gul

gult (neuter)
gule (definite plural singular)
gulare (comparative)
gulast (indefinite superlative)
gulaste (definite superlative)

From Old Norse gulr, from Proto-Germanic *gulaz. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”).


gul

head

gul (comparative gulare, superlative gulast)

gulare (comparative)
gulast (superlative)
gul (common-gender indefinite positive singular)
gulare (common-gender comparative indefinite singular)
gulast (common-gender indefinite singular superlative)
gult (indefinite neuter positive singular)
gulare (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
gulast (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
gula (indefinite plural positive)
gulare (comparative indefinite plural)
gulast (indefinite plural superlative)
gule (archaic indefinite masculine plural positive)
gulare (archaic comparative indefinite masculine plural)
gulast (archaic indefinite masculine plural superlative)
gule (definite masculine positive singular)
gulare (comparative definite masculine singular)
gulaste (definite masculine singular superlative)
gula (definite positive)
gulare (comparative definite)
gulaste (definite superlative)

From Old Norse gulr, from Proto-Germanic *gulaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“to shine”).


tamarind

en-noun

tamarind (countable and uncountable, plural tamarinds)

From Late Middle English thamarynde, from Old French tamarinde, from Medieval Latin tamarindus, from Arabic تَمْر هِنْدِيّ (tamr hindiyy, literally “Indian date”).

der

تَمْر هِنْدِيّ

tamarind:

A dark brown colour, like that of tamarind pulp (also called tamarind brown).


greenish

en-adj

greenish (comparative more greenish, superlative most greenish)

more greenish (comparative)
most greenish (superlative)

From Middle English grenyssh, grenysch, equivalent to green + -ish.


licorice

en-noun

licorice (usually uncountable, plural licorices)

From Middle English lycorys, from Old French licoresse, from Late Latin liquiritia, alteration of Ancient Greek γλυκύρριζα (glukúrrhiza): γλυκύς (glukús, “sweet”) + ῥίζα (rhíza, “root”) (English glucose, English rhizome). Doublet of glycyrrhiza.

Glycyrrhiza glabra
Glycyrrhiza glabra#Translingual

(countable) A plant of species Glycyrrhiza glabra, or sometimes in North America, the related American licorice plant Glycyrrhiza lepidota.


marrone

Originally Tuscan, from Byzantine Greek μάραον (máraon, “sweet chestnut”), ultimately from Proto-Celtic *māros (“great”), referring to the size of the nut, related to Welsh mawr and Cimbrian môr, a borrowing.


marrone

→ French: marron (see there for further descendants)

→ German: Marone, Maroni


brun

fr-adj

brun (feminine brune, masculine plural bruns, feminine plural brunes)

brune (feminine)
bruns (masculine plural)
brunes (feminine plural)

→ Breton: brun

Louisiana Creole: brun

→ Romanian: brun

From Middle French, from Old French brun (“polished, shiny, brown”).


brun

From Old French brun (“polished, shiny, brown”).


brun

brun (feminine masculine)
brunt (neuter)
brune (definite plural singular)
brunere (comparative)
brunest (indefinite superlative)
bruneste (definite superlative)


brun

brunt (neuter)
brune (definite plural singular)
brunare (comparative)
brunast (indefinite superlative)
brunaste (definite superlative)


brun

brūn (canonical)
brūn (masculine nominative singular)
brūn (feminine nominative singular)
brūn (neuter nominative singular)
brūnne (accusative masculine singular)
brūne (accusative feminine singular)
brūn (accusative neuter singular)
brūnes (genitive masculine singular)
brūnre (feminine genitive singular)
brūnes (genitive neuter singular)
brūnum (dative masculine singular)
brūnre (dative feminine singular)
brūnum (dative neuter singular)
brūne (instrumental masculine singular)
brūnre (feminine instrumental singular)
brūne (instrumental neuter singular)
brūne (masculine nominative plural)
brūna (feminine nominative plural)
brūne (feminine nominative plural)
brūn (neuter nominative plural)
brūne (accusative masculine plural)
brūna (accusative feminine plural)
brūne (accusative feminine plural)
brūn (accusative neuter plural)
brūnra (genitive masculine plural)
brūnra (feminine genitive plural)
brūnra (genitive neuter plural)
brūnum (dative masculine plural)
brūnum (dative feminine plural)
brūnum (dative neuter plural)
brūnum (instrumental masculine plural)
brūnum (feminine instrumental plural)
brūnum (instrumental neuter plural)
brūna (masculine nominative singular)
brūne (feminine nominative singular)
brūne (neuter nominative singular)
brūnan (accusative masculine singular)
brūnan (accusative feminine singular)
brūne (accusative neuter singular)
brūnan (genitive masculine singular)
brūnan (feminine genitive singular)
brūnan (genitive neuter singular)
brūnan (dative masculine singular)
brūnan (dative feminine singular)
brūnan (dative neuter singular)
brūnan (instrumental masculine singular)
brūnan (feminine instrumental singular)
brūnan (instrumental neuter singular)
brūnan (masculine nominative plural)
brūnan (feminine nominative plural)
brūnan (neuter nominative plural)
brūnan (accusative masculine plural)
brūnan (accusative feminine plural)
brūnan (accusative neuter plural)
brūnra (genitive masculine plural)
brūnena (genitive masculine plural)
brūnra (feminine genitive plural)
brūnena (feminine genitive plural)
brūnra (genitive neuter plural)
brūnena (genitive neuter plural)
brūnum (dative masculine plural)
brūnum (dative feminine plural)
brūnum (dative neuter plural)
brūnum (instrumental masculine plural)
brūnum (feminine instrumental plural)
brūnum (instrumental neuter plural)

desctree

Middle English: broun, broyn, brown, brun, bruyn
English: brown
Bislama: braon
Tok Pisin: braun
→ Welsh: brown
→ Tongan: palauni
Geordie English: broon
Scots: broon, broun


brun

fro-noun

brun oblique singular, m (oblique plural bruns, nominative singular bruns, nominative plural brun)

brun oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
bruns (oblique plural)
bruns (nominative singular)
brun (nominative plural)
bruns (masculine singular subjective)
brune (feminine singular subjective)
brun (masculine oblique singular)
brune (feminine oblique singular)
brun (masculine plural subjective)
brunes (feminine plural subjective)
bruns (masculine oblique plural)
brunes (feminine oblique plural)

From Late Latin brunus (attested in Isidore of Seville), from Frankish *brūn (“brown, dark, shiny”), from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz (“brown”).


brun

ro-adj

brun m or n (feminine singular brună, masculine plural bruni, feminine and neuter plural brune)

brună (feminine singular)
bruni (masculine plural)
brune (feminine neuter plural)
brun (accusative indefinite masculine neuter nominative singular)
brună (accusative feminine indefinite nominative singular)
bruni (accusative indefinite masculine nominative plural)
brune (accusative feminine indefinite neuter nominative plural)
brunul (accusative definite masculine neuter nominative singular)
bruna (accusative definite feminine nominative singular)
brunii (accusative definite masculine nominative plural)
brunele (accusative definite feminine neuter nominative plural)
brun (dative genitive indefinite masculine neuter singular)
brune (dative feminine genitive indefinite singular)
bruni (dative genitive indefinite masculine plural)
brune (dative feminine genitive indefinite neuter plural)
brunului (dative definite genitive masculine neuter singular)
brunei (dative definite feminine genitive singular)
brunelor (dative definite genitive masculine plural)
brunilor (dative definite feminine genitive neuter plural)


brun

head

brun (comparative brunare, superlative brunast)

brunare (comparative)
brunast (superlative)
brun (common-gender indefinite positive singular)
brunare (common-gender comparative indefinite singular)
brunast (common-gender indefinite singular superlative)
brunt (indefinite neuter positive singular)
brunare (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
brunast (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
bruna (indefinite plural positive)
brunare (comparative indefinite plural)
brunast (indefinite plural superlative)
brune (archaic indefinite masculine plural positive)
brunare (archaic comparative indefinite masculine plural)
brunast (archaic indefinite masculine plural superlative)
brune (definite masculine positive singular)
brunare (comparative definite masculine singular)
brunaste (definite masculine singular superlative)
bruna (definite positive)
brunare (comparative definite)
brunaste (definite superlative)

→ Elfdalian: brun

→ Estonian: pruun

From Old Swedish brūn, from Old Norse brúnn. The political sense is originally a reference to the brown uniforms worn by members of the Sturmabteilung, a paramilitary organization in Nazi Germany.


gunmetal

en-noun

gunmetal (countable and uncountable, plural gunmetals)

gunmetal:

Yet even asleep, a Sabre, Jaguar, Harrier, Phantom, Falcon or Eagle holds the eye as a design classic, and that worrisome beauty is still there close up—the cared for, nurtured, spoiled feel, the expensive finish, the quality of the materials, the craftsmanship evident in the flush rivets, the highly polished canopy, the gunmetal sheen of the external instrument sensors, each carefully protected by rubber sheaths with flapping red tags to remind the pilot to take them off before flight.

1999, Ivan Rendall, “Preface”, in Rolling Thunder: Jet Combat from World War II to the Gulf War, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The Free Press, →ISBN, page ix:

(also attributive) A dark grey or bluish-grey colour; gunmetal grey.


version

version (countable and uncountable, plural versions)

From Middle French version, from Medieval Latin versiō, from Latin vertō (“I turn”). Used in English since 16th century.

(ophthalmology) An eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously and symmetrically in the same direction.


retina

retina (plural retinas or retinae or (archaic) retinæ)

retinas (plural)
retinae (plural)
retinæ (archaic plural)

From Middle English rethina, borrowing from Medieval Latin rētīna (“retina”, feminine noun), ellipsis of tunica rētīna (“net-like tunic”), used to describe the blood vessel system at the back of the eye. The phrase is attested in the 12th century in Guillelmus the abbot and Gerard of Cremona—the latter may have created this phrase as a translation for Arabic طَبَقَة شَبَكِيَّة (ṭabaqa šabakiyya) "net-like layer", which translates Ancient Greek ἀμφιβληστροειδής χῐτών (amphiblēstroeidḗs khitṓn, “retina”), which is attested in the ancient medical writer Galen.

m+

طَبَقَة شَبَكِيَّة

ἀμφιβληστροειδής χῐτών

(ophthalmology) The thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball that contains rods and cones sensitive to light, which trigger nerve impulses that pass via the optic nerve to the brain, where a visual image is formed.


retina

la-noun

rētīna f (genitive rētīnae); first declension

rētīna (canonical feminine)
rētīnae (genitive)
rētīna (nominative singular)
rētīnae (nominative plural)
rētīnae (genitive singular)
rētīnārum (genitive plural)
rētīnae (dative singular)
rētīnīs (dative plural)
rētīnam (accusative singular)
rētīnās (accusative plural)
rētīnā (ablative singular)
rētīnīs (ablative plural)
rētīna (singular vocative)
rētīnae (plural vocative)

→ Middle English: rethina

English: retina

Ellipsis of tunica rētīna (“a net-like tunic”), referring to the fibrillar texture of the eye's retina. The phrase is attested since at least the 12th century, and this noun usage since the 13th c.

Et dicit Avicenna quarto de Animalibus, quod retina ducit nutrimentum secundum veritatem ad partes oculi

13th c., Roger Bacon, Opus maius 5.1.2.3

And Avicenna says in his fourth book on Animals that the retina actually takes nutrients to the parts of the eye

(Medieval Latin, anatomy) the retina of an eye


golden

en-adj

golden (comparative more golden or goldener, superlative most golden or goldenest)

more golden (comparative)
goldener (comparative)
most golden (superlative)
goldenest (superlative)

From Middle English golden, a restored form (due to the noun gold) of earlier Middle English gulden, gylden, gilden ("golden"; > English gilden), from Old English gylden (“golden”), from Proto-West Germanic *gulþīn, from Proto-Germanic *gulþīnaz (“golden, made of gold”), equivalent to gold + -en.
Cognate with Dutch gouden, gulden (“golden”), German gülden, golden (“golden”), Danish gylden (“golden”). Doublet of gilden. More at gold.

gloss

"golden"; > English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">gilden</i>

der

[ˈɡɒʊ̯ɫ.dn̩]

kill the goose that lays the golden eggs

She wore a golden crown.

And now the concern which Partridge felt at being obliged to quit the warm chimney-corner, and a cup of excellent liquor, was somewhat compensated by hearing that he was to proceed no farther on foot, for Jones, by golden arguments, had prevailed with the boy to attend him back to the inn whither he had before conducted Sophia […]

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:

Under a golden sun.

golden:

Having a color or other richness suggestive of gold.

goue

having a color or other richness suggestive of gold

After retiring, Bob and Judy moved to Arizona to live out their golden years.

Many anti-fog variety goggles are available, but if you don't get that type, just rub a little spit on the lenses before you put them on in the water and you'll be golden.

2007, Colin Barr, Steve Katai, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Triathlon Training, Penguin, →ISBN, page 28:

Therefore, the task ahead is easy. When the spotlight is on you, never let the audience down and you'll be golden.

2009, Mark Wiskup, Presentation S.O.S.: From Perspiration to Persuasion in 9 Easy Steps, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

If all of the marks line up perfectly, then you're golden, and you can continue on with finishing up the installation.

2011, Wayne R. Dempsey, 101 Projects for Your Porsche Boxster, Motorbooks, →ISBN, page 68:

(UK, slang, predicative) Fine, without problems.


golden

[ˈɡɒʊ̯ɫ.dn̩]

The archives of the Golden Retriever Club of America (GRCA) record goldens in the United States as early as the 1890s.

1995, Jaime J. Sucher, Golden Retrievers, Barron’s, →ISBN, page 76:

Golden retrievers, or goldens, make great family pets.[…]Goldens should be brushed regularly.

2017, Linda Bozzo, I Like Golden Retrievers! (Discover Dogs with the American Canine Association), Enslow Publishing, pages 4 and 15:

Throw a toy into the water, and watch your golden go for it!

2019, Sarah Frank, Golden Retrievers, Lerner Publishing Group, page 6:

People like petting goldens.

2021, Marcie Aboff, Fast Facts About Golden Retrievers (Fast Facts About Dogs), Raintree, Capstone Global Library Limited, →ISBN, page 13:

golden retriever
golden retriever#English


golden

en-verb

golden (third-person singular simple present goldens, present participle goldening, simple past and past participle goldened)

goldens (present singular third-person)
goldening (participle present)
goldened (participle past)
goldened (past)

From gold + -en, or perhaps a derivation from the adjective above.

[ˈɡɒʊ̯ɫ.dn̩]

(intransitive) To become gold or golden (in color).


tactile

en-adj

tactile (comparative more tactile, superlative most tactile)

more tactile (comparative)
most tactile (superlative)

Borrowed from Middle French tactile, from Latin tactilis (“that may be touched, tangible”), from tangere (“to touch”).

der

Tangible; perceptible to the sense of touch.

The delicacy of the tactile sense varies on different parts of the skin; it is greatest on the forehead, temples and back of the forearm.

1892, William James, Psychology (Briefer Course)


stygian

en-adj

stygian (comparative more stygian, superlative most stygian)

more stygian (comparative)
most stygian (superlative)

From Latin stygius, from Ancient Greek Στύγιος (Stúgios, “relating to Styx”), from Στύξ (Stúx, “Styx, chief river of underworld”).

uder

Alternative form of Stygian (“of or relating to the river Styx”)

The things which the Stygian darkness hid from my objective eye […]

1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1918 September, →OCLC, page 184:

(vision, of a perceived color) Having a luminosity below 0%.


blank

af-adj

blank (attributive blanke, comparative blanker, superlative blankste)

blanke (attributive)
blanker (comparative)
blankste (superlative)


presbyopia

en-noun

presbyopia (usually uncountable, plural presbyopias)

From New Latin presbyōpia, from Ancient Greek πρέσβυς (présbus, “old man”), and New Latin -ōpia (“vision problem”), from Ancient Greek ὤψ (ṓps, “eye”). By surface analysis, presby- + -opia.

der

(pathology) Inability of the eye, due to ageing, to focus on nearby objects.

قُصُوُّ البَصَرِ الشَيْخُوخِيّ

inability of the eye, due to ageing, to focus on nearby objects


paprika

en-noun

paprika (countable and uncountable, plural paprikas)

Borrowed from Hungarian paprika, from Serbo-Croatian pàprika, from pȁpar, from Proto-Slavic *pьpьrь, from Latin piper, from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi, “pepper”), from Indo-Aryan; compare Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali, “long pepper”). Akin to paprikash.

cog

California is taking the lead, producing a paprika that is more standardized and more uniformly available than the European growers offer.

1995, Jean Andrews, Peppers: The Domesticated Capsicums, →ISBN, page 73:

Capsicum annuum
Capsicum annuum#Translingual

(uncountable) Powdered spice made from dried and ground fruits of sweet pepper (bell pepper) or chili pepper (cultivars of Capsicum annuum), or mixtures of these (used especially in Hungarian cooking).

strings of red paprikas hang outside to dry in the autumn

2003, Jonathan Bousfield, Rough Guide to Croatia, →ISBN, page 123:

(countable, rare, commonly called "dried [bell/chilli] peppers" or "dried capsicums") A dried but not yet ground fruit of sweet pepper (bell pepper) or chili pepper sold for use as a spice.


paprika

en-adj

paprika (comparative more paprika, superlative most paprika)

more paprika (comparative)
most paprika (superlative)

Of a bright reddish orange colour, like that of the dried paprika.


paprika

From English paprika, borrowed from Hungarian paprika, from Serbo-Croatian pàprika, from pȁpar, from Proto-Slavic *pьpьrь, from Latin piper, from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi, “pepper”), from Indo-Aryan; compare Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali, “long pepper”).

paprika; powdered spice made from dried and ground fruits of sweet pepper (bell pepper) or chili pepper (cultivars of Capsicum annuum), or mixtures of these


paprika

having a bright reddish orange colour, like that of the dried paprika


ophthalmology

en-noun

ophthalmology (countable and uncountable, plural ophthalmologies)

/ˌɒfθælˈmɒləd͡ʒi/

/ˌɒpθælˈmɒləd͡ʒi/

He will reproach himself for having been the victim of some of these liabilities, but for others, like his cataract or the bad illumination, he will express regret but not remorse. That is, some of the explanations that he will give for some of his mistakes and failures will be of the same sort as the explanations he would give for his mistakes and failures in counting or multiplying, but some will be of quite different sorts, like the explanations that he couches in the terms of elementary ophthalmology or optics.

1954, Gilbert Ryle, “dilemma vii: Perception”, in Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, page 97:

(medicine) The anatomy, functions, pathology, and treatment of the eye.


acida

eo-head

acida (accusative singular acidan, plural acidaj, accusative plural acidajn)

acidan (accusative singular)
acidaj (plural)
acidajn (accusative plural)

acida solvaĵo, acida fendado, acida fendiĝo, acida petro, acida pluvo

acidaj pomoj, acidaj bombonoj

acida humoro, acida tono, acida respondo


downcast

en-adj

downcast (comparative more downcast, superlative most downcast)

more downcast (comparative)
most downcast (superlative)

The adjective is derived from Middle English doun-casten, *adoun-casten (“(adjective) cast down, dejected; (verb) to break down (something); to overcome (someone); to overturn (something)”), from down (“in a downward direction; (figurative) to destruction”), adoun (“downward”) + casten (“to throw (something), fling, hurl; to overcome (someone), defeat, overpower; [etc.]”) (from Old Norse kasta (“to cast, throw”), from Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw”), from *kas- (“to throw, toss; to bring up”); further etymology uncertain), modelled similarly to other constructions in Middle English such as adoun-throwen (“to throw down”) and adoun-werpen (“to throw down”)). The English word is analysable as down- (prefix meaning ‘lower direction or position’) + cast (“that has been thrown”, adjective).
The noun is derived from the adjective.

отчаян

of a person: feeling despondent or discouraged — see also despondent, discouraged

Of a person or thing: defeated, overthrown; also, destroyed, ruined.


biscuit

en-noun

biscuit (countable and uncountable, plural biscuits)

Tok Pisin: bisket

→ Bengali: বিস্কুট (biskuṭ)

→ Burmese: ဘီစကွတ် (bhica.kwat)

→ Cebuano: biskuwít, biskwit

→ Fiji Hindi: biskut

→ Gujarati: બિસ્કિટ (biskiṭ)

→ Hausa: bìskît

desc

ביסקוויט//בִּיסְקְוִיט

→ Hebrew: ביסקוויט／בִּיסְקְוִיט (bískvit)

→ Hiligaynon: biskwit

desctree

→ Hindi: बिस्कुट (biskuṭ)
→ Jarawa: biskuʈ (“biscuit”)

→ Indonesian: beskit, biskit

→ Japanese: ビスケット (bisuketto)

→ Korean: 비스켓 (biseuket)

→ Malay: biskut

→ Marshallese: petkōj

→ Punjabi: ਬਿਸਕੁਟ (biskuṭ)

→⇒ Scottish Gaelic: briosgaid

→ Spanish: bísquet, bísquete

→ Swahili: biskuti

→ Sylheti: ꠛꠤꠍꠇꠥꠐ (bisókuṭ)

→ Tagalog: biskuwit

→ Thai: บิสกิต (bís-gìt)

→ Urdu: بسکٹ (biskiṭ)
→ Ushojo: بسکٹ (biskiṭ)

→ Yoruba: bisikíìtì

→ Zulu: bhisikidi

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From earlier bisket, from Middle English bisquyte, from Old French bescuit (French biscuit); doublet of biscotto.

biscuit:


asparagus

en-noun

asparagus (plural asparagus or asparaguses or asparagusses or asparagi)

asparagus (plural)
asparaguses (plural)
asparagusses (plural)
asparagi (plural)

/əˈspæɹ.ə.ɡəs/

/əˈspæɹ.ə.ɡəs/

/əˈspɛɹ.ə.ɡəs/

Borrowed from Medieval Latin asparagus, sparagus, from Ancient Greek ἀσπάραγος (aspáragos), variant of ἀσφάραγος (aspháragos). Displaced Old English eorþnafola.

Any of various perennial plants of the genus Asparagus having leaflike stems, scalelike leaves, and small flowers.


blua

eo-head

blua (accusative singular bluan, plural bluaj, accusative plural bluajn)

bluan (accusative singular)
bluaj (plural)
bluajn (accusative plural)

From French bleu, Italian blu, and English blue, all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz. Compare German blau, Dutch blauw, Yiddish בלוי (bloy), Swedish blå, Greek μπλε (ble).


murg

From Proto-Albanian *murga, from *morHgʷo, from Proto-Indo-European *(h₂)merHgʷ- (compare Old English mierce (“darkness”), Lithuanian márgas (“multicolored”), Ancient Greek ἀμορβός (amorbós, “dark”)).


musk

en-noun

musk (countable and uncountable, plural musks)

→ Irish: musc

→ Welsh: mwsg

From Middle English muske, borrowed from Old French musc, from Late Latin muscus, from Ancient Greek μόσχος (móskhos), from Middle Persian [script needed] (mwšk' /mušk/) whence Persian مشک (mošk). Ultimately from Sanskrit मुष्क (muṣka, “testicle”), the shape of the gland of animals secreting the substance being compared to human testicles, a diminutive of मूष् (mūṣ, “mouse”), the shape of human testicles being compared to mice, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s (“mouse”). Cognate with mouse.

der

I was so excited I could smell my own musk.

(slang, colloquial, vulgar) The scent of human genitalia when aroused or unwashed.


blanka

eo-head

blanka (accusative singular blankan, plural blankaj, accusative plural blankajn)

blankan (accusative singular)
blankaj (plural)
blankajn (accusative plural)

Common Romance (French blanc, Italian bianco, Spanish blanco). Perhaps also influenced by Polish biały, Russian бе́лый (bélyj).

En okcidenta civilizo, nur la fianĉino devas porti blankan robon ĉe nupto.

In Western society, only the bride should wear a white dress at a wedding.


blanka

lad-adj

blanka (Latin spelling, masculine blanko)


twenty-twenty

From a method of testing vision by reading charts at a distance of 20 feet.

All I want is 20/20 vision / A total portrait with no omissions

1978, “Picture This”, in Debbie Harry (lyrics), Parallel Lines, performed by Blondie:


pupil

From Middle English pupille, from Old French pupille, from Latin pūpilla (“pupil; little girl, doll”), named because of the small reflected image seen when looking into someone's eye.

der

There are sharks with round pupils, sharks with slitlike pupils, and some with pupils that expand and contract with the amount of light available. As unimpressive as this might sound to people who are used to having their pupils dilate and contract regularly, realize that no bony fish has this modification of the eye.

1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 29:

(anatomy) The hole in the middle of the iris of the eye, through which light passes to be focused on the retina.

pupil

the hole in the middle of the iris of the eye

das Schwarze im Auge

colloquial; sometimes including the iris


pinkeye

en-noun

pinkeye (usually uncountable, plural pinkeyes)

A highly contagious form of conjunctivitis.


blinda

eo-head

blinda (accusative singular blindan, plural blindaj, accusative plural blindajn)

blindan (accusative singular)
blindaj (plural)
blindajn (accusative plural)

Of Germanic origin; related to Dutch blind and German blind.


blinda

head

blinda f (genitive singular blindu, no plural)

blindu (genitive singular)
blinda (indefinite nominative singular)
blindan (definite nominative singular)
blindu (accusative indefinite singular)
blinduna (accusative definite singular)
blindu (dative indefinite singular)
blindunni (dative definite singular)
blindu (genitive indefinite singular)
blindunnar (definite genitive singular)


blinda

blindar (present)
blinda (past)
blinda (participle past)
blindast (infinitive passive)
blindande (participle present)
blinda (imperative)
blind (imperative)

From Old Norse blinda. Akin to English blind.


blinda

non-conj-blank-full

Conjugation of blinda — active (weak class 1)

Conjugation of blinda — mediopassive (weak class 1)

non-conj-blank-full

Conjugation of blinda — active (weak class 2)

Conjugation of blinda — mediopassive (weak class 2)

non-conj-table

blinda (infinitive)
blindandi (participle present)
blindr (participle past)
blindi (first-person present singular)
blinda (first-person past singular)
blindir (present second-person singular)
blindir (past second-person singular)
blindir (present singular third-person)
blindi (past singular third-person)
blindum (first-person plural present)
blindum (first-person past plural)
blindið (plural present second-person)
blinduð (past plural second-person)
blinda (plural present third-person)
blindu (past plural third-person)
blinda (first-person present singular)
blindi (present singular third-person)
blindim (first-person plural present)
blindim (first-person past plural)
blindið (past plural second-person)
blindi (plural present third-person)
blindi (past plural third-person)
blind (present second-person singular)
blindi (present second-person singular)
blindask (infinitive)
blindandisk (participle present)
blindzk (participle past)
blindumk (first-person present singular)
blindumk (first-person past singular)
blindisk (present second-person singular)
blindisk (past second-person singular)
blindisk (present singular third-person)
blindisk (past singular third-person)
blindumsk (first-person plural present)
blindumsk (first-person past plural)
blindizk (plural present second-person)
blinduzk (past plural second-person)
blindask (plural present third-person)
blindusk (past plural third-person)
blindimsk (first-person plural present)
blindimsk (first-person past plural)
blindizk (past plural second-person)
blindisk (plural present third-person)
blindisk (past plural third-person)
blindsk (present second-person singular)
blinda (infinitive)
blindandi (participle present)
blindaðr (participle past)
blinda (first-person present singular)
blindaða (first-person past singular)
blindar (present second-person singular)
blindaðir (past second-person singular)
blindar (present singular third-person)
blindaði (past singular third-person)
blindum (first-person plural present)
blinduðum (first-person past plural)
blindið (plural present second-person)
blinduðuð (past plural second-person)
blinda (plural present third-person)
blinduðu (past plural third-person)
blindir (present second-person singular)
blindi (present singular third-person)
blindim (first-person plural present)
blindaðim (first-person past plural)
blindaðið (past plural second-person)
blindi (plural present third-person)
blindaði (past plural third-person)
blinda (present second-person singular)
blindask (infinitive)
blindandisk (participle present)
blindazk (participle past)
blindumk (first-person present singular)
blinduðumk (first-person past singular)
blindask (present second-person singular)
blindaðisk (past second-person singular)
blindask (present singular third-person)
blindaðisk (past singular third-person)
blindumsk (first-person plural present)
blinduðumsk (first-person past plural)
blindizk (plural present second-person)
blinduðuzk (past plural second-person)
blindask (plural present third-person)
blinduðusk (past plural third-person)
blindisk (present second-person singular)
blindisk (present singular third-person)
blindimsk (first-person plural present)
blindaðimsk (first-person past plural)
blindaðizk (past plural second-person)
blindisk (plural present third-person)
blindaðisk (past plural third-person)

Icelandic: blinda

Norwegian Nynorsk: blinda, blinde


rosso

it-adj

rosso (feminine rossa, masculine plural rossi, feminine plural rosse, diminutive rossétto m (“redhead”) or rossétta f (“readhead”) or rossìno m (“redhead”) or rossìna f (“redhead”), pejorative rossàccio)

rossa (feminine)
rossi (masculine plural)
rosse (feminine plural)
rossétto (diminutive masculine)
rossétta (diminutive feminine)
rossìno (diminutive masculine)
rossìna (diminutive feminine)
rossàccio (pejorative)

From Latin russus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-. Cognate with Latin rosa.

[…] Ed ei mi disse: «Il foco etterno ¶ ch'entro l'affoca le dimostra rosse, ¶ come tu vedi in questo basso inferno».

1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VIII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 73–75; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

And he to me: "The fire eternal that kindles them within makes them look red, as thou beholdest in this nether Hell".


gallery

From Middle English galery, gallerye, from Middle French galerie, gallerie, from Old French galerie, gallerie (“a long portico, a gallery”), from Medieval Latin galeria (“gallery”), perhaps an alteration of galilea (“church porch”), probably from Latin Galilaea, Galilee, region of Palestine. More at Galilee.

A part of a monocle–a projection off the ring holding the lens–which helps secure the monocle in the eye socket.


gust

Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico

From Latin gustus, from Proto-Italic *gustus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus. First attested in the 14th century, it was possibly a semi-learned word or early borrowing; compare the sound changes in the inherited Occitan gost, Portuguese gosto, and French goût.

molt al gust borbònic


gust

gusturi (plural)
gust (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
un gust (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
gustul (accusative definite nominative singular)
gusturi (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
niște gusturi (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
gusturile (accusative definite nominative plural)
gust (dative genitive indefinite singular)
unui gust (dative genitive indefinite singular)
gustului (dative definite genitive singular)
gusturi (dative genitive indefinite plural)
unor gusturi (dative genitive indefinite plural)
gusturilor (dative definite genitive plural)
gustule (singular vocative)
gusturilor (plural vocative)

Inherited from Latin gustus, from Proto-Italic *gustus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus.


heliotrope

en-noun

heliotrope (countable and uncountable, plural heliotropes)

PIE word
 *sóh₂wl̥
The noun is borrowed from French héliotrope, from Latin hēliotropium (“plant which turns to face the sun; bloodstone”), from Ancient Greek ἡλῐοτρόπῐον (hēliotrópion, “European heliotrope (Heliotropium europaeum); bloodstone; solar clock, sundial”), from ἥλῐος (hḗlios, “the sun”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“the sun”)) + τρόπος (trópos, “a turn”) (from τρέπω (trépō, “to rotate; to turn”) (from Proto-Indo-European *trep- (“to turn”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming nouns from verbs)) + -ῐον (-ion, diminutive suffix forming nouns).
The French-derived spelling displaced Middle English elitrope, eliotropius, elitropium (“plant which turns to face the sun; bloodstone”) [and other forms], from Old English eliotropus, from Latin hēliotropium (see above); and Old English siġelhweorfa, sōlsece, and sunnfolgend (“heliotrope flower”).
Sense 6 (“synonym of bloodstone”) is from the fact that a piece of the mineral placed in water is said to change the sun’s rays to a blood-red colour: see the 1601 quotation.
The adjective is probably derived from the noun.

ref

From the B. A. Colonna collection, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S.A.

nb...

eliscrope, eliotropia, elitrepie, elitropius

garden heliotrope

Heliotropium arborescens or Valeriana officinalis

As they entered now, it seemed a blaze of roses and carnations, though one recognised in a moment the presence of the lily, the heliotrope, and the stock.

1870, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter XXIX, in Lothair. […], volume III, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 326:

Here's newyearspray, the posquiflor, a windaborne and heliotrope; there miriamsweet and amaranth and marygold to crown.

1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part III, page 561:

(countable, botany, also figuratively) A plant with flowers which turn to face and follow the sun, such as (archaic) marigolds and sunflowers.

(specifically) A plant of the genus Heliotropium, especially the common heliotrope (Heliotropium arborescens) which has clusters of purple flowers with a strong fragrance.

heliotrooppi

plant of the genus Heliotropium; any of various plants resembling those of the genus Heliotropium

He had lost his affable smile, and wore a look of almost military resolution; […] he had always smelt so much more of heliotrope than of gunpowder.

1881, Henry James, Jr., chapter XLIII, in The Portrait of a Lady, New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC, page 381:

Ransacking the drawers of the dresser he came upon a discarded, tiny, ragged handkerchief. He pressed it to his face. It was racy and insolent with heliotrope; he hurled it to the floor.

1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Furnished Room”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, →OCLC, page 246:

(uncountable) The fragrance of Heliotropium arborescens flowers, or a scent resembling this fragrance.

heliotroopin tuoksu

fragrance of Heliotropium arborescens flowers; scent resembling this fragrance

heliotrope:

Kit woke to see looming over him the face of Dr. Willi Dingkopf, framed by a haircut in violation of more than one law of physics, and a vivid necktie in fuchsia, heliotrope, and duck green, a gift from one of the patients, […]

2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Bilocations”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 623:

(uncountable) A light purple or violet colour like that of Heliotropium arborescens flowers.

светловиолетов

(signalling):

(surveying):

(countable) An instrument that uses a mirror to reflect sunlight for purposes such as signalling, or (surveying) triangulation (where the reflected light is detected by another surveyor positioned some distance away).

heliotrooppi

instrument that uses a mirror to reflect sunlight for purposes such as signalling or triangulation


heliotrope

en-adj

heliotrope (comparative more heliotrope, superlative most heliotrope)

more heliotrope (comparative)
most heliotrope (superlative)

"Lady in a heliotrope dress with a lace collar, three flounces on the skirt?" / "That's right, Mr. Bennett," agreed old Goslin. / "It's the Babe himself!" asserted Harry Bennett.

1904, Jerome K[lapka] Jerome, “Story the Sixth: ‘The Babe’ Applies for Shares”, in Tommy and Co., 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: Langton and Hall, →OCLC, page 232:

There was a ten-mile stretch of level ground, blown hard as rock, from which the sustenance had been bleached, for not a spear of grass grew there. And following that was a tortuous passage through a weird region of clay dunes, blue and violet and heliotrope and lavender, all worn smooth by rain and wind.

1917 January, Zane Grey, chapter VI, in Wildfire, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 78:

Of a light purple or violet colour like that of Heliotropium arborescens flowers.

heliotroopin värinen

of a light purple or violet colour like that of Heliotropium arborescens flowers


bruna

eo-head

bruna (accusative singular brunan, plural brunaj, accusative plural brunajn)

brunan (accusative singular)
brunaj (plural)
brunajn (accusative plural)

bruna:


bordo

pl-adj

bordo (not comparable, no derived adverb)

bordo:

bordeaux, claret (having a dark red color tinged with purple, like that of Bordeaux (red) wine)


bordo

bordeaux (dark red color tinged with purple, like that of Burgundy (red) wine)

Bordeaux (wine coming from Bordeaux in France)


mermaid

From Middle English mermayde (“maid of the sea”), from mere (“sea, lake”) + maid, equivalent to mer- + maid. Cognate with Dutch meermeid (“mermaid”), Middle High German mermaget, mermeit (“mermaid”, > German Meermagd, Meermädchen (“mermaid”)). Compare Old English meremenn, meremennen, meremenin (“mermaid, siren”).

inh

mermaid smoothie

(as a modifier) Coloured a brilliant turquoise.


eyed

From Middle English eyed, eied, iȝed, y-yȝed, equivalent to eye + -ed.

The familiar hatchery practice of agitating the eggs after they are eyed, called shocking or addling, ruptures the yolk membranes of the ever-tender sterile eggs. The result is a precipitation of the globulin and a whitening of the egg.

1980, Earl Leitritz with Robert C[onklin] Lewis, Trout and Salmon Culture (Hatchery Methods) [California Fish Bulletin; 164], Oakland, Calif.: University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, →ISBN, page 24:

The back of the beetle was eyed to make it appear to be a snake to a predator.

What mean you, sir, / To give them this discomfort? Look, they weep; / And I, an ass, am onion-eyed: for shame, / Transform us not to women.

c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

Unseen descending weigh my light wings upon balmy flowers, / And court the fair eyed dew to take me to her shining tent.

1789, William Blake, The Book of Thel, II, lines 55-6:

That she had all the abstracted and nervous manner of one who is on the eve of some bold and hazardous step, which it has required no common struggle to resolve upon, would have been obvious to the lynx-eyed Fagin […]

1838, Charles Dickens, chapter 39, in Oliver Twist:

Gray and blue-eyed parents will tend to have either gray-eyed children only or an equal number of gray- and of blue-eyed children according as the gray-eyed parent is homozygous or heterozygous.

1901 November 7, Gertrude C. Davenport and Charles C. Davenport, “Heredity of Eye-color in Man”, in Science, New Series, MacMillan, Volume 26, Number 670, page 592

Three victims in chains—and one of them, the little servant, the sad-eyed angel.

1960, Elie Wiesel, translated by Stella Rodway, Night, New York: Bantam, published 1986, page 61:

(in compounds) Having the specified kind or number of eyes.


eyed

English: eyed


syrupy

en-adj

syrupy (comparative syrupier, superlative syrupiest)

syrupier (comparative)
syrupiest (superlative)

Having the taste or consistency of syrup.

xaropós

having the taste or consistency or syrup


lai

Uncertain. Compare Romanian lai, Albanian ljaj.


lai

ro-adj

lai m or n (feminine singular laie, plural lăi)

laie (feminine singular)
lăi (plural)
lai (accusative indefinite masculine neuter nominative singular)
laie (accusative feminine indefinite nominative singular)
lăi (accusative indefinite masculine nominative plural)
lăi (accusative feminine indefinite neuter nominative plural)
laiul (accusative definite masculine neuter nominative singular)
laia (accusative definite feminine nominative singular)
lăii (accusative definite masculine nominative plural)
lăile (accusative definite feminine neuter nominative plural)
lai (dative genitive indefinite masculine neuter singular)
lăi (dative feminine genitive indefinite singular)
lăi (dative genitive indefinite masculine plural)
lăi (dative feminine genitive indefinite neuter plural)
laiului (dative definite genitive masculine neuter singular)
lăii (dative definite feminine genitive singular)
lăilor (dative definite genitive masculine plural)
lăilor (dative definite feminine genitive neuter plural)

Uncertain. Several explanations exist. One derives it from Albanian ljaj, itself possibly from Latin flavus, but this is uncertain, and it may be that the Albanian is derived from Proto-Romanian (or Aromanian- compare the cognate laiu, lae in this language). Other theories suggest a Romanian root *gălai, from Latin galla or alternatively an etymology from labes (“fault, defect”), extending the meaning to "spot" and hence, "black" or "dark", but as it is a secondary meaning in Latin, this is not very likely. A more likely explanation may be a relation to the verb la (“to wash”), as lai is used mostly to describe the natural color of wool resulting from washing (compare the similar secondary senses of Spanish crudo, French écru).

(popular) black (or black mixed with white), gray


apple of the eye

en-noun

apple of the eye (plural apples of the eye)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-apple of the eye.wav

From Middle English appel of the eyȝe, appel of þe ye, perhaps dissimilated from Middle English ij appel (literally “eye-apple”). More at eye-apple.


nero

→ Greek: νέρος (néros)

negro

part archaic, part borrowed from Spanish


effleurer

effleurer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
effleurant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
effleuré (participle past)
effleure (first-person indicative present singular)
effleures (indicative present second-person singular)
effleure (indicative present singular third-person)
effleurons (first-person indicative plural present)
effleurez (indicative plural present second-person)
effleurent (indicative plural present third-person)
effleurais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
effleurais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
effleurait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
effleurions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
effleuriez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
effleuraient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
effleurai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
effleuras (historic indicative past second-person singular)
effleura (historic indicative past singular third-person)
effleurâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
effleurâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
effleurèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
effleurerai (first-person future indicative singular)
effleureras (future indicative second-person singular)
effleurera (future indicative singular third-person)
effleurerons (first-person future indicative plural)
effleurerez (future indicative plural second-person)
effleureront (future indicative plural third-person)
effleurerais (conditional first-person singular)
effleurerais (conditional second-person singular)
effleurerait (conditional singular third-person)
effleurerions (conditional first-person plural)
effleureriez (conditional plural second-person)
effleureraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
effleure (first-person present singular subjunctive)
effleures (present second-person singular subjunctive)
effleure (present singular subjunctive third-person)
effleurions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
effleuriez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
effleurent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
effleurasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
effleurasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
effleurât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
effleurassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
effleurassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
effleurassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
effleure (imperative second-person singular)
effleurons (first-person imperative plural)
effleurez (imperative plural second-person)

→ English: efflower

From Middle French effleurer, from Old French esflourer, equivalent to ex- (“ex-”) + fleurer (“sprinkle”). In some senses, from Middle French fleur (“surface, top layer”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *flōr (“ground, floor”), from Proto-Germanic *flōraz.


heteronymous

en-adj

heteronymous (comparative more heteronymous, superlative most heteronymous)

more heteronymous (comparative)
most heteronymous (superlative)

(ophthalmology) Heteronymous hemianopsia (blindness in the left side of one eye and the right side of the other eye)


strabismus

en-noun

strabismus (usually uncountable, plural strabismuses)

Borrowed from New Latin strabismus, from Ancient Greek στραβισμός (strabismós), from στραβίζω (strabízō, “to squint”), from στραβός (strabós, “squinting”) (whence the synonymous Latin strabus).

A defect of vision in which one eye cannot focus with the other on an object because of imbalance of the eye muscles; a squint.


salmone

salmon (having a pale pinkish-orange colour/color)


oatmeal

oatmeal (usually uncountable, plural oatmeals)

From Middle English otemele, from ote (“oat”) + mele (“meal, coarse-ground grains”). Equivalent to oat + meal.

A breakfast cereal made from rolled oats, cooked in milk and/or water.

вівся́не бо́рошно n (vivsjáne bórošno, literally “oat flour”)

oatmeal:

A light greyish brown colour, like that of oatmeal.


oatmeal

Boldly patterned textiles in oatmeal tones with a woven design in a strongly contrasting colour can be used alike for upholstery and as a wall hanging […]

Of a light greyish brown colour, like that of oatmeal


sur

fr-adj

sur (feminine sure, masculine plural surs, feminine plural sures)

sure (feminine)
surs (masculine plural)
sures (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French sur, from Old French sur (“sour, bitter”), from Frankish *sūr (“acidic, sour”), from Proto-Germanic *sūraz (“sour”). More at English sour.


sur

ro-adj

sur m or n (feminine singular sură, masculine plural suri, feminine and neuter plural sure)

sură (feminine singular)
suri (masculine plural)
sure (feminine neuter plural)
sur (accusative indefinite masculine neuter nominative singular)
sură (accusative feminine indefinite nominative singular)
suri (accusative indefinite masculine nominative plural)
sure (accusative feminine indefinite neuter nominative plural)
surul (accusative definite masculine neuter nominative singular)
sura (accusative definite feminine nominative singular)
surii (accusative definite masculine nominative plural)
surele (accusative definite feminine neuter nominative plural)
sur (dative genitive indefinite masculine neuter singular)
sure (dative feminine genitive indefinite singular)
suri (dative genitive indefinite masculine plural)
sure (dative feminine genitive indefinite neuter plural)
surului (dative definite genitive masculine neuter singular)
surei (dative definite feminine genitive singular)
surelor (dative definite genitive masculine plural)
surilor (dative definite feminine genitive neuter plural)

Most likely from a Slavic language. Compare Bulgarian сур (sur), Serbo-Croatian sur. A less likely etymology connects it to Latin syrus, or links it with Italian soro.


sur

cy-adj

sur (feminine singular sur, plural surion, equative sured, comparative surach, superlative suraf, not mutable)

sur (feminine singular)
surion (plural)
sured (equative)
surach (comparative)
suraf (superlative)


blaze orange

blaze orange:


pastel

en-noun

pastel (countable and uncountable, plural pastels)

Borrowed from French pastel, from Italian pastello (“pastel”), from Medieval Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), from Latin pasta (“dough, paste”), ultimately from Ancient Greek πάστη (pástē, “dough, paste”). Doublet of pastegh, pastiglia, pastila, pastilla, and pastille.

doublet

Wool was dyed in the pastel vat.


pastel

pl-noun

pastel m inan (related adjective pastelowy)

pastelowy (adjective)
pastel (nominative singular)
pastele (nominative plural)
pastelu (genitive singular)
pasteli (genitive plural)
pastelów (genitive plural)
pastelowi (dative singular)
pastelom (dative plural)
pastel (accusative singular)
pastele (accusative plural)
pastelem (instrumental singular)
pastelami (instrumental plural)
pastelu (locative singular)
pastelach (locative plural)
pastelu (singular vocative)
pastele (plural vocative)

pastel (any of several subdued tints of colors, usually associated with pink, peach, yellow, green, blue, and lavender)


mor

From Ottoman Turkish مور (mor). See it for more.


purblind

en-adj

purblind (comparative more purblind, superlative most purblind)

more purblind (comparative)
most purblind (superlative)

The adjective is derived from Middle English purblind (“(adjective) completely blind; blind in one eye; near-sighted; (noun) near-sighted animal, specifically a hare”) [and other forms], possibly from pur, pure (“completely, entirely”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to be clean; pure”); influenced by pur- (prefix meaning ‘completely; forward; in advance’)) + blind (“sightless, blind”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to blend, mix up; to make cloudy or opaque”)).
Sense 4.1 (“completely blind”) was the original sense. The senses denoting partial blindness are possibly the result of confusion of the first element pur- with poor, perhaps through folk etymology. (Compare parboil regarding per versus pars.)
The noun and verb are derived from the adjective.

nb...

poreblind, pore blynde, pur blind, purblinde, purblynd, purblynde, purblyynd, pure blynde

der

Thy dignitie or autorite, wherin thou onely differest from other, is (as it were) but a weighty or heuy cloke, fresshely gliteringe in the eyen of them that be poreblynde, where unto the it is paynefull, if thou weare hym in his right facion, and as it shal best become the.

1531, Thomas Elyot, “The Thre Noble Counsayles of Reason, Societe, and Knowlege”, in Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 203:

And when thou hast on foot the purblind hare, / Mark the poor wretch, to overshoot his troubles, / How he outruns the wind, and with what care, / He cranks and crosses with a thousand doubles: […]

1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC, [verse 114], lines [679–682]:

[H]e vvent into one of the boxes at the play-houſe, as uſual, to ſhevv himſelf to the ladies; and in reconnoitring the company through a glaſs, (for no other reaſon, but becauſe it vvas faſhionable to be purblind) perceived his miſtreſs very plainly dreſſed, in one of the ſeats above the ſtage, talking to another young vvoman of a very homely appearance.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, “The Young Gentleman Having Settled His Domestick Affairs, Arrives in London, and Sets Up a Gay Equipage. He Meets with Emilia, and is Introduced to Her Uncle.”, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC, page 12:

They […] ate the messes compounded for them in a darksome cupboard, known as the kitchen, by old Nanon the cook, purblind, stone-deaf, and all but imbecile, and popularly supposed to be the venerable mother of Madame Magnotte.

1868, [Mary Elizabeth Braddon], “Lenoble of Beaubocage”, in Charlotte’s Inheritance […], volume I, London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler […], →OCLC, book I (De Profundis), page 2:

[T]here were shown in to us an old, worn, purblind, ascetic-looking priest, […]

1891 February–December, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Hatiheu”, in In the South Seas […], New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1896, →OCLC, part I (The Marquesas), page 63:

Of a person: having impaired vision; partially blind; dim-sighted.

অন্ধপ্রায়

of a person: having impaired vision; partially blind — see also dim-sighted


optical

en-adj

optical (comparative more optical, superlative most optical)

more optical (comparative)
most optical (superlative)

Strabismus is an optical defect.


nidorous

nidorous (comparative more nidorous, superlative most nidorous)

more nidorous (comparative)
most nidorous (superlative)

From nidor (“the unpleasant smell of some cooked animal substances”) + -ous, or from Medieval Latin nidorosus.

affix

‘Taste my breath—is it not fetid, foul, and nidorous?’

1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XVIII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 163:

That old man's niderous whispered breath had entered into MacMurrough's heart an insufflation of—of what, exactly?

2002, Jamie O'Neill, chapter 10, in At Swim, Two Boys, →ISBN, page 240:

(literary) Emitting a strong, unpleasant odor, especially one like that of cooking fat or similar greasy substances.

палёный

Emitting the odor or taste of roasted meat, especially rotten meat


squint

Derived from asquint (“obliquely, with a sidelong glance”).

Looking obliquely; having the vision distorted.


fume

English: fume

Scots: fume

Borrowed from Old French fum, from Latin fūmus, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós.


odourless

They were taken unawares and overcome when the room filled with a lethal, odourless gas.

Smiling, young, muscular, paunchless, probably odourless, he went.

1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 357:


odorous

en-adj

odorous (comparative more odorous, superlative most odorous)

more odorous (comparative)
most odorous (superlative)

From Middle English odorous, from Medieval Latin odōrōsus, equivalent to odor + -ous.

The table was piled with odorous lilies.


odorless

They were taken unawares and overcome when the room filled with a lethal, odorless gas.


valge

head

valge (genitive valge, partitive valget, comparative valgem, superlative kõige valgem or valgeim)

valge (genitive)
valget (partitive)
valgem (comparative)
kõige valgem (superlative)
valgeim (superlative)
valge (nominative singular)
valged (nominative plural)
valge (accusative nominative singular)
valged (accusative nominative plural)
valge (accusative genitive singular)
valged (accusative genitive plural)
valge (genitive singular)
valgete (genitive plural)
valget (partitive singular)
valgeid (partitive plural)
valgesse (illative singular)
valgetesse (illative plural)
valgeisse (illative plural)
valges (inessive singular)
valgetes (inessive plural)
valgeis (inessive plural)
valgest (elative singular)
valgetest (elative plural)
valgeist (elative plural)
valgele (allative singular)
valgetele (allative plural)
valgeile (allative plural)
valgel (adessive singular)
valgetel (adessive plural)
valgeil (adessive plural)
valgelt (ablative singular)
valgetelt (ablative plural)
valgeilt (ablative plural)
valgeks (singular translative)
valgeteks (plural translative)
valgeiks (plural translative)
valgeni (singular terminative)
valgeteni (plural terminative)
valgena (essive singular)
valgetena (essive plural)
valgeta (abessive singular)
valgeteta (abessive plural)
valgega (comitative singular)
valgetega (comitative plural)

pime

antonym(s) of “light, bright, illuminated”

From Proto-Finnic *valkëda, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *wëlketa, from *walke or *wïlki (“light”). Cognate with Finnish valkea, Livonian vālda, Votic valkõa, Ingrian valkia, Karelian valgie, Livvi valgei, Ludian valged, Veps vauged, Northern Sami vielgat (from Proto-Samic *vielkëtē) and Eastern Mari волгыдо (volgydo, “light, brightness”); possibly also Erzya валдо (valdo, “light”), Moksha валда (valda, “light”) and Hungarian villám (“lightning”), világ (“light”).

cog

valge suveöö

Väljas on veel valge.

Related to the counterrevolutionary White movement during the Russian Civil War.


valge

head

valge (genitive valge, partitive valget)

valge (genitive)
valget (partitive)
valge (nominative singular)
valged (nominative plural)
valge (accusative nominative singular)
valged (accusative nominative plural)
valge (accusative genitive singular)
valged (accusative genitive plural)
valge (genitive singular)
valgete (genitive plural)
valget (partitive singular)
valgeid (partitive plural)
valgesse (illative singular)
valgetesse (illative plural)
valgeisse (illative plural)
valges (inessive singular)
valgetes (inessive plural)
valgeis (inessive plural)
valgest (elative singular)
valgetest (elative plural)
valgeist (elative plural)
valgele (allative singular)
valgetele (allative plural)
valgeile (allative plural)
valgel (adessive singular)
valgetel (adessive plural)
valgeil (adessive plural)
valgelt (ablative singular)
valgetelt (ablative plural)
valgeilt (ablative plural)
valgeks (singular translative)
valgeteks (plural translative)
valgeiks (plural translative)
valgeni (singular terminative)
valgeteni (plural terminative)
valgena (essive singular)
valgetena (essive plural)
valgeta (abessive singular)
valgeteta (abessive plural)
valgega (comitative singular)
valgetega (comitative plural)

Perenaine tõusis enne valget ja tegi hommikusöögi valmis.

The housewife got up at the break of dawn and prepared breakfast.

Lõuna-Aafrika valged

A person having light skin, belonging to the Caucasian race.

valgekaartlane

a person belonging to the White movement

A person belonging to the counterrevolutionary White movement during the Russian Civil War.


optical illusion

en-noun

optical illusion (plural optical illusions)

Each show spans over 180 minutes, including 40-plus songs from at least nine albums; there are 16 costume changes, pyrotechnics, an optical illusion in which she appears to dive into the stage and swim, and not one but two cottagecore worlds, which feature an abundance of moss.

2023 December 6, Sam Lansky, “Person of Year 2023 : Taylor Swift”, in Time:

An image that is visually deceptive or misleading.


ogle

17th century. Probably from Low German ögeln (“to ogle, to flirt with one's eyes”), from Middle Low German ö̂gelen, frequentative of Middle Low German ö̂gen, from Old Saxon ōgian, from Proto-West Germanic *augijan (“to show”). Alternatively from an equivalent Dutch *ogelen, but this seems unattested (only the simplex ogen). In both cases equivalent to English eye + -le.

der

Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel.

1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 137:

Slick, she bamboozles the ogles / of old Lilly Law.

2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian:


dekko

Borrowed from Hindustani देखो / دیکھو (dekho), imperative of देखना / دیکھنا (dekhnā, “to see, to look”).

But now there was a listlessness about her, not the listlessness of the cat Augustus but more that of the female in the picture in the Louvre, of whom Jeeves, on the occasion when he lugged me there to take a dekko at her, said that here was the head upon which all the ends of the world are come.

1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

Phipps went on: “One of our chaps, out on a reccy over the Bulgarian front, thought he saw something in the snow. Something fishy. He dropped down to have a dekko and nearly had kittens. What d'you think? Jerry's got a mass of stuff there—tanks, guns, lorries, every sort of heavy armament. All camouflaged. White.”

2011 [1965], Olivia Manning, Friends And Heroes (The Balkan Trilogy), Random House, →ISBN:


éminence grise

en-noun

éminence grise (plural éminences grises or éminence grises)

éminences grises (plural)
éminence grises (plural)

/ˌɛmɪnɒns ˈɡɹiːz/

Borrowed from French éminence grise (literally “grey eminence”), originally applied to François Leclerc du Tremblay (1577–1638), also known as Père Joseph, a French Capuchin friar who was the confidant and agent of Cardinal Richelieu (1585–1642), the chief minister of France under Louis XIII (1601–1643). The term refers to du Tremblay’s influence over the Cardinal (who bore the honorific of Eminence), and the colour of his habit (grey, rather than the red of a cardinal).

bor

But Harry Hopkins was no mere manipulator of people and ideas, no eminence grise masterminding the actions of figureheads.

1987 July 12, John A[rthur] Garraty, “Harry’s Luck [book review of Harry Hopkins: Ally of the Poor and Defender of Democracy by George McJimsey]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-12-19, page 28:

[Ichirō] Ozawa is the Secretary-General of [Yukio] Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan (DJP) and the éminence grise of the electoral campaign that catapulted the new Prime Minister to power.

2009 September 16, Coco Masters, “Japan’s New Prime Minister—and New Shadow Shogun”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-10-21:

(idiomatic) A secret or unofficial decision-maker.

Cardinal Richelieu
François Leclerc du Tremblay
Louis XIII

灰衣主教

secret or unofficial decision-maker — see also power behind the throne

се́рый кардина́л m (séryj kardinál, literally “grey cardinal”)


grin

From Middle High German grüene, from Old High German gruoni.


géar

head

géar (genitive singular masculine géir, genitive singular feminine géire, plural géara, comparative géire)

géir (genitive masculine singular)
géire (feminine genitive singular)
géara (plural)
géire (comparative)
géar (masculine nominative singular)
ghéar (feminine nominative singular)
géara (nominative plural)
ghéara (nominative plural)
ghéir (masculine singular vocative)
ghéar (feminine singular vocative)
géara (plural vocative)
ghéir (genitive masculine singular)
géire (feminine genitive singular)
géara (genitive plural strong)
géar (genitive plural weak)
géar (dative masculine singular)
ghéar (dative masculine singular)
ghéar (dative feminine singular)
ghéir (archaic dative feminine singular)
géara (dative plural)
ghéara (dative plural)
níos géire (comparative)
is géire (superlative)
géar (mutation mutation-radical)
ghéar (lenition mutation)
ngéar (eclipsis mutation)

From Middle Irish gér, from Old Irish gér (compare Scottish Gaelic geur, Manx gear, geayr, geyre).


cor-de-rosa

[ˌkoɾ.ðɨˈʁɔ.zɐ]

[ˌkoɾ.ðɨˈʁɔ.zɐ]


ocular

en-adj

ocular (comparative more ocular, superlative most ocular)

more ocular (comparative)
most ocular (superlative)

Derived from the Latin oculāris (“of the eye”), from oculus (“eye”).

The medication may have adverse ocular side effects.

It took some time after he lost his eye for him to receive his ocular prosthesis.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage, that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.

1860, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Behavior”, in The Conduct of Life, Boston: Ticknor & Fields, page 156:

Of, or relating to the eye, or the sense of sight

ocular markings on the wings of a butterfly

Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore,
Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof:
Or by the worth of man’s eternal soul,
Thou hadst been better have been born a dog
Than answer my waked wrath!

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:

For as Thomas was an ocular Witness of Christ’s Death and Burial, so were the other Disciples of his Resurrection; having actually seen him after he was risen.

1692, Robert South, “A Discourse concerning Our Saviour’s Resurrection”, in Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volume V, London: Jonah Bowyer, page 171:

[…] I should have been apt to think, that the young gentlewomen and Mr. Lovelace were of longer acquaintance than yesterday. For he, by stealth, as it were, cast glances sometimes at them, which they returned; and, on my ocular notice, their eyes fell, as I may say, under my eye, as if they could not stand its examination.

1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume III, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 300:

Captain Lincoln proceeded to relate some of the strange fables and fantasies, which, as it was impossible to refute them by ocular demonstration, had grown to be articles of popular belief, in reference to this old picture.

1842, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Edward Randolph’s Portrait”, in Twice-Told Tales, volume 2, Boston: James Munroe, page 32:

Suddenly starting from a proposition, exactly and sharply defined, in terms of utmost simplicity and clearness, he rejected the forms of customary logic, and by a crystalline process of accretion, built up his ocular demonstrations in forms of gloomiest and ghastliest grandeur, […]

1849 October 20, Nathaniel Parker Willis, “Death of Edgar Poe”, in Home Journal:

Seen by, or seeing with, the eye; visual.


ocular

The eyepiece of a microscope or other optical instrument.

Any of the scales forming the margin of a reptile's eye.


milis

head

milis (genitive singular feminine milse, plural milse, comparative milse)

milse (feminine genitive singular)
milse (plural)
milse (comparative)
milis (masculine nominative singular)
mhilis (feminine nominative singular)
milse (nominative plural)
mhilse (nominative plural)
mhilis (masculine singular vocative)
mhilis (feminine singular vocative)
milse (plural vocative)
mhilis (genitive masculine singular)
milse (feminine genitive singular)
milse (genitive plural strong)
milis (genitive plural weak)
milis (dative masculine singular)
mhilis (dative masculine singular)
mhilis (dative feminine singular)
milse (dative plural)
mhilse (dative plural)
níos milse (comparative)
is milse (superlative)
milis (mutation mutation-radical)
mhilis (lenition mutation)

From Old Irish milis, from Proto-Celtic *melissos, from *meli. Akin to mil.


milis

milis (masculine nominative singular)
milis (feminine nominative singular)
milis (neuter nominative singular)
milis (masculine singular vocative)
milis (feminine singular vocative)
milis (neuter singular vocative)
milis (accusative masculine singular)
milis (accusative feminine singular)
milis (accusative neuter singular)
milis (genitive masculine singular)
milse (feminine genitive singular)
milis (genitive neuter singular)
milis (dative masculine singular)
milis (dative feminine singular)
milis (dative neuter singular)
milsi (masculine nominative plural)
milsi (feminine neuter nominative plural)
milsi (masculine plural vocative)
milsi (feminine neuter plural vocative)
milsi (accusative masculine plural)
milsi (accusative feminine neuter plural)
milis (feminine genitive masculine neuter plural)
milsib (dative feminine masculine neuter plural)
milis (mutation mutation-radical)
also mmilis after a proclitic (mutation mutation-radical)
ending in a vowel (mutation mutation-radical)
milis (mutation mutation-nasal)

Irish: milis

Manx: millish

Scottish Gaelic: milis

From Proto-Celtic *melissos with a change to the i-stems, related to *meli (whence Old Irish mil).

Léic úait inna bíada milsi et tomil innahí-siu do·mmeil do chenél arnáp hésom con·éit détso.

Put away from you sg the sweet foods, and consume those that your race consumes, so that it may not be he who is indulgent to you.


wad

wād (canonical neuter)
wād (nominative singular)
wād (nominative plural)
wād (accusative singular)
wād (accusative plural)
wādes (genitive singular)
wāda (genitive plural)
wāde (dative singular)
wādum (dative plural)

Middle English: wad, wod, wadde, wode

Scots: wad, waid

English: woad

Middle English: welde, wolde

English: weld, wold

From Proto-West Germanic *waiʀd, from Proto-Germanic *waizdaz.


fragrance

en-noun

fragrance (countable and uncountable, plural fragrances)

/ˈfɹeɪɡɹəns/

Borrowed from French fragrance, from Latin fragrantia. See fragrant.

You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.

2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better, Plum, →ISBN, page 192:


fragrance

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin fragrantia, from fragrō, fragrāre. Related to flairer, which was inherited.


waft

From Middle English waften, of uncertain origin. Possibly from unattested Old English *wafettan, from wafian (“to wave”) + -ettan, or perhaps borrowed from Middle Dutch wachten (“to guard, provide for”).
See also German wabern (“to waft”), Faroese veiftra (“to wave”) and Icelandic váfa (“to fluctuate, waver, doubt”).

der

Meanwhile, the wafts from his old home pleaded, whispered, conjured, and finally claimed him imperiously.

1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, London: Methuen, →ISBN:

Patrol Magazine says of this Oxford, Miss., band: "Guitars are responsible for every noise in Colour Revolt's mix—not a single note of piano, waft of synthesizer, or evidence of electronic tampering are to be found.[…]"

2010 September, “The SLM Calendar”, in St. Louis Magazine, volume 16, number 9, St. Louis, Mo.: Hartmann Pub. Co., →ISSN, page 170:

Something (such as an odor or perfume) that is carried through the air.


evil eye

/ˌiːvl̩‿ˈaɪ/

From Middle English ivel eie (“evil eye; envy”), from Old English eage yfel, a calque of Latin oculus malus, from oculus (“eye”) + malus (“bad, evil, wicked; destructive, hurtful, injurious; unfavourable, unlucky”).

nb...

Edited with Introduction and Glossary from the Royal MS. 7 C iv. in the British Museum by E. W. Rhodes, M.A. Langton Fellow of the Owens College, Victoria University, Manchester

Each of the young men, in saluting the new-comer, made mechanically, and with care to conceal it from him, a slight gesture or sign with their fingers; for Arbaces, the Egyptian, was supposed to possess the fatal gift of the evil eye.

1834, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], “The Blind Flower-girl, and the Beauty of Fashion.—The Athenian’s Confession.—The Reader’s Introduction to Arbaces of Egypt.”, in The Last Days of Pompeii. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […]; successor to Henry Colburn, →OCLC, book I, page 25:

The ὀφθαλμὸς βάσκανος, or evil eye, is frequently mentioned by ancient writers. […] Various amulets were used to avert the influence of the evil eye. The most common of these appears to have been the phallus, called by the Romans fascinum, which was hung round the necks of children (turpicula res).

1842, Charles Anthon, “FA′SCINUM”, in edited by William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities […], 3rd American edition, New York, N.Y., Cincinnati, Oh.: American Book Company, published 1843, →OCLC, pages 431–432, column 1:

A common dread was the evil eye, and the chief charm against it was in the form of a knotted cord woven by a "wise woman".

1936, Rollo Ahmed, “The Ancient Magic of the East”, in The Black Art, London: Senate, Studio Editions, published 1994, →ISBN, page 26:

A wicked look conveying dislike or envy that in many cultures is believed to be able to cause bad luck or injury; also, the ability to cause bad luck or injury through such a look, supposed to be possessed by some people.

syri i keq

wicked look conveying dislike or envy believed to be able to cause bad luck or injury; the ability to cause bad luck or injury through such a look

Isma laughed, but Hira drew her shoulders in tighter, reached out to touch the evil eye that hung on her wall and which Isma had always assumed to be merely decorative.

2017, Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire, Bloomsbury (2018), page 11:

The charm used to ward off the evil eye; a nazar.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed euill thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, / Thefts, couetouſneſſe, wickedneſſe, deceit, laſciuiouſneſſe, an euill eye, blaſphemie, pride, fooliſhneſſe: / All theſe euill things come from within, and defile the man.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 7:21–23, column 1:

[A] Noble Venetian, vvho is ſtill a Merchant, told me, they vvill ſpeedily find out ſome Method to redreſs it; probably by making a free Port, for they look vvith an Evil Eye upon Leghorne, that dravvs to it moſt of the Veſſels bound for Italy.

1705, J[oseph] Addison, “Venice”, in Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 84:

If you tell me, "Good morning" / I'm gonna tell you, "That's a lie" / If you say I'm old, baby / I'm gonna give you the evil eye

1964 February 18, Lionel Hampton, Leonard Feather (lyrics and music), “Evil Gal Blues”, in Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington, performed by Aretha Franklin, New York, N.Y.: Columbia Records, →OCLC:

(often humorous) A look conveying disapproval, envy, hostility, etc.


hard of hearing

en-adj

hard of hearing (comparative more hard of hearing, superlative most hard of hearing)

more hard of hearing (comparative)
most hard of hearing (superlative)

Speak loudly, because Grandpa is somewhat hard of hearing.

(idiomatic) Having difficulty hearing; somewhat deaf.


blink

en-verb

blink (third-person singular simple present blinks, present participle blinking, simple past and past participle blinked)

blinks (present singular third-person)
blinking (participle present)
blinked (participle past)
blinked (past)

From Middle English blynken, blenken, from Old English blincan (suggested by causative verb blenċan (“to deceive”); > English blench), from Proto-Germanic *blinkaną, a variant of *blīkaną (“to gleam, shine”).
Cognate with Dutch blinken (“to glitter, shine”), German blinken (“to flash, blink”), Danish blinke (“to flash, twinkle, wink, blink”), Swedish blinka (“to flash, blink, twinkle, wink, blink”). Related to blank, blick, blike, bleak.

blikat

to flash on and off at regular intervals

One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame.

1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book II”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:

(intransitive) To close and reopen both eyes quickly.

To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.


spicy

en-adj

spicy (comparative spicier, superlative spiciest)

spicier (comparative)
spiciest (superlative)

From spice + -y, attested since the 16th century.

This curry is too spicy for me. I can't eat it.

(informal, of flavors) Provoking a burning sensation due to the presence of capsaicin.

حَار

providing a burning sensation due to chilies and other spices

She breathed in the strong, spicy aroma.

The breath of the mountain heifer was fragrant as the gales of Sirendiep, by feeding on ſpicy herbs.

1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv:

(of foods, flavors, or odors) Tangy, zesty, or pungent.

I don't want my children to see the spicy images on this web site.

(Internet slang) Risqué, sexy, racy; mildly pornographic.


rufus

la-adj

rūfus (feminine rūfa, neuter rūfum); first/second-declension adjective

rūfus (canonical)
rūfa (feminine)
rūfum (neuter)
rūfus (masculine nominative singular)
rūfa (feminine nominative singular)
rūfum (neuter nominative singular)
rūfī (masculine nominative plural)
rūfae (feminine nominative plural)
rūfa (neuter nominative plural)
rūfī (genitive masculine singular)
rūfae (feminine genitive singular)
rūfī (genitive neuter singular)
rūfōrum (genitive masculine plural)
rūfārum (feminine genitive plural)
rūfōrum (genitive neuter plural)
rūfō (dative masculine singular)
rūfae (dative feminine singular)
rūfō (dative neuter singular)
rūfīs (dative feminine masculine neuter plural)
rūfum (accusative masculine singular)
rūfam (accusative feminine singular)
rūfum (accusative neuter singular)
rūfōs (accusative masculine plural)
rūfās (accusative feminine plural)
rūfa (accusative neuter plural)
rūfō (ablative masculine singular)
rūfā (ablative feminine singular)
rūfō (ablative neuter singular)
rūfīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter plural)
rūfe (masculine singular vocative)
rūfa (feminine singular vocative)
rūfum (neuter singular vocative)
rūfī (masculine plural vocative)
rūfae (feminine plural vocative)
rūfa (neuter plural vocative)

>? Catalan: rúfol

→ English: rufous

Italian: rufo

Spanish: rufo

From Proto-Italic *rouðos. The medial -f- indicates a borrowing from a Sabellic language such as Oscan 𐌓𐌖𐌚𐌓𐌉𐌉𐌔 (rufriis), Umbrian 𐌓𐌖𐌚𐌓𐌖 (rufru), or from a sister variety such as Faliscan, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”). It might have penetrated urban Latin by virtue of the fact that it was used as an attribute for oxen sold in the markets in Rome. The word rōbus, which ended up being limited to oxen instead, represents the regular outcome of the same etymon.


verda

eo-head

verda (accusative singular verdan, plural verdaj, accusative plural verdajn)

verdan (accusative singular)
verdaj (plural)
verdajn (accusative plural)

Borrowed from Italian verde, from Latin viridis (“green”). Compare Portuguese and Spanish verde, French vert, Catalan and Occitan verd, as well as Welsh gwyrdd.


hearing aid

Sadly, the ever-eager Reverend Judith had not been able to conjure up many worshippers, even though it was Father’s Day. There was just one old dear sitting halfway back, her faulty hearing aid letting off a high-pitched whistle.

2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

A device used to help the hard of hearing to hear sounds.


palatable

en-adj

palatable (comparative more palatable, superlative most palatable)

more palatable (comparative)
most palatable (superlative)

For some instant noodles make a palatable, if not especially nutritious, meal.

The fermentation of flour by means of brewer’s or distiller’s yeast produces, if rightly managed, results far more palatable and wholesome.

1896, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Household Papers and Stories:


brownish

brownish (comparative more brownish, superlative most brownish)

more brownish (comparative)
most brownish (superlative)

The Giraffe and the Zebra and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Hartebeest lived there; and they were 'sclusively sandy-yellow-brownish all over […]

1902, Rudyard Kipling, “How the Leopard Got His Spots”, in Just So Stories:

Two pumps stood side by side in our kitchen. One was for well water and one was a cistern pump—water from the former was hard and clear, from the cistern it was brownish and soft.

1942, Emily Carr, “Waterworks”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:

Watt wore, on his feet, a boot, brown in colour, and a shoe, happily of a brownish colour also.

1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:

Of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown.

brunenc

of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown


agog

agog (comparative more agog, superlative most agog)

more agog (comparative)
most agog (superlative)

From Middle English agogge, from Old French en + gogues (“in a merry mood”). See also Italian agognare (“to desire eagerly”).

Cotton Mather came galloping down
All the way to Newbury town,
With his eyes agog and his ears set wide,
And his marvellous inkhorn at his side;

1860, John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Two-Headed Snake of Newbury”, in Home Ballads:

. . . and did not move even when the frogs crept out of the water and listened, with their gold-rimmed eyes all agog, and their yellow throats palpitating.

1894, Ford Madox Ford, The queen who flew: a fairy tale, page 41:

People leaning forward, their lips parted a little, their eyes agog, staring at her, Elinor, with a horrible ghoulish excitement . . .

1940, Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress, page 9:

Joe shook his head in awe, eyes agog and mouth hanging open as mine once must have hung for the tales of the north woods' legendary denizens.

1964, Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion, page 190:


crusty

From Middle English, equivalent to crust + -y.

Against the backdrop of muted stripes of color, Julieanne picked at her eyes’ crusties, and then combed her hair with the hand.

1999, Vinnie Hansen, Murder, Honey, Xlibris Corporation,, →ISBN, page 155:

Jesus, how could I bear the sight of him—sleep crusties lodged in the corners of his rheumy eyes, a puff of chest hair cresting like meringue over the top of his V-neck sweater, khakis jacked up to his breastbone—when I was used to looking at the singularly lovely Isabella?

2003, Mary O'Connell, “Saint Anne”, in Living with Saints, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 209:

I wiped the crusties from my eyes, threw on a sundress, and wandered out into the living room.

2005, Jeffrey Dinsmore, I, an Actress: The Autobiography of Karen Jamey, Contemporary Press, page 51


oráiste

head

oráiste m (genitive singular oráiste, nominative plural oráistí)

oráiste (genitive singular)
oráistí (nominative plural)
oráiste (indefinite nominative singular)
oráistí (indefinite nominative plural)
a oráiste (indefinite singular vocative)
a oráistí (indefinite plural vocative)
oráiste (genitive indefinite singular)
oráistí (genitive indefinite plural)
oráiste (dative indefinite singular)
oráistí (dative indefinite plural)
an t-oráiste (definite nominative singular)
na horáistí (definite nominative plural)
an oráiste (definite genitive singular)
na n-oráistí (definite genitive plural)
leis an oráiste (dative definite singular)
don oráiste (dative definite singular)
leis na horáistí (dative definite plural)

[əˈɾˠɑːʃtʲə]

[ˈɔɾˠɑːʃtʲə]

From earlier oráitse, borrowed from a Romance language.


jene

Alternative spelling of jené. Romanization of ꦗꦼꦤꦺ


jene

Alternative spelling of jéné. Romanization of ꦗꦺꦤꦺ


Ohr

de-noun

Ohr n (mixed, genitive Ohres or Ohrs, plural Ohren, diminutive Öhrchen n)

Ohres (genitive)
Ohrs (genitive)
Ohren (plural)
Öhrchen (diminutive neuter)
Ohr (nominative singular)
Ohren (definite nominative plural)
Ohres (genitive singular)
Ohrs (genitive singular)
Ohren (definite genitive plural)
Ohr (dative singular)
Ohre (dative singular)
Ohren (dative definite plural)
Ohr (accusative singular)
Ohren (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German ôre, from Old High German ōra, from Proto-West Germanic *auʀā, from the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô.
Akin to Dutch oor, English ear, West Frisian ear, Swedish öra, all ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ows-.
Further Indo-European cognates: Latin auris, Lithuanian ausis, Ancient Greek οὖς (oûs), Russian у́хо (úxo), Old Armenian ունկն (unkn), Albanian vesh, Persian هوش (huš)

(anatomy, countable) the ear; the auditory organ


seedy

en-adj

seedy (comparative seedier, superlative seediest)

seedier (comparative)
seediest (superlative)

From Middle English sedy, equivalent to seed + -y.

Pomegranates are as seedy as any fruit you are likely to see.

Literal senses:
Seedlike; having the flavour of seeds.

(colloquial) Having a peculiar flavour supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; said of certain kinds of French brandy.

With her aching back and pronounced limp, she was feeling particularly seedy today.

After last night’s party we were all feeling pretty seedy.


verdant

verdant (comparative more verdant, superlative most verdant)

more verdant (comparative)
most verdant (superlative)

From Middle French verdoyant, from Old French verb verdier, verdoier, from vert (“green”), from Vulgar Latin *virdis, from Latin viridis.


Nase

de-noun

Nase f (genitive Nase, plural Nasen, diminutive Näschen n or Näslein n)

Nase (genitive)
Nasen (plural)
Näschen (diminutive neuter)
Näslein (diminutive neuter)
Nase (nominative singular)
Nasen (definite nominative plural)
Nase (genitive singular)
Nasen (definite genitive plural)
Nase (dative singular)
Nasen (dative definite plural)
Nase (accusative singular)
Nasen (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German nase, from Old High German nasa, from Proto-West Germanic *nasu, from Proto-Germanic *nasō, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s.
Compare Low German Nees, Norwegian nese, English nose.


uaine

uaine (masculine nominative singular)
uaine (feminine nominative singular)
uaine (nominative plural)
uaine (masculine singular vocative)
uaine (feminine singular vocative)
uaine (plural vocative)
uaine (genitive masculine singular)
uaine (feminine genitive singular)
uaine (genitive plural strong)
uaine (genitive plural weak)
uaine (dative masculine singular)
uaine (dative feminine singular)
uaine (dative plural)
níos uaine (comparative)
is uaine (superlative)

From Old Irish úaine, úanne (“green, verdant”), from possible Proto-Celtic *udnios, from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“wet”).

green (of painted or dyed items; of bright or light-coloured items)


dur de la feuille

fr-adj

dur de la feuille (feminine dure de la feuille, masculine plural durs de la feuille, feminine plural dures de la feuille)

dure de la feuille (feminine)
durs de la feuille (masculine plural)
dures de la feuille (feminine plural)

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liath

head

liath (genitive singular masculine léith, genitive singular feminine léithe, plural liatha, comparative léithe)

léith (genitive masculine singular)
léithe (feminine genitive singular)
liatha (plural)
léithe (comparative)
liath (masculine nominative singular)
liath (feminine nominative singular)
liatha (nominative plural)
léith (masculine singular vocative)
liath (feminine singular vocative)
liatha (plural vocative)
léith (genitive masculine singular)
léithe (feminine genitive singular)
liatha (genitive plural strong)
liath (genitive plural weak)
liath (dative masculine singular)
liath (dative feminine singular)
léith (archaic dative feminine singular)
liatha (dative plural)
níos léithe (comparative)
is léithe (superlative)

From Old Irish líath, from Proto-Celtic *ɸleitos (compare Welsh llwyd, Cornish loys, Breton loued), from Proto-Indo-European *pelH- (“grey”) (compare English fallow).

Is minic duine liath lúfar. (proverb)


liath

From Old Irish líath, from Proto-Celtic *ɸleitos, from Proto-Indo-European *pelH- (“grey”).

(hair color) grey-haired, grizzled, gray-headed