Ahtinaan (essive singular)
Ahtinansa (essive singular)
Ahdikseen (singular translative)
Ahdiksensa (singular translative)
Ahdittaan (abessive singular)
Ahdittansa (abessive singular)

Probably ahtaa + -i. The consonantism implies a relatively recent derivation, but based on the dialectal meaning "to hang up to dry". The god of water and fishing would have thus originally been a god that helps keep fish nets dry and thus by extension bring a good catch. Alternatively possibly borrowed from Proto-Samic *āččē (“father”), an epithet that occurs in many names of Sami deities.

Ahdin valtakunta

the depths of the water, Davy Jones's locker (nautical slang)

(Finnic mythology) The god of depths, water, and fishing.


Ahto

Ahto (nominative singular)
Ahdot (nominative plural)
Ahto (accusative nominative singular)
Ahdot (accusative nominative plural)
Ahdon (accusative genitive singular)
Ahdot (accusative genitive plural)
Ahdon (genitive singular)
Ahtojen (genitive plural)
Ahtoa (partitive singular)
Ahtoja (partitive plural)
Ahdossa (inessive singular)
Ahdoissa (inessive plural)
Ahdosta (elative singular)
Ahdoista (elative plural)
Ahtoon (illative singular)
Ahtoihin (illative plural)
Ahdolla (adessive singular)
Ahdoilla (adessive plural)
Ahdolta (ablative singular)
Ahdoilta (ablative plural)
Ahdolle (allative singular)
Ahdoille (allative plural)
Ahtona (essive singular)
Ahtoina (essive plural)
Ahdoksi (singular translative)
Ahdoiksi (plural translative)
Ahdotta (abessive singular)
Ahdoitta (abessive plural)
Ahdoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Ahtoni (nominative singular)
Ahtoni (nominative plural)
Ahtoni (accusative nominative singular)
Ahtoni (accusative nominative plural)
Ahtoni (accusative genitive singular)
Ahtoni (accusative genitive plural)
Ahtoni (genitive singular)
Ahtojeni (genitive plural)
Ahtoani (partitive singular)
Ahtojani (partitive plural)
Ahdossani (inessive singular)
Ahdoissani (inessive plural)
Ahdostani (elative singular)
Ahdoistani (elative plural)
Ahtooni (illative singular)
Ahtoihini (illative plural)
Ahdollani (adessive singular)
Ahdoillani (adessive plural)
Ahdoltani (ablative singular)
Ahdoiltani (ablative plural)
Ahdolleni (allative singular)
Ahdoilleni (allative plural)
Ahtonani (essive singular)
Ahtoinani (essive plural)
Ahdokseni (singular translative)
Ahdoikseni (plural translative)
Ahdottani (abessive singular)
Ahdoittani (abessive plural)
Ahtoineni (comitative plural)
Ahtosi (nominative singular)
Ahtosi (nominative plural)
Ahtosi (accusative nominative singular)
Ahtosi (accusative nominative plural)
Ahtosi (accusative genitive singular)
Ahtosi (accusative genitive plural)
Ahtosi (genitive singular)
Ahtojesi (genitive plural)
Ahtoasi (partitive singular)
Ahtojasi (partitive plural)
Ahdossasi (inessive singular)
Ahdoissasi (inessive plural)
Ahdostasi (elative singular)
Ahdoistasi (elative plural)
Ahtoosi (illative singular)
Ahtoihisi (illative plural)
Ahdollasi (adessive singular)
Ahdoillasi (adessive plural)
Ahdoltasi (ablative singular)
Ahdoiltasi (ablative plural)
Ahdollesi (allative singular)
Ahdoillesi (allative plural)
Ahtonasi (essive singular)
Ahtoinasi (essive plural)
Ahdoksesi (singular translative)
Ahdoiksesi (plural translative)
Ahdottasi (abessive singular)
Ahdoittasi (abessive plural)
Ahtoinesi (comitative plural)
Ahtomme (nominative singular)
Ahtomme (nominative plural)
Ahtomme (accusative nominative singular)
Ahtomme (accusative nominative plural)
Ahtomme (accusative genitive singular)
Ahtomme (accusative genitive plural)
Ahtomme (genitive singular)
Ahtojemme (genitive plural)
Ahtoamme (partitive singular)
Ahtojamme (partitive plural)
Ahdossamme (inessive singular)
Ahdoissamme (inessive plural)
Ahdostamme (elative singular)
Ahdoistamme (elative plural)
Ahtoomme (illative singular)
Ahtoihimme (illative plural)
Ahdollamme (adessive singular)
Ahdoillamme (adessive plural)
Ahdoltamme (ablative singular)
Ahdoiltamme (ablative plural)
Ahdollemme (allative singular)
Ahdoillemme (allative plural)
Ahtonamme (essive singular)
Ahtoinamme (essive plural)
Ahdoksemme (singular translative)
Ahdoiksemme (plural translative)
Ahdottamme (abessive singular)
Ahdoittamme (abessive plural)
Ahtoinemme (comitative plural)
Ahtonne (nominative singular)
Ahtonne (nominative plural)
Ahtonne (accusative nominative singular)
Ahtonne (accusative nominative plural)
Ahtonne (accusative genitive singular)
Ahtonne (accusative genitive plural)
Ahtonne (genitive singular)
Ahtojenne (genitive plural)
Ahtoanne (partitive singular)
Ahtojanne (partitive plural)
Ahdossanne (inessive singular)
Ahdoissanne (inessive plural)
Ahdostanne (elative singular)
Ahdoistanne (elative plural)
Ahtoonne (illative singular)
Ahtoihinne (illative plural)
Ahdollanne (adessive singular)
Ahdoillanne (adessive plural)
Ahdoltanne (ablative singular)
Ahdoiltanne (ablative plural)
Ahdollenne (allative singular)
Ahdoillenne (allative plural)
Ahtonanne (essive singular)
Ahtoinanne (essive plural)
Ahdoksenne (singular translative)
Ahdoiksenne (plural translative)
Ahdottanne (abessive singular)
Ahdoittanne (abessive plural)
Ahtoinenne (comitative plural)
Ahtonsa (nominative singular)
Ahtonsa (nominative plural)
Ahtonsa (accusative nominative singular)
Ahtonsa (accusative nominative plural)
Ahtonsa (accusative genitive singular)
Ahtonsa (accusative genitive plural)
Ahtonsa (genitive singular)
Ahtojensa (genitive plural)
Ahtoaan (partitive singular)
Ahtoansa (partitive singular)
Ahtojaan (partitive plural)
Ahtojansa (partitive plural)
Ahdossaan (inessive singular)
Ahdossansa (inessive singular)
Ahdoissaan (inessive plural)
Ahdoissansa (inessive plural)
Ahdostaan (elative singular)
Ahdostansa (elative singular)
Ahdoistaan (elative plural)
Ahdoistansa (elative plural)
Ahtoonsa (illative singular)
Ahtoihinsa (illative plural)
Ahdollaan (adessive singular)
Ahdollansa (adessive singular)
Ahdoillaan (adessive plural)
Ahdoillansa (adessive plural)
Ahdoltaan (ablative singular)
Ahdoltansa (ablative singular)
Ahdoiltaan (ablative plural)
Ahdoiltansa (ablative plural)
Ahdolleen (allative singular)
Ahdollensa (allative singular)
Ahdoilleen (allative plural)
Ahdoillensa (allative plural)
Ahtonaan (essive singular)
Ahtonansa (essive singular)
Ahtoinaan (essive plural)
Ahtoinansa (essive plural)
Ahdokseen (singular translative)
Ahdoksensa (singular translative)
Ahdoikseen (plural translative)
Ahdoiksensa (plural translative)
Ahdottaan (abessive singular)
Ahdottansa (abessive singular)
Ahdoittaan (abessive plural)
Ahdoittansa (abessive plural)
Ahtoineen (comitative plural)
Ahtoinensa (comitative plural)

A variant of Ahti (mythology), roughly equivalent to Ahti + -o.

1849 Kalevala (Translation 1988 by Eino Friberg) 48:135-136

Ahto, master of the billows, / Ruler over a hundred sea caves!

Ahto, aaltojen isäntä, / Satahauan hallitsija!

(Finnic mythology) A variation of Ahti, name of the god of the depths, water, and fishing in Finnish mythology.


神社

/ʂən³⁵ ʂɤ⁵¹/

/sɐn²¹ sɛː¹³/

/ʂən³⁵ ʂɤ⁵¹/

/sɐn²¹ sɛː¹³/


auriga

auriga (nominative singular)
aurogiwie (nominative plural)
aurigi (genitive singular)
aurigów (genitive plural)
auridze (dative singular)
aurigom (dative plural)
aurigę (accusative singular)
aurigów (accusative plural)
aurigą (instrumental singular)
aurigami (instrumental plural)
auridze (locative singular)
aurigach (locative plural)
aurigo (singular vocative)
aurogiwie (plural vocative)

(Ancient Rome) charioteer (one who drives the chariot in ancient games)


andabata

andabata (nominative singular)
andabaci (nominative plural)
andabaty (derogatory nominative plural)
andabaty (genitive singular)
andabatów (genitive plural)
andabacie (dative singular)
andabatom (dative plural)
andabatę (accusative singular)
andabatów (accusative plural)
andabatą (instrumental singular)
andabatami (instrumental plural)
andabacie (locative singular)
andabatach (locative plural)
andabato (singular vocative)
andabaci (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin andabata. First attested in 1612.

ref

Krystyna Siekierska (14.06.2016) “ANDABATA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]

(Ancient Rome, historical) andabatae (gladiator who fought wearing a helmet without openings for the eyes)


Iuppiter

la-proper noun

Iuppiter m (genitive Iovis); third declension

Iovis (genitive)
Iuppiter (nominative singular)
Iovēs (nominative plural)
Iovis (genitive singular)
Iovum (genitive plural)
Iovī (dative singular)
Iovibus (dative plural)
Iovem (accusative singular)
Iovēs (accusative plural)
Iove (ablative singular)
Iovibus (ablative plural)
Iuppiter (singular vocative)
Iovēs (plural vocative)

→ Afrikaans: Jupiter

→ Arabic: جُوبِيتَر (jūbītar)

→ Armenian: Յուպիտեր (Yupiter)

Asturian: Xúpiter

→ Azerbaijani: Yupiter

→ Bashkir: Юпитер (Yupiter)

→ Basque: Jupiter

→ Bulgarian: Юпи́тер (Jupíter)

Catalan: Júpiter

→ Chinese:

Mandarin: 朱庇特 (Zhūbìtè)

Cantonese: 朱庇特 (zyu1 bei3 dak6)

→ Cornish: Jubyter, Yow

→ Czech: Jupiter

→ Dutch: Jupiter

→ English: Jupiter, Jove

→ Esperanto: Jupitero

→ Estonian: Jupiter

→ Finnish: Juppiter, Jupiter

Franco-Provençal: Jupitèr

French: Jupiter

Galician: Xúpiter

→ German: Jupiter

→ Hungarian: Jupiter

→ Icelandic: Júpíter

→ Indonesian: Yupiter

→ Irish: Iúpatar

Italian: Giove

→ Latvian: Jupiters

→ Lithuanian: Jupiteris

→ Macedonian: Јупитер (Jupiter)

→ Maltese: Ġovè

desctree

→ Old Ruthenian: Юпи́теръ (Jupíter), Упи́теръ (Upíter)
Belarusian: Юпі́тэр (Jupíter)
Carpathian Rusyn: Юпі́тер (Jupíter)
Ukrainian: Юпі́тер (Jupíter); юпі́тер (jupíter)

→ Persian: ژوپیتر (župiter)

→ Polish: Jowisz, Jupiter

Portuguese: Júpiter

→ Romanian: Jupiter

→ Russian: Юпи́тер (Jupíter)

→ Serbo-Croatian: Jùpiter/Ју̀питер

→ Slovak: Jupiter

→ Slovene: Júpiter

Spanish: Júpiter

→ Swedish: Jupiter

→ Tagalog: Hupiter

→ Turkish: Jüpiter

→ Tuvan: Юпитер (Yupiter)

→ Wolof: Yupiter

→ Yoruba: Júpítérì

→ Zulu: uJupitheri

[ˈi̯ʊpːɪt̪ɛr]

The nominative Iuppiter, for Iūpiter (with shift of the length from vowel to consonant per the "littera" rule), comes from the vocative combined with pater, and essentially meant "father Jove"; from Proto-Italic *djous patēr, from *djous (“day, sky”) + *patēr (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (literally “the bright one”), root nomen agentis from *dyew- (“to be bright, day sky”), and *ph₂tḗr (“father”). Cognate with Umbrian 𐌉𐌖𐌐𐌀𐌕𐌄𐌓 (iupater), and in other branches of Indo-European Sanskrit द्यौष्पितृ (dyáuṣ-pitṛ́), Ancient Greek Ζεῦ πάτερ (Zeû páter, “o father Zeus”). Equivalent to diēs (cf. Iovis) + pater.
The oblique cases Iov-, Iovis continue the inflection of Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws. Cognates are Latin diēs (originating from the accusative case of *djous) and Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

cog

Nē Juppiter quidem omnibus placet.

(Roman mythology) Jupiter (god of the sky and ruler of the Roman pantheon)


beep

Blend of big + jeep. From being bigger versions of the general purpose superlight truck, the Willys MB "Jeep".

(US, military, slang, dated, World War II) A 1/2-ton general purpose military light truck

(US, military, slang, dated, World War II, by extension) A 3/4-ton general purpose military medium truck

(US, military, slang, dated, World War II) Especially, the Dodge WC series U.S. Army WWII military trucks, in 1/2-ton 3/4-ton 1-ton variants


triumvir

en-noun

triumvir (plural triumviri or triumvirs)

A Middle English back-formation from triumvirate.


Mercurius

la-proper noun

Mercurius m sg (genitive Mercuriī or Mercurī); second declension

Mercuriī (genitive)
Mercurī (genitive)
Mercurius (nominative singular)
Mercuriī (genitive singular)
Mercurī (genitive singular)
Mercuriō (dative singular)
Mercurium (accusative singular)
Mercuriō (ablative singular)
Mercurī (singular vocative)

→ Bulgarian: Меркурий (Merkurij)

→ Catalan: Mercuri (learned)

→ Czech: Merkur

→ Danish: Merkur

→ Middle English: Mercurie, mercurie

English: Mercury, mercury

→ Finnish: Merkurius

→ French: Mercure (learned)

→ Galician: Mercurio (learned)

→ German: Merkur

→ Indonesian: Merkurius

→ Italian: Mercurio (learned)

→ Latvian: Merkur

→ Portuguese: Mercúrio (learned)

→ Proto-Brythonic: *Merxür

Breton: Merc'her

Cornish: Merher

Middle Welsh: Merchyr

Welsh: Mercher

→ Russian: Меркурий (Merkurij)

→ Spanish: Mercurio (learned)

→ Swedish: Merkurius

→ Ukrainian: Меркурій (Merkurij)

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *mercuriāgo

Catalan: melcoratge

Possibly from merx (“merchandise”), or perhaps from Etruscan and influenced by merx.

(Roman mythology) Mercury (god of speed and commerce)


veda

vedaen (definite singular)
vedaer (indefinite plural)
vedaar (indefinite plural)
vedaene (definite plural)
vedaane (definite plural)

Borrowing from English Veda, in turn a borrowing from Sanskrit वेद (veda) and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see", hence figuratively "to know" or "recognize”).


Charon

Charon
Charon (disambiguation)
Charon (moon)
Edmond Hamilton
NASA

From Ancient Greek Χάρων (Khárōn). The name of the moon was coined by American astronomer James W. Christy in 1978, in reference to a fictional moon of Pluto in a novel by Edmond Hamilton but also influenced by its similarity to Char, a pet name for Charlene, his wife's name — hence the alternative American pronunciation, which is used at NASA.

coin

(Greek mythology) The ferryman of Hades, who rowed the shades of the dead across the river Styx.


Charon

cs-proper noun

Charon m anim (relational adjective Charonův)

Charonův (adjective relational)
Charon (nominative singular)
Charona (genitive singular)
Charonovi (dative singular)
Charona (accusative singular)
Charone (singular vocative)
Charonovi (locative singular)
Charonem (instrumental singular)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Χάρων (Khárōn).

bor+

Charon uviděv Aeneáše ozbrojeného připomněl si Heraklea, který též tak přišel a násilně si v podsvětí počínal,[…]

1892, Jan Blokša, “Dante Alighieri a Vergilius Maro”, in Hlídka, volume 9, page 318:

Charon having seen armed Aeneas remembered Herakles, who had also come in such a way and behaved violently in the underworld, […]

(Greek mythology) Alternative spelling of Charón (the ferryman of Hades)


Charon

Charon (nominative singular)
Charoni (nominative plural)
Charony (derogatory nominative plural)
Charona (genitive singular)
Charonów (genitive plural)
Charonowi (dative singular)
Charonom (dative plural)
Charona (accusative singular)
Charonów (accusative plural)
Charonem (instrumental singular)
Charonami (instrumental plural)
Charonie (locative singular)
Charonach (locative plural)
Charonie (singular vocative)
Charoni (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Χάρων (Khárōn).

lbor

(Greek mythology) Charon (ferryman of Hades, who rowed the shades of the dead across the river Styx)


Charon

la-proper noun

Charōn m sg (genitive Charontis or Charontos or Charōnis); third declension

Charōn (canonical masculine singular)
Charontis (genitive)
Charontos (genitive)
Charōnis (genitive)
Charōn (nominative singular)
Charontis (genitive singular)
Charontos (genitive singular)
Charōnis (genitive singular)
Charontī (dative singular)
Charōnī (dative singular)
Charonta (accusative singular)
Charontem (accusative singular)
Charōnem (accusative singular)
Charonte (ablative singular)
Charōne (ablative singular)
Charōn (singular vocative)

Charon (ferryman of the underworld in Greek mythology)


Charon

(Greek mythology) Alternative spelling of Haron


Charon

(Greek mythology) Charon (the ferryman of the underworld)


senator

pl-noun

senator m pers (female equivalent senatorka, related adjective senatorski)

senatorka (feminine)
senatorski (adjective)
senator (nominative singular)
senatorzy (nominative plural)
senatorowie (nominative plural)
senatory (derogatory nominative plural)
senatora (genitive singular)
senatorów (genitive plural)
senatorowi (dative singular)
senatorom (dative plural)
senatora (accusative singular)
senatorów (accusative plural)
senatorem (instrumental singular)
senatorami (instrumental plural)
senatorze (locative singular)
senatorach (locative plural)
senatorze (singular vocative)
senatorzy (plural vocative)
senatorowie (plural vocative)
senatory (derogatory plural vocative)

(government, historical) senator (a member of an assembly of higher secular and clerical officials in the Kingdom of Poland or the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)

(Ancient Rome, government, historical) senator (a member of the Roman Senate)


coupon

From French coupon, from couper (“to cut”).

(UK politics, historical) The letter sent to parliamentary candidates at the 1918 general election, endorsing them as official representatives of the coalition government.


kite

Borrowed from Coptic ⲕⲓⲧⲉ (kite), from Demotic qt, from Egyptian qdt.

[…] in the great Harris papyrus, […] precise quantities are recorded by weight in terms of the deben (about 2½ oz.) and the qite (¼ oz.) of gold, silver, copper and precious stones, without any reference to their value. […] Five pots of honey were bought for five qite of silver and an ox for five qite of gold.

1981, Pierre Montet, “The Arts and the Professions”, in A[ymer] R[obert] Maxwell-Hyslop, Margaret S[tefana] Drower, transl., Everyday Life in Egypt in the Days of Ramesses the Great, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 167:

[I]t was found necessary to employ media of exchange, and emmer wheat and silver were both used for this purpose. The latter was particularly favoured, but it was normally treated by weight, being measured in kite (9.53 g) and deben (10 kite) in purely Egyptian contexts, though foreigners such as the Jewish mercenaries at Elephantine could use their own metrological systems.

1983, Allen B. Lloyd, “The Late Period, 664–323 BC”, in B[ruce] G[raham] Trigger, B[arry] J[ohn] Kemp, D[avid Bourke] O’Connor, A. B. Lloyd, Ancient Egypt: A Social History (Cambridge History of Africa), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 328:

The scribe of the temple Sedy set out with the pure priest and goldsmith Tuty for the frames; they removed one deben and three and a half qite of gold, which they took for the chief of the gang Pameniu.

2003, Pascal Vernus, “The Plunder of Western Thebes”, in David Lorton, transl., Affairs and Scandals in Ancient Egypt: Translated from the French, Ithaca, N.Y., London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 25:

In the Saite and Persian Periods, Abnormal Hieratic and Demotic texts usually measure value as weights of silver. […] The weights of silver are almost always either the deben of 91 grams, or the kite of 9.1 grams. In the Persian Period, Demotic texts sometimes also refer to staters equated to two kite, or five to the deben.

2016, Brian Muhs, “The Saite and Persian Periods (664–332 BCE)”, in The Ancient Egyptian Economy: 3000–30 BC, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 189–190:

The shekel was an Israelite unit of weight that appears to have weighed about 10g, and so it is the rough equivalent of the Egyptian kite, which also weighed about 10g.

2017 May, Ralph Ellis, “King David”, in Solomon, Pharaoh of Egypt, 4th edition, Cheshire: Edfu Books, →ISBN, page 57:

(Egyptology) A measure of weight equivalent to ¹⁄₁₀ deben (about 0.32 ounces or 9.1 grams).


chorus

en-noun

chorus (plural choruses or (dated) chorusses or (rare) chori)

choruses (plural)
chorusses (dated plural)
chori (plural rare)

The noun is borrowed from Medieval Latin chorus (“church choir”), Latin chorus (“group of dancers and singers; dance”), from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós, “group of dancers and singers, choir, chorus; dance accompanied by song; round dance”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“to encircle, enclose”) or *ǵʰoros. Doublet of choir, chore, and hora.
The plural form chori is from Latin chorī, from Ancient Greek χοροί (khoroí).
The verb is derived from the noun.

der

[W]ee would that the voice and dialect of the propheteſſe Pythia, reſembling the ſpeech of a Chorus in a tragedie from a ſcaffold, ſhould pronounce her anſwers not in ſimple, plaine, and triviall termes, without any grace to ſet them out, but with Poeticall magnificence of high and ſtately verſes, diſguiſed as it were with metaphors and figurative phraſes, yea, and that which more is, with ſound of flute and hautboies: […]

1603, Plutarch, “Why the Prophetesse Pythia Giveth No Answers Now from the Oracle in Verse or Meeter”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 1199:

A group of singers and dancers in a theatrical performance or religious festival who commented on the main performance in speech or song.

كَوْرَس

(Ancient Greece, historical) group of singers and dancers in a theatrical performance or religious festival who commented on the main performance in speech or song

And the Apocalyps of Saint Iohn is the majeſtick image of a high and ſtately Tragedy, ſhutting up and intermingling her ſolemn Scenes and Acts with a ſevenfold Chorus of halleluja's and harping ſymphonies: […]

1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 39:

A song performed by the singers of such a group.


Serapis

Borrowed from Latin Serāpis, from Ancient Greek Σάρᾱπις (Sárāpis), from Egyptian wsjr-ḥp, from wsjr (“Osiris”) + ḥp (“Apis”).

A Graeco-Egyptian god devised during the 3rd century BC as a means to unify the Greeks and Egyptians in the realm of Ptolemy I.


Serapis

la-proper noun

Serāpis m sg (genitive Serāpidis or Serāpis); third declension

Serāpis (canonical masculine singular)
Serāpidis (genitive)
Serāpis (genitive)
Serāpis (nominative singular)
Serāpidis (genitive singular)
Serāpis (genitive singular)
Serāpidī (dative singular)
Serāpī (dative singular)
Serāpidem (accusative singular)
Serāpem (accusative singular)
Serāpide (ablative singular)
Serāpe (ablative singular)
Serāpis (singular vocative)

[s̠ɛˈräːpɪs̠]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σάρᾱπις (Sárāpis) (later Σέρᾱπις (Sérāpis)), from Egyptian wsjr-ḥp.


dewa

dewa (nominative singular)
dewowie (nominative plural)
dewy (genitive singular)
dewów (genitive plural)
dewie (dative singular)
dewom (dative plural)
dewę (accusative singular)
dewów (accusative plural)
dewą (instrumental singular)
dewami (instrumental plural)
karatece (locative singular)
dewach (locative plural)
dewo (singular vocative)
dewowie (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit देव (deva).

lbor

Coordinate term: asura

(Hinduism) deva (one of the benevolent deities involved in constant conflict with the more power-seeking Asuras)


Anglo-Saxon

/ˌæŋ.ɡləʊˈsæk.sən/

From Anglo- + Saxon, from Latin Anglosaxones (Anglo-Saxones), Latin Angli Saxones (literally “the English Saxons”), as distinguished from the Continental Saxons.

der

Meronyms: Anglian, Kentish, Mercian, Northumbrian, West Saxon

(now rare) Synonym of Old English (language).


zombie

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

1944, "Time for Decision," Time (US edition), 6 Nov.,
Had the time come to order Canada's home defense draftees—some 70,000 zombies idling at home—to battle overseas?

(Canada, historical, derogatory) A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.


Ravana

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


Medusa

From Middle English Medusa, Meduse, from Latin Medūsa, from Ancient Greek Μέδουσα (Médousa), from μέδω (médō, “rule over”).

1895, Adolf Furtwängler, Eugenie Strong (editor and translator), Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture: A Series of Essays on the History of Art, 2010, →ISBN, page 201,
On an Attic vase of the middle of the fifth century the head of Medusa in the hand of Perseus is represented as that of a beautiful woman free from any distortion. This led us to conclude (supra, p. 158) that Medusa must have been so represented at Athens in the greater arts even previous to this vase, for the vase-painters never invent such bold novelties for themselves.

It will be suggested here that the myth of Perseus, involving the decapitation of Medusa, is a narrative version of ritual.

2000, Nannó Marinatos, The Goddess and the Warrior: The Naked Goddess and Mistress of the Animals in Early Greek Religion, page 62:

But their depictions of Perseus are remarkably different and demonstrate the ambiguity of Medusa that was seeping into Victorian iconography. In later, Roman versions of the myth, for example Ovid's Metamorphoses, Perseus slays the sea monster with his sword instead of using Medusa’s head to petrify the monster.

2001, Dennis Berthold, “Melville's Medusas”, in Sanford E. Marovitz, Athanasios C. Christodoulou, editors, Melville "Among the nations": Proceedings of an International Conference, Volos, Greece, July 2-6, 1997:

(Greek mythology) The youngest and only mortal of the three gorgon sisters, killed by Perseus.

Medusa (Rubens)
Medusa (disambiguation)
Rubens


Medusa

From Ancient Greek Μέδουσα (Médousa), from μέδω (médō, “rule over”).


Medusa

la-proper noun

Medūsa f sg (genitive Medūsae); first declension

Medūsa (canonical feminine singular)
Medūsae (genitive)
Medūsa (nominative singular)
Medūsae (genitive singular)
Medūsae (dative singular)
Medūsam (accusative singular)
Medūsā (ablative singular)
Medūsa (singular vocative)

[mɛˈd̪uːs̠ä]


Medusa

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μέδουσα (Médousa), from μέδω (médō, “rule over”).

bor+

(Greek mythology) Medusa (creature with a petrifying gaze)


Hanuman

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


Tigger

From the initials of The Independent Group + -er.

Nor is there any sign that Corbyn is at present willing to make any overtures to the eight Tiggers and those who may be contemplating joining them.

2019 February 25, John Crace, “The Independent Group may have secured another Tory government. That's not an accident”, in British GQ:

For one Tigger in particular, Chuka Umunna, 2019 was quite a rollercoaster. Over the course of the year, he was an MP for Labour, an MP for The Independent Group, an MP for the Lib Dems, and then an MP for no one.

2020 January 31, Michael Deacon, “The 20 funniest moments of Brexit”, in The Telegraph:

In fact, Joan Ryan MP (the first Labour MP to jump ship to the Tiggers/Change UK) said, after I'd confessed to her about the dog shampoo, ‘Well, I think your coat looks very nice.’

2020 March 19, Rachel Johnson, Rake's Progress: My Political Midlife Crisis, →ISBN:

(informal, UK politics, historical) A member of The Independent Group for Change, a pro-European British political party that existed in 2019.


Cold War

/ˌkəʊld ˈwɔː/

Coined by American journalist Herbert Bayard Swope in 1947, in a speech he wrote for Bernard Baruch (1870–1965), an American financier and adviser to President Woodrow Wilson.

coinage

Well Russia at the present time is at a crossroads. It is often said that the Cold War is over and that the West has won it- that's only half true. Because what has happened is that the communists have been defeated, but the ideas of freedom now are on trial. If they don't work, there will be a reversion to, not communism which has failed, but what I call a new despotism which would pose a mortal danger to the rest of the world because it would be infected with the virus of Russian imperialism which of course has been a characteristic of Russian foreign policy for centuries.

1992 March 30, Richard Nixon, 13:46 from the start, in Richard Nixon on ‘Inside Washington’, Richard Nixon Foundation, via Seoul Broadcasting System, archived from the original on 2017-10-09:

The situation in Berlin had its uses for Moscow, of course, as for others–the city had become the primary listening post and spy center of the Cold War; some 70 different agencies were operating there by 1961, and it was in Berlin that Soviet espionage scored some of their greatest successes.

2005, Tony Judt, “The Politics of Stability”, in Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945, London: Vintage Books, published 2010, →ISBN:

The dynamic tests at Wildenrath use continuous test tracks built on the site of a former Royal Air Force station that was vacated after the end of the Cold War.

2023 November 29, Philip Haigh, “New Piccadilly Line trains put to the test”, in RAIL, number 997, page 26:

(historical) The period of hostility short of open war between the Soviet Bloc and the Western powers, especially the United States, between 1945 and 1991.

Bernard Baruch
International Herald Tribune
Woodrow Wilson

Koue Oorlog

period of hostility short of open war between the Soviet Bloc and the Western powers, 1945–1991


Schmeißfliege

de-noun

Schmeißfliege f (genitive Schmeißfliege, plural Schmeißfliegen)

Schmeißfliege (genitive)
Schmeißfliegen (plural)
Schmeißfliege (nominative singular)
Schmeißfliegen (definite nominative plural)
Schmeißfliege (genitive singular)
Schmeißfliegen (definite genitive plural)
Schmeißfliege (dative singular)
Schmeißfliegen (dative definite plural)
Schmeißfliege (accusative singular)
Schmeißfliegen (accusative definite plural)

[ˈʃmaɪ̯sˌfliːɡə]

From schmeißen (“to defecate”, literally “to throw”) + Fliege (“fly”).

com

Willy Brandt war ein Vaterlandsverräter, linke Intellektuelle waren Schmeißfliegen und die Grünen Terroristenfreunde. Der Wahlsieg heiligte die Mittel.

2008 August 25, Christoph Seils, “Griff in die Mottenkiste”, in Die Zeit:

(derogatory, dated, right-leaning German politics) leftist intellectual


ローマ

ja-pos

ローマ • (Rōma)

From Italian Roma, possibly via Portuguese Roma.

ja:ローマ (曖昧さ回避)


麒麟

Ming Dynasty
Phono-semantic matching
Song Dynasty
Zheng He

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (麒麟):
* → Japanese: 麒(き)麟(りん) (kirin)
* → Korean: 기린(麒麟) (girin)
* → Vietnamese: kì lân (麒麟)

→ Thai: กิเลน (gì-leen)

→ Zhuang: geizlaenz, gizlinz

/t͡ɕʰi³⁵ lin³⁵/

/kʰei̯²¹ lɵn²¹/

/kʰei̯²¹ lɵn²¹⁻³⁵/

/kʰi²⁴⁻¹¹ lin²⁴/

/ki⁵³⁻³³ l̃iŋ⁵³/

/ki²⁴⁻²² lin²⁴/

/ki²⁴⁻¹¹ lin²⁴/

/ki¹³⁻²² lin¹³/

/ki²³⁻³³ lin²³/

/t͡ɕʰi³⁵ lin³⁵/

/kʰei̯²¹ lɵn²¹/

/kʰei̯²¹ lɵn²¹⁻³⁵/

/kʰi²⁴⁻¹¹ lin²⁴/

/ki⁵³⁻³³ l̃iŋ⁵³/

/ki²⁴⁻²² lin²⁴/

/ki²⁴⁻¹¹ lin²⁴/

/ki¹³⁻²² lin¹³/

/ki²³⁻³³ lin²³/

Old Chinese pronunciation for this word was *g(ɯ)-rin (Zhengzhang), and in pre-Qin times the beast was also referred to as
* 麟 (OC *rin),
* 麐 (OC *m·rin, *m·rins),
* 𪊓, or
* 蔽 (OC *peds),
the last two having been attested in the oracle bone script already.
There is much debate as to what animal the qilin beast was; some maintain that the qilin was a beast only found in mythology, even though it may have been based on some animal in pre-historic times, and some argue that the qilin was in reality the river deer, the ox or cow, or the Indian rhinoceros (Wang, 2009).
Janhunen (2011) tentatively compares 麒麟 (OC *ɡɯ rin) to a Northeast Asian etymon *kalimV, which denotes either "whale" or "mammoth"; however, he cautiously remarks that "[t]he formal and semantic similarity between *kilin < *gilin ~ *gïlin 'unicorn' and *kalimV 'whale' (but also Samoyedic *kalay- 'mammoth') is sufficient to support, though perhaps not confirm, the hypothesis of an etymological connection". He also notes a possible connection between Old Chinese and Mongolian (*)kers ~ (*)keris ~ (*)kiris "rhinoceros" (> Khalkha Mongolian хирс (xirs)).

Is it only among men that it is so? There is the Qilin among quadrupeds, the Fenghuang (phoenix) among birds, the Tai mountain among mounds and ant-hills, and rivers and seas among rain-pools. Though different in degree, they are the same in kind.

Qǐ wéi mín zāi? Qílín zhī yú zǒushòu, fènghuáng zhī yú fēiniǎo, Tàishān zhī yú qiūdié, hé hǎi zhī yú xíngliáo, lèi yě.

豈惟民哉？麒麟之於走獸，鳳凰之於飛鳥，太山之於丘垤，河海之於行潦，類也。

岂惟民哉？麒麟之于走兽，凤凰之于飞鸟，太山之于丘垤，河海之于行潦，类也。

(Chinese mythology) qilin (propitious mythological beast) (Classifier: 隻／只 m c mn)


麒麟

麒麟 (canonical)
麒麟 (canonical)
kirin (romanization)

From Old Japanese, in turn from Middle Chinese 麒麟 (MC gi lin). First cited in Japanese to the Nihon Shoki of 720.
The giraffe sense was probably based on a superficial resemblance between certain depictions of the mythical beast and the patterning and body shape of the real animal: a tailed, hoofed, and horned quadruped with a vaguely leopard-like spot pattern. First cited in Japanese to a text from 1798.

2010 May 23, Gosho Aoyama, “ＦＩＬＥ(ファイル).５(ご) [青](せい)[龍](りゅう) [FILE 5: Azure Dragon]”, in 名(めい)探(たん)偵(てい)コナン [Legendary Detective Conan], volume 68 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN:

That’s giraffe(kirin) the animal! The qilin(kirin) we’re talking about… has a deer-like body covered in golden scales, with a cow’s tail and a horse’s hooves, and with a single horn growing from its dragonish head… It’s a mythical beast from Chinese legends!

それは動物のキリン！問題の麒麟は…全身が黄色い鱗で覆われていて、姿は鹿、牛の尾と馬の蹄を持ち、龍に似た頭から１本角が生えてる…中国の伝説上の神獣だよ！

Sore wa dōbutsu no kirin! Mondai no kirin wa… Zenshin ga kiiroi uroko de ōwarete ite, sugata wa shika, ushi no o to uma no hizume o mochi, ryū ni nita atama kara ippon tsuno ga haete ru… Chūgoku no densetsu jō no shinjū da yo!

麒麟, 騏驎: (mythology, Chinese mythology) a qilin


狒々

狒々 (canonical)
狒々 (canonical)
hihi (romanization)

(Japanese mythology, folklore) a hihi (Japanese monkey-like yokai)


狒狒

/feɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ feɪ̯⁵¹/

/feɪ̯⁵¹ feɪ̯¹/

/fɐt̚⁵ fɐt̚⁵/

/fɐi̯²² fɐi̯²²/

/fɐi̯³³ fɐi̯³³/

/feɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ feɪ̯⁵¹/

/feɪ̯⁵¹ feɪ̯¹/

/fɐt̚⁵ fɐt̚⁵/

/fɐi̯²² fɐi̯²²/

/fɐi̯³³ fɐi̯³³/

(archaic, Chinese mythology) name of a monster mentioned in the Erya (爾雅)


despot

From Middle French despote, from Old French despote, from Medieval Latin despota, from Ancient Greek δεσπότης (despótēs, “lord, master, owner”). Cognate with Sanskrit दम्पति (dámpati).

der

(historical) A title awarded to senior members of the imperial family in the late Byzantine Empire, and claimed by various independent or semi-autonomous rulers in the Balkans (12th to 15th centuries)


sextary

From Middle English sextarie, sextary, anglicized from Latin sextārius (“pint”). Doublet of sextarius.

The sextary seems to have contained 6 gallons, and is also used for cider and wine.

1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 1, page 172:

(historical) An Anglo-Saxon unit of liquid measure, chiefly used for wine and cider.


kamikaze

[ˌkʰɑmɪˈkʰɑːzɪi̯]

Borrowed from Japanese 神風(かみかぜ) (kamikaze, “divine wind”).

One who carries out a suicide attack, especially with an aircraft.

Coupled with this were issues involving actually getting enough torpedoes out there to the fleet in the first place! Whilst they were a munition, a torpedo is far more complex and took far longer to build than a shell for a naval gun, even a battleship shell. Torpedoes, remember, are effectively small self-guiding kamikaze submarines, and, so, unless you have a large factory and an extensive production line going, you're only gonna see handfuls produced each year.

2020 February 12, Drachinifel, 8:16 from the start, in The Mark 14 Torpedo - Failure is Like Onions, archived from the original on 2022-11-24:

A vehicle used for a suicide attack, especially an aircraft.

A cocktail made of equal parts vodka, triple sec and lime juice.


kamikaze

en-verb

kamikaze (third-person singular simple present kamikazes, present participle kamikazeing, simple past and past participle kamikazed)

kamikazes (present singular third-person)
kamikazeing (participle present)
kamikazed (participle past)
kamikazed (past)

[ˌkʰɑmɪˈkʰɑːzɪi̯]

(transitive) To destroy (a ship, etc.) in a suicide attack, especially by crashing an aircraft.

(intransitive) To carry out a suicide attack, especially by crashing an aircraft.


kamikaze

fr-noun

kamikaze m or f by sense (plural kamikazes)

Borrowed from Japanese 神風 (かみかぜ (kamikaze, “suicide flyer”, literally “divine wind”)).

bor+

<i class="Jpan mention" lang="ja">かみかぜ</i> (kamikaze, “suicide flyer”, literally “divine wind”)

kamikaze (person carrying out a suicide attack); suicide bomber


caste

Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish casta (“lineage, breed, race”), of uncertain origin.
* The OED derives it from Portuguese casto (“chaste”), from Latin castus (“chaste"; "chastity”).
* Coromines (1987) argues instead for a hypothetical Gothic form *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (*kasts, “group, collection of animals”), cognate with English cast, from Proto-Germanic *kastuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ǵ-es-.

unc

uncertain

Pakistan is a conservative, religious state. The Edhi Foundation is unusual in its ignoring of caste, creed, religion and sect. This strict stance has led to some criticism from religious groups.

2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in the Guardian:

Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.


prana

en-noun

prana (countable and uncountable, plural pranas)

From Sanskrit प्राण (prāṇa, “breath; life”).

He it is who sends the (in-coming) Prana (life-breath) upward and throws the (out-going) breath downward.

1919, Swami Paramananda, transl., The Upanishads:

He who knows Aditi, who rises with Prana (the Life Principle), existent in all the Devas.

May my limbs, speech, Prana (life-force), sight, hearing, strength and all my senses, gain in vigor.

(Hinduism, yoga) Respiration, breathing, seen as a life principle or life force.


prana

prana (nominative singular)
prany (genitive singular)
pranie (dative singular)
pranę (accusative singular)
praną (instrumental singular)
pranie (locative singular)
prano (singular vocative)

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit प्राण (prāṇa).


stress

en-noun

stress (countable and uncountable, plural stresses)

Hans Selye
Walter Cannon
stress
stress (mechanics)

From a shortening of Middle English destresse, borrowed from Old French destrecier, from Latin distringō (“to stretch out”). This form probably coalesced with Middle English stresse, from Old French estrece (“narrowness”), from Vulgar Latin *strictia, from Latin strictus (“narrow”).
In the sense of "mental strain" or “disruption”, used occasionally in the 1920s and 1930s by psychologists, including Walter Cannon (1934); in “biological threat”, used by endocrinologist Hans Selye, by metaphor with stress in physics (force on an object) in the 1930s, and popularized by same in the 1950s.

(Scots law) distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.


LC

LC (countable and uncountable, plural LCs)

The lord chancellorship certainly needed reform and sadly Lord Irvine resisted taking the sensible steps of creating an independent judicial appointments commission and ending the nonsense of the LC having the right, should he choose, of sitting himself as a judge on cases.

2016 July 27, Helena Kennedy QC, “Letters: Charlie Falconer to blame for lord chancellor folly”, in The Guardian:

(UK politics) Initialism of lord chancellor.


parka

parka (nominative singular)
parki (nominative plural)
parki (genitive singular)
parek (genitive plural)
parce (dative singular)
parkom (dative plural)
parkę (accusative singular)
parki (accusative plural)
parką (instrumental singular)
parkami (instrumental plural)
parce (locative singular)
parkach (locative plural)
parko (singular vocative)
parki (plural vocative)

(Roman mythology) Parca (one of the Fates)


guru

From Hindi गुरु (guru) / Punjabi ਗੁਰੂ (gurū), from Sanskrit गुरु (guru, “venerable, respectable”), originally "heavy" and in this sense cognate to English grieve and, more distantly, brute. Doublet of grave. A traditional, though flawed etymology based on the Advayataraka Upanishad (line 16) describes the syllables gu as “darkness” and ru as “destroyer”, thus ascribing the meaning of “one who destroys/dispels darkness” to the word.

der

When the gooroo arrives at the house of a disciple, the whole family prostrate themselves at his feet, and the spiritual guide puts his right foot on the heads of the prostrate family.

1817, William Ward, History, Literature and Religion of the Hindoos, volume II:

The Baiga magicians derive from the old guru who succeeded Nanga Baiga. There is very great confusion about the original guru, and how he was actually related to Nanga Baiga, but there is general agreement that there were originally four great Baiga guru—Daugun, Nindhan, Danantar and Madhakawar, all four brothers.

1939, Verrier Elwin, “The Magician and His Control of the Natural World”, in The Baiga, London: John Murray, […], section II (The Magician’s Heritage), page 342:

These guru, third, were responsible for insuring that the populace would not be tempted to support heterodox world renouncers and their counter-patrimonial ideas. In contrast to the pre-classical Brahmin scholars, who serviced only their own and certain ruler and elite religion-social interests, the guru were the patronal guides of the masses, offering prebendal control of the deities through charismatic but morally expounded magic and psychological compensation as personal confessors, in return for popular willingness to conform to the dharmic rules, as interpreted by guru to be sure.

1989, Norman Jacobs, “The Classical Indian Society”, in Patrimonial Interpretation of Indian Society: Contemporary Structure and Historical Foundations, Delhi: Chanakya Publications, →ISBN, page 66:

Many of the deities and beliefs recorded by the guru are in fact unknown to the common people, and some represent the esoteric knowledge of only a few guru.

1994, Simon Rae, “Kiniteken Si Pemena: The Original Belief”, in Breath Becomes the Wind: Old and New in Karo Religion, Dunedin: University of Otago Press, →ISBN, part I (The Karo World), page 19:

Traditionally, a guru is a spiritual teacher who guides a student on the road to Enlightenment, or finding God.

2010 May 10, “Madonna is my guru”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-09-24:

In Indian traditions: a spiritual teacher who transmits knowledge to a shishya.

(India) Any general teacher (as a term of respect).

OPCA gurus are modern legal alchemists. They promise gold, but their methods are principally intended to impress the gullible, or those who wish to use this drivel to abuse the court system. Any lack of legal success by the OPCA litigant is, of course, portrayed as a consequence of the customer’s failure to properly understand and apply the guru's special knowledge.

2012, John D. Rooke (Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta), “Meads v. Meads, 2012 ABQB 571”, in CanLII:

(derogatory) A fraudster or conman relying on a projected air of confidence in an obscure field.


guru

From Hindi गुरु (guru) / Urdu گرو (guru) / Punjabi ਗੁਰੂ (gurū), from Sanskrit गुरु (guru, “venerable, respectable”).


guru

guruk (plural)
guru (nominative singular)
guruk (nominative plural)
gurut (accusative singular)
gurukat (accusative plural)
gurunak (dative singular)
guruknak (dative plural)
guruval (instrumental singular)
gurukkal (instrumental plural)
guruért (causal-final singular)
gurukért (causal-final plural)
guruvá (singular translative)
gurukká (plural translative)
guruig (singular terminative)
gurukig (plural terminative)
guruként (essive-formal singular)
gurukként (essive-formal plural)
guruban (inessive singular)
gurukban (inessive plural)
gurun (singular superessive)
gurukon (plural superessive)
gurunál (adessive singular)
guruknál (adessive plural)
guruba (illative singular)
gurukba (illative plural)
gurura (singular sublative)
gurukra (plural sublative)
guruhoz (allative singular)
gurukhoz (allative plural)
guruból (elative singular)
gurukból (elative plural)
gururól (delative singular)
gurukról (delative plural)
gurutól (ablative singular)
guruktól (ablative plural)
gurué (singular)
guruké (plural)
guruéi (singular)
gurukéi (plural)
gurum (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
guruim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
gurud (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
guruid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
guruja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
gurui (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
gurunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
guruink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
gurutok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
guruitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
gurujuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
guruik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

From Hindi गुरु (guru), from Sanskrit गुरु (guru, “heavy”).

guru (a Hindu or Sikh spiritual teacher)


guru

Borrowed from Hindi गुरू (gurū) / Urdu گرو (guru) / Punjabi ਗੁਰੂ (gurū), from Sanskrit गुरु (gurú), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *gr̥Húṣ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gr̥Húš, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥h₂ús (“heavy”).


guru

From Sanskrit गुरु (gurú, “venerable, respectable”), originally "heavy", from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us. Doublet of bruto.


guru

guru (indefinite nominative singular)
gurus (genitive indefinite singular)
gurun (definite nominative singular)
guruns (definite genitive singular)
gurur (indefinite nominative plural)
guruer (indefinite nominative plural)
gurus (indefinite nominative plural)
gururs (genitive indefinite plural)
guruers (genitive indefinite plural)
gurus (genitive indefinite plural)
gururna (definite nominative plural)
guruernas (definite nominative plural)
gururnas (definite genitive plural)
guruernas (definite genitive plural)

From Hindi गुरू (gurū), from Sanskrit गुरु (guru, “heavy”).


hermaphrodite

From Hermaphroditus, the mythical son of Hermes and Aphrodite, who merged bodies with a naiad, thereafter having both male and female qualities.

deledash

organism having both male and female gonads

armoured fighting vehicle
armoured fighting vehicle

(World War I military, historical) An armoured fighting vehicle having features of both male tanks and female tanks.


आसन

āsan (romanization)
آسَن (Urdu)
आसन (direct singular)
आसन (direct plural)
आसन (oblique singular)
आसनों (oblique plural)
आसन (singular vocative)
आसनो (plural vocative)

(Hinduism) a small carpet or deer-skin on which Hindus sit during prayer


ratline

Apparently an alteration of raddling, after rat, line.

Marc Masurovsky, of the European Shoah Legacy Institute, has a remarkable knowledge of the Nazi ratlines and Allied intelligence.

2015, Gerald Posner, God's Bankers, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 515:

(historical, in the plural) A system of escape routes for Nazis and other fascists fleeing Europe in the aftermath of World War II.


Hera

Borrowed from Latin Hēra, from Ancient Greek Ἥρᾱ (Hḗrā).

(Greek mythology) The queen of the gods, and goddess of marriage and birth; daughter of Cronus and Rhea, sister and wife of Zeus, mother of Hephaestus, Ares, Hebe, and Enyo.


Hera

is-proper noun

Hera f (proper noun, genitive singular Heru)

Heru (genitive singular)
Hera (indefinite nominative singular)
Heru (accusative indefinite singular)
Heru (dative indefinite singular)
Heru (genitive indefinite singular)


Hera

Hera (nominative)
Heros (genitive)
Herai (dative)
Herą (accusative)
Hera (instrumental)
Heroje (locative)
Hera (vocative)

(Greek mythology) Hera, the queen of the gods and goddess of marriage and birth


Hera

Hera (nominative singular)
Hery (genitive singular)
Herze (dative singular)
Herę (accusative singular)
Herą (instrumental singular)
Herze (locative singular)
Hero (singular vocative)

(Greek mythology) Hera (queen of the gods, wife of Zeus)


Hera

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἥρα (Hḗra).

lbor

(Greek mythology) Hera (goddess of marriage and birth)


Hera

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἥρα (Hḗra).


mantra

Borrowed from Sanskrit मन्त्र (mantra, literally “instrument of thought”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *mántram, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mántram, from Proto-Indo-European *mén-tro-m, from *men- (“to think”). Doublet of mind.

bor

This mantra is also known as Guru Mantra or Savitri Mantra. The mention of Gayatri Mantra is found in all the four Vedas where its essence has been explained repeatedly. The Rig Veda, the oldest of the Vedic scriptures, has mentioned about […]

2001, Gautam Chatterjee, Sacred Hindu Symbols, Abhinav Publications, →ISBN, page 36:

(Hinduism) The hymn portions of the Vedas; any passage of these used as a prayer.

However, the five-syllable mantra is unique, for according to Kukai, it unleashes the power of emptiness already impregnated in each letter as a primeval episode of the Dharmakaya's cosmic meditation in which he created all sorts of mantras […]

1999, Ryûichi Abé, The Weaving of Mantra: Kûkai and the Construction of Esoteric Buddhist Discourse, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 300:

(originally Hinduism) A phrase repeated to assist concentration during meditation.

真言

a phrase repeated to assist concentration during meditation


mantra

mantra (nominative singular)
mantry (nominative plural)
mantry (genitive singular)
mantr (genitive plural)
mantrze (dative singular)
mantrom (dative plural)
mantrę (accusative singular)
mantry (accusative plural)
mantrą (instrumental singular)
mantrami (instrumental plural)
mantrze (locative singular)
mantrach (locative plural)
mantro (singular vocative)
mantry (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Sanskrit मन्त्र (mantra, literally “instrument of thought”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *mántram, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mántram, from Proto-Indo-European *mén-tro-m, from *men- (“to think”).

bor+

(Hinduism) mantra (phrase repeated to assist concentration during meditation)


mantra

(Hinduism) mantra (a phrase repeated to assist concentration during meditation)


mantra

mȁntra (canonical feminine)
ма̏нтра (Cyrillic)


mantra

mantra (a phrase repeated during meditation)


pygmy

From Latin Pygmaeī, from Ancient Greek πυγμαῖος (pugmaîos, “a member of a race of dwarves”), from πυγμή (pugmḗ, “fist (as small as a fist)”).

der

Ctesias lived in Persia for several years, as the personal physician of King Ataxerxes II, and would have had contact with travellers to India, and Indian visitors to Persia. He describes dog-headed humans, pygmy men who grow their beards so long that they can be used as clothes, and affirms that it never rains in India.

2015, Sam Miller, A Strange Kind of Paradise: India through Foreign Eyes:

(Greek mythology) A member of a race of dwarfs.

джудже

a member of a mythological race of dwarfs


client

fr-noun

client m (plural clients, feminine cliente)

Coordinate term: patron

État client

(historical, Ancient Rome) client, retainer, follower (person who is under the patronage of someone else)


Aramaic

/ˌæ.ɹəˈmeɪ.ɪk/

/ˌæɹ.əˈmeɪ.ɪk/

/ˌɛɹ.əˈmeɪ.ɪk/

From Aram, the place settled by Aramaeans; from the Aramaic ארם, ܐܪܡ (ʾarām).

ܐܪܡܝܐ

ʾārāmāyā, ʾărammāyā

A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to:

The language of the Aramaeans from the tenth century BC: often called Old Aramaic.

The language of portions of the Hebrew Bible, mainly the books of Ezra and Daniel: often called Biblical Aramaic.

Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic

The language of Jesus of Nazareth: a form of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic or Galilean Aramaic.

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic

The language of Jewish targums, Midrash and the Talmuds, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic.

The liturgical language of various Christian churches: often called Syriac.

The liturgical language of the Mandaeans: usually called Mandaic.


ॐ

om or aum: the sacred syllable and mantra in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism


ॐ

the sacred syllable and mantra in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism


Cossack

Armeno-Kipchak
Cossack
George Turberville

From Middle French cosaque, from Middle Polish Kozak, from Old Ukrainian коза́къ (kozák), from Kipchak *qazaq (whence Armeno-Kipchak խազախ (xazax)), from Old Turkic 𐰴𐰔𐰍𐰸 (*qazǧaq, “profiteer”), from 𐰴𐰔𐰍𐰣𐰢𐰴 (qazǧanmaq, “to acquire”), from 𐰴𐰔𐰢𐰴 (qazmaq, “to dig out”), from Proto-Turkic *kaŕ-. Doublet of Kazakh. First appears c. 1587 in the writings of George Turberville.

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

A member or descendant of an originally (semi-)nomadic population of Eastern Europe and the adjacent parts of Asia, formed in part of runaways from neighbouring countries, that eventually settled in parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian tsarist Empire and constituted a military caste, particularly in areas now comprising southern Russia and Ukraine.


ziggurat

Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒅆𒂍𒉪 (ziqqurratum).

lbor

He works in an old ziggurat of an office building.

Any building with similar style or shape.


superior

/sʉːˈpɪə.ɹiː.ə/

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French superiour, from Latin superior (“higher, upper”).

(Scots law, historical) One who has made an original grant of heritable property to a tenant or vassal, on condition of a certain annual payment (feu duty) or of the performance of certain services.


kuna

kuna (nominative singular)
kuny (nominative plural)
kuny (genitive singular)
kun (genitive plural)
kunie (dative singular)
kunom (dative plural)
kunę (accusative singular)
kuny (accusative plural)
kuną (instrumental singular)
kunami (instrumental plural)
kunie (locative singular)
kunach (locative plural)
kuno (singular vocative)
kuny (plural vocative)

(historical) kuna (former currency of Croatia)


Persephone

From Ancient Greek Περσεφόνη (Persephónē).

(Greek mythology) A minor deity, the queen of the Underworld/Hades, and goddess of the seasons and vegetation. Originally named Kore/Core, she is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter; and the wife of Hades. Her Roman counterpart is Proserpina.


Persephone

la-proper noun

Persephonē f sg (genitive Persephonēs); first declension

Persephonē (canonical feminine singular)
Persephonēs (genitive)
Persephonē (nominative singular)
Persephonēs (genitive singular)
Persephonae (dative singular)
Persephonēn (accusative singular)
Persephonē (ablative singular)
Persephonē (singular vocative)

From the Ancient Greek Περσεφόνη (Persephónē).

(Greek mythology) Persephone (Greek goddess)


Demeter

From Ancient Greek Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) + μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”).

Coordinate term: (Roman counterpart) Ceres

(Greek mythology) The goddess of the fertility of the Earth and harvests, protector of marriage and social order; daughter of Cronos and Rhea, mother to Persephone.


Demeter

cs-proper noun

Demeter f (relational adjective Demeteřin)

Demeteřin (adjective relational)
Demeter (nominative singular)
Demetery (genitive singular)
Demeter (genitive singular)
Demeteře (dative singular)
Demeter (dative singular)
Demeteru (accusative singular)
Demeter (accusative singular)
Demetero (singular vocative)
Demeter (singular vocative)
Demeteře (locative singular)
Demeter (locative singular)
Demeterou (instrumental singular)
Demeter (instrumental singular)

(Greek mythology) Demeter (Greek goddess)


Demeter

(Greek mythology) Demeter (goddess of the fertility of the Earth and harvests, protector of marriage and social order; daughter of Cronos and Rhea, mother to Persephone)


Demeter

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr).


pandemic

The meeting of Venus with Phoebe distinguishes her roles: the business of Venus in her pandemic form is to ensure the immortality of the kinds. Her Garden has the voluptuousness necessary to ensure this, and this is 'the first seminarie / Of all things that are borne to live and die / According to their kindes.' [Quoting from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.]

1967, Frank Kermode, “World Without End or Beginning”, in The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (The Mary Flexner Lectures on the Humanities; 1965), New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC; new edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2000, →ISBN, page 76:

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology, rare) Alternative letter-case form of Pandemic (“of Aphrodite Pandemos, the earthly aspect of the Greek goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart Venus, as contrasted with the heavenly aspect known as Aphrodite Urania: earthly, physical, sensual.”)


panel

From Middle English panel (“piece of cloth, saddle pad, pane of glass, piece of ice, part, division, jury list, jury members”), from Anglo-Norman panel, panelle (“piece of cloth, saddle cushion”), from Vulgar Latin *pannellus, diminutive of Latin pannus (“cloth, rag, garment”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“fabric”). Cognate with Old English fana (“a piece of cloth, patch, banner, flag, vane”). Doublet of vane.

cog

[I]t remains only to examine the Relevancy of the two general exculpatory Defences pled for the Pannells.

1737, “Information for His Majesty’s Advocate, and Mr. Hugh Forbes, Advocate, Procurator Fiscal of the High Court of Admiralty, against Thomas McAdam, and James Long, Pannels”, in Extract of the Proceedings before James Graham of Airth, Esq; Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in Scotland, in the Action at the Instance of Duncan Forbes, Esq; His Majesty’s Advocate, and Mr. Hugh Forbes, Advocate, Procurator Fiscal of the Said High Court, against Thomas McAdams Souldier, and James Long Corporal, in the Regiment of Foot Commanded by Colonel —— Hamilton. Laid before the House Pursuant to Their Lordship’s Order April 18, 1737, London: Printed by John Baskett, […], →OCLC, page 12:

(Scots law) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.


blitzkrieg

blitzkrieg Tanks (canonical)
motor vehicles (canonical)
blitzkriegs (plural)

Unadapted borrowing from German Blitzkrieg (literally “lightning war”).

ubor

I rode a tank, held a general's rank / When the Blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank

1968, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger (lyrics and music), “Sympathy for the Devil”, in Beggars Banquet, performed by Rolling Stones:

A fast military offensive, typically involving a large and highly mobile tank force with air support.


blitzkrieg

blitzkrieg (nominative singular)
blitzkriegu (genitive singular)
blitzkriegowi (dative singular)
blitzkrieg (accusative singular)
blitzkriegiem (instrumental singular)
blitzkriegu (locative singular)
blitzkriegu (singular vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from German Blitzkrieg. First attested in 1936.

ref

blitzkrieg in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

taktyka blitzkriegu

błyskawiczny blitzkrieg

doktryna blitzkriegu

niemiecki blitzkrieg

koncepcja blitzkriegu

strategia blitzkriegu

teoria blitzkriegu

idea blitzkriegu

blitzkrieg (fast military offensive, typically involving a large and highly mobile tank force with air support)


Orion

From Middle English Orioun, from Latin Ōrīōn, from Ancient Greek Ὠρίων (Ōríōn), speculatively from Akkadian 𒌋𒊒𒀭𒈾 (Uru-anna, “heaven's light”), though without any firm evidence.

der

(Greek mythology) A giant-hunter, pursuer of the Pleiades and lover of Eos, and killed by Artemis.


Orion

Orion (nominative singular)
Orion (accusative nominative singular)
Orionin (accusative genitive singular)
Orionin (genitive singular)
Orionia (partitive singular)
Orionissa (inessive singular)
Orionista (elative singular)
Orioniin (illative singular)
Orionilla (adessive singular)
Orionilta (ablative singular)
Orionille (allative singular)
Orionina (essive singular)
Orioniksi (singular translative)
Orionitta (abessive singular)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Orionini (nominative singular)
Orionini (accusative nominative singular)
Orionini (accusative genitive singular)
Orionini (genitive singular)
Orioniani (partitive singular)
Orionissani (inessive singular)
Orionistani (elative singular)
Orioniini (illative singular)
Orionillani (adessive singular)
Orioniltani (ablative singular)
Orionilleni (allative singular)
Orioninani (essive singular)
Orionikseni (singular translative)
Orionittani (abessive singular)
Orionisi (nominative singular)
Orionisi (accusative nominative singular)
Orionisi (accusative genitive singular)
Orionisi (genitive singular)
Orioniasi (partitive singular)
Orionissasi (inessive singular)
Orionistasi (elative singular)
Orioniisi (illative singular)
Orionillasi (adessive singular)
Orioniltasi (ablative singular)
Orionillesi (allative singular)
Orioninasi (essive singular)
Orioniksesi (singular translative)
Orionittasi (abessive singular)
Orionimme (nominative singular)
Orionimme (accusative nominative singular)
Orionimme (accusative genitive singular)
Orionimme (genitive singular)
Orioniamme (partitive singular)
Orionissamme (inessive singular)
Orionistamme (elative singular)
Orioniimme (illative singular)
Orionillamme (adessive singular)
Orioniltamme (ablative singular)
Orionillemme (allative singular)
Orioninamme (essive singular)
Orioniksemme (singular translative)
Orionittamme (abessive singular)
Orioninne (nominative singular)
Orioninne (accusative nominative singular)
Orioninne (accusative genitive singular)
Orioninne (genitive singular)
Orionianne (partitive singular)
Orionissanne (inessive singular)
Orionistanne (elative singular)
Orioniinne (illative singular)
Orionillanne (adessive singular)
Orioniltanne (ablative singular)
Orionillenne (allative singular)
Orioninanne (essive singular)
Orioniksenne (singular translative)
Orionittanne (abessive singular)
Orioninsa (nominative singular)
Orioninsa (accusative nominative singular)
Orioninsa (accusative genitive singular)
Orioninsa (genitive singular)
Orioniaan (partitive singular)
Orioniansa (partitive singular)
Orionissaan (inessive singular)
Orionissansa (inessive singular)
Orionistaan (elative singular)
Orionistansa (elative singular)
Orioniinsa (illative singular)
Orionillaan (adessive singular)
Orionillansa (adessive singular)
Orioniltaan (ablative singular)
Orioniltansa (ablative singular)
Orionilleen (allative singular)
Orionillensa (allative singular)
Orioninaan (essive singular)
Orioninansa (essive singular)
Orionikseen (singular translative)
Orioniksensa (singular translative)
Orionittaan (abessive singular)
Orionittansa (abessive singular)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ὠρῑ́ων (Ōrī́ōn)


Orion

la-proper noun

Ōrīōn m sg (genitive Ōrīōnis); third declension

Ōrīōn (canonical masculine singular)
Ōrīōnis (genitive)
Ōrīōn (nominative singular)
Ōrīōnis (genitive singular)
Ōrīōnī (dative singular)
Ōrīōnem (accusative singular)
Ōrīōne (ablative singular)
Ōrīōn (singular vocative)

→ Middle English: Orioun (learned)

English: Orion

→ Portuguese: Orion (learned)

→ Sicilian: Uriuni


Orion

(Greek mythology) Orion (a giant-hunter)


인

the hanja entry at 仁 for Sino-Korean compounds of 인

(Confucianism, philosophy) ren: benevolence (the fundamental virtue of Confucianism)


예

Sino-Korean word from 禮 (“ritual, etiquette”), from the Middle Korean reading 례〮 (Yale: lyéy), 녜 (Yale: nyey).

ko-etym-sino

(especially Confucianism) decorum, ceremonial (code of decorous behavior that all people ought to follow)

the hanja entry at 禮 for Sino-Korean compounds of 예


minotaur

/ˈmɪnəˌtɔː(ɹ)/

/ˈmaɪnəˌtɑɹ/

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μινώταυρος (Minṓtauros), from Μίνως (Mínōs, “Minos, king of Crete”) + ταῦρος (taûros, “bull”).

af

(Greek mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Minotaur

مَنْطُور

monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man


Morpheus

Borrowed from Latin Morpheus (possibly coined by Ovid in his Metamorphoses as the god is not mentioned in earlier works), from Ancient Greek Μορφεύς (Morpheús), from μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”) (alluding to the fact that Morpheus appeared in dreams in the forms of different people) + -εύς (-eús, suffix forming masculine nouns indicating persons concerned with particular things).

(Greek mythology) The god and personification of dreams; according to the Roman poet Ovid, one of the sons of Somnus, the god of sleep.


Aphrodite

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē). Doublet of Aferdita.

bor+

Coordinate term: (Roman counterpart) Venus

In the "Iliad", Aphrodite is represented as the daughter of Zeus and Dione, the goddess of moisture, who, as the wife of the god of heaven, was held in high esteem among the old Pelasgians.

1877, Otto Seemann, The Mythology of Greece and Rome: With Special Reference to Its Use in Art, page 65:

(Greek mythology) The goddess of beauty and love, born when Cronus castrated his father, Uranus, and threw his genitalia into the sea.


Aphrodite

From Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē).


Aphrodite

la-proper noun

Aphrodītē f sg (genitive Aphrodītēs); first declension

Aphrodītē (canonical feminine singular)
Aphrodītēs (genitive)
Aphrodītē (nominative singular)
Aphrodītēs (genitive singular)
Aphrodītae (dative singular)
Aphrodītēn (accusative singular)
Aphrodītē (ablative singular)
Aphrodītē (singular vocative)

[äpʰrɔˈd̪iːt̪eː]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē).


hentai

en-noun

hentai (countable and uncountable, plural hentai or hentais)

→ Cebuano: hentai

→ Finnish: hentai

→ French: hentai

→ German: Hentai

→ Indonesian: hentai

→ Italian: hentai

→ Japanese: ヘンタイ (hentai)

→ Korean: 헨타이 (hentai)

→ Polish: hentai

→ Portuguese: hentai

→ Russian: хентай (xentaj)

→ Spanish: hentai

→ Swedish: hentai

→ Tagalog: hentai

→ Ukrainian: хента́й (xentáj)

Pseudo-Japonism, derived from 変態(へんたい) (hentai, “pervert”), short for 変態性欲者(へんたいせいよくしゃ) (hentai seiyoku-sha, literally “person with abnormal sexual desires”).

ja-r

へんたい せいよく-しゃ

There was a hentai video that I saw / I told you about the night that we first made love

2019, “Hentai”, in Cry, performed by Cigarettes After Sex:

X defines adult content as […]
This definition also applies to "AI-generated, photographic or animated content such as cartoons, hentai or anime".

2024 June 5, “Porn now officially allowed on X with safeguards for those under 18”, in Channel News Asia:

A work of anime or manga (or any similar medium) that contains heavily sexual or pornographic art.

hentai

a work of anime that contains sexual art (esp. manga or anime)


hentai

From English hentai, a semantic shift from Japanese 変態(へんたい) (hentai, “pervert”).

hentai; a work of anime or manga (or any similar medium) that contains heavily sexual or pornographic art


hentai

hentai (a work of anime or manga—Japanese cartoon art, respectively animated and static—that contains pornography)


hentai

hentai (a work of anime or manga — Japanese cartoon art, respectively animated and static — that contains pornography)


Europa

From Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē), a character name in Greek mythology.
Doublet of Europe.

(Greek mythology) Several characters, most notably a Phoenician princess abducted to Crete by Zeus.


Europa

From Middle Dutch europa, from Latin Eurōpa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπᾱ (Eurṓpā), Doric form of Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē).

(Greek mythology) a Phoenician princess abducted to Crete by Zeus


Europa

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Europa, from Latin Eurōpa, borrowed from Doric Greek Εὐρώπα (Eurṓpa).

América

Norteamérica/América del Norte, Sudamérica/Suramérica/América del Sur

(astronomy) Europa (large moon of Jupiter)

(Greek mythology) Europa (woman seduced by Zeus)


Europa

From Middle High German Eurōpā, borrowed from Latin Eurōpa, borrowed from Doric Greek Εὐρώπα (Eurṓpa).

(Greek mythology) Europa (a Phoenician princess abducted to Crete by Zeus)


Europa

it:52 Europa
it:Europa
it:Europa (Oceanina)
it:Europa (astronomia)
it:Europa (figlia di Agenore)
it:Europa (natante)

(mythology, Greek mythology) Europa (consort of Zeus, daughter of Agenor)

(mythology, Greek mythology) Europa (daughter of Oceanus and Tethys)


Europa

la-proper noun

Eurōpa f sg (genitive Eurōpae); first declension

Eurōpa (canonical feminine singular)
Eurōpae (genitive)
Eurōpa (nominative singular)
Eurōpae (genitive singular)
Eurōpae (dative singular)
Eurōpam (accusative singular)
Eurōpā (ablative singular)
Eurōpa (singular vocative)

Catalan: Europa

Italian: Europa

→ Sicilian: Europa

→ Turkish: Avrupa

Old French:

Middle French:

French: Europe

desctree

Old Galician-Portuguese: Europa, Eyropa
Fala: Europa
Galician: Europa
Portuguese: Europa
→ Burmese: ဥရောပ (u.rau:pa.)
→ Hunsrik: Ëuropa
→ Japanese: ヨーロッパ (Yōroppa)

Old Spanish:

Spanish: Europa

Sicilian: Aurupa

Bulgarian: Европа (Evropa)

Mandarin: 歐羅巴 /欧罗巴 (Ōuluóbā)

Middle Dutch: europa

Dutch: Europa (see there for further descendants)

Middle English: Europe
English: Europe, Europa (see there for further descendants)
Scots: Europe

Middle High German: Eurōpā
German: Europa

Romanian: Europa

Russian: Европа (Jevropa)

Borrowed from Doric Greek Εὐρώπα (Eurṓpa); cognate with Attic Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē).

la:52 Europa
la:Europa
la:Europa (mythologia)
la:Europa (satelles)

(Greek mythology) Europa (daughter of Phoenician king Agenor who was abducted by Jupiter and carried to Crete)


Europa

europejski (adjective)
Europa (nominative singular)
Europy (genitive singular)
Europie (dative singular)
Europę (accusative singular)
Europą (instrumental singular)
Europie (locative singular)
Europo (singular vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin Eurōpa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē).

(Greek mythology) Europa (princess abducted to Crete by Zeus)


Europa

→ Burmese: ဥရောပ (u.rau:pa.)

→ Hunsrik: Ëuropa

→ Japanese: ヨーロッパ (Yōroppa)

(Greek mythology) Europa (Phoenician princess)


Europa

Borrowed from Latin Eurōpa. Doublet of Sicilian Aurupa.


Europa

→⇒ Ye'kwana: Eudojanña

Europe (the portion of Eurasia west of the Urals, traditionally considered a continent in its own right, located north of Africa, west of Asia and east of the Atlantic Ocean)


Europa

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπα (Eurṓpa).

Europe, the westernmost part of the Eurasian continent, north of Africa and west of Asia


Satnami

From Sat (truth) + Nami (named by follower), "follower of truth".


crave

From Middle English craven, from Old English crafian (“to crave, ask, implore, demand, summon”), from Proto-West Germanic *krafōn, from Proto-Germanic *krafjaną (“to demand”). Cognate with Danish kræve (“to demand, require”), Swedish kräva (“to crave, demand”), Icelandic krefja (“to demand”), Norwegian kreve (“to demand”).

inh

(Scots law) A formal application to a court to make a particular order.


Maggie

(informal) Margaret Thatcher, former British prime minister.


aloe

Borrowed from Ancient Greek (τὰ) Ἁλῶα ((tà) Halôa), derived from ἅλως (hálōs, “threshing floor”).

bor+

(historical, Ancient Greece) a festival dedicated to Demeter, celebrated in the time of the harvesting of grapes


Argus

(Greek mythology) A mythical being, also called Argos or Argus Panoptes, with many eyes, a watchman who served Hera; his eyes were later transplanted to the peacock's tail.


Argus

la-noun

Argus m sg (genitive Argī); second declension

Argī (genitive)
Argus (nominative singular)
Argī (genitive singular)
Argō (dative singular)
Argum (accusative singular)
Argō (ablative singular)
Arge (singular vocative)


Argus

Argus (nominative singular)
Argusa (genitive singular)
Argusowi (dative singular)
Argusa (accusative singular)
Argusem (instrumental singular)
Argusie (locative singular)
Argusie (singular vocative)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἄργος (Árgos).


atrium

atrium (nominative singular)
atria (nominative plural)
atrium (genitive singular)
atriów (genitive plural)
atrium (dative singular)
atriom (dative plural)
atrium (accusative singular)
atria (accusative plural)
atrium (instrumental singular)
atriami (instrumental plural)
atrium (locative singular)
atriach (locative plural)
atrium (singular vocative)
atria (plural vocative)

(architecture, Ancient Rome) atrium (a central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings)


augur

Borrowed from Latin augur, of uncertain origin; akin to augurō (“interpret omens”).

It was an ancient tradition, that when the Capitol was founded by one of the Roman kings, the god Terminus (who presided over boundaries, and was represented, according to the fashion of that age, by a large stone) alone, among all the inferior deities, refused to yield his place to Jupiter himself. A favorable inference was drawn from his obstinacy, which was interpreted by the augurs as a sure presage that the boundaries of the Roman power would never recede.

1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol I, ch 1-pt ii:

(Ancient Rome) An official who interpreted omens before the start of public events.


augur

augur (nominative singular)
augurzy (nominative plural)
augury (derogatory nominative plural)
augura (genitive singular)
augurów (genitive plural)
augurowi (dative singular)
augurom (dative plural)
augura (accusative singular)
augurów (accusative plural)
augurem (instrumental singular)
augurami (instrumental plural)
augurze (locative singular)
augurach (locative plural)
augurze (singular vocative)
augurzy (plural vocative)

(Ancient Rome) augur (an official who interpreted omens before the start of public events)


boyar

From Russian боя́ре (bojáre), plural of боя́рин (bojárin).

Boris had abdicated in 889, leaving the throne to his son Vladimir, who had immediately identified himself with the boyar aristocracy which Boris had done his utmost to crush.

1997, John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium, Penguin, published 1998, page 159:

A long series of wars was fought in the sixteenth century to keep Polish influence at bay in the West Russian lands, and prevent it from seducing Muscovy's restless boyars, the warrior-barons whose independence the grand dukes were determined to crush.

2007, John Darwin, After Tamerlane, Penguin, published 2008, page 68:

some of his family looked to Orthodox Christianity to sustain them, and not only many of his boyars but most of his subjects were Orthodox Christians.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 514:

(historical) A member of a rank of aristocracy (second only to princes) in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia and Romania.


corona

en-noun

corona (plural coronas or coronae or (obsolete) coronæ)

coronas (plural)
coronae (plural)
coronæ (obsolete plural)

→ Japanese: コロナ (korona)

The noun is borrowed from Latin corōna (“crown; garland, wreath”), from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē, “type of crown; curved object (door handle, tip of a bow, stern of a ship, etc.)”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). The English word is a doublet of crown, korona, koruna, krona, króna, and krone.
The plural form coronae is borrowed from Latin corōnae.
The verb is derived from the noun.

laki

upper or crownlike portion of certain parts of the body

kruunu

appendage of an organism that resembles a crown or corona

From the remark of Servius [i.e., Maurus Servius Honoratus] (ad Aen. v. 269) it appears that coronae adorned with lemnisci were a greater distinction than those without them.

1842, Leonhard Schmitz, “λημνίσκος [lēmnískos, LEMNISCUS]”, in William Smith, editor, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: […] [Samuel Bentley] for Taylor and Walton, […], →OCLC, page 557, column 2:

Funerary inscriptions of soldiers under the Empire are frequently accompanied by representation of the dona militaria awarded during service. We instantly recognise depictions of torques, armillae, phalerae (often attached to a special harness), and various types of coronae.

1997 January, Lawrence Keppie, “Military Service in the Late Republic: The Evidence of Inscriptions and Sculpture”, in Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies, volume 8, Ryton, Tyne and Wear: M. C. Bishop, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 1:

Though men typically did not wear hats, they could wear a ceremonial form of headwear known as a corona, or crown. Like many areas of Roman dress, there were strict rules about wearing coronas.

2004, Sara Pendergast, Tom Pendergast, edited by Sarah Hermsen, Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages, volume 1, Detroit, Mich.: UXL, →ISBN, page 183:

(Ancient Rome, historical) A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.


chiton

From Ancient Greek χιτών (khitṓn, “tunic”), from a Central Semitic *kittan, from the Akkadian 𒌆𒃰 (kitû, literally “flax, linen”), from Sumerian 𒄑𒃰 (kitû [GIŠ.GADA]).

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On the night of our first attempt, we simply overdrank and passed out in our chitons in the woods near Francis’s house.

She wears a diaphanous himation that covers her torso, over a floor-length chiton of heavier fabric.

1998, Colette Susan Czapski, “NM238: A Hellenistic Statue and Its Archaistic Support”, in Kim J. Hartswick, Mary Carol Sturgeon, editors, Stephanos: Studies in Honor of Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, page 53:

She wears a chiton and himation, using both hands to hold the edge of the latter, in which she has gathered apples.

2002, chapter I, in Nikolaos Kaltsas, editor, Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, page 156:

(historical) A loose woolen tunic worn by men and women in Ancient Greece.


chiton

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χιτών (khitṓn).

chiton (mollusc of the class Polyplacophora)


chiton

chitoane (plural)
chiton (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
chitonul (accusative definite nominative singular)
chitoane (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
chitoanele (accusative definite nominative plural)
chiton (indefinite singular)
chitonului (definite singular)
chitoane (indefinite singular)
chitoanelor (definite plural)
chitonule (singular vocative)
chitoanelor (vocative)