dua

desha (aorist)
dashur (participle)
dashur (participle)
duke dashur (gerund)
për të dashur (infinitive)
dua (first-person indicative present singular)
do (indicative present second-person singular)
do (indicative present singular third-person)
duam (first-person indicative plural present)
doni (indicative plural present second-person)
duan (indicative plural present third-person)
doja (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
doje (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
donte (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
donim (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
donit (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
donin (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
desha (aorist first-person indicative singular)
deshe (aorist indicative second-person singular)
deshi (aorist indicative singular third-person)
deshëm (aorist first-person indicative plural)
deshët (aorist indicative plural second-person)
deshën (aorist indicative plural third-person)
kam dashur (first-person indicative perfect singular)
ke dashur (indicative perfect second-person singular)
ka dashur (indicative perfect singular third-person)
kemi dashur (first-person indicative perfect plural)
keni dashur (indicative perfect plural second-person)
kanë dashur (indicative perfect plural third-person)
kisha dashur (first-person indicative past perfect singular)
kishe dashur (indicative past perfect second-person singular)
kishte dashur (indicative past perfect singular third-person)
kishim dashur (first-person indicative past perfect plural)
kishit dashur (indicative past perfect plural second-person)
kishin dashur (indicative past perfect plural third-person)
pata dashur (first-person indicative singular)
pate dashur (indicative second-person singular)
pati dashur (indicative singular third-person)
patëm dashur (first-person indicative plural)
patët dashur (indicative plural second-person)
patën dashur (indicative plural third-person)
do të dua (first-person future indicative singular)
do të duash (future indicative second-person singular)
do të dojë (future indicative singular third-person)
do të duam (first-person future indicative plural)
do të doni (future indicative plural second-person)
do të duan (future indicative plural third-person)
do të kem dashur (first-person future indicative perfect singular)
do të kesh dashur (future indicative perfect second-person singular)
do të ketë dashur (future indicative perfect singular third-person)
do të kemi dashur (first-person future indicative perfect plural)
do të keni dashur (future indicative perfect plural second-person)
do të kenë dashur (future indicative perfect plural third-person)
të dua (first-person present singular subjunctive)
të duash (present second-person singular subjunctive)
të dojë (present singular subjunctive third-person)
të duam (first-person plural present subjunctive)
të doni (plural present second-person subjunctive)
të duan (plural present subjunctive third-person)
të doja (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
të doje (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
të donte (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
të donim (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
të donit (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
të donin (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
të kem dashur (first-person perfect singular subjunctive)
të kesh dashur (perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
të ketë dashur (perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
të kemi dashur (first-person perfect plural subjunctive)
të keni dashur (perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
të kenë dashur (perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
të kisha dashur (first-person past perfect singular subjunctive)
të kishe dashur (past perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
të kishte dashur (past perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
të kishim dashur (first-person past perfect plural subjunctive)
të kishit dashur (past perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
të kishin dashur (past perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
do të doja (conditional first-person imperfect singular)
do të doje (conditional imperfect second-person singular)
do të donte (conditional imperfect singular third-person)
do të donim (conditional first-person imperfect plural)
do të donit (conditional imperfect plural second-person)
do të donin (conditional imperfect plural third-person)
do të kisha dashur (conditional first-person past perfect singular)
do të kishe dashur (conditional past perfect second-person singular)
do të kishte dashur (conditional past perfect singular third-person)
do të kishim dashur (conditional first-person past perfect plural)
do të kishit dashur (conditional past perfect plural second-person)
do të kishin dashur (conditional past perfect plural third-person)
daça (first-person optative present singular)
daç (optative present second-person singular)
dantë (optative present singular third-person)
dançim (first-person optative plural present)
dançit (optative plural present second-person)
dançin (optative plural present third-person)
paça dashur (first-person optative perfect singular)
paç dashur (optative perfect second-person singular)
pastë dashur (optative perfect singular third-person)
paçim dashur (first-person optative perfect plural)
paçit dashur (optative perfect plural second-person)
paçin dashur (optative perfect plural third-person)
dashkam (admirative first-person present singular)
dashke (admirative present second-person singular)
dashka (admirative present singular third-person)
dashkemi (admirative first-person plural present)
dashkeni (admirative plural present second-person)
dashkan (admirative plural present third-person)
dashkësha (admirative first-person imperfect singular)
dashkëshe (admirative imperfect second-person singular)
dashkësh (admirative imperfect singular third-person)
dashkëshim (admirative first-person imperfect plural)
dashkëshit (admirative imperfect plural second-person)
dashkëshin (admirative imperfect plural third-person)
paskam dashur (admirative first-person perfect singular)
paske dashur (admirative perfect second-person singular)
paska dashur (admirative perfect singular third-person)
paskemi dashur (admirative first-person perfect plural)
paskeni dashur (admirative perfect plural second-person)
paskan dashur (admirative perfect plural third-person)
paskësha dashur (admirative first-person past perfect singular)
paskëshe dashur (admirative past perfect second-person singular)
paskësh dashur (admirative past perfect singular third-person)
paskëshim dashur (admirative first-person past perfect plural)
paskëshit dashur (admirative past perfect plural second-person)
paskëshin dashur (admirative past perfect plural third-person)
duaj (imperative present second-person singular)
doni (imperative plural present second-person)

From Old Albanian duo, from either:
* Proto-Albanian *dāusnja, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeus- (compare English choose, Greek γεύση (géfsi, “taste”), Italian gustare (“to taste”)); or
* *duām, from Proto-Albanian *duēs-mi, from Proto-Indo-European *dews- (compare English tire, Ancient Greek δεύομαι (deúomai, “to lack”)).


god

Inherited from Middle English god, from Old English god, originally neuter, then changed to masculine to reflect the change in religion to Christianity, from Proto-West Germanic *god n, from Proto-Germanic *gudą; see there for further origin. Not related to the word good or Persian خدا (xodâ, “god”).

And ſuch is to beare yͤ names of god with croſſes betwene ech name about them.

1530, William Tyndall, “An aunſwere vnto Syr Thomas Mores Dialogue”, in The whole workes of W. Tyndall […], published 1573, page 271:

“I say fuck it. Fuck god and fuck all the religions that praise him.”

2005, Diane L. Gabriel, Angel of My Heart, →ISBN, page 46:

For if the necessity of events is bound up with god’s knowledge, if there is no necessity in events, the divine knowledge is abolished. And whose mind is so distorted by such an impious idea that he would dare to say this of god?

2010 [6th century], Boethius, translated by Andrew Smith, On Aristotle, On Interpretation 1–3, page 136:

If I ask you if you believe in god, I just want to know if you have an imaginary omnipotent friend who you really believe lives outside of you in the real world.

2012, Penn Jillette, God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales, →ISBN, page 77:

Perhaps what is needed is just the right attitude: one’s heart should be open to god in order to hear his messages. […] It does not matter: such claims only prove my point about the communicative shortcomings of so-called divine signs.

2016, Andrew Sneddon, A is for Atheist: An A to Z of the Godfree Life, →ISBN:

This is the formulation of the moral end as ‘assimilation to god’, which would become standard in later Platonism.

2017, Myrto Hatzimichali, “Stoicism and Platonism in ‘Arius Didymus’”, in Troels Engberg-Pedersen, editor, From Stoicism to Platonism: The Development of Philosophy, 100 BCE–100 CE, →ISBN, page 91:

(often derogatory, also philosophy) Alternative letter-case form of God


bullshit

→ Czech: bulšit

خَرَابِيط

vulgar slang for deceptive or exaggerated nonsense — see also nonsense

حَچِي فَاضِي

ħɐʃ͡ʒi fɑːðˤi

чушь соба́чья

čušʹ sobáčʹja

Respect for the truth and a concern for the truth are among the foundations for civilization. I was for a long time disturbed by the lack of respect for the truth that I observed... bullshit is one of the deformities of these values.

Illusive Man: Shepard, you're making a habit of costing me more than time and money.
Shepard: I'm sorry, I'm having trouble hearing you. I'm getting a lot of bullshit on this line.

2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: After Collector Base: Final Battle:

(philosophy) Statements made without regard for their truth value.


vapor

la-noun

vapor m (genitive vapōris); third declension

vapōris (genitive)
vapor (nominative singular)
vapōrēs (nominative plural)
vapōris (genitive singular)
vapōrum (genitive plural)
vapōrī (dative singular)
vapōribus (dative plural)
vapōrem (accusative singular)
vapōrēs (accusative plural)
vapōre (ablative singular)
vapōribus (ablative plural)
vapor (singular vocative)
vapōrēs (plural vocative)

Asturian: vapor

Catalan: vapor

→ English: vapor

French: vapeur

Galician: vapor

Italian: vapore

Portuguese: vapor

Romanian: vapor

Spanish: vapor

From Proto-Italic *kwapōs, of uncertain ultimate origin, but possibly related to Ancient Greek καπνός (kapnós, “smoke”) and Proto-Indo-European *kʷep- (“to smoke, boil, move violently”), via an older form *quapor that eventually lost its velar. See also hope.


bound

From Middle English bound, bund (preterite) and bounden, bunden, ibunden, ȝebunden (past participle), from Old English bund- and bunden, ġebunden respectively. See bind.

(mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.

свързан

constrained by something, or constrained to something


earth

en-noun

earth (countable and uncountable, plural earths)

From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe, from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþō (“dirt, ground, earth”) (compare West Frisian ierde, Low German Eerd, Dutch aarde, Dutch Low Saxon eerde, German Erde, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian jord), related to *erwô (“earth”) (compare Old High German ero, perhaps Old Norse jǫrfi), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er- (compare Ancient Greek *ἔρα (*éra, “earth”) in ἔραζε (éraze, “to the ground, to earth”), perhaps Tocharian B yare (“gravel”).
Probably unrelated, but of unknown etymology, is Old Armenian երկիր (erkir, “earth”). Likewise, the phonologically similar Proto-Semitic *ʔarṣ́- – whence Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ), Hebrew אֶרֶץ (ʾereṣ) – is probably not related.

inh

earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust

(alchemy, philosophy and Taoism) The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.


flesh

English: flesh

Scots: flesch

Yola: vleash, vlesh

Inherited from Old English flǣsċ, from Proto-West Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”).

der

(Christianity, theology) A communion wafer


that

From Middle English that, from Old English þæt (“the, that”, neuter definite article and relative pronoun), from Proto-West Germanic *þat, from Proto-Germanic *þat. Cognate to Saterland Frisian dät, West Frisian dat, Dutch dat, Low German dat, German dass and das, Danish det, Swedish det, Icelandic það, Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐍄𐌰 (þata). Further from Proto-Indo-European *tód; compare Ancient Greek τό (tó), Sanskrit तद् (tád), Waigali ta, Lithuanian taĩ, Polish to.

inh

As such, they do not have the ontological weight of "Being" and "Not-being," but serve simply as an explanatory vocabulary necessary to describe our world of thises and thats.

1998, David L. Hall, Roger T. Ames, Thinking from the Han, page 247:

(philosophy) Something being indicated that is there; one of those.


neologism

en-noun

neologism (countable and uncountable, plural neologisms)

/niːˈɒləd͡ʒɪzəm/

From French néologisme, from Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”) + λόγος (lógos, “word”) + -ism.

(theology, historical) Synonym of neology.


science

science (countable and uncountable, plural sciences)

→ Japanese: サイエンス

→ Malay: sains

→ Swahili: sayansi

From Middle English science, scyence, borrowed from Old French science, escience, from Latin scientia (“knowledge”), from sciens, the present participle stem of scire (“to know”).

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding vain and profane babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Timothy 6:20-21:

(now only theology) The fact of knowing something; knowledge or understanding of a truth.


sound

en-adj

sound (comparative sounder, superlative soundest)

sounder (comparative)
soundest (superlative)

From Middle English sound, sund, isund, ȝesund, from Old English sund, ġesund (“sound, safe, whole, uninjured, healthy, prosperous”), from Proto-West Germanic *sund, from Proto-Germanic *gasundaz, *sundaz (“healthy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sunt-, *swent- (“vigorous, active, healthy”).
Cognate with Scots sound, soun (“healthy, sound”), Saterland Frisian suund, gesuund (“healthy”), West Frisian sûn (“healthy”), Dutch gezond (“healthy, sound”), Low German sund, gesund (“healthy”), German gesund (“healthy, sound”), Danish sund (“healthy”), Swedish sund (“sound, healthy”). Related also to Dutch gezwind (“fast, quick”), German geschwind (“fast, quick”), Old English swīþ (“strong, mighty, powerful, active, severe, violent”). See swith.

cog

With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]

1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:

(mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.


theory

en-noun

theory (countable and uncountable, plural theories)

From Middle French théorie, from Late Latin theōria, from Ancient Greek θεωρία (theōría, “contemplation, divine perspective, speculation, a looking at, a seeking”), from θεωρέω (theōréō, “I look at, view, see, consider, examine”), from θεωρός (theōrós, “spectator”), from θέα (théa, “view, perspective, sight”) + ὁράω (horáō, “I see, look”) [i. e. θέαν ὁράω (théan horáō, “see, look at a view; survey + genitive”)].

der

A theory is consistent if it has a model.

(countable, logic) A set of axioms together with all statements derivable from them; or, a set of statements which are deductively closed. Equivalently, a formal language plus a set of axioms (from which can then be derived theorems). The statements may be required to all be bound (i.e., to have no free variables).

teoria

in logic: a set of axioms and all statements derivable from them


belief

en-noun

belief (countable and uncountable, plural beliefs)

From Middle English bileve, from Old English lēafa, from Proto-West Germanic *laubu from Proto-Germanic *laubō. Compare German Glaube (“faith, belief”).
The replacement of final /v/ with /f/ is due to the analogy of noun-verb pairs with /f/ in the noun but /v/ in the verb, creating a pair belief : believe on the model of e.g. grief : grieve or proof : prove.

usk

a wishing of case or circumstance to be true

My belief that it will rain tomorrow is strong.

(uncountable) The quality or state of believing.


law

law (countable and uncountable, plural laws)

From Middle English lawe, laȝe, from Old English lagu (“law”), borrowed from Old Norse lǫg (“law”, literally “things laid down or firmly established”), originally the plural of lag (“layer, stratum, a laying in order, measure, stroke”), from Proto-Germanic *lagą (“that which is laid down”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”). Cognate with Scots law (“law”), Icelandic lög (“things laid down, law”), Faroese lóg (“law”), Norwegian lov (“law”), Swedish lag (“law”), Danish lov (“law”), Finnish laki (“law”). Replaced Old English ǣ and ġesetnes. More at lay.
Not related to legal, nor to French loi, Spanish ley, all of which ultimately derive from Latin lēx, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather”).

азакуан

body of rules established in a community by its authorities

Mathematical laws can be proved purely through mathematics, without scientific experimentation.

(mathematics, logic) A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.

օրենք

mathematics: statement that is true under specified conditions


sentence

Borrowed from Middle French sentence, from Latin sententia (“way of thinking, opinion, sentiment”), from sentiēns, present participle of sentiō (“to feel, think”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”).

(logic) A formula with no free variables.


substance

en-noun

substance (countable and uncountable, plural substances)

From Middle English substance, from Old French substance, from Latin substantia (“substance, essence”), from substāns, present active participle of substō (“exist”, literally “stand under”), from sub + stō (“stand”). Displaced native Old English andweorc.

substancë

physical matter; material — see also matter

(theology, philosophy) Ousia, essence; underlying reality or hypostasis in the philosophical sense.


ipse dixit

ad hominem

antonym(s) of “unproved dogmatic assertion”

Borrowed from Latin ipse dīxit (“he himself said it”), calque of Ancient Greek αὐτὸς ἔφα (autòs épha).
Originally used by the followers of Pythagoreanism, who claimed this or that proposition to be uttered by Pythagoras himself. Extended during the Middle Ages to the statements of Aristotle, and more famously used in such contexts.

calque

To avoid, therefore, all imputation of laying down a rule for posterity, founded only on the authority of ipse dixit—for which, to say the truth, we have not the profoundest veneration...

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume V, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book i:

Mr. Lincoln has not character enough for integrity and truth, merely on his own ipse dixit, to arraign President Buchanan, President Pierce, and nine Judges of the Supreme Court, not one of whom would be complimented by being put on an equality with him. There is an unpardonable presumption in a man putting himself up before thousands of people, and pretending that his ipse dixit, without proof, without fact, and without truth, is enough to bring down and destroy the purest and best of living men.

1858 August 21, Stephen A. Douglas, parliamentary debates, Ottawa, Illinois:

(rhetoric) A dogmatic and unproved proposition or dictum that is accepted solely on the authority of someone who is known to have asserted it.


ipse dixit

[ˈɪps̠ɛ ˈd̪iːks̠ɪt̪]

Calque of Ancient Greek αὐτὸς ἔφα (autòs épha, “he himself said it”), originally used by Pythagoreans.

(rhetoric, chiefly Medieval Latin) Used after a statement claimed to be by Aristotle, whose absolute authority made it incontestable.


dogmatic

en-adj

dogmatic (comparative more dogmatic, superlative most dogmatic)

more dogmatic (comparative)
most dogmatic (superlative)

[dɔɡˈmæɾ.ɪk]

[dɑɡˈmæɾ.ɪk]

[ˈdɔɡˈmæɾ.ɪk]

From Middle French dogmatique and its etymon, Late Latin dogmaticus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek δογματικός (dogmatikós, “didactic”), from δόγμα (dógma, “dogma”).

der

Dogmatic philosophies have sought for tests for truth which might dispense us from appealing to the future. Some direct mark, by noting which we can be protected immediately and absolutely, now and forever, against all mistake—such has been the darling dream of philosophic dogmatists.

1902, William James, “Lecture I”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:

(philosophy, medicine) Adhering only to principles which are true a priori, rather than truths based on evidence or deduction.


bright

The adjective is from Middle English bright, from Old English beorht, from Proto-West Germanic *berht, from Proto-Germanic *berhtaz (“bright”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵ- (“to shine, to gleam, whiten”).
The noun is derived from Middle English bright (“brightness, brilliance; daylight; light”), from bright (adjective): see above.
The English word is cognate with Albanian bardhë (“white”), Dutch brecht (in personal names), Icelandic bjartur (“bright”), Lithuanian brekšta (“to dawn”), Middle Irish brafad (“blink of an eye”), Norwegian bjart (“bright, clear, shining”), Persian برازیدن (barâzidan, “to beautify; to befit”), Northern Luri بڵێز (bełız, “blaze”) Russian бре́зжить (brézžitʹ, “to dawn; to flicker faintly, glimmer; (figuratively) of a hope, thought, etc.: to begin to manifest, emerge”), Sanskrit भ्राजते (bhrājate), Scots bricht (“bright”), Welsh berth (“beautiful, fair, fine”) (obsolete).

cog

Brights constitute 60% of American scientists, and a stunning 93% of those scientists good enough to be elected to the elite National Academy of Sciences (equivalent to Fellows of the Royal Society) are brights.

2003 June 20, Richard Dawkins, “The future looks bright”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-03-22:

Many of us brights have devoted considerable time and energy at some point in our lives to looking at the arguments for and against the existence of God, and many brights continue to pursue these issues, hacking away vigorously at the arguments of believers as if they were trying to refute a rival scientific theory. But not I.

2006, Daniel C[lement] Dennett, “Breaking Which Spell?”, in Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, part I (Opening Pandora’s Box), section 5 (Religion as a Natural Phenomenon), page 27:

[Richard] Dawkins has received appreciative letters from people who were formerly what he derisively calls "faith-heads" who have abandoned their delusions and come over to the side of the brights, the pleasant green pastures where clear-eyed, brave, bold, and supremely brainy atheists graze contentedly.

2008 April, David Aikman, “The Attack of the Four Horsemen”, in The Delusion of Disbelief: Why the New Atheism is a Threat to Your Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness, Carol Stream, Ill.: SaltRiver, Tyndale House Publishers, →ISBN, page 28:

A person with a naturalistic worldview with no mystical or supernatural elements.


make

English: make (dialectal)

Scots: make, maik, mak

From Old English maca, ġemaca, from Proto-West Germanic *makō, *gamakō, from Proto-Germanic *makô. Compare macche (“bride, equal”).


burn

en-verb

burn (third-person singular simple present burns, present participle burning, simple past and past participle burned or (mostly Commonwealth) burnt or (obsolete) brent)

burns (present singular third-person)
burning (participle present)
burned (participle past)
burned (past)
burnt (Commonwealth participle past)
burnt (Commonwealth past)
brent (obsolete participle past)
brent (obsolete past)
burn (infinitive)

Sranan Tongo: bron

Aukan: boon

From Middle English bernen, birnen, from Old English birnan (“to burn”), metathesis from Proto-West Germanic *brinnan, from Proto-Germanic *brinnaną (“to burn”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenw-, present stem from *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of brew.
See also Middle Irish brennim (“drink up”), bruinnim (“bubble up”); also Middle Irish bréo (“flame”), Albanian burth (“Cyclamen hederifolium, mouth burning”), Sanskrit भुरति (bhurati, “moves quickly, twitches, fidgets”). More at brew.

verbranden

chemistry: to cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent

He had already burned his cover with Mrs. Phillips, and it was not a mistake he intended to make again.

Eventually they'd report back to Ryker, and he still didn't know if Ryker had personally burned his cover and sent assassins after him, or if the SSU had a mole. Until he knew for certain, he had to play this safe.

2013, Vanessa Kier, Vengeance: The SSU Book 1:

(transitive, espionage) To compromise (an agent's cover story).

"How does Leipzig burn him precisely?" Enderby insisted. "What's the pressure? Dirty pix—well, okay. Karla's a puritan, so's Kirov. But I mean, Christ, this isn't the fifties, is it? […]


circle

Pitcairn-Norfolk: sirkil

From Middle English circle, cercle, from Old French cercle and Latin circulus, diminutive of Latin circus (“circle, circus”), from Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos, “circle, ring”), related to Old English hring (“ring”). Compare also Old English ċircul (“circle, zodiac”), which came from the same Latin source.

دَائِرَة

geometry: set of all points in a plane within a radius

That heavy Bodies deſcend by gravity, is no better an account then we might expect from a Ruſtick: and again; that Gravity is a quality whereby an heavy body deſcends, is an impertinent Circle, and teacheth nothing.

1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter XVIII, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC, page 171:

(logic) A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.


analysis

en-noun

analysis (countable and uncountable, plural analyses)

From Medieval Latin analysis, from Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις (análusis), from ἀναλύω (analúō, “I unravel, investigate”), from ἀνα- (ana-, “thoroughly”) + λύω (lúō, “I loosen”).

language analysis for the determination of origin

List of terms used in mathematical analysis

(countable, logic) Proof by deduction from known truths.

analizë

logic: proof by deduction from known truths


depth

depth (countable and uncountable, plural depths)

From Middle English depthe, from Old English *dīepþ (“depth”), from Proto-Germanic *diupiþō (“depth”), equivalent to deep + -th. Cognate with Scots deepth (“depth”), Saterland Frisian Djüpte (“depth”), West Frisian djipte (“depth”), Dutch diepte (“depth”), Low German Deepde (“depth”), Danish dybde (“depth”), Icelandic dýpt (“depth”), Gothic 𐌳𐌹𐌿𐍀𐌹𐌸𐌰 (diupiþa, “depth”).

(logic) the number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content


crush

crush (nominative singular)
crushowie (nominative plural)
crushy (derogatory nominative plural)
crusha (genitive singular)
crushów (genitive plural)
crushowi (dative singular)
crushom (dative plural)
crusha (accusative singular)
crushów (accusative plural)
crushem (instrumental singular)
crushami (instrumental plural)
crushu (locative singular)
crushach (locative plural)
crushu (singular vocative)
crushowie (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English crush, from Middle English cruschen, from Old French croissir, from Late Latin *crusciō, from Frankish *krostjan.


distribution

distribution (countable and uncountable, plural distributions)

From Old French, from Latin distributio, from distribuere 'to distribute', itself from dis- 'apart' + tribuere 'to' (from tribus).

(logic) The resolution of a whole into its parts.

erittely

logic: resolution of a whole into its parts


vel

(logic) The ∨ symbol used to represent the inclusive or, which is a logical connective.


simple

Inherited from Middle English symple, simple, from Old French and French simple, from Latin simplex (“simple”, literally “onefold”) (as opposed to duplex (“double”, literally “twofold”)), from semel (“the same”) + plicō (“I fold”). See same and fold. Compare single, singular, simultaneous, etc.
Partially displaced native English onefold.

der

Peter van Inwagen, for example, believes that there are no ordinary objects, no chairs or shirts or shoes. Right here there are just some simples — atoms or whatever — arranged shoe-wise.

2021 September 14, Michael David Stevens, 10:41 from the start, in Do Chairs Exist?:


difference

en-noun

difference (countable and uncountable, plural differences)

From Middle English difference, from Old French difference, from Latin differentia (“difference”), from differēns (“different”), present participle of differre. Doublet of differentia.
Morphologically differ + -ence.

know the difference between one's ass and a hole in the ground

know the difference between one's ass and one's elbow

(logic) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.


act

act (countable and uncountable, plural acts)

From Middle English acte, from Old French acte, from Latin ācta (“register of events”), plural of āctum (“decree, law”), from agere (“to do, to act”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti. Compare German Akte (“file”). Partially displaced deed, from Old English dǣd (“act, deed”).

(theology) Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.


logic

logic (countable and uncountable, plural logics)

→ Chinese: 邏輯／逻辑 (luójí)

From Middle English logik, from Old French logike, from Latin logica, from Ancient Greek λογική (logikḗ, “logic”), from feminine of λογικός (logikós, “of or pertaining to speech or reason or reasoning, rational, reasonable”), from λόγος (lógos, “speech, reason”). Displaced native Old English flitcræft (literally “art of arguing”).

ncog

An old tradition has it that there are two branches of logic: deductive logic and inductive logic. More recently, the differences between these disciplines have become so marked that most people nowadays use "logic" to mean deductive logic, reserving terms like "confirmation theory" for at least some of what used to be called inductive logic. I shall follow the more recent practice, and shall construe "philosophy of logic" as "philosophy of deductive logic".

2001, Mark Sainsbury, Logical Forms - An Introduction to Philosophical Logic, Second Edition, Blackwell Publishing, page 9:

(philosophy, logic) The study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration.


dialogue

en-noun

dialogue (countable and uncountable, plural dialogues)

Inherited from Middle English dialog, from Old French dialoge (French dialogue), from Late Latin dialogus, from Ancient Greek διάλογος (diálogos, “conversation, discourse”), from διά (diá, “through, inter”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech, oration, discourse”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “to converse”), from διά (diá) + λέγειν (légein, “to speak”).

der

A literary historian, she specialized in the dialogues of ancient Greek philosophers.

(philosophy) A literary form, where the presentation resembles a conversation.


principality

en-noun

principality (countable and uncountable, plural principalities)

From Middle English principalte, principalite, from Anglo-Norman principalté, Middle French principalté, from Late Latin prīncipālitās, from Latin prīncipālis (“principal”) + -tās. Equivalent to principal + -ity.

(theology, countable) A spiritual being, specifically in Christian angelology, the fifth level of angels, ranked above powers and below dominions.


energy

energy (countable and uncountable, plural energies)

→ Cebuano: enerdyi

→ Japanese: エナジー (enajī)

→ Korean: 에너지 (eneoji)

From Middle French énergie, from Late Latin energia, from Ancient Greek ἐνέργεια (enérgeia, “activity”), from ἐνεργός (energós, “active”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). The sense in physics was coined by English polymath Thomas Young in 1802 in his lectures on Natural Philosophy.

coin

The three Persons of the Holy Trinity have the same opinion, make the same decision, and put forth the same energy and action.

2003, Carl S. Tyneh, Orthodox Christianity: Overview and Bibliography, page 21:

We hold, further, that there are two energies in our Lord Jesus Christ. For He possesses on the one hand, as God and being of like essence with the Father, the divine energy, and, likewise, since He became man and of like essence to us, the energy proper to human nature. […] Energy is the efficient and essential activity of nature; the capacity for energy is the nature from which proceeds energy; the product of energy is that which is effected by energy; and the agent of energy is the person or subsistence which uses the energy.

2017, Stoyan Tanev, Energy in Orthodox Theology and Physics: From Controversy to Encounter, quoting and translating the conclusions of the Fifth Council of Constantinople (1351), page 2

The doctrine of the divine energies states that the divine essence, God-in-himself, is unknowable to any creature, whereas God makes himself known in creation by his divine energies, which are inseparable from the divine essence yet distinct from it. Humans know and experience God through his energies. […] Energies are indeed God, but God is more than his energies.

2019, Paul Ladouceur, Modern Orthodox Theology: Behold, I Make All Things New, pages 368–369:

(Eastern Orthodoxy, theology, often in the plural) The external actions and influences resulting from an entity’s internal nature (ousia) and by which it is made manifest, as opposed to that internal nature itself; the aspect of an entity that can affect the wider world and be apprehended by other beings.


cover

en-noun

cover (countable and uncountable, plural covers)

→ Hijazi Arabic: كَڤَر (kavar)

→ Portuguese: cover

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Old Latin com
Latin cum
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi
Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Latin operiō
Latin cooperiō
Old French covrirbor.
Middle English coveren
English cover
From Middle English coveren, borrowed from Old French covrir, cueuvrir (modern French couvrir), from Late Latin coperire, from Latin cooperiō (“I cover completely”), from co- (intensive prefix) + operiō (“I close, cover”). Displaced native Middle English thecchen and bethecchen (“to cover”) (from Old English þeccan, beþeccan (“to cover”)), Middle English helen, (over)helen, (for)helen (“to cover, conceal”) (from Old English helan (“to conceal, cover, hide”)), Middle English wrien, (be)wreon (“to cover”) (from Old English (be)wrēon (“to cover”)), Middle English hodren, hothren (“to cover up”) (from Low German hudren (“to cover up”)).
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the original sense of the verb and noun cover was “hide from view” as in its cognate covert. Except in the limited sense of “cover again”, the word recover is unrelated and is cognate with recuperate. Cognate with Spanish cubrir (“to cover”).

cumhdach

A cloth or similar material used to protect underlying items from dust, sunlight, insects etc. when not being used.

throw nickels around like manhole covers

(espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.

peitetarina

espionage: persona maintained by an operative


sin

en-noun

sin (countable and uncountable, plural sins)

From Middle English sinne, synne, sunne, zen, from Old English synn (“sin”), from Proto-West Germanic *sunnju, from Proto-Germanic *sunjō (“truth, excuse”) and *sundī, *sundijō (“sin”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁s-ónt-ih₂, from *h₁sónts ("being, true", implying a verdict of "truly guilty" against an accusation or charge), from *h₁es- (“to be”); compare Old English sōþ ("true"; see sooth). Doublet of suttee.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots syn, sin (“sin”), Saterland Frisian Säände (“sin”), West Frisian sûnde (“sin”), Dutch zonde (“sin”), Low German sunn, sunne (“sin”), German Sünde (“sin”), Danish synd (“sin”), Swedish synd (“sin”), Icelandic synð, synd (“sin”), Latin sont-, sons (“sinful, guilty, criminal”). Doublet of suttee.

gloss

let he who is without sin cast the first stone

let him that is without sin cast the first stone

let him who is without sin cast the first stone

As a Christian, I think this is a sin against God.

Slavery, according to them, was a grievous sin against God, and therefore no human Constitution could rightfully shield it from destruction. It was sinful to live in a political confederacy which tolerated slavery in any of the States composing it;[…]

1866, James Buchanan, Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion, New York: D. Appleton and Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 9:

(theology) A violation of divine will or religious law.

colpa (per mia colpa, per mia grandissima colpa" - "for my sin, for my sin, for my very great sin)

used in the Christian phrase "per mia colpa


sin

en-verb

sin (third-person singular simple present sins, present participle sinning, simple past and past participle sinned)

sins (present singular third-person)
sinning (participle present)
sinned (participle past)
sinned (past)

(intransitive, theology) To commit a sin.


election

en-noun

election (countable and uncountable, plural elections)

From Middle English eleccioun, eleccion, from Anglo-Norman eleccioun, from Latin ēlectiōn-, stem of ēlectiō (“choice, selection”), from ēligō (“I pluck out, I choose”). Equivalent to elect + -ion.

[H]e [Paul] laboureth to comfort Timothy vvith the remembrance of the ſtedfaſtneſs of Gods eternal decree of Election, becauſe grounded on his foreknowledge; […]

1684, John Bunyan, A Holy Life, the Beauty of Christianity: Or, An Exhortation to Christians to be Holy, London: […] B. W. for Benj[amin] Alsop, […], →OCLC, page 3:

(theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.


wet

wet (nominative singular)
wety (nominative plural)
wetu (genitive singular)
wetów (genitive plural)
wetowi (dative singular)
wetom (dative plural)
wet (accusative singular)
wety (accusative plural)
wetem (instrumental singular)
wetami (instrumental plural)
wecie (locative singular)
wetach (locative plural)
wecie (singular vocative)
wety (plural vocative)

(obsolete except in set phrases) compensation (something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss)

(archaic, in the plural) dessert (sweet dish or confection served as the last course of a meal)


wet

wet (nominative singular)
wetowie (nominative plural)
wety (derogatory nominative plural)
weta (genitive singular)
wetów (genitive plural)
wetowi (dative singular)
wetom (dative plural)
weta (accusative singular)
wetów (accusative plural)
wetem (instrumental singular)
wetami (instrumental plural)
wecie (locative singular)
wetach (locative plural)
wecie (singular vocative)
wetowie (plural vocative)
wety (derogatory plural vocative)

Clipping of weterynarz. Compare English vet.


knowledge

knowledge (usually uncountable, plural knowledges)

From Middle English knowleche, knaweleche, cnawlece (“knowledge”), from knowen (“to know, recognise”) + -leche. Related to Middle English knowlechen (“to find out, acknowledge”). For more on the Middle English suffix -leche, compare freelage. Compare also Old English cnāwelǣċ, cnāwelǣċing (“acknowledging, acknowledgement”).

cog

zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 490. Knowledge


matter

en-noun

matter (countable and uncountable, plural matters)

From Middle English matere, mater, from Anglo-Norman matere, materie, from Old French materie, matiere, from Latin materia (“wood”), from mater (“mother”), in which case cognate with Old Armenian մայր (mayr, “cedar”) and մայրի (mayri, “forest”). More recently, referred to Proto-Indo-European *dem-. Doublet of Madeira, mata, mater, matrix, and mother.
Displaced Middle English andweorc, andwork (“material, matter”), from Old English andweorc (“matter, substance, material”), Old English intinga (“matter, affair, business”).

lëndë

basic structural component of the universe

(philosophy) Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.


courage

en-noun

courage (usually uncountable, plural courages)

From Middle English corage, from Old French corage (French courage), from Vulgar Latin *corāticum, from Latin cor (“heart”). Distantly related to cardiac (“of the heart”), which is from Greek, but from the same Proto-Indo-European root. Displaced Middle English elne, ellen, from Old English ellen (“courage, valor”).

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.”

1942, C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters:

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

1993, Stanley P. Cornils, The Mourning After: How to Manage Grief Wisely:

2008, Maya Angelou, address for the 2008 Cornell University commencement
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.

2008, Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay:

The ability to maintain one's will or intent despite either the experience of fear, frailty, or frustration; or the occurrence of adversity, difficulty, defeat or reversal. Moral fortitude.


lie

en-verb

lie (third-person singular simple present lies, present participle lying, simple past lay or (colloquial) laid, past participle lain or (colloquial) laid or (obsolete) lien)

lies (present singular third-person)
lying (participle present)
lay (past)
laid (colloquial past)
lain (participle past)
laid (colloquial participle past)
lien (obsolete participle past)
lie (infinitive)

From Middle English lien, liggen, from Old English liċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *liggjan, from Proto-Germanic *ligjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-.
Cognate with West Frisian lizze, Dutch liggen, German liegen, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål ligge, Swedish ligga, Icelandic, Faroese and Norwegian Nynorsk liggja, Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (ligan); and with Latin lectus (“bed”), Irish luí, Russian лежа́ть (ležátʹ), Albanian lag (“troop, band, encampment”).
As a noun for position, the noun has the same etymology above as the verb.

cog

a corresponding transitive version of this word

The Wind is lowd, and will not lie till the Ship be cleard of the dead.

c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.


lie

From Middle English lie, from Old English lyġe (“lie, falsehood”), from Proto-Germanic *lugiz (“lie, falsehood”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewgʰ- (“to tell lies, swear, complain”). Cognate with Old Saxon luggi (“a lie”), Old High German lugī, lugin (“a lie”) (German Lüge), Danish løgn (“a lie”), Bulgarian лъжа́ (lǎžá, “а lie”), Russian ложь (ložʹ, “а lie”), Czech lež (“a lie”), Middle Polish łeż (“a lie”), Serbo-Croatian laž (“a lie”).

der

I knew he was telling a lie by his facial expression.

Man everywhere is the born enemy of lies.

1840 May 5, Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture I. The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology.”, in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1840, →OCLC, page 4:

An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.


subjective

en-adj

subjective (comparative more subjective, superlative most subjective)

more subjective (comparative)
most subjective (superlative)

(philosophy, psychology) Experienced by a person mentally and not directly verifiable by others.


true

true (comparative truer or more true, superlative truest or most true)

truer (comparative)
more true (comparative)
truest (superlative)
most true (superlative)

[t̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷu̠ː]

From Middle English trewe, from Old English trīewe, (Mercian) trēowe (“trusty, faithful”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiz (compare Saterland Frisian trjou (“honest”), Dutch getrouw and trouw, German treu, Norwegian and Swedish trygg (“safe, secure’”), from pre-Germanic *drewh₂yos, from Proto-Indo-European *drewh₂- (“steady, firm”) (compare Irish dearbh (“sure”), Old Prussian druwis (“faith”), Ancient Greek δροόν (droón, “firm”)), extension of *dóru (“tree”) (possibly also Proto-Slavic *sъdorvъ (“healthy”) from the same root). More at tree. For the semantic development, compare Latin robustus (“tough”) from robur (“red oak”).

der

the course of true love never did run smooth

"A and B" is true if and only if "A" is true and "B" is true.

(logic) Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.

իրական

A state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result


asset

Back-formation from assets, from Anglo-Norman asetz, from Old French assez (“enough”). Compare Middle English asseth.


similarity

en-noun

similarity (countable and uncountable, plural similarities)

From French similarité.
Morphologically similar + -ity

Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all.

1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:

(philosophy) The relation of sharing properties.


heaven

heaven (countable and uncountable, plural heavens)

horror

antonym(s) of “blissful place or experience”

From a wide variety of Middle English forms including hevene, heven, hevin, and hewin (“heaven, sky”), from Old English heofon, heofone (“heaven, sky”), from Proto-West Germanic *hebn (“heaven, sky”), of uncertain origin.
Cognate with Scots heiven, hewin (“heaven, sky”), Middle Dutch heven (“sky, heaven”), Low German Heven (“heaven, sky”), Middle High German heben (“sky, heaven”), and possibly the rare Icelandic and Old Norse hifinn (“heaven, sky”), which are all probably dissimilated forms of the Germanic root which appears in Old Norse himinn (“heaven, sky”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌽𐍃 (himins, “heaven, sky”), Old Swedish himin, Old Danish himæn and probably also (in another variant form) Old Saxon himil, Old Dutch himil (modern Dutch hemel), and Old High German himil (German Himmel).
Accepting these as cognates, some scholars propose a further derivation from Proto-Germanic *himinaz (“cover, cloud cover, firmament, sky, heaven”).

سَمَاء

سَمَاوَات pl (samāwāt)

فَلَك

أَفْلَاك pl (ʔaflāk)

Teache the people to gett heuen with fastynge.

1544, Richard Tracy, A supplycacion to our moste soueraigne lorde Kynge henry the eyght Kynge of England of Fraunce and of Irelande, section C:

...what I speake
My body shall make good vpon this earth,
Or my diuine soule answer it in heauen.

1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene 1]:

Wee haue a great high Priest, that is passed into the heauens.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 4:14:

(religion) The afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust (compare hell); specifically:

(Christianity, Islam) Paradise, the afterlife of the souls who are not sent to a place of punishment or purification such as hell, purgatory, or limbo; the state or condition of being in the presence of God after death.

سَمَاء f جَنَّة f فِرْدَوْس

سَمَاوَات pl (samāwāt)


singularity

en-noun

singularity (countable and uncountable, plural singularities)

/ˌsɪŋɡjəˈlæɹətɪ/

From Middle English singularite, from Old French singularité, from Late Latin singulāritās (“singleness”), from Latin singulāris (“single”).
Morphologically singular + -ity

One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.

1958, Stan Ulam, “Tribute to John von Neumann”, in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society:

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. ... I think it's fair to call this event a singularity ("the Singularity" for the purposes of this paper).

1993, Vernor Vinge, “The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era”, in Whole Earth Review:

[Vernor] Vinge was among those (along with, notably, Ray Kurzweil) to discuss the transformation of humans by technology, coming in a matter of decades, referred to as "the singularity."

[2011 January 5, Rob Walker, “Cyberspace When You're Dead”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The notion of the Singularity is predicated on Moore's Law, the 1965 observation by the Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, that the number of transistors that can be etched onto a sliver of silicon doubles at roughly two year intervals.

2016 April 7, John Markoff, “When Is the Singularity? Probably Not in Your Lifetime”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

technological singularity
technological singularity#English

(sometimes capitalized) Ellipsis of technological singularity: a hypothetical turning point in the future, the culmination of ever-accelerating technological progress, when human history as we have known it ends, and a strange new era begins. For some writers, the catalyst is superhuman machine intelligence.


fire

fire (countable and uncountable, plural fires)

→ Japanese: ファイヤー (faiyā)

Sranan Tongo: faya

From Middle English fyr, from Old English fȳr (“fire”), from Proto-West Germanic *fuir, from *fuïr, a regularised form of Proto-Germanic *fōr (“fire”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥.
See also Saterland Frisian Fjuur, West Frisian fjoer, Dutch vuur, Low German Füer, German Feuer, Danish fyr. Also, compare Hittite 𒉺𒄴𒄯 (paḫḫur), Umbrian pir, Tocharian A/B por/puwar, Czech pýř (“hot ashes”), Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”), and Armenian հուր (hur, “fire”). This was an inanimate noun whose animate counterpart was Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnis (see ignite). Cognate to pyre.

pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire

there may be snow on the mountaintop but there's fire in the valley

there may be snow on the rooftop but there is fire in the furnace

you don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke the fire

you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire

(uncountable, alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.


creationism

creationism (usually uncountable, plural creationisms)

the preservation of the race of man is made to grow out of that quickening impulse, which we call the life of humanity. This notion, which was called Traducianism by the schoolmen (the system opposed to it being termed Creatianism ^([sic]))

1848, Robert Wilberforce, The Doctrine of the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, in its relation to Mankind and to the Church:

(theology) The Abrahamic doctrine that each individual human soul is created by God, as opposed to traducianism.


wind

wind (countable and uncountable, plural winds)

Tok Pisin: win

Torres Strait Creole: win

From Middle English wynd, wind, from Old English wind (“wind”), from Proto-West Germanic *wind, from Proto-Germanic *windaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥tos (“wind”), from earlier *h₂wéh₁n̥ts (“wind”), derived from the present participle of *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch wind, German Wind, West Frisian wyn, Norwegian and Swedish vind, Icelandic vindur, Latin ventus, Welsh gwynt, Sanskrit वात (vā́ta), Russian ве́тер (véter), perhaps Albanian bundë (“strong damp wind”). Doublet of athlete, vent, weather and nirvana.

it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good

you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

(philosophy, alchemy) One of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans; air.


mole

From Middle English molle (“mole”), molde, mole, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *mulaz, *mulhaz (“mole, salamander”), from Proto-Indo-European *molg-, *molk- (“slug, salamander”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)melw- (“to grind, crush, beat”).
Cognate with North Frisian mull (“mole”), Saterland Frisian molle (“mole”), Dutch mol (“mole”), Low German Mol, Mul (“mole”), German Molch (“salamander, newt”), Old Russian смолжь (smolžʹ, “snail”), Czech mlž (“clam”).
Derivation as an abbreviation of Middle English molewarpe, a variation of moldewarpe, moldwerp (“mole”) in Middle English is unexplained and probably unlikely due to the simultaneous occurrence of both words. See mouldwarp.

der

(espionage) An internal spy, a person who involves themself with an enemy organisation, especially an intelligence or governmental organisation, to determine and betray its secrets from within.


tail

Sranan Tongo: tere

From Middle English tail, tayl, teil, from Old English tæġl (“tail”), from Proto-West Germanic *tagl, from Proto-Germanic *taglą (“hair, fiber; hair of a tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ- (“hair of the tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to tear, fray, shred”). Cognate with Scots tail (“tail”), Saterland Frisian Tail (“tail, end”), West Frisian teil (“tail”), Dutch teil (“tail, haulm, blade”), Low German Tagel (“twisted scourge, whip of thongs and ropes; end of a rope”), German Zagel (“tail”), dialectal Danish tavl (“hair of the tail”), Swedish tagel (“hair of the tail, horsehair”), Norwegian tagl (“tail”), Icelandic tagl (“tail, horsetail, ponytail”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐌻 (tagl, “hair”). In some senses, apparently by a generalization of the usual opposition between head and tail.

cog

have the world by the tail on a downhill pull

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails

the cow knows not the worth of its tail till it loses it

trust someone as far as one could fling a bull by the tail


instrumentalist

(philosophy) An adherent of instrumentalism.


heart

en-noun

heart (countable and uncountable, plural hearts)

Torres Strait Creole: at

→ Bengali: হার্ট (harṭ)

→ Cantonese: heart

→ Cebuano: Heart

→ Irish: hart

→ Japanese: ハート (hāto); ハツ (hatsu) (from hearts)

→ Korean: 하트 (hateu)

→ Tagalog: Heart

PIE word
 *ḱḗr
From Middle English herte, from Old English heorte (“heart”), from Proto-West Germanic *hertā, from Proto-Germanic *hertô (“heart”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱérd (“heart”). Doublet of cardia; see also core.
Most of the modern figurative senses (such as passion or compassion, spirit, inmost feelings, especially love, affection, and courage) were present in Old English. However, the meaning “center” dates from the early 14th century.
The verb sense “to love” is from the 1977 I ❤ NY advertising campaign.

the way to a man's heart is through his stomach

a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart

Upon his browes was pourtraid vgly death, / And in his eies the furies of his heart, / That ſhine as Comets, menacing reueng, / And caſts a pale complexion on his cheeks.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii:

Calm and deep peace in this wide air,
These leaves that redden to the fall;
And in my heart, if calm at all,
If any calm, a calm despair: […]

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XI:

The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality.

قَلْب

seat of affections, understanding or will


wire

wire (countable and uncountable, plural wires)

→ Gulf Arabic: واير (wāyir)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: vaier, wire

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: vaier, wire

→ Swedish: vajer, wire

From Middle English wir, wyr, from Old English wīr (“wire, metal thread, wire-ornament”), from Proto-Germanic *wīraz (“wire”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁iros (“a twist, thread, cord, wire”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait”).

score string

object used to keep the score in billiards

(slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.

Wanze

slang: hidden listening device on the person


mash

en-verb

mash (third-person singular simple present mashes, present participle mashing, simple past and past participle mashed)

mashes (present singular third-person)
mashing (participle present)
mashed (participle past)
mashed (past)

Either by analogy with mash (“to press, to soften”), or more likely from Romani masha (“a fascinator, an enticer”), mashdva (“fascination, enticement”). Originally used in theater, and recorded in US in 1870s. Either originally used as mash, or a backformation from masher, from masha. Leland writes of the etymology:
: It was introduced by the well-known gypsy family of actors, C., among whom Romany was habitually spoken. The word “masher” or “mash” means in that tongue to allure, delude, or entice. It was doubtless much aided in its popularity by its quasi-identity with the English word. But there can be no doubt as to the gypsy origin of “mash” as used on the stage. I am indebted for this information to the late well-known impresario [Albert Marshall] Palmer of New York, and I made a note of it years before the term had become at all popular.

der

To flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.


偽

/ŋui/ → /ɡwi/ → /ɡi/
From Middle Chinese 僞 (MC ngjweH).

(logic) a false statement (usually based without facts)


homosexual

homosexual (absolutive indefinite)
homosexuala (absolutive indefinite singular)
homosexualak (absolutive indefinite plural)
homosexualek (ergative indefinite)
homosexualak (ergative indefinite singular)
homosexualek (ergative indefinite plural)
homosexuali (dative indefinite)
homosexualari (dative indefinite singular)
homosexualei (dative indefinite plural)
homosexualen (genitive indefinite)
homosexualaren (genitive indefinite singular)
homosexualen (genitive indefinite plural)
homosexualekin (comitative indefinite)
homosexualarekin (comitative indefinite singular)
homosexualekin (comitative indefinite plural)
homosexualengatik (causative indefinite)
homosexualarengatik (causative indefinite singular)
homosexualengatik (causative indefinite plural)
homosexualentzat (benefactive indefinite)
homosexualarentzat (benefactive indefinite singular)
homosexualentzat (benefactive indefinite plural)
homosexualez (indefinite instrumental)
homosexualaz (indefinite instrumental singular)
homosexualez (indefinite instrumental plural)
homosexualetan (indefinite inessive)
homosexualean (indefinite inessive singular)
homosexualetan (indefinite inessive plural)
homosexualetako (indefinite locative)
homosexualeko (indefinite locative singular)
homosexualetako (indefinite locative plural)
homosexualetara (allative indefinite)
homosexualera (allative indefinite singular)
homosexualetara (allative indefinite plural)
homosexualetaraino (indefinite terminative)
homosexualeraino (indefinite singular terminative)
homosexualetaraino (indefinite plural terminative)
homosexualetarantz (directive indefinite)
homosexualerantz (directive indefinite singular)
homosexualetarantz (directive indefinite plural)
homosexualetarako (destinative indefinite)
homosexualerako (destinative indefinite singular)
homosexualetarako (destinative indefinite plural)
homosexualetatik (ablative indefinite)
homosexualetik (ablative indefinite singular)
homosexualetatik (ablative indefinite plural)
homosexualik (indefinite partitive)
homosexualtzat (indefinite prolative)


homosexual

ca-adj

homosexual m or f (masculine and feminine plural homosexuals)


homosexual

ca-noun

homosexual m or f by sense (plural homosexuals)


homosexual

O comportamento homosexual obsérvase con frecuencia entre os mamíferos.

Homosexual behaviour is frequently observed among mammals.


homosexual

gl-noun

homosexual m or f by sense (plural homosexuais)


homosexual

es-adj

homosexual m or f (masculine and feminine plural homosexuales)

homosexuales (feminine masculine plural)

El comportamiento homosexual se observa con frecuencia entre los mamíferos.


homosexual

es-noun

homosexual m or f by sense (plural homosexuales)


reason

en-noun

reason (countable and uncountable, plural reasons)

From Middle English resoun, reson, from Anglo-Norman raisun (Old French raison), from Latin ratiō, from ratus, past participle of reor (“reckon”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂reh₁- (“to think”), reanalysed root of *h₂er- (“to put together”). Doublet of ration and ratio.

der

The reason this tree fell is that it had rotted.

There is a reason why so many should be symmetrical: The selective advantage in a symmetrical complex is enjoyed by all the subunits[…]

1996, Daniel Clement Dennett, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, page 198:

That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.

(logic) A premise placed after its conclusion.

A cause:
A premise placed after its conclusion.


evil

en-noun

evil (countable and uncountable, plural evils)

From Middle English yvel, evel, ivel, uvel, from Old English yfel, from Proto-West Germanic *ubil, from Proto-Germanic *ubilaz (compare Saterland Frisian eeuwel, Dutch euvel, Low German övel, German übel, Gothic 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌻𐍃 (ubils, “bad, evil”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂up(h₁)élos, a deverbal derivative of *h₂wep(h₁)-, *h₂wop(h₁)- (“treat badly”). Compare Old Irish fel (“bad, evil”), from Proto-Celtic *uɸelos, and Hittite 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒍣 (huwapp-ⁱ, “to mistreat, harass”), 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒉺𒀸 (huwappa-, “evil, badness”). See -le for the supposed suffix.
Alternatively from *upélos (“evil”, literally “going over or beyond (acceptable limits)”), from Proto-Indo-European *upo, *h₃ewp- (“down, up, over”).

cog

sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

the love of money is the root of all evil

The evils of society include murder and theft.

Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control.

The heart of the sons of men is full of evil.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ecclesiastes 9:3:

The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

IS ANYTHING more obvious than the presence of evil in the universe? Its nagging, prehensile tentacles project into every level of human existence. We may debate the origin of evil, but only a victim of superficial optimism would debate its reality. Evil is stark, grim, and colossally real.

1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., “The Death of Evil upon the Seashore”, in Strength to Love, New York: Pocket Books, published 1964, →OCLC, page 71:

Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.


mark

→ Bengali: মার্কা (marka)

→ Cantonese: 嘜／唛 (mak¹, maak¹)

→ Japanese: マーク (māku)

→ Korean: 마크 (makeu)

From Middle English mark, merk, merke, from Old English mearc (“mark, sign, line of division; standard; boundary, limit, term, border; defined area, district, province”), from Proto-West Germanic *marku, from Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary; boundary marker”), from Proto-Indo-European *marǵ- (“edge, boundary, border”).
Compare march.
cognates
* Dutch mark, merk (“mark, brand”)
* German Mark (“mark; borderland”), Marke (“brand”)
* Swedish mark (“mark, land, territory”)
* Icelandic mark (“mark, sign”)
* Latin margo (“edge, margin”)
* Persian مرز (marz, “limit, boundary”)
* Sanskrit मर्या (maryā, “limit, mark, boundary”), मार्ग (mārga, “mark, section”).

cog

(heading) Indicator of position, objective etc.

(logic) A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential.


e

Guinea-Bissau Creole: i, e

Indo-Portuguese: e

Kabuverdianu: y, i, e

Papiamentu: i, y

From Old Galician-Portuguese e (“and”), from Latin et (“and”), from Proto-Indo-European *éti.

Verdadeiro e falso dá falso.

(logic) and (indicates a conjunction operation)


孝

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 耂 (“an old man with long hair, bent over”) + 子 (“a child”) – an old man and a child, filial piety between generations. Compare top component to 老 (OC *ruːʔ, “old”).

孝義

devotion to one's parents and loyalty to one's friends

(Southern Min) to offer up sacrifices (to gods or ancestors)


彎

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (彎):
* → Japanese: 彎(わん) (wan)
* → Korean: 만(彎) (man)
* → Vietnamese: loan (彎)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qroːn): semantic 弓 (“bow”) + phonetic 䜌 (OC *b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons).
May be cognate with 迂 (OC *qʷa, *qʷaʔ, *ɢʷa).
; “homosexual”

Han compound

Classifier for bent objects, such as a quarter moon.


essere

it-noun

essere m (plural esseri, diminutive (informal) esserìno, endearing esserùccio)

esseri (plural)
esserìno (diminutive informal)
esserùccio (endearing)

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin essere, from Latin esse. The past participle stato is from Latin stātus.

inh+

l’esserci

(uncountable, philosophy, followed by ci) existence


戀

Japanese: 恋 (こい, koi)

The 未然形 (mizenkei, “irrealis form”) and 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 戀ふ (ko₁pu, “to love, yearn”).

, text here
八百日徃濱之沙毛吾戀二豈不益歟奥嶋守
yapoka yuku hama no₂ manago₁ no₂ aga ko₁pi₂ ni ani masarazi oki₁ tu simamori
On so vast a shore―that one could walk eight hundred days―would the grains of sand number greater than my love, o guardian of the outer isles?


或

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (或):
* → Vietnamese: hoặc (或)

Characters in the same phonetic series (或) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 戈 (“dagger-axe (used to defend the territory)”) + 囗 (“city wall”) + 一, “territory”. The most ancient version is 戓, then modified into 或; the stroke was added perhaps when the pronounciation of the character evolved.
Borrowed for abstract meanings. The derivative 國 (OC *kʷɯːɡ), 域 (OC *ɢʷrɯɡ), and perhaps 淢 refer to the original word. The last character can be seen in the ancient name of the Han river, 㵄.
或 (OC *ɡʷɯːɡ, “someone; some”) is the result of the distributive suffix *-k being added to 有 (OC *ɢʷɯʔ, “there is”).
Cognate with 又 (OC *ɢʷɯs, “again”) (Schuessler, 2007).


postulate

From Medieval Latin postulāt- (“asked”), from the verb postulāre (“to ask”), from Latin postulō (“request”).


derive

en-verb

derive (third-person singular simple present derives, present participle deriving, simple past and past participle derived)

derives (present singular third-person)
deriving (participle present)
derived (participle past)
derived (past)

From Middle English deriven, from Old French deriver, from Latin dērīvō (“to lead, turn, or draw off (a liquid), draw off, derive”), from dē (“away”) + rīvus (“a stream”); see rival. Unrelated to arrive.

der

(transitive, logic) To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning.


context

en-noun

context (countable and uncountable, plural contexts)

(logic) For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.


氣

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (氣):
* → Japanese: 気(き) (ki)
* → Korean: 기(氣) (gi)
* → Vietnamese: khí (氣)

→ English: chi, qi, ki

→ Finnish: ki

/t͡ɕʰiə̯ɻ⁵¹/

/t͡ɕʰiə̯ɻ⁵¹/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰɯds, *qʰɯds): phonetic 气 (OC *kʰɯds) + semantic 米 (“rice”) – to give rice as a gift.
Later borrowed meanings of “air, flow” from 气 (OC *kʰɯds). The derivative 餼 (OC *qʰɯds) refers to the original word. Compare 乞 (OC *kʰɯds, *kʰɯd).

Han compound

气
气
炁
𣱛
𣱖
𤽍
𣅠
㫓
*暣
気

元氣

元气

氣虛

气虚

traditional Chinese medicine
traditional Chinese medicine

(Chinese philosophy, traditional Chinese medicine) qi; vital energy; life force


impassible

en-adj

impassible (comparative more impassible, superlative most impassible)

more impassible (comparative)
most impassible (superlative)

(chiefly theology) Unable to suffer, or feel pain.


queer

queer (comparative queerer, superlative queerest)

queerer (comparative)
queerest (superlative)

→ German: queer, Queer

→ Russian: квир (kvir)

→ Swedish: queer

Attested since about 1510, at first in Scots. Usually taken to be from Middle Low German (Brunswick dialect) queer (“oblique, off-center”) or the related German quer (“diagonal”), from Old Saxon thwerh, from Proto-West Germanic *þwerh, from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn, twist, wind”); compare Latin torqueō, and see more at thwart. The OED argues against this due to the semantic differences and the date at which the word appears in Scots.
Began to be used to describe gay people in the late 1800s, see usage notes for more.

der

An old long-faced, long-bodied servant, gave a queer look

1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC:

“I wish I hadn’t cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. “I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer to-day.”

1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “The Pool of Tears”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, pages 23–24:

One thing has struck me as a bit queer. During my two terms of office the whole Democratic press, and the morbidly honest and 'reformatory' portion of the Republican press, thought it horrible to keep U.S. troops stationed in the Southern States, and when they were called upon to protect the lives of negroes–as much citizens under the Constitution as if their skins were white–the country was scarcely large enough to hold the sound of indignation belched forth by them for some years. Now, however, there is no hesitation about exhausting the whole power of the government to suppress a strike on the slightest intimation that danger threatens.

1877, Ulysses S. Grant, The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant: November 1, 1876-September 30, 1878, page 252:

It looked queer to me to see boxes labeled "His Excellency, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America." The packages so labeled contained Bass ale or Cognac brandy, which cost "His Excellency" less than we Yankees had to pay for it. Think of the President drinking imported liquors while his soldiers were living on pop-corn and water!

1885, David Dixon Porter, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War, page 274:

Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

“’Tis a queer book - here, leave me git on my spectacles - ” The old man fumbled among his rags, producing a pair of dirty and amazingly antique glasses (...)

1920, H. P. Lovecraft, w:The Picture in the House:

1927, J. B. S. Haldane, “Possible Worlds” in Possible Worlds and Other Papers, London: Chatto & Windus,
Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

A queer look came over John Arable's face. He seemed almost ready to cry himself.

1952, E. B. White, Charlotte's Web, page 3:

Though it may seem very queer,
we've got no jobs to give you here,
so we are sending you to Vietnam.

1965, “Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation”, Tom Paxton (lyrics), Tom Paxton (music):

(dated outside Ireland, Scotland and England) Weird, odd, or different; whimsical.


queer

(colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.

janet

slang: person of atypical sexuality or sexual identity


queer

en-verb

queer (third-person singular simple present queers, present participle queering, simple past and past participle queered)

queers (present singular third-person)
queering (participle present)
queered (participle past)
queered (past)

If I go, for instance, to the history of the church in Latin America, and decide to queer the history of the Jesuitic Missions, I may find that, in many ways, the missions were more sexual than Christian.

2003, Marcella Althaus-Reid, The Queer God, page 9:

Jonathan Goldberg further explores the implications of queering history in his essay in the same volume.

2006, Carla Freccero, Queer/Early/Modern, page 80:

We might say that there has been a ‘queering’ of urban studies insofar as the metropolitan lives, subcultures and social movements of gays and lesbians are now seen as valid objects of study.

2013, Mark Davidson, Deborah Martin, chapter 8, in Urban Politics: Critical Approaches, SAGE, →ISBN:

(social sciences) To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.


queer

queer (not conforming to traditional sexuality)


直

desc

→ Old Turkic: tik (vertical, straight, straightforward)

Oghuz: دیك

Azerbaijani: dik

Turkish: dik

Turkmen: dik

Turkmen: dikan (honest, straight, direct)

Oracle bone script: Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 目 (“eye”) + 丨 (“vertical stroke”) – vertical stroke above the eye; looking straight ahead. Then, a black dot was drawn inside the vertical stroke and this point later became a horizontal stroke (hence getting a shape similar to 十).
The line on the side appears in bronze script and subsequently stretched under the 目 shape, while the traditional form appears in seal script.
A conservative version is used inside the character 𢛳 (> 德), while the modern version is used inside its variant 惪. Unrelated to 具 and 真.
; "simply; only"
; "straight; right"
; “heterosexual”

Han compound

順直／顺直 ― shùnzhí ― cishet


Platonic

en-adj

Platonic (comparative more Platonic, superlative most Platonic)

more Platonic (comparative)
most Platonic (superlative)

From Latin Platōnicus. By surface analysis, Plato + -n- (intervocalic) + -ic (“relating to”).

surf

Of or relating to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato or his philosophies.

The homosexual dismisses heterosexual love as a distasteful bondage to normalcy and bourgeois domestication, but the Platonic lover of the soul is dismissing all sexuality as bondage to the physical world.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 193:

Alternative letter-case form of platonic (non-sexual).


Platonic

A Platonist; a follower of Plato's ideas.


罪

/t͡su̯eɪ̯⁵¹/

/t͡su̯eɪ̯⁵¹/

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 罒 (“net”) + 非 (“mistake”). The original version is 𦋛 and its original meaning was a net for fishing, then used instead of 辠 due to the similarity of the latter character to 皇, which represents the Emperor.
Unclear. Possibly of Sino-Tibetan origin and cognate with Mizo sual (“(adj.) bad, evil, vile, corrupt; (v. tr.) (to attempt) to criminally assault, to rape (a woman)”) (Schuessler, 2007).


與

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *la, *laʔ, *las): phonetic 舁 (OC *la, “raised hands”) + phonetic 牙 (OC *ŋraː). Both components are phonetic. The closest version to the original is 𦥸.
; "to be with; to associate with"
; "to give"

Han compound

与
𠔔
𠔜
𦥸
𦦲
𫝌
𫟋
𫤰
𭁇
𭁈
𭁉
𭁕
𮍫
𮍬
𮍭
𮍰


NSA

National Security Agency
w:en:National Security Agency

National Surveillance Agency
w:en:National Security Agency

(government, US) Initialism of National Security Agency.

(government, US, humorous) Initialism of National Surveillance Agency.

(government, US, humorous, nickname) Initialism of No Such Agency.

Initialism of National Security Agency.
Initialism of No Such Agency.

Alternative forms: N.S.A., N. S. A.


philia

en-noun

philia (countable and uncountable, plural philias)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek φιλία (philía).


cop

* (cop): Borrowed from English cop.
* (friend): Clipping of copain.


arity

arity (countable and uncountable, plural arities)

From -ary (taken from unary/binary/ternary [function/operator]) + -ity. Compare adicity and adinity.

(logic, mathematics, computer science) The number of arguments or operands a function or operation takes. For a relation, the number of domains in the corresponding Cartesian product.


polygyny

polygyny (countable and uncountable, plural polygynies)

From Ancient Greek πολύ (polú, “many”) + γυνή (gunḗ, “woman, wife”). By surface analysis, poly- + -gyny.

We may infer that in most cases where polygyny exists, monogamy co-exists to a greater extent, and in all other cases to a considerable extent.

1883, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Sociology, page 685:

The state or practice of having several wives at the same time; plurality of wives; marriage to several wives.


burden of proof

burden of proof (plural burdens of proof)

(epistemology) The obligation of the person making a claim in a dispute to provide sufficient evidence for their position.

التزام بتقديم الدليل

obligation of the person making a claim to provide evidence for their position

証拠を提示する義務

しょうこをていじするぎむ


逆

ja-adj

逆(ぎゃく) • (gyaku) -na (adnominal 逆(ぎゃく)な (gyaku na), adverbial 逆(ぎゃく)に (gyaku ni))

逆 (canonical)
gyaku (romanization)
逆な (adnominal)
逆に (adverbial)
逆だろ (imperfective stem)
ぎゃくだろ (imperfective stem)
gyaku daro (imperfective)
逆で (continuative stem)
ぎゃくで (continuative stem)
gyaku de (continuative)
逆だ (stem terminative)
ぎゃくだ (stem terminative)
gyaku da (terminative)
逆な (attributive stem)
ぎゃくな (attributive stem)
gyaku na (attributive)
逆なら (hypothetical stem)
ぎゃくなら (hypothetical stem)
gyaku nara (hypothetical)
逆であれ (imperative stem)
ぎゃくであれ (imperative stem)
gyaku de are (imperative)
逆ではない (informal negative)
逆じゃない (informal negative)
ぎゃくではない (informal negative)
ぎゃくじゃない (informal negative)
gyaku de wa nai (informal negative)
gyaku ja nai (informal negative)
逆だった (informal past)
ぎゃくだった (informal past)
gyaku datta (informal past)
逆ではなかった (informal negative past)
逆じゃなかった (informal negative past)
ぎゃくではなかった (informal negative past)
ぎゃくじゃなかった (informal negative past)
gyaku de wa nakatta (informal negative past)
gyaku ja nakatta (informal negative past)
逆です (formal)
ぎゃくです (formal)
gyaku desu (formal)
逆ではありません (formal negative)
逆じゃありません (formal negative)
ぎゃくではありません (formal negative)
ぎゃくじゃありません (formal negative)
gyaku de wa arimasen (formal negative)
gyaku ja arimasen (formal negative)
逆でした (formal past)
ぎゃくでした (formal past)
gyaku deshita (formal past)
逆ではありませんでした (formal negative past)
逆じゃありませんでした (formal negative past)
ぎゃくではありませんでした (formal negative past)
ぎゃくじゃありませんでした (formal negative past)
gyaku de wa arimasen deshita (formal negative past)
gyaku ja arimasen deshita (formal negative past)
逆で (conjunctive)
ぎゃくで (conjunctive)
gyaku de (conjunctive)
逆なら（ば） (conditional)
ぎゃくなら（ば） (conditional)
gyaku nara (ba) (conditional)
逆だったら (conditional past)
ぎゃくだったら (conditional past)
gyaku dattara (conditional past)
逆だろう (volitional)
ぎゃくだろう (volitional)
gyaku darō (volitional)
逆に (adverbial)
ぎゃくに (adverbial)
gyaku ni (adverbial)
逆さ (noun-from-adj)
ぎゃくさ (noun-from-adj)
gyakusa (noun-from-adj)

ja-adj-infl

逆

. で は ありません でした

. じゃ ありません でした


sphere

From Middle English spere, from Old French sphere, from Late Latin sphēra, earlier Latin sphaera (“ball, globe, celestial sphere”), from Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “ball, globe”), of unknown origin. Not related to superficially similar Persian سپهر (sepehr, “sky”) .

uder

In point of fact, so often as we think a subject as partially included within the sphere of a predicate, eo ipso we think it as partially, that is, particularly, excluded therefrom.

a. 1856, William Hamilton, “Appendix III: Quantification of Predicate,—Immediate Inference,—Conversion,—Opposition”, in Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic, volume 2, published 1860, page 526:

All categorical propositions necessarily imply the existence of their subjects in the appropriate sphere; in affirmative propositions this involves the existence of the predicate in the same sphere; but in negative propositions the predicate does not necessarily exist in that particular sphere, though it does in some sphere.

1896, James Welton, A Manual of Logic, 2nd edition, volume 1, page 213:

Finally, the disjunctive judgment contains a relation of two or more propositions to each other—a relation not of consequence, but of logical opposition, in so far as the sphere of the one proposition excludes that of the other.

1900 [1781], Immanuel Kant, translated by J. M. D. Meiklejohn, Critique of Pure Reason, page 58:

(logic, dated) The domain of reference of a proposition, subject, or predicate, or the totality of the particular subjects to which it applies.


grue

Blend of green + blue. The philosophy sense was coined by American philosopher Nelson Goodman in 1955 to illustrate concepts in the philosophy of science. The linguistic sense was coined by American linguist Paul Kay in 1975 as a translation from languages such as Welsh that have a basic cover term that covers both the hues called "green" and "blue" in English.

coinage

The grue property is defined as: x is grue if and only if x is green and is observed before the year 2000, or x is blue and is not observed before the year 2000.

1965, Nelson Goodman, Fact, Fiction and Forecast:

The unexamined emeralds cannot be both green and grue, since if they are grue and unexamined they are blue.

2007, Michael Clark, Paradoxes from A to Z:

(philosophy) Of an object, green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time.

bloen

philosophy: of an object that is first green, then blue


idea

en-noun

idea (plural ideas or (philosophy, rare) ideæ)

→ Japanese: アイディア (aidia), アイデア (aidea)

Borrowed from Latin idea (“a (Platonic) idea; archetype”), from Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from εἴδω (eídō, “I see”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know; see”). Cognate with French idée. Doublet of idée. Related to idol, idolum, and eidolon.

der

The idea that the same experiments always get the same results, no matter who performs them, is one of the cornerstones of science’s claim to objective truth. If a systematic campaign of replication does not lead to the same results, then either the original research is flawed (as the replicators claim) or the replications are (as many of the original researchers on priming contend). Either way, something is awry.

2013 October 19, “Trouble at the lab”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8858:

(philosophy) An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples.

иде́я

philosophy: abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect


idea

ideák (plural)
idea (nominative singular)
ideák (nominative plural)
ideát (accusative singular)
ideákat (accusative plural)
ideának (dative singular)
ideáknak (dative plural)
ideával (instrumental singular)
ideákkal (instrumental plural)
ideáért (causal-final singular)
ideákért (causal-final plural)
ideává (singular translative)
ideákká (plural translative)
ideáig (singular terminative)
ideákig (plural terminative)
ideaként (essive-formal singular)
ideákként (essive-formal plural)
ideában (inessive singular)
ideákban (inessive plural)
ideán (singular superessive)
ideákon (plural superessive)
ideánál (adessive singular)
ideáknál (adessive plural)
ideába (illative singular)
ideákba (illative plural)
ideára (singular sublative)
ideákra (plural sublative)
ideához (allative singular)
ideákhoz (allative plural)
ideából (elative singular)
ideákból (elative plural)
ideáról (delative singular)
ideákról (delative plural)
ideától (ablative singular)
ideáktól (ablative plural)
ideáé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
ideáké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
ideáéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
ideákéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
ideám (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
ideáim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
ideád (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
ideáid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
ideája (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
ideái (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
ideánk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
ideáink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
ideátok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
ideáitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
ideájuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
ideáik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

Borrowed from Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa, “notion, pattern”).


idea

idejka (diminutive)
idea (nominative singular)
idee (nominative plural)
idei (genitive singular)
idei (genitive plural)
idei (dative singular)
ideom (dative plural)
ideę (accusative singular)
idee (accusative plural)
ideą (instrumental singular)
ideami (instrumental plural)
idei (locative singular)
ideach (locative plural)
ideo (singular vocative)
idee (plural vocative)

(philosophy) idea (abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect)


fe

Inherited from Old Spanish fe, fee, from Latin fidēs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, to persuade, to trust”).


非

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (非):
* → Japanese: 非(ひ) (hi)
* → Korean: 비(非) (bi)
* → Vietnamese: phi (非)

Characters in the same phonetic series (非) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Pictogram (象形) - two wings facing opposite directions. Originally, it represented wings; then, according to Xu Shen, its meaning changed into "leave; disobey" (違). Eventually, it was used perhaps as a phonetic loan to mean "not to be".
Unrelated to the Kangxi radical 韭.
非 (OC *pɯj) is the fusion of the negation particle 不 (OC *pɯ, *pɯʔ, *pɯ', “not”) and the copula 惟 (OC *ɢʷi, “to be”), attested in oracle bone inscriptions.
;“to have got to”


atom

→ Swahili: atomi

From Middle English attome, from Middle French athome, from Latin atomus (“smallest particle”), from Ancient Greek ἄτομος (átomos, “indivisible”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”). Atoms are so named because historically the notion was that they were indivisible, given that chemically they are indeed so; the splitting of atoms awaited a later era of science and technology, and nonchemical means.

atoom

historical: theoretical particle of matter

atom

mathematics: member of a Boolean algebra

बूलियन बिजगणितीय प्रणालीतील एक घटक

(philosophy) In logical atomism, a fundamental fact that cannot be further broken down.


行

行: Hán Việt readings: hàng (canonical)
hành (canonical)
hãng (canonical)
hạng (canonical)
hạnh 行: Nôm readings: hàng (canonical)
hăng (canonical)
ngành (canonical)


陽

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (陽):
* → Japanese: 陽(よう) (yō)
* → Korean: 양(陽) (yang)
* → Vietnamese: dương (陽)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *laŋ) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): semantic 阜 (“hill”) + phonetic 昜 (OC *laŋ, “sunshine”) – sun shining on a hill.
Either Sino-Tibetan or a Mainland Southeast Asian (MSEA) Wanderwort; compare Burmese လင်း (lang:, “bright”), Lepcha ᰣᰦᰜᰩᰵ (a-lóṅ, “reflective light”), Thai ปลั่ง (bplàng, “bright; shiny”) (Schuessler, 2007).
STEDT provisionally sets up Proto-Kuki-Chin *klaaŋ-I, klaan-II (“shine; light; bright”) and compares it to the following:
* 陽 (OC *laŋ, “sunshine”)
* 景 (OC *kraŋʔ, “bright; scenery”)
* 鏡 (OC *kraŋs, “mirror”)
* 亮 (OC *raŋs, “bright”)
* 章 (OC *kjaŋ, “brilliant, splendid; rule; emblem; display (v.)”)

och-l

阳
𣆄
氜
阦
𨹈
𥌖
𨼗
𨼘
𨼡
𨽐
羊

(philosophy) “male” principle; yang in yin-yang


陰

→ Proto-Tai: *rɤmᴮ (“shade”)

desc

Thai: ร่ม (rôm, “shade, umbrella, parachute”)

According to Shuowen, a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qrɯm): semantic 阜 + phonetic 侌 ().
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r(u/i)m (“dark; shade; dusk; twilight”); compare Tibetan རུམ (rum, “darkness”), Jingpho rim (“to be dusk”) (Benedict, 1972; Bodman, 1980; STEDT).
Schuessler (2007) compares it instead to Burmese အုံ့ (um., “to become overcast”), Adi mugyum (“shade; shadow”), Lepcha ᰠᰨᰌᰤᰪᰮ (so-dyŭm, “shade”).

cog

阴
侌
𠊺
𣍤
𤽎
阥
𨹉
隂
𨻔
𨼖
𨽙
𨽭
𨹩
𩃬
𣱙
𢉩
𠆭

(philosophy) "female" principle; yin in yin-yang


門

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (門):
* → Japanese: 門(もん) (mon)
* → Korean: 문(門) (mun)
* → Vietnamese: môn (門)

Wutunhua: men

Characters in the same phonetic series (門) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Pictogram (象形): a gate. Compare 戶 (OC *ɡʷaːʔ, “(one) door”), which is half of this character (𠁣).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-muːr (“mouth; lip; to hold in mouth; to chew; face; gills”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan མུར་བ (mur ba, “to masticate”), Tibetan མུར་འགྲམ (mur 'gram, “jawbone; cheek”), Mizo hmûi (“lips; upper lip”) and 吻 (OC *mɯnʔ, “lips; corner of the lips”).
; “-gate”


道

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (道):
* → Japanese: 道(どう) (dō)
* → Korean: 도(道) (do)
* → Vietnamese: đạo (道)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'uːʔ): semantic 辵 (“walking”) + phonetic 首 (OC *hljuʔ, *hljus).
Possibly derived from 導 (OC *duːs, “to go along, to bring along, to conduct”):
* > "to explain" > "to talk about", and
* > "road, way".
Possibly cognate with Proto-Hmong-Mien *kləuX (“road, way”) (White Hmong kev (“road”)). See also 首 (OC *hljuʔ, *hljus).

och-l

噵
衜
衟
𡬹
𨔞
𨕐
𨕥
𨖁
𨗓

The Way that can be told is not the constant Way. The name that can be named is not the constant name.

Dào kě dào, fēi cháng dào. Míng kě míng, fēi cháng míng.

道可道，非常道。名可名，非常名。

(philosophy, Taoism) the Way; the Tao; the Dao: the way of nature and/or the ideal way to live one's life


SO

second-order logic
second-order logic#English

(logic, computer science) Initialism of second-order logic.


crazy

en-adj

crazy (comparative crazier, superlative craziest)

crazier (comparative)
craziest (superlative)

Why is she so crazy about him?

In love; experiencing romantic feelings.


li

(Chinese philosophy) A meaningful ceremony or ritual; etiquette, behaviour.


macrocosm

From Middle French macrocosme (from Old French macrocosme) and Medieval Latin macrocosmus, formed from Ancient Greek μακρός (makrós, “great, long”) + κόσμος (kósmos, “universe, order”).

der

(philosophy) A complex structure, such as a society, considered as a single entity that contains numerous similar, smaller-scale structures.

大宇宙

a complex structure containing numerous smaller-scale structures


verifiable

(logic) A statement or observation that can be verified.


universal

From Middle English universal, from Old French universal (modern French universel), from Latin ūniversālis.

When we examine common words, we find that, broadly speaking, proper names stand for particulars, while other substantives, adjectives, prepositions, and verbs stand for universals.

1912, Bertrand Russel, The Problems of Philosophy, Chapter 9:

We might also distinguish those expressions which are used to refer to individuals or particulars from those which are used to refer to what philosophers have called universals: e.g., to distinguish such expressions as "Everest" and "this chair" from "the number three", "the color red" and "drunkenness".

Empiricism was similarly a response to this loss of universals—a radically contingent world with no underlying order must constantly be studied and tested—and made God himself unnecessary: divine spirit and human spirit were alien enough to each other that they could function without taking each other into account.

2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, chapter 11, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […] , →ISBN:

(philosophy) A characteristic or property that particular things have in common.


universal

English: universal

From Old French universel, from Latin ūniversālis; equivalent to universe + -al.

(Late Middle English, philosophy, rare) unformed, uncreated, unmade.

(Late Middle English, philosophy, rare) theoretical, abstract, general.


universal

English: universal

(Late Middle English, philosophy, rare) A category, class, or classification.


eu

From Old Galician-Portuguese eu, from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆. Doublet of ego.

(chiefly philosophy) ego; self (individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness)


Boolean

From Boole + -ean, named after English mathematician, philosopher and logician George Boole (1815–1864).

named-after

Oh, Boolean operators! "Blue and ones"! Good idea!

2005 May 9, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Bug In Mouth Disease”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Sad (Matthew Chapman):

(logic, computing) Pertaining to data items that can have “true” and “false” (or, equivalently, 1 and 0 respectively) as their only possible values and to operations on such values.

booleà

logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”


Boolean

(logic, computing) A variable that can hold a single true/false (1/0) value.


accursed

en-adj

accursed (comparative more accursed, superlative most accursed)

more accursed (comparative)
most accursed (superlative)

* First attested in the early 13th century.
* From Middle English acursed, from acursen (“to curse”), from Old English ācursian, from ā + cursen, from curs (“curse”).

Accurſt be he that firſt inuented war

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iv:

[…]—if any one, be he who he may, attempt to alter the faith once for all delivered, let him be accursed.

1885, Charles Abel Heurtley, transl., The Commonitory of Vincent of Lérins, Chapter 8:

1912, Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, The Brothers Karamazov, Book III, Chapter 7,
For at the very moment I become accursed, at that same highest moment, I become exactly like a heathen […]

We did not come here to waste words in treating with Sauron, faithless and accursed; still less with one of his slaves. Begone!

1955, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, The Return of the King/Book V, Chapter 10

(theology) Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; anathematized.


sacrament

From Middle English sacrament, from Old French sacrement, from Ecclesiastical Latin sacrāmentum (“sacrament”), from Latin sacrō (“hallow, consecrate”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”), originally sum deposited by parties to a suit.

der

Coordinate term: ordinance

Priest: I'm sorry, it's Duncan Dirk Dick. I've just done it. / Father: Well, undo it. / Priest: Undo it? / Father: Yes. / Priest: This is a holy sacrament of the Church, not a bleeding hotel reservation. You can't just undo it.

1989 February 10, Stephen Fry et al., “Christening”, in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, season 1, episode 5:

(Christianity) A sacred act and the attendant ceremony, considered (theology) an outward sign of divine grace.