"inkhorn" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈɪŋkˌhɔː(ɹ)n/ Forms: inkhorns [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English ynkhorn, inkehorn (“small portable vessel, originally made of horn, used to hold ink”), equivalent to ink + horn. Displaced Old English blæchorn, which had the same literal meaning but with the native term for "ink." Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|ynkhorn}} Middle English ynkhorn, {{m|enm|inkehorn|t=small portable vessel, originally made of horn, used to hold ink}} inkehorn (“small portable vessel, originally made of horn, used to hold ink”), {{compound|en|ink|horn}} ink + horn, {{ncog|ang|blæchorn}} Old English blæchorn Head templates: {{en-noun}} inkhorn (plural inkhorns)
  1. (archaic) A small portable container, often made of horn, used to carry ink. Tags: archaic Categories (topical): Containers Translations (small portable ink container): 墨水壺 (Chinese Mandarin), 墨水壶 (mòshuǐhú) (Chinese Mandarin), mustesarvi (Finnish), tinteiro [masculine] (Galician), ynkhorn (Middle English), blæchorn [masculine] (Old English), tinteiro [masculine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-inkhorn-en-noun-P7dUfL9g Disambiguation of Containers: 83 17 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 66 34 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 64 36 Disambiguation of 'small portable ink container': 100 0
  2. (used attributively, derogatory, of vocabulary) Pedantic, obscurely scholarly. Tags: attributive, derogatory Translations (as adjective, of vocabulary: pedantic): խրթին (xrtʻin) (Armenian), 文縐縐的 (Chinese Mandarin), 文绉绉的 (wénzhōuzhōu de) (Chinese Mandarin), 晦澀的 (Chinese Mandarin), 晦涩的 (huìsè de) (Chinese Mandarin), pilkunviilaaja (Finnish), gekünstelt (German), konstruiert (German), pedante (Italian), pretenzioso (Italian), presunçoso (Portuguese), pedante (Portuguese), педанти́чный (pedantíčnyj) (Russian), мудрёный (mudrjónyj) (Russian), зау́мный (zaúmnyj) (Russian), pedante (Spanish), rebuscado (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-inkhorn-en-noun-LXH-QRz4 Disambiguation of 'as adjective, of vocabulary: pedantic': 2 98
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: inkhornish, inkhornism, inkhornize, inkhorn term (alt: see also gallipot word (gallipot)), inkhorn word (alt: see also gallipot word (gallipot))

Noun [Middle English]

Head templates: {{head|enm|noun}} inkhorn
  1. Alternative form of ynkhorn Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: ynkhorn
    Sense id: en-inkhorn-enm-noun-9Smv~q48 Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.