pie

pies (plural)
pié (alternative obsolete)

Inherited from Old Spanish pie, from Latin pedem.
Cognate with Asturian pie, Galician and Portuguese pé, and Catalan peu. As an English unit, a calque of English foot.


head

en-noun

head (countable and uncountable, plural heads or head)

heads (plural)
head (plural)
heed (alternative obsolete)
hed (alternative obsolete)
'ead (alternative UK pronunciation-spelling)

→ Japanese: ヘッド (heddo)

Sranan Tongo: ede

Aukan: ede

Saramaccan: hédi

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *káput-
Proto-Germanic *haubudą
Old English hēafod
Middle English heed
English head
From Middle English hed, from Old English hēafd-, hēafod (“head; top; chief”), from Proto-West Germanic *haubud, from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *káput.
The modern word comes from Old English oblique stem hēafd-; the expected Modern English outcome for hēafod would be *heaved (similar to the Middle English word). Doublet of cape, capo, caput, chef, chief, and Howth.
Cognate with Scots heid, hede, hevid, heved (“head”), Old English hafola (“head”), North Frisian hood (“head”), Dutch hoofd (“head”), German Haupt (“head”), Swedish huvud (“head”), Danish hoved (“head”), Icelandic höfuð (“head”), Latin caput (“head”), Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla, “skull”), Hindi कपाल (kapāl, “skull”).

頭

つぶり, tsuburi, つぃぶる, tsiburu, つぃぶるぃ, tsiburi

pää

principal operative part of a machine or tool

have one's head screwed on the right way

know one's head from a hole in the ground

run around like a chicken with its head cut off

would lose one's head if it wasn't attached

would lose one's head if it wasn't bolted on

would lose one's head if it wasn't glued on

would lose one's head if it wasn't screwed on

would lose one's head if it wasn't stuck on

would lose one's head if it wasn't tied on

would lose one's head if it weren't attached

you can't put an old head on young shoulders

you can't put a wise head on young shoulders

The content of a headline over a news story should be taken from the lead of the story. […] The head should give the same impression as the body of the story.

1968, Earl English, Clarence Hach, Scholastic Journalism, page 166:

(countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
Ellipsis of headline.


quality

en-noun

quality (countable and uncountable, plural qualities)

→ Japanese: クオリティ (kuoriti)

→ Korean: 퀄리티 (kwolliti)

→ Malay: kualiti

US, father-bother merger, weak vowel merger

From Middle English qualite, from Old French qualité, from Latin quālitās, quālitātem, from quālis (“of what kind”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (“who, how”). Cicero coined qualitas as a calque to translate the Ancient Greek word ποιότης (poiótēs, “quality”), coined by Plato from ποῖος (poîos, “of what nature, of what kind”).

It is argued that in the last ten years or so, quality broadsheet newspapers have become more like the tabloids. Anthony Sampson has argued that 'the frontier between the qualities and popular papers has virtually disappeared'.

1998, Bill Coxall, Lynton Robins, Robert Leach, Contemporary British Politics, page 164:

(countable, UK, journalism) A newspaper with relatively serious, high-quality content.


accent

accent (countable and uncountable, plural accents)

From Middle English accent, from Medieval Latin accentus and Old French accent, acent, both from Latin accentus, past participle of accinō (“sing to, sing along”). The word accent had been borrowed into Old English already, but was lost and reborrowed in Middle English.

tongval

distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.

The name Cézanne is written with an acute accent.

(orthography) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.

pilkku

geometry: mark indicating minutes and seconds of a degree

(prosody, poetry) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.


accent

nl-noun

accent n (plural accenten, diminutive accentje n)

accenten (plural)
accentje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: aksent

→ Indonesian: aksen

→ Papiamentu: aksènt

From Middle Dutch accent, ultimately from Latin accentus.

(orthography) accent (symbol to indicate spoken accent or the nature of a vowel)


stylus

styli (plural)
styluses (plural)
stilus (alternative)

Borrowed from Latin stylus (“a stake or pale”). Probably not directly related to Ancient Greek στῦλος (stûlos, “a pillar”). Doublet of style.

иго́лка

граммофо́нная

(writing) An ancient writing implement consisting of a small rod with a pointed end for scratching letters on clay, wax-covered tablets or other surfaces, and a blunt end for obliterating them.

A small implement with a pointed end used for engraving and tracing.

(computing) A small device resembling a pen used to input handwritten text or drawings directly into an electronic device with a touch-sensitive screen.

ստիլուս

pen for writing on a touch-sensitive screen

[T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD.

2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review”, in The Telegraph:


small

en-adj

small (comparative smaller, superlative smallest)

smaller (comparative)
smallest (superlative)

From Middle English smal, from Old English smæl (“small, narrow, slender”), from Proto-Germanic *smalaz (“small”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mal-, *(s)mel- (“small, mean, malicious”). Cognate with Scots smal; sma (“small”); West Frisian smel (“narrow”); Dutch smal (“narrow”); German schmal (“narrow, small”); Low German small (“narrow”); Danish, Norwegian, Swedish smal (“narrow; thin; slender”); Latin malus (“bad”); Russian ма́лый (mályj, “small”).

inh

better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness

"I've got catholic tastes. Catholic with a small "c", of course."

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 584:

(writing, not comparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters.

փոքրատառ

minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters


yellow

en-adj

yellow (comparative yellower, superlative yellowest)

yellower (comparative)
yellowest (superlative)
yeallow (alternative)
yeller (alternative)

From Middle English yelwe, yelou, from Old English ġeolwe, oblique form of Old English ġeolu, from Proto-West Germanic *gelu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃wos, from *ǵʰelh₃- (“gleam, yellow”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian jel, jeel (“yellow”), West Frisian giel (“yellow”), Dutch geel (“yellow”), German Low German geel (“yellow”), German gelb (“yellow”), Swedish gul (“yellow”), Icelandic gulur (“yellow”). Compare also Welsh gell (“bay, tawny”), Latin helvus (“dull yellow”), Irish geal (“white, bright”), Italian giallo (“yellow”) Lithuanian žalias (“green”), Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “light green”), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow”), Sanskrit हरि (hari, “greenish-yellow”), Russian жёлтый (žóltyj, “yellow”), Russian зелёный (zeljónyj, “green”).
The verb is from Middle English yelwen, ȝalowen, ȝolewen, from Old English ġeolwian, from the adjective.

cog

The denizens of the gossipy world of the pink press, purple prose and yellow tabloids are shivering over disputed photographs of Princess Caroline of Monaco.

2004 October 4, Doreen Carvajal, “Photo edict muffles gossipy press”, in International Herald Tribune, retrieved 2008-07-29:

(publishing, journalism) Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.


vowel

→ Yoruba: fáwẹ̀lì

From Middle English vouel, from Old French vouel, a variant of voyeul (whence French voyelle), from Latin vōcālis (“voiced”), itself a semantic loan of Koine Greek φωνῆεν (phōnêen). Doublet of vocal and vocalis.

Facetiously is spelled with all six vowels in alphabetical order.

(orthography) A letter representing the sound of a vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, w (sometimes), y (sometimes) .


ending

nb-noun-c

ending f or m (definite singular endinga or endingen, indefinite plural endinger, definite plural endingene)

endinga (definite singular)
endingen (definite singular)
endinger (indefinite plural)
endingene (definite plural)

ende + -ing, first part from Old Norse endi, endir (“end, conclusion”), from Proto-Germanic *andijaz (“end”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos (“front, forehead”), from *h₂ent- (“face, forehead, front”), perhaps from *h₂en- (“on, onto”). Last part from Old Norse -ingr m, -ingi m, -ing f, from Proto-Germanic *-ingō, *-ungō.

inh

sensibilitetens øks styrer diktene – med makt tvinger den fram mannlig, trykksterk ending i hver linje

the ax of sensibility controls the poems - with force it forces a masculine, powerful ending in each line

(poetry) the last syllable in a verse line


hack

Abbreviation of hackney (“an ordinary horse”), probably from place name Hackney.

Dason is nothing but a two-bit hack.

He's nothing but the typical hack writer.

(derogatory, authorship) An untalented writer.


epigram

epigram (nominative singular)
epigramy (nominative plural)
epigramu (genitive singular)
epigramów (genitive plural)
epigramowi (dative singular)
epigramom (dative plural)
epigram (accusative singular)
epigramy (accusative plural)
epigramem (instrumental singular)
epigramami (instrumental plural)
epigramie (locative singular)
epigramach (locative plural)
epigramie (singular vocative)
epigramy (plural vocative)

(poetry) epigram (short, witty or pithy poem)


bad

en-adj

bad (comparative worse or (nonstandard) badder or (nonstandard) more bad, superlative worst or (nonstandard) baddest or (nonstandard) most bad)

worse (comparative)
badder (comparative nonstandard)
more bad (comparative nonstandard)
worst (superlative)
baddest (nonstandard superlative)
most bad (nonstandard superlative)

From Middle English bad, badde (“wicked, evil, depraved”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortening of Old English bæddel (“hermaphrodite”) (for loss of -el compare Middle English muche from Old English myċel, and Middle English wenche from Old English wenċel), or at least related to it and/or to bǣ̆dan (“to defile”), compare Old High German pad (“hermaphrodite”).
Alternatively, perhaps a loan from Old Norse into Middle English, compare Norwegian bad (“effort, trouble, fear”, neuter noun), East Danish bad (“damage, destruction, fight”, neuter noun), from the Proto-Germanic noun *badą, whence also Proto-Germanic *badōną (“to frighten”), Old Saxon undarbadōn (“to frighten”), Norwegian Nynorsk bada (“to weigh down, press”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to bend, press, push, oppress”).

unk

uncertain

der

æ-tensing, New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore

Don't you dare speak to me with that bad language!

(of a word, speech, or writing) Vulgar, obscene, or blasphemous.


AP

(journalism) Initialism of Associated Press.


beat

→ Pennsylvania German: biede

From Middle English beten, from Old English bēatan (“to beat, pound, strike, lash, dash, thrust, hurt, injure”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautan, from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to push, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewd- (“to hit, strike”).
Compare Old Irish fo·botha (“he threatened”), Latin confutō (“to strike down”), fūstis (“stick, club”), Albanian bahe (“sling”), Lithuanian baudžiù, Old Armenian բութ (butʻ)).

march to the beat of a different drummer

(authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.

As an adult, I became a journalist whose beat is the environment. In a way, I’ve turned my youthful preoccupations into a profession.

2020 April, Elizabeth Kolbert, “Why we won't avoid a climate catastrophehttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/04/why-we-wont-avoid-a-climate-catastrophe-feature/”, in National Geographic:

(by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially

(journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).


ear

Tok Pisin: ia

From Middle English ere, eare, from Old English ēare (“ear”), from Proto-West Germanic *auʀā, from the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô (“ear”) (compare Scots ear, West Frisian ear, Dutch oor, German Ohr, Swedish öra, Danish øre), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws (compare Old Irish áu, Latin auris, Lithuanian ausi̇̀s, Russian у́хо (úxo), Albanian vesh, Ancient Greek οὖς (oûs), Old Armenian ունկն (unkn), and Persian گوش (gôš)).

you can't make a silk purse of a sow's ear

In journalism, ears flank the title as boxes in the left and right top corners of a publication (generally a newspaper).

2006, Richard Weiner, Charles M. Levine, The Skinny about Best Boys, Dollies, Green Rooms, Leads, and Other Media Lingo, page 26:

(journalism) A space to the left or right of a publication's front-page title, used for advertising, weather, etc.


leg

→ Finnish: legi

→ Hungarian: leg

From Middle English leg, legge, from Old Norse leggr (“leg, calf, bone of the arm or leg, hollow tube, stalk”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz, *lagwijaz (“leg, thigh”) (see it for more).
Cognate with Scots leg (“leg”), Icelandic leggur (“leg, limb”), Norwegian Bokmål legg (“leg”), Norwegian Nynorsk legg (“leg”), Swedish lägg (“leg, shank, shaft”), Danish læg (“leg”), Lombardic lagi (“thigh, shank, leg”), Latin lacertus (“limb, arm”), Persian لنگ (leng). Upon borrowing, mostly displaced the native Old English term sċanca (Modern English shank).

don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining

don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining

piss on someone's leg and tell them it's raining

A leg is one column of a story. It has two legs if it is set in two columns and three legs if it is set in three columns. Avoid legs longer than 10 inches and shorter than 1 inch.

2015, Homer L. Hall, Megan Fromm, Aaron Manfull, Student Journalism & Media Literacy, page 266:

(journalism) A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out.


slug

Nicoline van der Sijs
Slug (disambiguation)

Originally referred to a slow, lazy person, from Middle English slugge (“lazy person", also "sloth, slothfulness”), probably of either Old English or Old Norse origin; compare Norn slug (“lazy, slothful, sluggish”), dialectal Norwegian slugg (“a large, heavy body”), sluggje (“heavy, slow person”), Danish slog (“rascal, rogue”); perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sliǵ-ōn, from *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”) or otherwise from the root of Old Norse slókr (“lazy person, oaf”), whence Icelandic slókur (“laziness”). Compare also Dutch slak (“snail, slug”). Doublet of slotch.

inh

(journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.

(television editing) A black screen used to separate broadcast items.


ribbon

en-noun

ribbon (countable and uncountable, plural ribbons)

ribbons (plural)
ribband (alternative)
reebon (alternative obsolete)

→ Japanese: リボン (ribon)

→ Korean: 리본 (ribon)

From Middle English riban, ryban, ryband, from Old French riban, ruban ( > modern French ruban), of uncertain origin. Likely from a Germanic compound whose second element is cognate with English band. Compare Middle Dutch ringhband (“necklace”, literally “ring-band”).

cog

(journalism) A subheadline presented above its parent headline.


lead

en-noun

lead (countable and uncountable, plural leads)

leads (plural)
lede (alternative obsolete)
leed (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English leden, from Old English lǣdan (“to lead”), from Proto-West Germanic *laidijan, from Proto-Germanic *laidijaną (“to cause one to go, lead”), causative of Proto-Germanic *līþaną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“to leave, die”).
Cognate with West Frisian liede (“to lead”), Dutch leiden (“to lead”), German leiten (“to lead”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål lede (“to lead”), Norwegian Nynorsk leia (“to lead”), Swedish leda (“to lead”). Related to Old English līþan (“to go, travel”).

der

(US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)


lead

lead (nominative singular)
leady (nominative plural)
leadu (genitive singular)
leadów (genitive plural)
leadowi (dative singular)
leadom (dative plural)
lead (accusative singular)
leady (accusative plural)
leadem (instrumental singular)
leadami (instrumental plural)
leadzie (locative singular)
leadach (locative plural)
leadzie (singular vocative)
leady (plural vocative)

(newspapers, journalism) lead paragraph, teaser, lead-in (start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how)


bust

en-verb

bust (third-person singular simple present busts, present participle busting, simple past and past participle busted or bust)

busts (present singular third-person)
busting (participle present)
busted (participle past)
busted (past)
bust (participle past)
bust (past)

From Middle English busten, a variant of Middle English bursten, bresten (“to burst”). Compare German Low German basten and barsten (“to burst”). More at burst.

The temptation to squeeze in a favourite headline that busts by using the flexibility of new technology is often very strong.

1990, Paul Williams, The Computerized Newspaper: A Practical Guide for Systems Users, page 105:

If your headline busts (breaks the confines of the layout) you will know straightaway. Similarly, the computer will inform you, in terms of the number of lines, how much longer or shorter the copy is in relation to the space allotted.

2007, Rob Steen, Sports Journalism: A Multimedia Primer, page 167:

(journalism, intransitive) For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.


contraction

en-noun

contraction (countable and uncountable, plural contractions)

PIE word
 *ḱóm
From Late Middle English contraccioun, contraxion (“spasm, contraction; constriction, shrinking; act of pressing together”), from Old French contraction (modern French contraction), from Latin contractiō(n) (“a drawing together, contraction; abridgement, shortening; dejection, despondency”), from contrahō (“to draw things together, assemble, collect, gather; to enter into a contract”) + -tiō(n) (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or their results). Contrahō is derived from con- (prefix denoting a bringing together of objects) + trahō (“to drag, pull”) (probably from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to drag, pull; to run”)). By surface analysis, contract + -ion (suffix denoting actions or processes, or their results).

verkleining

Don’t is a contraction of do not; and ’til is a contraction of until.

Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.

A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.

(orthography) In the English language: a shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark.


machine

→ Ainu: マシン

→ Bengali: মেশিন (meśin)

→ Cowlitz: məšín

→ Irish: meaisín

→ Japanese: マシン (mashin)

→ Korean: 머신 (meosin)

→ Maori: mīhini

→ Punjabi

Gurmukhi script: ਮਸ਼ੀਨ (maśīn)

Shahmukhi script: مشین (maśīn)

→ Swahili: mashine

→ Tok Pisin: masin

Borrowed from Middle French machine, from Latin māchina (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”), from Doric Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ (mākhănā́), cognate with Attic Greek μηχᾰνή (mēkhănḗ, “a machine, engine, contrivance, device”), from which comes mechanical. Displaced native Old English searu.

cog

perpetual motion machine of the first kind

perpetual motion machine of the second kind

Outline of machines on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

I am apt to think, that the changing of the Trojan fleet into water-nymphs, which is the most violent machine in the whole Æneid[…]

1712 May 2 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “MONDAY, April 21, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 351; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume IV, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

(poetry) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.


bridge

bridges (plural)
bridg (alternative obsolete)
brigge (alternative)

From Middle English brigge, from Old English brycġ (“bridge”), from Proto-Germanic *brugjō, *brugjǭ (“bridge”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrēw- (“wooden flooring, decking, bridge”).
Cognate with Scots brig, brigg, breeg (“bridge”), Saterland Frisian Brääch (“bridge”), West Frisian brêge (“bridge”), Dutch brug (“bridge”), German Brücke (“bridge”), Danish brygge (“wharf”), Icelandic brygga (“pier”), Gaulish briua (“bridge”).
The verb is from Middle English briggen, from Old English brycġian (“to bridge, make a causeway, pave”), derived from the noun. Cognate with Dutch bruggen (“to bridge”), Middle Low German bruggen (“to bridge”), Old High German bruccōn (“to bridge”) (whence Modern German brücken).
The musical connection sense is a semantic loan from German Steg, from Old High German steg.

ацҳа

construction or natural feature that spans a divide

if someone told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it

(poetry) A point in a line where a break in a word unit cannot occur.


tell

en-verb

tell (third-person singular simple present tells, present participle telling, simple past and past participle told or (dialectal or nonstandard) telled)

tells (present singular third-person)
telling (participle present)
told (participle past)
told (past)
telled (dialectal participle past)
telled (dialectal past)
tell (infinitive)
tell (first-person present singular)
told (first-person past singular)
tell (present second-person singular)
tellest (archaic present second-person singular)
told (past second-person singular)
toldest (archaic past second-person singular)
tells (present singular third-person)
telleth (archaic present singular third-person)
told (past singular third-person)
tell (plural present)
told (past plural)
tell (present subjunctive)
told (past subjunctive)
tell (imperative present)
telling (participle present)
told (participle past)

From Middle English tellen (“to count, tell”), from Old English tellan (“to count, tell”), from Proto-West Germanic *talljan, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną, *talzijaną (“to count, enumerate”), from Proto-Germanic *talą, *talǭ (“number, counting”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol- (“calculation, fraud”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian tälle (“to say; tell”), West Frisian telle (“to count”), West Frisian fertelle (“to tell, narrate”), Dutch tellen (“to count”) and Dutch vertellen (“to tell”), Low German tellen (“to count”), German zählen, Faroese telja. More at tale.

cog

Maria rewrote the section of her novel that talked about Meg and Sage's friendship to have less telling and more showing.

(authorship, intransitive) To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement — contrasted with show.


round

en-adj

round (comparative rounder or more round, superlative roundest or most round)

rounder (comparative)
more round (comparative)
roundest (superlative)
most round (superlative)
around (alternative)
ron (alternative)

From Middle English round, rounde, from Old Northern French roünt, rund, Old French ront, runt, reont ( > French rond), from both Late Latin retundus and the original Latin rotundus. The noun developed partly from the adjective and partly from the corresponding French noun rond. Doublet of rotund.

pyöreä

pronounced with the mouth in the shape of an "O"

(authorship, of a fictional character) Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.


round

roundes (plural)
rond (alternative)
rounde (alternative)
roun (alternative)
rount (alternative)
roende (alternative Late-Middle-English)
rown (alternative Late-Middle-English)
rowne (alternative Late-Middle-English)
rownd (alternative Late-Middle-English)
rowndde (alternative Late-Middle-English)
rownde (alternative Late-Middle-English)
rowunde (alternative Late-Middle-English)

English: round

Geordie English: roond

Scots: round, roond

Yola: rent

Borrowed from Old French reont, from Late Latin retundus, from Latin rotundus.


flat

flat (comparative flatter, superlative flattest)

flatter (comparative)
flattest (superlative)
flatt (alternative obsolete)
flatte (alternative obsolete)

bumpy

antonym(s) of “having no variations in altitude”

→ Portuguese: flat

From Middle English flat, a borrowing from Old Norse flatr (compare Norwegian and Swedish flat, Danish flad), from Proto-Germanic *flataz, from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”); akin to Saterland Frisian flot (“smooth”), German Flöz (“a geological layer”), Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús), Latvian plats, Sanskrit प्रथस् (prathas, “extension”). Doublet of plat and pleyt.
The noun is from Middle English flat (“level piece of ground, flat edge of a weapon”), from the adjective.
The algebraic sense was coined by Serre in a 1956 paper, originally as French plat.

inh

The author added a chapter to flesh out the book's flatter characters.

(figurative) Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.

(authorship, figuratively, especially of a character) Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.


rim

From Middle English rim, rym, rime, from Old English rima (“rim, edge, border, bank, coast”), from Proto-Germanic *rimô, *rembô (“edge, border”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *rem-, *remə- (“to rest, support, be based”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Rim (“plank, wooden cross, trellis”), Old Saxon rimi (“edge; border; trim”), Icelandic rimi (“a strip of land”).

cog

COPY READER — Journeyman, experienced makeup, now slot man on metropolitan midwest daily. Will travel for good rim job on large paper.

1953 September 26, Editor & Publisher 1953-09-26: Vol 86 Iss 40:

A copy chief with poor people skills makes life miserable for copy editors on the rim; […]

2004, John Russial, Strategic Copy Editing, page 130:

On the rim are copy editors who edit stories for accuracy, brevity and clarity.

2009, Gaylon Eugene Murray, Effective Editing, page 7:


dialogue

en-noun

dialogue (countable and uncountable, plural dialogues)

dialogues (plural)
dialog (alternative US)

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

The movie had great special effects, but the dialogue was lackluster.

In 1936, Anstey had co-directed Housing Problems, which featured direct dialogue recording - allowing the subjects of the film to speak for themselves. As Anstey said: "At the time nobody had done it, and we gave slum dwellers a chance to make their own films."

2021 March 10, Greg Morse, “Telling the railway's story on film”, in RAIL, number 926, page 42:

(authorship) In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters.

حِوَار

verbal part of a literary or dramatic work


broad

en-adj

broad (comparative broader, superlative broadest)

broader (comparative)
broadest (superlative)

thin

antonym(s) of “wide—regarding occupied space, width of an object”

skinny

antonym(s) of “wide—regarding body width”

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-der.?
Proto-Germanic *braidaz
Proto-West Germanic *braid
Old English brād
Middle English brod
English broad
From Middle English brood, brode, from Old English brād (“broad, flat, open, extended, spacious, wide, ample, copious”), from Proto-West Germanic *braid, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz (“broad”), of uncertain origin.
Cognate with Scots braid (“broad”), West Frisian breed (“broad”), Saterland Frisian breed (“broad”), Low German breed (“broad”), breet, Dutch breed (“broad”), German breit (“broad, wide”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål bred (“broad”), Norwegian brei (“broad”), Icelandic breiður (“broad, wide”).

inh

not be able to hit the broad side of a barn

Lee: I wrote that line for you. Maeve: A bit broad, if you ask me.

2018 April 22, “Journey into Night” (39:17 from the start), in Westworld, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Maeve Millay and Lee Sizemore (Thandie Newton and Simon Quarterman), via HBO:


heavy

From Middle English hevy, heviȝ, from Old English hefiġ, hefeġ, hæfiġ (“heavy; important, grave, severe, serious; oppressive, grievous; slow, dull”), from Proto-West Germanic *habīg (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Germanic *habīgaz (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to take, grasp, hold”).
Cognate with Scots hevy, havy, heavy (“heavy”), Saterland Frisian heeuwich, häwich (“violent, angry”), West Frisian hevich (“violent”), Dutch hevig (“violent, severe, intense, acute”), German Low German hevig (“violent, fierce, intense, angry”), German hebig (compare heftig (“fierce, severe, intense, violent, heavy”)), Icelandic höfugur (“heavy, weighty, important”), Latin capāx (“large, wide, roomy, spacious, capacious, capable, apt”).

cog

The comment may be offered here that the 'heavies' have been the Design Award's principal scorers, both in the overall bronze plaque days and, since, in the Daily/Sunday Class 1.

1973, Allen Hutt, The changing newspaper, page 151:

Reviewers in the heavies aim to impress with the depth of their knowledge and appreciation.

2006, Richard Keeble, The Newspapers Handbook:

(journalism, slang, chiefly in the plural) A newspaper of the quality press.


apostrophe

apostrophes (plural)
apostrophë (alternative)
apostrophy (alternative)

From French apostrophe, or Latin apostrophus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστροφος (apóstrophos, “accent of elision”), a noun use of an adjective from ἀποστρέφω (apostréphō, “I turn away”), from ἀπό (apó, “away from”) + στρέφω (stréphō, “to turn”).

der

Since its inception the apostrophe has been a controversial piece of punctuation.

2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 30:

(orthography) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.


apostrophe

→ English: apostrophe

→ Romanian: apostrof

desctree

→ Russian: апо́строф (apóstrof)
→ Azerbaijani: apostrof

→ Persian: آپاستروف (âpâstruf)

→ Turkish: apostrof

From Latin apostrophus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστροφος (apóstrophos, “accent of elision”), a noun use of an adjective from ἀποστρέφω (apostréphō, “to turn away”).


stroke

The noun is derived from Middle English strok, stroke (“blow from a weapon, cut”), from Old English strāc, from Proto-West Germanic *straik, from Proto-Germanic *straikaz (“stroke”), from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to rub, stroke; to shear; to strike”).
Sense 3.6.2.2 (“the oblique, slash, or virgule (‘/’)”) is a contraction of oblique stroke, a variant of oblique which was originally used in telegraphy.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
* German Streich (“stroke”)
* Middle Low German strēk (“stroke, trick, prank”)
* Scots strak, strake, straik (“blow, stroke”)

isku

one of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished

ход

single movement or thrust of a part (such as a piston) of a machine that moves back and forth; length of this movement

A single movement of a paintbrush, chisel, pen, pencil, or similar implement; a line or mark made by such an implement.

(linguistics, calligraphy, typography) A line making up a written character.

خَطّ

line or mark made on a surface by an implement for drawing, writing, etc.

筆畫 /笔画

line making up a written character; specifically, a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character


hammer

From Middle English hamer, from Old English hamor, from Proto-West Germanic *hamar, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz (“tool with a stone head”) (compare West Frisian hammer, Low German Hamer, Dutch hamer, German Hammer, Danish hammer, Swedish hammare). This is traditionally ascribed to Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from *h₂éḱmō (“stone”), but see *hamaraz for further discussion.
(declare a defaulter on the stock exchange): Originally signalled by knocking with a wooden mallet.

sense

Hammers are, in essence, reverse kickers. Instead of being set in smaller type like kickers, hammers are set in larger type than headlines.

1981, Harry W. Stonecipher, Edward C. Nicholls, Douglas A. Anderson, Electronic Age News Editing, page 104:

(journalism) Ellipsis of hammer headline.


femme

en-adj

femme (comparative more femme, superlative most femme)

more femme (comparative)
most femme (superlative)

Borrowed from French femme (“woman”). Doublet of feme, femina, and hembra.

Admittedly, Kiedis was concerned about the lack of femme rockers on the bill: the only women featured were in British band Lush, who would open each day's festivities before a few hundred curious onlookers.

2009, Jeff Apter, Fornication: The Red Hot Chili Peppers Story:

High heels are something like neckties for women, in that it can be harder to look both formal and femme without them.

2019 March 20, Summer Brennan, “Sex, power, oppression: why women wear high heels”, in The Guardian:

(chiefly Canada, US, journalism, entertainment) Pertaining to a femme; feminine, female.


開く

ja-verb

開(ひら)く • (hiraku) transitive or intransitive godan (stem 開(ひら)き (hiraki), past 開(ひら)いた (hiraita))

開く (canonical)
hiraku (romanization)
開き (stem)
開いた (past)
開か
ひらか
hiraka
開き
ひらき
hiraki
開く
ひらく
hiraku
開け
ひらけ
hirake
開かれる (passive)
ひらかれる (passive)
hirakareru (passive)
開かせる (causative)
開かす (causative)
ひらかせる (causative)
ひらかす (causative)
hirakaseru (causative)
hirakasu (causative)
開ける (potential)
ひらける (potential)
hirakeru (potential)
開こう (volitional)
ひらこう (volitional)
hirakō (volitional)
開かない (negative)
ひらかない (negative)
hirakanai (negative)
開かず (continuative negative)
ひらかず (continuative negative)
hirakazu (continuative negative)
開きます (formal)
ひらきます (formal)
hirakimasu (formal)
開いた (perfective)
ひらいた (perfective)
hiraita (perfective)
開いて (conjunctive)
ひらいて (conjunctive)
hiraite (conjunctive)
開けば (conditional hypothetical)
ひらけば (conditional hypothetical)
hirakeba (conditional hypothetical)
開か (irrealis stem)
ひらか (irrealis stem)
firaka (irrealis)
開き (continuative stem)
ひらき (continuative stem)
firaki (continuative)
開く (stem terminative)
ひらく (stem terminative)
firaku (terminative)
開く (attributive stem)
ひらく (attributive stem)
firaku (attributive)
開け (realis stem)
ひらけ (realis stem)
firake (realis)
開け (imperative stem)
ひらけ (imperative stem)
firake (imperative)
開かず (negative)
ひらかず (negative)
firakazu (negative)
開けど (contrastive)
ひらけど (contrastive)
firakedo (contrastive)
開けば (causative)
ひらけば (causative)
firakeba (causative)
開かば (conditional)
ひらかば (conditional)
firakaba (conditional)
開きき (past)
ひらきき (past)
firakiki (past)
開きけり (past)
ひらきけり (past)
firakikeri (past)
開きつ (perfect)
ひらきつ (perfect)
firakitu (perfect)
開きぬ (perfect)
ひらきぬ (perfect)
firakinu (perfect)
開けり (continuative perfect)
開きたり (continuative perfect)
ひらけり (continuative perfect)
ひらきたり (continuative perfect)
firakeri (continuative perfect)
firakitari (continuative perfect)
開かむ (volitional)
ひらかむ (volitional)
firakamu (volitional)

(proofreading, orthography) to write a Japanese word using hiragana


leader

→ Catalan: líder

→ Czech: lídr

→ Galician: líder

→ Japanese: リーダー (rīdā)

→ Korean: 리더 (rideo)

→ Polish: lider

→ Portuguese: líder

→ Romanian: lider

→ Russian: ли́дер (líder)

→ Spanish: líder

→ Turkish: lider

→ Ukrainian: лі́дер (líder)

From Middle English leder, ledere, from Old English lǣdere (“leader”), from Proto-West Germanic *laidijārī (“leader”), equivalent to lead + -er. Cognate with Scots ledar, leidar (“leader”), West Frisian lieder (“leader”), Dutch leider (“leader”), German Leiter (“leader, conductor, manager”), Danish leder (“leader, manager”), Swedish ledare (“leader, conductor, director”), Icelandic leiðari (“leader, conductor”).

cog

Someone or something that leads or conducts.

(UK, journalism) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.


wire

en-noun

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

Breaking news reports have just come in to us over the wire.

(journalism, informal) Clipping of wire service and/or newswire.


亂

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *roːns): phonetic 𤔔 (*[r]ˁo[n]-s) + semantic 乚. The left-side component 𤔔 is itself ideogrammatic, depicting the effort to comb a tangle of threads, hence the semantic link to order and disorder.
Area word of Austroasiatic origin. Compare Khmer ប្រួល (pruəl, “changing; unstable”) < Khmer រួល (ruəl, “to cook; to grill”), and also Khmer កំរោល (kɑmraol, “to go berserk; to become excited”) < Khmer រោល (rool, “to burn; to roast”) (Schuessler, 2007). Burmese ရုန်း (run:, “to struggle, to warp, to cause chaos”) and Tibetan ཁྲལ་ཁྲུལ (khral khrul, “fragments; scattered”) are Austroasiatic loans. Compare also Vietnamese lộn (“to turn the inside out, upside down, to reverse, to return, etc.”) and trộn (“to mix; to blend; to turn upside down”).

cog

乱
乨
乿
𠃶
𠃹
𠃿
𢿢
𢿮
𤕅
𤔪

The Master said, "When the music master Zhi first entered on his office, the finish of the Guan Ju was magnificent — how it filled the ears!"

The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

Zǐyuē: “Shī Zhì zhī shǐ, “Guānjū” zhī luàn, yángyáng hū yíng ěr zāi!”

子曰：「師摯之始，《關雎》之亂，洋洋乎盈耳哉！」

子曰：「师挚之始，《关雎》之乱，洋洋乎盈耳哉！」

(obsolete, literary, music or poetry) coda; finale; conclusion of a piece


pipe

en-verb

pipe (third-person singular simple present pipes, present participle piping, simple past and past participle piped)

pipes (present singular third-person)
piping (participle present)
piped (participle past)
piped (past)

From Middle English pīpe, pype (“hollow cylinder or tube used as a conduit or container; duct or vessel of the body; musical instrument; financial records maintained by the English Exchequer, pipe roll”), from Old English pīpe (“pipe (musical instrument); the channel of a small stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīpā. Reinforced by Vulgar Latin *pīpa, from Latin pipire, pipiare, pipare, from pīpiō (“to chirp, peep”), of imitative origin. Doublet of fife.
The “storage container” and “liquid measure” senses are derived from Middle English pīpe (“large storage receptacle, particularly for wine; cask, vat; measure of volume”), from pīpe (above) and Old French pipe (“liquid measure”). In specific contexts, calques similar units of measure such as Portuguese pipa.
The verb is from Middle English pīpen, pypyn (“to play a pipe; to make a shrill sound; to speak with a high-pitched tone”), from Old English pīpian (“to pipe”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

inh

[…] who ostensibly was handed an all-day sucker by a warm-hearted bandit in the act of robbing a candy store of $40, there was no moral outcry. "Find the girl," was the immediate response of competing editors to their reporters at police headquarters. The men of the press, who knew a piped story when they saw one, quickly found another little girl, presented her with a lollipop, and photographed her skipping rope in front of the candy store.

1981, Elie Abel, What's News: The Media in American Society, page 259:

If there was a lull in criminal activity, reporters were not above "piping" a story.

Reporters today supposedly do not use "piped" stories because they are unethical.

2008, Homer L. Hall, Logan H. Aimone, High School Journalism, page 91:

(US, journalism, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).


仄

(linguistics, poetry, of a tone) being neither the ngang or huyền tone

(poetry, of a rhyme) carrying a trắc tone


令

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (令):
* → Japanese: 令(りょう) (ryō); 令(れい) (rei)
* → Vietnamese: lệnh (令), lành (令)

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 亼 + 卩. The upper part is an open mouth to convey the idea of giving orders, while the bottom part is a kneeling man. Compare 兄, in which an open mouth on top of the character conveys the same idea of giving orders.
Usually thought to be related to 命 (OC *mreŋs, “order”) (Schuessler, 2007). As a surname, 令 has many origins, one of them is 令狐 (Línghú).


倍

(typography, newspapers) a unit in newspaper typesetting, equal to 88 mils, ⁸⁸⁄₁₀₀₀ in, 8 U (U) and ¹⁄₁₆ 段 (dan)


儘

Sound shift from 随(まにま) (manima, “state of following other's will or the way things develop”).

ja-r

北川さんの「見っけた写真」〔ママ〕


儷

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *reːls): semantic 人 (“person”) + phonetic 麗 (OC *reːls, *rel).


冠

(poetry) first (traditionally, five) morae of a haiku, etc.; specifically, the first verse or line of a poem


勒

(calligraphy) the horizontal stroke; the second of the Eight Principles of Yong


字

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (字):
* → Japanese: 字(じ) (ji)
* → Korean: 자(字) (ja)
* → Vietnamese: tự (字)

→ Proto-Tai: *ɟɤ:ᴮ (“name”)

Lao: ຊື່ (sư̄, “name”)

Thai: ชื่อ (chʉ̂ʉ, “name”)

Zhuang: coh (“name”)

desc

→ Vietnamese: chữ (“script; letter; writing; word”), chửa (“to be pregnant”)

Characters in the same phonetic series (子) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *zlɯs): semantic 宀 (“roof”) + phonetic 子 (OC *ʔslɯʔ, “child”).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsa ~ za (“child; to give birth; to take care; to be kind”). Related to:
* 子 (OC *ʔslɯʔ, “child, son”) (also its phonetic component)
* 慈 (OC *zɯ, “to be kind, loving”)
* 滋 (OC *ʔsɯ, “to nourish, to grow”)
* 詞 (OC *ljɯ, “word, term”)
* 辭 (OC *ljɯ, “word, from testimony”)
Original sense (1): “to become pregnant, to give birth to, to nurture, to love” has essentially become obsolete. The sense (2) “letter, character” is either from a different root or a derivation from the sense “to produce, to generate”.
Cognate with Tibetan ཚ་བོ (tsha bo, “nephew”), Tibetan ཚ་རུས (tsha rus, “descendant”), Tibetan བཙའ (btsa', “to give birth to; to guard”), Tibetan མཛའ (mdza', “kind, peaceful, friendly”) (Quan, 1996), Burmese စာ (ca, “writing, letter”).

cog

柳字 ― liǔzì ― style of calligraphy of Liu Gongquan

(calligraphy) style of handwriting; printing type

字畫／字画

(calligraphy) (a calligrapher's) calligraphy work


acatalectic

From Late Latin acatalēcticus, from Ancient Greek ἀκατάληκτος (akatálēktos, “leaving off”).

der

(poetry, prosody) Designating a line of verse having the required number of syllables in the last foot


acatalectic

(poetry, prosody) A verse which has the complete number of feet and syllables


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

(Chinese calligraphy) a bend (such as in ㇉, ㇌, ㇟, or ㇠)


徒

徒花

blossom that bear no fruit; things which being gorgeous in the pretence but worthless in actuality

蕉風俳諧(しょうふうはいかい) 蕉風俳諧#Japanese

(historical, poetry) the term of the 蕉風俳諧(しょうふうはいかい) (shōfūhaikai, “Bashō style haikai”) to indicate innocent and humorous style


折

Characters in the same phonetic series (折) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Originally 㪿, an ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): ⿱屮屮 (“a tree 木 cut in half”) + 斤 (“axe”) – an axe cutting a tree in half.
In the current form, the left side has become 扌 (“hand”).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tset (“to cut off; to sever; to break”).

inh

(Chinese calligraphy) a change in direction of a stroke (such as in ㇕, ㇉, or ㇜)


挑

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *l̥ʰaːw, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːwʔ): semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 兆 (OC *l'ewʔ).

Han compound

(Chinese calligraphy) a rising stroke (㇀)


捺

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *naːd): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 奈 (OC *naːls, *naːds) – to press down with the hand, stamp.

Han compound

one character does not have two falling strokes (rule used in calligraphy)

yī zì bù èr nà

一字不二捺

(Chinese calligraphy) a stroke that falls downwards towards the right (㇏)


提

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *deː, *dje): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 是 (OC *djeʔ).


撇

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *pʰeːd): semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 敝 (OC *beds, *bed).

Han compound

(Chinese calligraphy) stroke that falls downwards towards the left (㇒)


斜

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *lja, *laː): semantic 斗 (“ladle/dipper”) + phonetic 余 (OC *la). The character expresses the idea of scooping or drawing out. By extension, it is also used to mean "slant" or "diagonal."

Han compound

(Chinese calligraphy) a bend to the right (such as in ㇂, ㇃, or ㇠)


橫

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɡʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋs, *kʷaːŋ): semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 黃 (OC *ɡʷaːŋ).
; “crosswise > door rail; side; cross-grained; unrestrained”
* Related to 衡 (OC *ɡraːŋ, “crossbar”), 桁 (OC *ɡaːŋ, *ɡraːŋ, “purlin”), 珩 (OC *ɡraːŋ, “top horizontal gem of a girdle-pendant”) and 璜 (OC *ɡʷaːŋ, “jade pendant”) (Wang, 1982), and possibly 樑 (OC *raŋ, “roof beam”) (Schuessler, 2007).
* Schuessler (2007) connects these with Khmer ខ្វែង (khvaeng, “to cross; to intersect; to crisscross; diagonal; etc.”) < Old Khmer khveṅ (“to go far around; to encircle; to enclose”). Compare Thai ขวาง (kwǎang, “to lie across; to bar; to obstruct; to thwart”) and the Khmer derivatives កំពែង (kɑmpɛɛng, “enclosing wall; rampart”), កំពង់ (kɑmpŭəng, “crossing-place; ford; port; shore”) (cf. Malay kampung). Note also Burmese ခြင် (hkrang, “bamboo rafter”) (Luce, 1981).

cog

(Chinese calligraphy) horizontal stroke (㇐)


歌

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *ota.


段

(typography, newspapers) a unit in newspaper typesetting, equal to 1408 mils, ¹⁴⁰⁸⁄₁₀₀₀ in, 128 U (U) and 16 倍 (bai)


海

⟨umi₁⟩ → */umij/ → /umi/
From Old Japanese, theorized as descending from Proto-Japonic *omi.
Has been thought to have been derived from a compound. There are two leading theories regarding the ultimate derivation:
* Shift from 大 (ō-, “big, great”) + 水 (mi, “water”, combining form).
: This is problematic phonetically because there is no known term having a related shift from /opo/ → /oː/ → /o/ → /u/, and semantically as there already exists a compound 大水 (ōmizu, “flood”).
* From う (u-, stem indicating “ocean”) + 水 (mi, “water”, combining form). The u- stem is evident in 魚 (uo, “fish”) and 潮 (ushio, “salt water; tide”), and in the 海 (una) element in various ancient terms (see below).

海を渡る

cross over the ocean → go to a foreign country

(calligraphy) in a 硯 (suzuri, “inkstone”), a reservoir where water is stored


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

直
⿱十且
𡇛
𥄂
𬽈
𰥐
𰥑
𠅺
𣓟
𣖇
𣖈
𣖴
𥠤

(Chinese calligraphy) vertical stroke in Chinese characters


真

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (真):
* → Japanese: 真(しん) (shin)
* → Korean: 진(眞) (jin)
* → Vietnamese: chân (真)

→ Lao: ຈິງ (ching)

→ Proto-Turkic: *čïn (see there for further descendants)

→ Thai: จริง (jing)

/t͡sz̩ʷøŋ⁵²/

/t͡sz̩ʷøŋ⁵²/

Originally phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ʔljin): phonetic 𠂈 (OC *l'ɯːnʔ) + semantic 貝 (“cowry”); 𠂈 (a knife or dagger) was then a phonetic component. Often 丁 (OC *rteːŋ, *teːŋ) (a nail) was added as a second phonetic component at the bottom; originally, it appeared as a black dot. He Linyi posits it to be the original character for 珍 (OC *ʔl'ɯn, “rare; valuable”).
The sound component 𠂈 corrupted into 十 in the modern form, and into 匕 in the orthodox seal script form 眞. The bottom of the character in both forms derives from the components 貝 and 丁 corrupting into 目 and 丌.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan; cognate with Tibetan བདེན (bden, “true; truth”). Possibly connected with 貞 (OC *teŋ) (Schuessler, 2007).

Han compound

眞
𡙊
𠤛
⿱𥃭大
⿱𥃰大
⿱𥃰六
𰶵
𰶱
⿳上目大
⿳止目六
⿳十且八

(Chinese calligraphy) short for 真書／真书 (zhēnshū, “regular script”)


磔

(literary, Chinese calligraphy) synonym of 捺 (nà)


穂

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *po. Related to 秀(ほ) (ho, “exceling; standing out”).


策

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (策):
* → Japanese: 策(さく) (saku)

/t͡sʰiɪk̚³²/

/t͡sʰiɪk̚³²/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sʰreːɡ): semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 朿 (OC *sʰeɡs).
;"to whip"
Etymologically the same word as 冊 (OC *sʰreːɡ), with an original meaning of "bamboo slips" (Schuessler, 2007).

Han compound

筞
*筴
箣
𠞁
𠞦
𠷽
𢄆
𥳯

Eight Principles of Yong
w:Eight Principles of Yong

(calligraphy) upward horizontal stroke (the fifth of the Eight Principles of Yong)


絕

/d͡zz̩ʷœʔ¹²/

/d͡zz̩ʷœʔ¹²/

Originally ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 刀 (“knife”) + 幺 (“silk”) or ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 刀 (“knife”) + 𢆶 (“silk”) — to cut silk threads.
Now phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声): semantic 糹 (“silk”) + semantic 刀 (“knife”) + phonetic 巴 (卪).
Most likely unrelated to 色.
Compare Burmese ဆွတ် (hcwat, “to pluck”) (Hill, 2019).

绝
絶
㔃
𢇍
𠤉
撧
𢴭

被難

to be killed in a disaster, political incident

七絕

七绝


継

連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 継(つ)ぐ (tsugu, “to connect, to mend, to succeed”).

ja-etym-renyokei

(poetry) short for 継歌 (tsugi-uta, “sequential poem composition on a theme”)


splash

Probably an alteration of plash (compare spatter, spill for the initial s-).

So for a local newspaper, a splash on a fatal crash is just the first of a series of reports.

2006, Bob Franklin, Local Journalism and Local Media: Making the Local News:

After the brouhaha and the newspaper headline splashes, each of these contentious items would simply die its own quiet death to be replaced by a newer scandal: […]

2019, Victoria Hoffarth, When Turtles Come Home, page 69:

(journalism) A large, prominent headline or article.


ABC

en-noun

ABC (countable and uncountable, plural ABCs or ABC's)

ABCs (plural)
ABC's (plural)
absey (alternative)

From Middle English abece, ABC, from the first three letters of the Latin alphabet, standing for the whole alphabet.

(obsolete, poetry) A type of poem in which the lines start with the letters of the alphabet in order.


興

Characters in the same phonetic series (興) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 舁 (“to raise”) + 同 (“together”) – to hold up together.

Han compound

(poetry) association; speaking first of something else to lead up to the main theme


草

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (草):
* → Japanese: 草(そう) (sō)
* → Korean: 초(草) (cho)
* → Vietnamese: thảo (草)

Vietnamese: tháu (“scrawling”)

/t͡sʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴/

/t͡sʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sʰuːʔ): semantic 艹 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 早 (OC *ʔsuːʔ). Originally referred to 皂, and later borrowed for the “grass” sense, replacing 艸.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-tswa-n (“grass”); cognate with Tibetan རྩྭ (rtswa, “grass”) (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT).
Alternatively, it may be related to 芻 (OC *sʰro, “hay”), from Austroasiatic; compare Mon ချဲ (“grass; weeds; hay”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Han compound

屮
艸
𢂉
𦯑
𦯨
𦳕
𦷣
𦳱
騲

狂草

(calligraphy) short for 草書／草书 (cǎoshū, “cursive script (grass script)”)


行

行 (canonical)
gyō (romanization)
gyau (romanization)
ぎやう (hiragana historical)

From Middle Chinese 行 (MC haeng). First cited in Buddhist texts of the early 600s.
The pronunciation is goon, so likely an earlier borrowing.
* For the "formations" definition, translation of Sanskrit संस्कार (saṃskāra)
* For "austerities", translation of Sanskrit चर्या (caryā)
* For "walking", translation of Sanskrit गमन (gamana)

(calligraphy) abbreviation of 行書 (“semi-cursive script”)


行

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


訊

Characters in the same phonetic series (卂) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sins): semantic 言 + phonetic 卂 (OC *sins, *tods).


豎

Possibly phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *djoʔ): semantic 臤 + phonetic 豆 (OC *doːs).

Han compound

竖
竪
𠐊
㒘
䜿
䝂
𥪛

(Chinese calligraphy) a vertical stroke (㇑)


paragraph

en-verb

paragraph (third-person singular simple present paragraphs, present participle paragraphing, simple past and past participle paragraphed)

paragraphs (present singular third-person)
paragraphing (participle present)
paragraphed (participle past)
paragraphed (past)

/ˈpæɹəɡɹɑːf/

From Middle English paragraf, from Middle French paragraphe from Latin paragraphus (“sign for start of a new section of discourse”), from Ancient Greek παράγραφος (parágraphos), from παρά (pará, “beside”) and γράφω (gráphō, “I write”). Doublet of paragraphos.

der

(transitive, journalism) To publish a brief article, notice, or announcement, as in a newspaper.


metre

en-verb

metre (third-person singular simple present metres, present participle metring, simple past and past participle metred)

metres (present singular third-person)
metring (participle present)
metred (participle past)
metred (past)
meter (alternative)

From Old English, from Latin metrum, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure, rule, length, size, poetic metre”).

der

(poetry, music) To put into metrical form.


metre

(poetry, music) metre/meter (the rhythm of a song or poem)


鉤

(Chinese calligraphy) a stroke with a hook (such as in ㇠, ㇆, ㇚, or ㇟)


echo

en-noun

echo (countable and uncountable, plural echoes or echos)

echoes (plural)
echos (plural)
echoe (alternative)
eccho (alternative)

From Middle English eccho, ecco, ekko, from Medieval Latin ecco, from Latin echo, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ), from ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”). Possibly from the same Proto-Indo-European root as sough.

(poetry) A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.


PC

(journalism, in Canada) CP initialism of Presse canadienne (Canadian Press)


點

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *teːmʔ): semantic 黑 (“black”) + phonetic 占 (OC *ʔljem, *tjems) – black dots.


hook

sometimes in Northern England and Ireland, otherwise obsolete

From Middle English hoke, from Old English hōc, from Proto-West Germanic *hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz, variant of *hakô (“hook”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”).
Cognates
Compare West Frisian heak, Dutch haak (“hook”)) (compare West Frisian/Dutch hoek (“hook, angle, corner”), Low German Hook, Huuk); also related to hake.

(authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.


pied

Haitian Creole: pye

Inherited from Middle French pied, from Old French pié, from Latin pedem. The -d was added to the spelling in Middle French after the Latin form.
Cognate with Italian piede, Catalan peu, Spanish pie, Portuguese pé, and further with English foot, Lithuanian pėda, Persian پا (pâ) etc.


mechanics

From Latin mēchanicus, from Ancient Greek μηχανικός (mēkhanikós), from μηχανή (mēkhanḗ, “machine, tool”).


jambe

head

jambe c (singular definite jamben, plural indefinite jamber)

jamben (definite singular)
jamber (indefinite plural)
jambe (indefinite nominative singular)
jamben (definite nominative singular)
jamber (indefinite nominative plural)
jamberne (definite nominative plural)
jambes (genitive indefinite singular)
jambens (definite genitive singular)
jambers (genitive indefinite plural)
jambernes (definite genitive plural)


protagonist

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protagonist

From Ancient Greek πρωταγωνιστής (prōtagōnistḗs, “a chief actor”), from πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”) + ἀγωνιστής (agōnistḗs, “a combatant, pleader, actor”). By surface analysis, prot- (“first”) + agonist (“combatant, participant”).

der

πρωταγωνιστής

surf

(authorship) The main character, or one of the main characters, in any story, such as a literary work or drama.


protagonist

protagonist (indefinite nominative singular)
protagonists (genitive indefinite singular)
protagonisten (definite nominative singular)
protagonistens (definite genitive singular)
protagonister (indefinite nominative plural)
protagonisters (genitive indefinite plural)
protagonisterna (definite nominative plural)
protagonisternas (definite genitive plural)


Saturnian

en-adj

Saturnian (comparative more Saturnian, superlative most Saturnian)

more Saturnian (comparative)
most Saturnian (superlative)

(poetry) Involving a meter consisting of three iambics and an extra syllable followed by three trochees, employed by satirists in Ancient Rome.


acute

acute (comparative acuter or more acute, superlative acutest or most acute)

acuter (comparative)
more acute (comparative)
acutest (superlative)
most acute (superlative)

From Late Middle English acute (“of a disease or fever: starting suddenly and lasting for a short time; of a humour: irritating, sharp”), from Latin acūta, from acūtus (“sharp, sharpened”), perfect passive participle of acuō (“to make pointed, sharpen, whet”), from acus (“needle, pin”). The word is cognate to ague (“acute, intermittent fever”).
As regards the noun, which is derived from the verb, compare Middle English acūte (“severe but short-lived fever; of blood: corrosiveness, sharpness; musical note of high pitch”).

cog

The last letter of ‘café’ is ‘e’ acute.

A more conservative approach, particularly if your author is a skilled computer user, would be to replace the problem characters with simple words or codes that are guaranteed to transfer successfully between computers. For example, you could replace é with e-acute if that particular character is causing problems. […] The author could then do a search and replace to change all instances of e-acute back to é before publication.

2007, Geoff[rey J. S.] Hart, “Editing in Special Situations”, in Effective Onsceen Editing: New Tools for an Old Profession, Pointe-Claire, Que.: Diaskeuasis Publishing, →ISBN, page 404:

Commonly used European accents are available as below: / á Á a acute / […] / é É e acute / […] / í Í i acute / […] / ó Ó o acute / […] / ú Ú u acute

2017, [Michael] Mitchell, [Susan] Wightman, “Foreign Languages”, in Typographic Style Handbook, London: MacLehose Press, →ISBN, section 10.2.1 (Commonly Used Accents), page 143:

(orthography, postpositive) Of a letter of the alphabet, having an acute accent.

agut

(orthography) after a letter of the alphabet: having an acute accent


acute

The word ‘cafe’ often has an acute over the ‘e’.

The number of Notes in this Table, without either acute or grave marks (´ or `), is 75. Of those bearing one acute mark (´) it is 74, of those with two acutes (´´) 70, with three acutes (´´´ or ´³) 51, […]

1817 June, John Farey, Sen., “CI. On Mr. Listons, or the Euharmonic Scale of Musical Intervals, […]”, in Alexander Tilloch, editor, The Philosophical Magazine and Journal: […], volume XLIX, number 230, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor. […], →OCLC, page 445:

The five vowels marked with acutes over them, it is probable, were first contrived to assist the ignorant monks in reading the church service, that by this means they might arrive to a proper and settled pronunciation in the discharge of their sacerdotal duties; […]

1824, J[ohn] Johnson, “A Fount of Letter, as Considered by Letter Founders”, in Typographia, or The Printers’ Instructor: […], volume II, London: Published by Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, […], →OCLC, page 34:


pyramid

en-noun

pyramid (countable and uncountable, plural pyramids)

pyramids (plural)
piramis (alternative obsolete)
pyramis (alternative obsolete)

From French pyramide, from Old French piramide, from Latin pȳramis, pȳramidis, from Ancient Greek πῡραμίς (pūramís), possibly from πῡρός (pūrós, “wheat”) + ἀμάω (amáō, “reap”) or from Egyptian pr-m-ws (“height of a pyramid”), from pr (“(one that) comes forth”) + m (“from”) + ws (“height”). Schenkel and K. Lang proposed hypothetical Coptic *ⲡⲓⲣⲁⲙ (*piram) or *ⲫⲣⲁⲙ (*phram) derived from Egyptian mr via metathesis as a source of πῡραμίς (pūramís) while Schenkel also suggested it being the source of Arabic هرم although the latter is considered far-fetched by Takacs.

der

[…] with a cross-line banner, a set of two-column pyramids beneath it in the middle, and on each side of these exactly the same thing,—something between a headline and a story—"$50,000 Reward for—" etc.

1924, Helen Ogden Mahin, The Development and Significance of the Newspaper Headline:

(journalism) An approximately triangular headline consisting of several centered lines of text of increasing length.


virgule

Borrowed from Middle French virgule, from Latin virgula (“twig; scratch comma”), from virga (“rod, branch”) + -ulus (diminutive suffix). Doublet of virgula.

(typography, dated) A pipe, ⟨|⟩.
(poetry) Used to mark metrical feet.

A pipe, ⟨|⟩.
Used to mark metrical feet.


fare

head

fare (imperative far, present tense farer, simple past for, past participle fart, present participle farende)

far (imperative)
farer (present)
for (past)
fart (participle past)
farende (participle present)


afflatus

la-noun

afflātus m (genitive afflātūs); fourth declension

afflātus (canonical masculine)
afflātūs (genitive)
afflātus (nominative singular)
afflātūs (nominative plural)
afflātūs (genitive singular)
afflātuum (genitive plural)
afflātuī (dative singular)
afflātibus (dative plural)
afflātum (accusative singular)
afflātūs (accusative plural)
afflātū (ablative singular)
afflātibus (ablative plural)
afflātus (singular vocative)
afflātūs (plural vocative)

Catalan: aflat

→ English: afflatus

Italian: afflato

Occitan: aflat

Portuguese: aflato

Spanish: aflato

Perfect passive participle of afflō (“I blow, breathe (on or towards)”).

(poetry, religion) afflation (from an inspiring spirit from an unknown source in Cicero; from a divine spirit in a pagan context or from the Holy Spirit in later Christian contexts)


reference

en-noun

reference (countable and uncountable, plural references)

From Middle French référence, from Medieval Latin referentia, nominative neuter plural of referēns, present participle of referō (“return, reply”, literally “carry back”). Morphologically refer + -ence.

verwysing

academic writing: identification of a source

(academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.

(academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.


hymn

hymn (nominative singular)
hymny (nominative plural)
hymnu (genitive singular)
hymnów (genitive plural)
hymnowi (dative singular)
hymnom (dative plural)
hymn (accusative singular)
hymny (accusative plural)
hymnem (instrumental singular)
hymnami (instrumental plural)
hymnie (locative singular)
hymnach (locative plural)
hymnie (singular vocative)
hymny (plural vocative)

→? Belarusian: гімн m inan (himn)

desctree

→ Russian: гимн m inan (gimn) (likely)
→ Armenian: հիմն (himn)
→ Bashkir: гимн (gimn)
→ Crimean Tatar: gimn
→ Georgian: ჰიმნი (himni), გიმნი (gimni) — informal, proscribed
→ Kazakh: gïmn
→ Kildin Sami: гӣммн (gīmmn)
→ Urum: гимн
→ Uzbek: gimn

→? Ukrainian: гімн m inan (himn)

Learned borrowing from Latin hymnus, from Ancient Greek ὕμνος (húmnos).


reliable

en-adj

reliable (comparative more reliable, superlative most reliable)

more reliable (comparative)
most reliable (superlative)

/ɹɪˈlaɪəbəl/

(journalism, of a publisher) A member of the mass media, especially one with corporate sponsors and owners.


antagonist

[ɛə̯nˈtæɡənɪst]

From Latin antagonista, from Ancient Greek ἀνταγωνιστής (antagōnistḗs, “opponent”) (ἀντί (antí, “against”) + ἀγωνιστής (agōnistḗs, “a combatant, pleader, actor”)), from ἀνταγωνίζομαι (antagōnízomai, “to antagonize”).

der

ἀνταγωνιστής

So God forbid I'm seen just as an average human being / I mean, imagine if antagonists lacked any evil scheme

2022, Will Wood (musician), “The Main Character”, in In case I make it,, performed by Will Wood:

(authorship) The main character or force opposing the protagonist in a literary work or drama.


antagonist

antagonist (indefinite nominative singular)
antagonists (genitive indefinite singular)
antagonisten (definite nominative singular)
antagonistens (definite genitive singular)
antagonister (indefinite nominative plural)
antagonisters (genitive indefinite plural)
antagonisterna (definite nominative plural)
antagonisternas (definite genitive plural)


ghost

en-noun

ghost (countable and uncountable, plural ghosts)

ghosts (plural)
ghoast (alternative obsolete)
gost (alternative obsolete)

→ Japanese: ゴースト (gōsuto)

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Inherited from Middle English gost, from Old English gāst, gǣst (“breath, spirit, soul, ghost”) (compare modern English Holy Ghost), from Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéysdos, derived from *ǵʰéysd- (“anger, agitation”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gäist, Jeest, West Frisian geast, Dutch geest, German Low German Geest, Geist, German Geist, Swedish gast.
The ⟨h⟩ in the spelling appears in the Prologue to William Caxton's Royal Book, printed in 1484, in a reference to the ‘Holy Ghoost’, likely introduced by Caxton's assistant, Wynkyn de Worde, as a result of Flemish influence, where it was spelled gheest at the time. Doublet of geist.

I've written both as a ghost for experts and under my name.


special

From Middle English *special, especial, especiall, from Old French especial (whence also French spécial), from Latin speciālis (from speciēs). In this sense displaced native Old English synderlīċ. Doublet of especial.

(journalism) A journalist sent to the scene of an event to report back.

(journalism) A dispatch sent back by a special correspondent.


avis

head

avis c (singular definite avisen, plural indefinite aviser)

avisen (definite singular)
aviser (indefinite plural)
avis (indefinite nominative singular)
avisen (definite nominative singular)
aviser (indefinite nominative plural)
aviserne (definite nominative plural)
avis' (genitive indefinite singular)
avisens (definite genitive singular)
avisers (genitive indefinite plural)
avisernes (definite genitive plural)


avis

nb-noun-c

avis f or m (definite singular avisa or avisen, indefinite plural aviser, definite plural avisene)

avisa (definite singular)
avisen (definite singular)
aviser (indefinite plural)
avisene (definite plural)

→ Kven: aviisi

From French avis (“opinion, notice; piece of advise”), from Middle French advis (“opinion”), from Old French avis (“opinion”), from the phrase ce m'est a vis ("in my view"), where vis is from Latin vīsum (“vision, image”). Doublet of advis.
Cognate with Danish avis, Italian avviso, Middle English avys and English avis.

bor

ikke et ord i avisen

du mener nok ikke, vi holder aviser

1874, Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt, page 242:

you probably do not mean, we keep newspapers

der vil blive skrevet korrespondencer i aviserne i nabobyerne

1877, Henrik Ibsen, Samfundets støtter, page 60:

correspondence will be written in the newspapers of the neighboring towns

generalen sad … og læste aviserne

1890, Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler, page 124:

the general sat… and read the newspapers

hun har nemlig havt en historie og har staaet i aviserne nylig

1994, Knut Hamsun, Knut Hamsuns brev I, page 202:

she has had a story and has been in the newspapers recently

jeg abonnerer på åtte aviserjeg abonnerer på åtte aviser

1993, Knut Faldbakken, Ormens år, page 19:

bunker med illegale aviser

1995, Ebba Haslund, I mangel av sverd, page 181:

hun hadde gått for å hente avisen

2001, Lars Saabye Christensen, Halvbroren, page 216:

et gammelt munnheld sier «ikke et ord i avisen» om noe som skal være topphemmelig

an old saying goes "not a word in the newspaper" about something that should be top secret

foreløbig må avisene ikke vite noe om dette. Altså ikke et ord i avisen om at vi følger et nytt spor

for the time being, the newspapers must not know anything about this. In other words, not a word in the newspaper that we are following a new path

(journalism) a newspaper (a publication, usually published daily or weekly and usually printed on cheap, low-quality paper, containing news and other articles)


local

From Middle English local, from Late Latin locālis (“belonging to a place”), possibly also via Old French local; ultimately from Latin locus (“a place”).
The ring-theoretic senses derive from Krull, who first referred to Noetherian commutative rings with a unique maximal ideal as "Stellenring" (Stellen (“place”) + ring) in 1938. The term was inspired by algebraic geometry, where local rings encode information about the behavior of curves (surfaces, etc.) at points; hence, describe "local" behavior.

der

(US, slang, journalism) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.


synopsis

From Late Latin synopsis, itself from Ancient Greek σύνοψις (súnopsis), from σύν (sún, “with or whole”) + ὄψις (ópsis, “view”) meaning whole view.

(authorship) A brief summary of the major points of a written work, either as prose or as a table; an abridgment or condensation of a work.


poeta

pl-noun

poeta m pers (female equivalent poetka or poetessa)

poetka (feminine)
poetessa (feminine)
poeta (nominative singular)
poeci (nominative plural)
poety (derogatory nominative plural)
poety (genitive singular)
poetów (genitive plural)
poecie (dative singular)
poetom (dative plural)
poetę (accusative singular)
poetów (accusative plural)
poetą (instrumental singular)
poetami (instrumental plural)
poecie (locative singular)
poetach (locative plural)
poeto (singular vocative)
poeci (plural vocative)


Venus

en-noun

Venus (countable and uncountable, plural Venuses or Veneres)

From Middle English Venus, from Latin Venus.

Immoderate Venus in excess, as it is a cause, or in defect; so, moderately used, to some parties an only help, a present remedy.

(obsolete or poetry) Sexual activity or intercourse, sex; lust, love.


speaker

→ Brunei Malay: speaker

→ Belarusian: спі́кер (spíkjer)

→ Estonian: spiiker

→ French: speaker

→ Georgian: სპიკერი (sṗiḳeri)

→ Italian: speaker

→ Japanese: スピーカー (supīkā)

→ Malayalam: സ്പീക്കർ (spīkkaṟ)

→ Maltese: speaker, spiker

→ Norwegian Bokmål: speaker

→ Polish: spiker

→ Romanian: speaker

desctree

→ Russian: спикер (spiker)
→ Kazakh:
Cyrillic script: спикер (spiker)
Latin script: spiker

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Latin script: spiker

Cyrillic script: спикер

→ Spanish: speaker

→ Swahili: spika

→ Turkish: spiker

→ Ukrainian: спі́кер (spíker)

From Middle English speker, spekere, an alteration (with change of suffix) of Old English speca, spreca (“speaker”), from Proto-Germanic *sprekô (“speaker”), equivalent to speak + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Spreeker (“speaker”), West Frisian sprekker (“speaker”), Dutch spreker (“speaker”), German Low German Spreker (“speaker”), German Sprecher (“speaker”).

puhuja

linguistics: producer of a given utterance

Popular culture often incorrectly attributes quotes from the speakers of poems or songs to the authors thereof, as when "I took the one less traveled by" is attributed to Robert Frost rather than to the speaker in Frost's "The Road Not Taken".

(especially in linguistics) The producer of a given utterance, whether speech or text.

(poetry) The literary character uttering the lyrics of a poem or song, as opposed to the author writing the words of that character.


nos

From Latin nucem, accusative singular of nux (“nut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *knew-.


copy

copies (plural)
coppy (alternative)
coppie (alternative)
copie (alternative)

Etymology tree
Middle English copy
English copy
From Middle English copy, copie, from Old French copie (“abundance, plenty; transcript, copy”), from Medieval Latin copia (“reproduction, transcript”), from Latin cōpia (“plenty, abundance”), from *coopia, from co- (“together”) + ops (“wealth, riches”). More at opulent.

ру́копись

для сда́чи в печа́ть

материа́л

для статьи́, заме́тки, книги, публика́ции

en:text that is to be typeset or similarly prepared and published

en:output of copywriters, as marketing or advertising matter

(typography, journalism, publishing) The text (words, content) that is to be typeset or similarly prepared and published.

(marketing, advertising) The output of copywriters, who are employed to write material which encourages consumers to buy goods or services.

Submit all copy to the appropriate editor.

(uncountable) The text to be set into newspaper articles, magazine pages, or similar.

This organization doesn't publish any copy that hasn't been edited by a good copy editor.

en:person employed to carry copy and run errands

(journalism) A person employed to carry copy and run errands.


peg

From Middle English pegge, from Middle Dutch pegge (“pin, peg”), from Old Dutch *pigg-, *pegg-, from Proto-Germanic *pig-, *pag- (“peg, stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bak-, *baḱ- (“club, pointed stick, peg”). Cognate with Dutch dialectal peg (“pin”), Low German pig, pigge (“peg, stick with a point”), Low German pegel (“post, stake”), Swedish pigg (“tooth, spike”), Danish pig (“spike”), Norwegian Bokmål pigg (“spike”), Irish bac (“stick, crook”), Latin baculum (“staff”), Latvian bakstît (“to poke”), Ancient Greek βάκτρον (báktron, “staff, walking stick”). Related to beak.
This is one of the very few English words that begin with a p and come from Proto-Germanic. Proto-Germanic *p, when not in a consonant cluster beginning with *s, developed by Grimm's law from the Proto-Indo-European consonant *b, which was very rare.
(To indicate or ascribe an attribute to):: Assumed to originate from the use of pegs or pins as markers on a bulletin board or a list.

sense

[…] all news media keep a supply of features on hand, waiting for a peg to make them topical.

2004, Herbert J. Gans, Deciding What's News:

Journalists and prospective sources wishing to attract their attention are constantly on the lookout for pegs. The process by which a peg is identified is informed by news values.

2010, Barbie Zelizer, Stuart Allan, Keywords in News and Journalism Studies, page 111:

(journalism) A topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary, around which various features can be developed.

ganxo

an event that triggers news coverage (journalism)


quinzaine

(poetry) A piece of verse having fifteen syllables.


interpolation

en-noun

interpolation (countable and uncountable, plural interpolations)

/ɪnˌtɜː.pəˈleɪʃən/

/ɪnˌtɜː.pəˈleɪʃən/

From French interpolation, from Latin interpolatio.
Morphologically interpolate + -ion.

Today a widely established convention encloses all editorial interpolations in square brackets [like so] for clarity.

Bentley wrote a letter […] upon the scriptural glosses in our present copies of Hesychius, which he considered interpolations from a later hand.

1830, Thomas De Quincey, Life of Richard Bentley:

We, who are born into the world's artificial system, can never adequately know how little in our present state and circumstances is natural, and how much is merely the interpolation of the perverted mind and heart of man.

1843, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The New Adam and Eve”, in Mosses from an Old Manse. […], part II, New York, N.Y.: Wiley and Putnam, published 1846, →OCLC, page 1:

(editing, content analysis) That which is introduced or inserted; in contexts of content analysis of centuries-old texts, especially something foreign or spurious.


strap

strap (countable and uncountable, plural straps)

straps (plural)
strop (alternative)
strope (alternative)

→ Japanese: ストラップ (sutorappu)

From a variant of earlier strope (“loop on a harness”), from Middle English strope, stroppe, from Late Old English strop, stropp (“a band, thong, strap; oar-thong”) and Old French estrope (“strap, loop on a harness”), both from Latin stroppus, struppus (“strap”), from Ancient Greek στρόφος (stróphos, “rope”) (compare strophe), from στρέφω (stréphō, “to twist”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *strebʰ- (compare Proto-West Germanic *stroppōn (“to twist, writhe”)). Cognate with Scots strap, strop (“strap, band, thong”), Dutch strop (“noose, strop, loop”), Low German Strop (“strap”), German Struppe, Strüppe, Strippe (“string, cord”), Danish strop (“strap”), Swedish stropp (“strap, loop”).

lak

a long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like

kawerapa

part of a bag that goes over the shoulder

ивица

a narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass


hattu

hattu (nominative singular)
hatut (nominative plural)
hattu (accusative nominative singular)
hatut (accusative nominative plural)
hatun (accusative genitive singular)
hatut (accusative genitive plural)
hatun (genitive singular)
hattujen (genitive plural)
hattua (partitive singular)
hattuja (partitive plural)
hatussa (inessive singular)
hatuissa (inessive plural)
hatusta (elative singular)
hatuista (elative plural)
hattuun (illative singular)
hattuihin (illative plural)
hatulla (adessive singular)
hatuilla (adessive plural)
hatulta (ablative singular)
hatuilta (ablative plural)
hatulle (allative singular)
hatuille (allative plural)
hattuna (essive singular)
hattuina (essive plural)
hatuksi (singular translative)
hatuiksi (plural translative)
hatutta (abessive singular)
hatuitta (abessive plural)
hatuin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
hattuni (nominative singular)
hattuni (nominative plural)
hattuni (accusative nominative singular)
hattuni (accusative nominative plural)
hattuni (accusative genitive singular)
hattuni (accusative genitive plural)
hattuni (genitive singular)
hattujeni (genitive plural)
hattuani (partitive singular)
hattujani (partitive plural)
hatussani (inessive singular)
hatuissani (inessive plural)
hatustani (elative singular)
hatuistani (elative plural)
hattuuni (illative singular)
hattuihini (illative plural)
hatullani (adessive singular)
hatuillani (adessive plural)
hatultani (ablative singular)
hatuiltani (ablative plural)
hatulleni (allative singular)
hatuilleni (allative plural)
hattunani (essive singular)
hattuinani (essive plural)
hatukseni (singular translative)
hatuikseni (plural translative)
hatuttani (abessive singular)
hatuittani (abessive plural)
hattuineni (comitative plural)
hattusi (nominative singular)
hattusi (nominative plural)
hattusi (accusative nominative singular)
hattusi (accusative nominative plural)
hattusi (accusative genitive singular)
hattusi (accusative genitive plural)
hattusi (genitive singular)
hattujesi (genitive plural)
hattuasi (partitive singular)
hattujasi (partitive plural)
hatussasi (inessive singular)
hatuissasi (inessive plural)
hatustasi (elative singular)
hatuistasi (elative plural)
hattuusi (illative singular)
hattuihisi (illative plural)
hatullasi (adessive singular)
hatuillasi (adessive plural)
hatultasi (ablative singular)
hatuiltasi (ablative plural)
hatullesi (allative singular)
hatuillesi (allative plural)
hattunasi (essive singular)
hattuinasi (essive plural)
hatuksesi (singular translative)
hatuiksesi (plural translative)
hatuttasi (abessive singular)
hatuittasi (abessive plural)
hattuinesi (comitative plural)
hattumme (nominative singular)
hattumme (nominative plural)
hattumme (accusative nominative singular)
hattumme (accusative nominative plural)
hattumme (accusative genitive singular)
hattumme (accusative genitive plural)
hattumme (genitive singular)
hattujemme (genitive plural)
hattuamme (partitive singular)
hattujamme (partitive plural)
hatussamme (inessive singular)
hatuissamme (inessive plural)
hatustamme (elative singular)
hatuistamme (elative plural)
hattuumme (illative singular)
hattuihimme (illative plural)
hatullamme (adessive singular)
hatuillamme (adessive plural)
hatultamme (ablative singular)
hatuiltamme (ablative plural)
hatullemme (allative singular)
hatuillemme (allative plural)
hattunamme (essive singular)
hattuinamme (essive plural)
hatuksemme (singular translative)
hatuiksemme (plural translative)
hatuttamme (abessive singular)
hatuittamme (abessive plural)
hattuinemme (comitative plural)
hattunne (nominative singular)
hattunne (nominative plural)
hattunne (accusative nominative singular)
hattunne (accusative nominative plural)
hattunne (accusative genitive singular)
hattunne (accusative genitive plural)
hattunne (genitive singular)
hattujenne (genitive plural)
hattuanne (partitive singular)
hattujanne (partitive plural)
hatussanne (inessive singular)
hatuissanne (inessive plural)
hatustanne (elative singular)
hatuistanne (elative plural)
hattuunne (illative singular)
hattuihinne (illative plural)
hatullanne (adessive singular)
hatuillanne (adessive plural)
hatultanne (ablative singular)
hatuiltanne (ablative plural)
hatullenne (allative singular)
hatuillenne (allative plural)
hattunanne (essive singular)
hattuinanne (essive plural)
hatuksenne (singular translative)
hatuiksenne (plural translative)
hatuttanne (abessive singular)
hatuittanne (abessive plural)
hattuinenne (comitative plural)
hattunsa (nominative singular)
hattunsa (nominative plural)
hattunsa (accusative nominative singular)
hattunsa (accusative nominative plural)
hattunsa (accusative genitive singular)
hattunsa (accusative genitive plural)
hattunsa (genitive singular)
hattujensa (genitive plural)
hattuaan (partitive singular)
hattuansa (partitive singular)
hattujaan (partitive plural)
hattujansa (partitive plural)
hatussaan (inessive singular)
hatussansa (inessive singular)
hatuissaan (inessive plural)
hatuissansa (inessive plural)
hatustaan (elative singular)
hatustansa (elative singular)
hatuistaan (elative plural)
hatuistansa (elative plural)
hattuunsa (illative singular)
hattuihinsa (illative plural)
hatullaan (adessive singular)
hatullansa (adessive singular)
hatuillaan (adessive plural)
hatuillansa (adessive plural)
hatultaan (ablative singular)
hatultansa (ablative singular)
hatuiltaan (ablative plural)
hatuiltansa (ablative plural)
hatulleen (allative singular)
hatullensa (allative singular)
hatuilleen (allative plural)
hatuillensa (allative plural)
hattunaan (essive singular)
hattunansa (essive singular)
hattuinaan (essive plural)
hattuinansa (essive plural)
hatukseen (singular translative)
hatuksensa (singular translative)
hatuikseen (plural translative)
hatuiksensa (plural translative)
hatuttaan (abessive singular)
hatuttansa (abessive singular)
hatuittaan (abessive plural)
hatuittansa (abessive plural)
hattuineen (comitative plural)
hattuinensa (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *hattu (compare Ingrian hattu, Karelian hattu, Votic hattu), borrowed from Proto-Norse *ᚺᚨᛏᛏᚢᛉ (*hattuʀ) (compare Swedish hatt), from Proto-Germanic *hattuz (compare English hat).

vetää hatustaan

to improvise, guess, express off the top of one's head

(orthography, typography) háček, caron (diacritical mark [ ˇ ])


minúscula

(orthography) minuscule (lower-case letter)


minúscula

(orthography) minuscule, lower-case letter, small letter


mayúscula

Borrowed from Latin maiusculus. Cognate with English majuscule.


minúsculo

pt-adj

minúsculo (feminine minúscula, masculine plural minúsculos, feminine plural minúsculas)

minúscula (feminine)
minúsculos (masculine plural)
minúsculas (feminine plural)

Learned borrowing from Latin minusculus.

(orthography) minuscule; lower-case (written in minuscules)


minúsculo

From Latin minusculus, from minus (“less”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).


fronte

Inherited from Latin frontem (“forehead”). For sense 2 compare the Latin etymon and derivatives in Italian like sfrontato (“shameless”).

inh+

(poetry, prosody) the two initial quatrains of an Italian sonnet


package

en-noun

package (countable and uncountable, plural packages)

Equivalent to pack + -age. Possibly influenced by Anglo-Latin paccagium or Old French pacquage.

(journalism) A group of related stories spread over several pages.


defective

en-adj

defective (comparative more defective, superlative most defective)

more defective (comparative)
most defective (superlative)

From Middle English defectif, defective, from Old French defectif, from Late Latin dēfectīvus.

(orthography, of a script) Not capable of representing all the phonemic distinctions of a language it is used to write.


chapter

chapters (plural)
chapiter (alternative)
chapitre (alternative)
chapiture (alternative)
chaptre (alternative)
chapyter (alternative)
chapytre (alternative)
chaptire (alternative)

→ Cebuano: tsapter

From Middle English chapitre, from Old French chapitre, from Latin capitulum (“a chapter of a book, in Medieval Latin also a synod or council”), diminutive of caput (“a head”); see capital, capitulum, and chapiter, which are doublets of chapter.

der

Detective novel writers try to keep up the suspense until the last chapter.

At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

(authorship) One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.

CHAPTER - One of the principal divisions of a book, and, in reference to the Bible, one of the larger sections into which its books are divided. This division, as well as that consisting of verses, was introduced to facilitate reference, and not to indicate any natural or accurate division of the subjects treated in the books.

1842, Walter Farquahar Hook, A Church Dictionary, published 1896:

At least thirty-two of the first forty-seven decretal chapters were received by English ecclesiastics,

1963, Charles Duggan, Twelfth-century Decretal Collections and Their Importance in English History, page 127:

il conclut: « No pope, no collection but the masters who served the one and commented on the other ultimately determined the content of this decretal chapter».

1983, Revue théologique de Louvain - Volume 14, page 127:

But unlike a similar annotation, it has not been turned into a chapter title because the annotation “de quodam hermita” (Of a certain hermit) immediately preceded it. If a scribe had also turned Liberauit Dominus hermitam into a chapter title, he would have created a chapter that consisted of a single sentence, which even for a rather dull scribe would seem unacceptable. […] While scribe A wrote the body of the text of the De nugis curialium, scribe X contributed the rubricated chapter headings.

2017, Joshua Byron Smith, Walter Map and the Matter of Britain, page 67:

While rubrics do not appear in paper manuscripts, eight paper manuscripts contain chapter titles, which serve the same function as the medieval rubrics.

2018, Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir, Emily Lethbridge, New Studies in the Manuscript Tradition of Njáls saga, page xvii:

Characteristics: parchment; 92 fols.; 260 × 180 mm.; 32 lines; Italy; ca. 1430; two hands: humanistic rotunda with some Gothic features; marginal notes by first hand and names by a second hand; space left for initials; rubric inscriptions; superscript variants by first hand; chapters marked in margin; horizontal catchwords; quaternions.

2018, David J. Hunt, A Textual History of Cicero's Academici Libri, page 152:

From canon law, he cited Gratian's Decretum, Gregory's Decretales, the Sexto and Clementines Decretales, and the Extravagantes, and specifically referred to “the rules for understanding the Law” in a decretal chapter on Propterea.

2021, David T. Orique, The Unheard Voice of Law in Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Brevísima Relación de la Destruición de las Indias, page 97:

A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.


paparazzi

paparazzi (nominative singular)
paparazzi (nominative plural)
paparazziego (genitive singular)
paparazzich (genitive plural)
paparazziemu (dative singular)
paparazzim (dative plural)
paparazziego (accusative singular)
paparazzich (accusative plural)
paparazzim (instrumental singular)
paparazzimi (instrumental plural)
paparazzim (locative singular)
paparazzich (locative plural)
paparazzi (singular vocative)
paparazzi (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from Italian paparazzi.

ubor

(journalism, photography) alternative form of paparazzo


umlaut

Borrowed from German Umlaut in the 19ᵗʰ century, from um- or um (“around, re-, trans-”) + Laut (“sound”), from Old High German hlūt. More at loud.

(orthography) The diacritical mark ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel when it indicates a (rounded) front vowel

"Naïve" takes an umlaut because it is pronounced as two syllables.

(informal, orthography) Synonym of diaeresis.


umlaut

(orthography) umlaut (the diacritical mark ¨ used to indicate such assimilation)


media

Unadapted borrowing from English media, mass media.

(Portugal, journalism) alternative spelling of média (“media; mass media”)


tenere

it-verb

tenére (first-person singular present tèngo, first-person singular past historic ténni or tènni, past participle tenùto, first-person singular future terrò, auxiliary avére)

tenére (canonical)
tèngo (first-person present singular)
ténni (first-person historic past singular)
tènni (first-person historic past singular)
tenùto (participle past)
terrò (first-person future singular)
avére (auxiliary)
tenére (infinitive)
avére (auxiliary)
tenèndo (gerund)
tenènte (participle present)
tenùto (participle past)
tèngo (first-person indicative present singular)
tièni (indicative present second-person singular)
tiéni (indicative present second-person singular)
tiène (indicative present singular third-person)
tiéne (indicative present singular third-person)
teniàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
tenéte (indicative plural present second-person)
tèngono (indicative plural present third-person)
tenévo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
tenévi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
tenéva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
tenevàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
tenevàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
tenévano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
ténni (first-person historic indicative past singular)
tènni (first-person historic indicative past singular)
tenésti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
ténne (historic indicative past singular third-person)
tènne (historic indicative past singular third-person)
tenémmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
tenéste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
ténnero (historic indicative past plural third-person)
tènnero (historic indicative past plural third-person)
terrò (first-person future indicative singular)
terrài (future indicative second-person singular)
terrà (future indicative singular third-person)
terrémo (first-person future indicative plural)
terréte (future indicative plural second-person)
terrànno (future indicative plural third-person)
terrèi (conditional first-person singular)
terrésti (conditional second-person singular)
terrèbbe (conditional singular third-person)
terrébbe (conditional singular third-person)
terrémmo (conditional first-person plural)
terréste (conditional plural second-person)
terrèbbero (conditional plural third-person)
terrébbero (conditional plural third-person)
tènga (first-person present singular subjunctive)
tènga (present second-person singular subjunctive)
tènga (present singular subjunctive third-person)
teniàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
teniàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
tèngano (plural present subjunctive third-person)
tenéssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
tenéssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
tenésse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
tenéssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
tenéste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
tenéssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
tièni (imperative second-person singular)
tiéni (imperative second-person singular)
tènga (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
teniàmo (first-person imperative plural)
tenéte (imperative plural second-person)
tèngano (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
tenére (imperative negative second-person singular)
tènga (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
teniàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
tenéte (imperative negative plural second-person)
tèngano (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
tenére (infinitive)
avére (auxiliary)
tenèndo (gerund)
tenènte (participle present)
tenùto (participle past)
tèngo (first-person indicative present singular)
tègno (archaic first-person indicative present singular)
tièni (indicative present second-person singular)
tiène (indicative present singular third-person)
teniàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
tegnàmo (archaic first-person indicative plural present)
tenéte (indicative plural present second-person)
tèngono (indicative plural present third-person)
tègnono (archaic indicative plural present third-person)
tenévo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
tenévi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
tenéva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
tenevàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
tenevàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
tenévano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
ténni (first-person historic indicative past singular)
tenéi (archaic first-person historic indicative past singular)
tenétti (archaic first-person historic indicative past singular)
tenètti (Traditional archaic first-person historic indicative past singular)
tenésti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
ténne (historic indicative past singular third-person)
tené (archaic historic indicative past singular third-person)
tenétte (archaic historic indicative past singular third-person)
tenètte (Traditional archaic historic indicative past singular third-person)
tenémmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
tenéste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
ténnero (historic indicative past plural third-person)
tenérono (archaic historic indicative past plural third-person)
tenéttero (archaic historic indicative past plural third-person)
tenèttero (Traditional archaic historic indicative past plural third-person)
terrò (first-person future indicative singular)
terrài (future indicative second-person singular)
terrà (future indicative singular third-person)
terrémo (first-person future indicative plural)
terréte (future indicative plural second-person)
terrànno (future indicative plural third-person)
terrèi (conditional first-person singular)
terrésti (conditional second-person singular)
terrèbbe (conditional singular third-person)
terrébbe (conditional singular third-person)
terrémmo (conditional first-person plural)
terréste (conditional plural second-person)
terrèbbero (conditional plural third-person)
terrébbero (conditional plural third-person)
tènga (first-person present singular subjunctive)
tègna (archaic first-person present singular subjunctive)
tènga (present second-person singular subjunctive)
tègna (archaic present second-person singular subjunctive)
tènga (present singular subjunctive third-person)
tègna (archaic present singular subjunctive third-person)
teniàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
tegnàmo (archaic first-person plural present subjunctive)
teniàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
tegnàte (archaic plural present second-person subjunctive)
tèngano (plural present subjunctive third-person)
tègnano (archaic plural present subjunctive third-person)
tenéssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
tenéssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
tenésse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
tenéssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
tenéste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
tenéssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
tièni (imperative second-person singular)
tènga (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
tègna (archaic formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
teniàmo (first-person imperative plural)
tegnàmo (archaic first-person imperative plural)
tenéte (imperative plural second-person)
tèngano (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
tègnano (archaic formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
tenére (imperative negative second-person singular)
tènga (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
tègna (archaic formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
teniàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
tegnàmo (archaic first-person imperative negative plural)
tenéte (imperative negative plural second-person)
tèngano (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
tègnano (archaic formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)

From Latin tenēre, from Proto-Italic *tenēō, stative from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”).

der

(transitive, journalism) to continue coverage of uninteresting or unpressing news, in hopes of future developments


arse

(poetry, music) arsis (the stronger part of a measure or foot)


fold

The verb is from Middle English folden, from Old English fealdan, from Proto-West Germanic *falþan, from Proto-Germanic *falþaną (“to fold”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”).
The noun is from Middle English folde,falde, itself derived from the verb.

Newspaper editors know the importance of putting the most important information “above the fold,” that is, visible when the paper is folded and on the rack.

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(newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.


alba

First attested in 1821; borrowed from Occitan alba, ultimately from Latin albus (“white”); compare Spanish alba (“dawn”).

(poetry) A type of lyrical poetry, traditionally Provençal, about lovers who must part at dawn.