Times

Mr. Campion seated himself in the client’s chair and crossed his long legs. His hat, his gloves and his folded Times newspaper he held upon his knee.

1963, Margery Allingham, “Off the Record”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 73:

From there, the meme will slowly leak into more popular mainstream-right punditry, and then into the Republican Party, until Ted Cruz sweatily asks a judicial nominee if they “support the current thing” and the Times writes some stilted, breathless article about the meme as disinformation.

2022 May 9, Max Read, “What Is “The Current Thing”?”, in Slate:

(newspapers) A common name (often in combination) for a newspaper or periodical, especially The Times (published in the United Kingdom), but also The New York Times, The Times of India, Radio Times, etc.


U

(typography, newspapers) a unit in newspaper typesetting, equal to 11 mils, ¹¹⁄₁₀₀₀ in, ¹⁄₈ 倍 (bai) and ¹⁄₁₂₈ 段 (dan)


Winter

en-noun

Winter (countable and uncountable, plural Winters)

(poetry) Alternative letter-case form of winter.


caput

la-noun

caput n (genitive capitis); third declension

capitis (genitive)
caput (nominative singular)
capita (nominative plural)
capitis (genitive singular)
capitum (genitive plural)
capitī (dative singular)
capitibus (dative plural)
caput (accusative singular)
capita (accusative plural)
capite (ablative singular)
capitibus (ablative plural)
caput (singular vocative)
capita (plural vocative)
cap. (alternative)
c. (alternative)
capud (alternative)
capus (alternative Late-Latin)
cabo (alternative)

Direct reflexes:

Sardinian: cabudu, cabude, cabide

⇒ Vulgar Latin: capus (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings:

→ English: caput

→ Portuguese: caput

Reflexes of capita and, via back-formation, a new singular *capitum:

Balkans:

Aromanian: capiti, capit, capitu

Istro-Romanian: cåpete

Megleno-Romanian: capiti

Romanian: capete, capăt

Italy and environs:

Central Italian: capita, capitu, capito

Lombard: caved

Sardinian: cabida

From *capucla, feminine of *capuclum, from *caputulum:

Italian: capocchia

From *caputia:

Italian: capoccia

From Proto-Italic *kaput, from Proto-Indo-European *káput. Cognates include German Haupt and English head.

capita rerum

(writing) A division, section, paragraph, chapter.


scoop

(journalism) scoop (news learned and reported before anyone else)


stop press

From stop the presses, US newspaper-printing jargon.

1989, Textual Introduction to The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=C64iQVqCm3MC&pg=RA1-PR51&lpg=RA1-PR51&sig=JpcrTaGG5EdPxJjr2U8VwuilsEw
Three of the errata corrections had already been made as stop-press corrections …

Faked Stop Press! announcements in newspapers. A valuable trick because it can always be claimed that the announcement was ‘hushed up’. It is also easy to fake the printing of the Stop Press.

2002, Russell Miller, Behind the Lines http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=iAtuxaBlfRkC&pg=PA103&lpg=PA103&sig=erWM7_pq0H8pCDJnv5W4-5bxlv0

2005, Mary Norway, The Sinn Fein Rebellion As I Saw It, http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=kdp6DLzb6KcC&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65&sig=TWkyRKxWPtmbwiGPh_BvuIQNwlA
Another lady thought she would drive a lesson home, so she said: “But you said it was a ‘Stop press,’ and you knew it was not.”
“It is, miss, but sure they hadn’t time to print the ‘stop press’ on it!!”
(“Stop press” is the latest news, usually printed on the back of the paper.)

STOP PRESS: As this issue of RAIL went to press, the RMT announced that it too would be taking strike action on the Tube on March 15

2023 March 8, “Tube drivers announce "first day of action"”, in RAIL, number 978, page 11:

(UK, journalism) The event or news article important enough to delay or interrupt the print, or require a reprint, of a publication, particularly of a newspaper edition.


elegant variation

en-noun

elegant variation (countable and uncountable, plural elegant variations)

Introduced by H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler in The King's English (1906).

A closely related rule for encoding legal texts is the same meaning, same form principle. We saw previously that this rule requires lawyers to avoid elegant variation. Instead, they should consistently use one word if they mean the same thing.

1999, Peter M. Tiersma, Legal Language, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 131:

(journalism, literature) The use of synonyms to avoid repetition (regarded as a stylistic fault when done excessively).

Francis George Fowler
H. W. Fowler
The King's English


kicker

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) Small text above a headline that indicates the topic of the story.

Dachzeile

journalism: Small text above a headline that indicates the topic of the story

(journalism) The last one or two paragraphs of a story.

lopetus

journalism: the last paragraph or two of a story

(journalism) Synonym of lead-in (“start of photo caption”).


volte-face

volte-faces (plural)
volte face (alternative)

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Shakespeare often used volte-faces in the rhyming couplets at the end of his sonnets.

(literature, chiefly poetry) A dramatic change in mood or tone.


reporter

head

reporter c (singular definite reporteren, plural indefinite reportere)

reporteren (definite singular)
reportere (indefinite plural)
reporter (indefinite nominative singular)
reporteren (definite nominative singular)
reportere (indefinite nominative plural)
reporterne (definite nominative plural)
reporters (genitive indefinite singular)
reporterens (definite genitive singular)
reporteres (genitive indefinite plural)
reporternes (definite genitive plural)


reporter

reporter m (definite singular reporteren, indefinite plural reportere, definite plural reporterne)

reporteren (definite singular)
reportere (indefinite plural)
reporterne (definite plural)


reporter

reporter m (definite singular reporteren, indefinite plural reporterar, definite plural reporterane)

reporteren (definite singular)
reporterar (indefinite plural)
reporterane (definite plural)


reporter

pl-noun

reporter m pers (female equivalent reporterka, augmentative reporterzyna, related adjective reporterski)

reporterka (feminine)
reporterzyna (augmentative)
reporterski (adjective)
reporter (nominative singular)
reporterzy (nominative plural)
reportery (derogatory nominative plural)
reportera (genitive singular)
reporterów (genitive plural)
reporterowi (dative singular)
reporterom (dative plural)
reportera (accusative singular)
reporterów (accusative plural)
reporterem (instrumental singular)
reporterami (instrumental plural)
reporterze (locative singular)
reporterach (locative plural)
reporterze (singular vocative)
reporterzy (plural vocative)

Internationalism; compare German Reporter, Russian репортёр (reportjór), Spanish reportero, ultimately from English reporter.

(journalism) reporter (journalist who investigates, edits, and reports news stories for newspapers, radio, and television)


graf

Phonetic respelling of clipping of paragraph.

Brooks lays out the crux of his case his case in his first three grafs of his article:

2010 January 27, Matt Taibbi, “Populism: Just Like Racism!”, in True/Slant, archived from the original on 2013-01-19:

This Wednesday story includes a graf on Reuters’ stance:

2025 February 13, Joshua Benton, “Trump wants news outlets to get on board with ‘Gulf of America’ — or else. Will they?”, in Nieman Journalism Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Nieman Foundation for Journalism, retrieved 2025-02-13:


newscast

(broadcasting, journalism) A broadcast of the news; a news report that is transmitted over the air for television, radio, etc.


newscaster

Take Linda, a thirty-nine-year-old newscaster who relished her career but began to hear the alarm ringing on her biological clock.

1994, Rugh Winter, Bonnie Eaker-Weil, Adultery, the Forgivable Sin:

Yet, a few US newscasters will go on the air at 6 pm or later and say, "Moscow said tonight.["] ... A careful writer would make his script read, "Moscow said today. ..."

1997, Mervin Block, Writing Broadcast News: Shorter, Sharper, Stronger, →ISBN, page 154:

It is still considered embarrassing if people in authority like teachers or newscasters “shrub.”

2019 April 19, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, “Harro! I shrub because, really, I have no otherwise, do I?”, in The East African, archived from the original on 2023-04-16:

(broadcasting, journalism) One who delivers the news for broadcast on television, radio, etc; a newsreader.


Alcaic verse

(poetry) A Greek meter, supposedly invented by Alcaeus, consisting of combinations of spondee, iambs and dactyls.


supplement

From Latin supplementum (“that which is added to supply a shortage”), from supplere (“to provide something”).

der

the literary supplement

"Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: "Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir!"

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

(journalism, scientific literature) An additional section of a newspaper devoted to a specific subject; an additional section of a journal issue, or an additional issue, for a similar purpose.


royalty

en-noun

royalty (countable and uncountable, plural royalties)

→ Danish: royalty

→ German: Royalty

→ Italian: royalty

→ Norwegian Bokmål: royalty

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: royalty

→ Portuguese: royalty

→ Swedish: royalty

From Middle English royaltee, roialtee, royalte, from Old French roialté, roiauté, realté (compare earlier Old French realted (“realm, kingdom”)), from Vulgar Latin *rēgālitās, from Latin rēgālis, equivalent to royal + -ty. Doublet of regality.

Until the total of advances in that contract has been earned out by royalties from any or all books in that contract, the author will not receive additional royalties.

2014, Richard Curtis, Mastering the Business of Writing:

(authorship) To make more money from a book than it cost to run an advertising campaign for it; to make enough in royalties to cover the advance a book received.


flimsy

flimsy (countable and uncountable, plural flimsies)

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British Army
Crusader tank
Monadhliath Mountains
North African Campaign

The origin of the adjective is uncertain; it is possibly from flim(-flam) (“(noun) false information presented as true, misinformation, nonsense; poor attempt at deception, confidence trick, pretence; (adjective) frivolous, nonsensical; deceptive; fictitious”) or a metathesis of film (“thin layer of a substance; slender thread”) + -sy (suffix forming adjectives and nouns).
The noun and verb are derived from the noun. Noun sense 4 (“metal container”) refers to the fact that the containers often split along their seams and leaked.

affix

[page 31] Sub-editors are now hard at work cutting down "flimsy," ramming sheets of "copy" on files, endlessly conferring with perspiring foremen. […] [page 34] The last report from the late debate in the Commons has come in; the last paragraph of interesting news, dropped into the box by a stealthy penny-a-liner, has been eliminated from a mass of flimsy on its probation, and for the most part rejected; […]

1859, George Augustus Sala, “Five o’Clock a.m.—The Publication of the ‘Times’ Newspaper”, in Twice Round the Clock; or The Hours of the Day and Night in London. […], London: Houlston and Wright, […], →OCLC, pages 31 and 34:

(by extension) A document printed or typed on such paper.

(newspapers, uncountable) The text to be set into pages of magazines, newspapers, etc.; copy.


verso

Inherited from Old Spanish verso (“verse”).


stanza

From Italian stanza, from Vulgar Latin *stantia (“standing, stopping-place”), from Latin stāns, stantis, from stō, stāre, from Proto-Italic *staēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti, stative verb from *steh₂- (whence English stand). Doublet of stance.

der

(poetry) A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.


RFT

(newspapers) Initialism of Riverfront Times.


crónica

crónicas (plural)
crônica (alternative Brazil)
chronica (alternative)
chrónica (alternative)


lede

A deliberate misspelling of lead, originally used in instructions given to printers to indicate which paragraphs constitute the lede, intended to avoid confusion with the word lead which may actually appear in the text of an article. Compare dek (“subhead”) (modified from deck) and hed (“headline”) (from head).

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Readers usually see the lead picture and read its caption first, before reading the lede of the article, so the article lede should not be a repetition of the caption.

1979, J. W. Click, Russell N. Baird, Magazine Editing and Production, 2nd edition, Dubuque, Iowa: W[illiam] C. Brown, →ISBN, page 90:

"How can Mr. On-line Guy learn to be a journalist if he didn't go through what I went through?" they [newspaper journalists] ask. "I needed the city editor to tell me how to write a graceful sentence, and I was a year into the job before I could craft a decent lede?"

1999, Mike Godwin, “Who’s a Journalist?—II: Welcome the New Journalists on the Internet”, in Robert H. Giles, Robert W. Snyder, editors, What’s Next?: Problems & Prospects of Journalism, New Brunswick, N.J., London: Transaction Publishers, published 2001, →ISBN, page 46:

I was thrilled to be in possession of this nugget, which could probably take over the lede of my story. This essentially and truly implicated one of the most respected homicide detectives in Boston, all based on my initial tip.

2007 February, Brian McGrory, chapter 40, in Strangled, New York, N.Y.: Atria Books, →ISBN, page 314:

The lede (as we spell it) story in today's NYT [The New York Times] is all about their new poll showing that [John] McCain is hurting himself, not [Barack] Obama, with the attacks. […] If something's the lede in the NYT, it tends to get discussed on cable TV all day, etc.

2008 October 15, Michael Tomasky, “Michael Tomasky’s Blog: This Morning’s Stuff You Need to Know”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, archived from the original on 2016-03-06:

Like all forms of writing, there's no hard and fast rule about what makes a great lede. A good lede changes depending on the story you're writing. […] Ledes vary wildly, but you'll start to notice patterns and, more importantly, what kinds of ledes you like and feel are effective.

2018, Branden Salas, “Reporting for Print Media”, in Basic Concept of Journalism, Waltham Abbey, Essex: Ed-Tech Press, published 2020, →ISBN, page 253:

Here are some different types of ledes: […] · Scenario ledes use narrative elements to describe a place of particular importance to the story. / · Narrative ledes begin at a chronological beginning. […] · First-person anecdotal ledes begin with a relevant anecdote that involves the writer. Service and celebrity pieces often begin with first-person ledes.

2019, Naveed Saleh, “Narrative: Beginnings, Middles, and Ends”, in The Writer’s Guide to Self-editing: Essential Tips for Online and Print Publishing, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, part VII (Global Considerations), page 225:

(chiefly US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article; the lead or lead-in.

լիդ

introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper or other news article


impressionism

en-noun

impressionism (countable and uncountable, plural impressionisms)

(poetry) A style that used imagery and symbolism to portray the poet's impressions.


stringer

And he told a few stories about time he had spent in New York in the 1950s as a stringer for the Asahi newspapers… about meeting Diana Vreeland and Truman Capote and Judy Holiday.

1991, Douglas Coupland, “Enter Hyperspace”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC:

(journalism) A freelance correspondent not on the regular newspaper staff, especially one retained on a part-time basis to report on events in a particular place.


puff

puff (indefinite nominative singular)
puffs (genitive indefinite singular)
puffen (definite nominative singular)
puffens (definite genitive singular)
puffar (indefinite nominative plural)
puffars (genitive indefinite plural)
puffarna (definite nominative plural)
puffarnas (definite genitive plural)

a nudge (gentle push)
(journalism) a blurb


dead donkey

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From the saying that no one ever sees a dead donkey, hence a rarity. This then became a stock example of a slow-news-day story, which was popularized by the title of the British sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey.

Swap these ages around to produce a 59-year-old father and a 45-year-old mother and what was previously a hot news story becomes a dead donkey.

1994, New Scientist, volume 141, numbers 1907–1912, page 3:

Those are the people who should have some protection from media excesses, even if only to gain some form of compensation for the damage sustained once the media has left and they, like the proverbial dead donkey, are dropped, their lives in tatters, because they were used by the media in an unsavoury ciruclation or viewing war.

1999, Council of Europe. Parliamentary Assembly, Official Report of Debates, volume 2, page 525:

When disaster strikes, the dead donkey does not get dropped, but merely occurs later on the television news.

2003, Peter Narváez, Of corpse: death and humor in folklore and popular culture, page 25:

(journalism) A news item of no real significance, usually of whimsical or sentimental nature, placed at the end of a news bulletin or in a newspaper as filler. A dead donkey can often be removed from the programme or publication if a more significant story needs extra time or space.


ghostwrite

en-verb

ghostwrite (third-person singular simple present ghostwrites, present participle ghostwriting, simple past ghostwrote, past participle ghostwritten)

ghostwrites (present singular third-person)
ghostwriting (participle present)
ghostwrote (past)
ghostwritten (participle past)
ghost-write (alternative)
ghost write (alternative)

Mariana would rather not ghostwrite for a living because she finds it a thankless task.

(authorship, intransitive) To write under the name of another (especially literary works).

The president has someone to ghostwrite his addresses.

(authorship, transitive) To author a literary work or speech in the place of another.


sound bite

sound bites (plural)
soundbite (alternative)

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudo-science and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

1995, Carl Sagan, “Science and Hope”, in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1st edition, New York: Random House, →ISBN, pages 25–26:

(journalism, television) An extract from a speech or interview used as edited into a news or other broadcast; an interview clip, especially seen as particularly expressive or pithy.


streamer

From Middle English stremer, stremere, equivalent to stream + -er.

(journalism) A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.

koko sivun levyinen otsikko

newspaper headline that runs across the entire page


tinta

→ Tagalog: tinta

→ Tataltepec Chatino: tintya

→ Yogad: tinta

Inherited from Latin tincta (“dyed”), perfect passive participle of tingō (“dye”, verb). Cognate with English tint, Dutch tint, Estonian tint, French teinte, German Tinte, Hungarian tinta, Italian tinta, Luxembourgish Tintin, and Portuguese tinta.


monologue

monologues (plural)
monolog (alternative US noun)

dialogue

antonym(s) of “a monopolizing utterance”

First attested in c. 1550. Borrowed from Middle French monologue, modeled on dialogue, ultimately from Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos, “soliloquy, monologue”).

der

(drama, authorship) A long speech by one person in a play; sometimes a soliloquy; other times spoken to other characters.


headline

The headline on today's newspaper reads "John Doe Wins Wood-Splitting Competition."

Say that you'll never, never, never, never need it
One headline, why believe it?
Everybody wants to rule the world

1985, Roland Orzabal, Ian Stanley, Chris Hughes, “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”, in Songs from the Big Chair, performed by Tears for Fears:

Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.

2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:

(journalism) The heading or title of a magazine or newspaper article.


exposition

en-noun

exposition (countable and uncountable, plural expositions)

From Middle English exposicioun, from Old French esposicion, from Latin expositiō, from expōnere (“to put forth”). The sense meaning "exhibition" is a later semantic loan from French exposition.

This essay has too much exposition in it.

My reviewer said she couldn't picture the setting for my story, so I'm improving the exposition.

(authorship) The act or process of declaring or describing something through either speech or writing, in nonfiction or in fiction; the portions and aspects of a piece of writing that exist mainly to describe or explain a set of things (such as, in fiction, the setting, characters and other non-plot elements).

I turned my research into an exposition on the traditional music of Borneo.

(authorship) An essay or speech in which any topic is discussed in detail.

বয়ান

(authorship) An opening section in fiction, in which background information about the characters, events or setting is conveyed.


reportage

head

reportage c (singular definite reportagen, plural indefinite reportager)

reportagen (definite singular)
reportager (indefinite plural)
reportage (indefinite nominative singular)
reportagen (definite nominative singular)
reportager (indefinite nominative plural)
reportagerne (definite nominative plural)
reportages (genitive indefinite singular)
reportagens (definite genitive singular)
reportagers (genitive indefinite plural)
reportagernes (definite genitive plural)


sted

From Middle English sted, from Old English stede (“place, spot, locality”).

der

(This version CORRECTS Corrects title of movie to ‘Echoes of the Rainbow’ sted ‘Echoes of a Rainbow.’)

2010 February 22, “Hong Kong rejoices over Berlin film prize”, in Long Island Press, retrieved 2012-07-25:

Eds: CORRECTS name of city to 'Pass Christian' sted 'Port'. Moving on general news and financial services. AP Video.

2010 May 10, Vicki Smith, Holbrook Mohr, “Gulf Oil Spill: Unemployed Fishermen Struggling To Get By”, in Huffington Post, retrieved 2012-07-25:

(journalism, slang) short for instead of


AFP

When asked about the legal proceedings, Durov reportedly told the AFP that he “trusts the French justice” system but refused to elaborate on the case.

2024 December 7, Zoltan Vardai, “Telegram founder Pavel Durov questioned in Paris court for first time: Report”, in Cointelegraph:

(journalism) Initialism of Agence France-Presse.


AFP

(journalism, in France) initialism of Agence France-Presse


run-in

en-adj

run-in (not generally comparable, comparative more run-in, superlative most run-in)

more run-in (comparative)
most run-in (superlative)

These headings are of the run-in type because a free-hanging style would just be a waste of column inches.

participial adjective
participial adjective

(participial adjective; editing, typography) (not comparable) Having been run in before or behind previous text.


anapest

anapest (nominative singular)
anapesty (nominative plural)
anapestu (genitive singular)
anapestů (genitive plural)
anapestu (dative singular)
anapestům (dative plural)
anapest (accusative singular)
anapesty (accusative plural)
anapeste (singular vocative)
anapesty (plural vocative)
anapestu (locative singular)
anapestech (locative plural)
anapestem (instrumental singular)
anapesty (instrumental plural)

K nejfrekventovanějším stopám patří trochej (¯ ˘), jamb (˘ ¯), daktyl (¯ ˘ ˘), anapest (˘ ˘ ¯), amfibrach (˘ ¯ ˘) a spondej (¯ ¯).

1997, Jiří Fukač with Jiří Vysloužil and Petr Macek, Slovník české hudební kultury, Praha: Editio Supraphon, →ISBN, page 742:

Trochee (¯ ˘), iamb (˘ ¯), dactyl (¯ ˘ ˘), anapest (˘ ˘ ¯), amphibrach (˘ ¯ ˘) and spondee (¯ ¯) belong among the most frequented feet.

Jakmile jsem si vytvořil tento vztah ke zvuku, jazyku a námětu, okamžitě jsem viděl – lépe řečeno, okamžitě jsem slyšel –, že anapest nemusí pokaždé skončit jako monotónní, ucouraná, vlezlá odrhovačka na způsob básní Edgara Allana Poea, Roberta Service, Kiplinga a dalších.

2007, James Dickey, “Básník jde do sebe”, in Revolver revue, volumes 67–68, page 125:

I saw at once—or rather I heard at once—when I began to have this kind of relationship to sound, language and subject, that the anapest needn't result in the monotonous, slugging, obtrusive singsong that it has in the poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Service, Kipling, and others.

(poetry) anapest, a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, two short or unstressed and one long or stressed


in-line

An in-line mathematical formula does not have to be on a line of its own.

Parenthetical referencing is a citation style which uses in-line citations enclosed within parentheses.

This is an inline (e.g. mid-sentence) template for marking up text as a Wikipedia self-reference.

(writing) Inserted in the flow of a text.


sestet

From Italian sestetto, from sesto (“sixth”), Latin sextus, from sex (“six”).

(poetry) The last six lines of a sonnet, forming two stanzas of three lines each.


longueur

Borrowed from French longueur (literally “length”).

bor+

Most of the reasons given for its disappearance make sense: people are happier, busier; the work done by the anti-Freudian skeptics has finally taken hold of the popular imagination, so that people have no time for analytic longueurs and no patience with its mystifications.

1998 August 17, Adam Gopnik, “Man Goes To See a Doctor”, in The New Yorker:

He cultivated the aura, if not quite of the Anti-Christ, at least of an Anti-Sun King, discountenancing his uncle and shocking the dévots by preferring the intimacy and informality of a clique of drinking companions to the formal longueurs of the courtly round […].

2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 30:

[T]he reader can’t help feeling that a few judicious nips and tucks might have dispersed the longueurs that waft around the third quarter of the book.

2015 October 5, Michiko Kakutani, “Review: ‘City on Fire,’ Garth Risk Hallberg’s Novel of New York in the Bad Old Days”, in New York Times:

Claire Fontaine (who are actually a duo) have queered the phrase, lending its pungency and ambiguity to a biennale that I wish were nearly so succinct. There are longueurs. There are detours and incomprehensible delays.

2024 April 22, Adrian Searle, “Venice Biennale 2024 review – everything everywhere all at once”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(authorship) A lengthy passage in a dramatic or literary work, especially a dull or tedious one; a period of boredom.


medida

(literary, poetry, music) measure; measurement; number of syllables in a line (in poetry)


acento

(orthography) accent (mark to indicate accent)


artículo

Borrowed from Latin articulus. Compare the inherited doublet artejo.


spondee

spondees (plural)
spondeus (alternative archaic)

From Latin spondēus (“spondee”), from Ancient Greek σπονδεῖος (spondeîos, “associated with a libation”) from σπονδή (spondḗ, “libation”): spondees were often used in melodies sung at libations.

der

(poetry) A word or metrical foot of two syllables, either both long or both stressed.


doorstep

en-verb

doorstep (third-person singular simple present doorsteps, present participle doorstepping, simple past and past participle doorstepped)

doorsteps (present singular third-person)
doorstepping (participle present)
doorstepped (participle past)
doorstepped (past)

Throughout her time in journalism, she doorstepped politicians, the child of a politician, crime victims, armed robbers, murderers, suspected murderers...

1998, Emily O'Reilly, Veronica Guerin: The Life and Death of a Crime Reporter:

Surprisingly few people refused to talk, even those I doorstepped or telephoned out of the blue.

2006, Denis O'Hearn, Nothing But an Unfinished Song:

(transitive, journalism) To corner somebody for an unexpected interview.


doorstep

Statsministeren holder doorstep i Statsministeriet.

The Prime Minister is holding an informal press briefing at the Prime Minister's Office.

(journalism) A short and informal press briefing


mora

From Latin mora (“duration of time, delay”).

In the quantitative meters in Sanskrit a heavy syllable is considered to be equal to two morae and a light syllable equivalent to one mora.

1918, Elcanon Isaacs, “The Metrical Basis of Hebrew Poetry”, in The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, volume 35, page 22:

(poetry) A unit used to measure lines and stanzas of poetry.


mora

mora (nominative singular)
mory (nominative plural)
mory (genitive singular)
mor (genitive plural)
morze (dative singular)
morom (dative plural)
morę (accusative singular)
mory (accusative plural)
morą (instrumental singular)
morami (instrumental plural)
morze (locative singular)
morach (locative plural)
moro (singular vocative)
mory (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin mora. First attested in 1677–1690.

ref

Ewa Rodek (20.02.2023) “MORA II”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]

(poetry) mora (a unit used to measure lines and stanzas of poetry)


bylgja

is-noun

bylgja f (genitive singular bylgju, nominative plural bylgjur)

bylgju (genitive singular)
bylgjur (nominative plural)
bylgja (indefinite nominative singular)
bylgjan (definite nominative singular)
bylgjur (indefinite nominative plural)
bylgjurnar (definite nominative plural)
bylgju (accusative indefinite singular)
bylgjuna (accusative definite singular)
bylgjur (accusative indefinite plural)
bylgjurnar (accusative definite plural)
bylgju (dative indefinite singular)
bylgjunni (dative definite singular)
bylgjum (dative indefinite plural)
bylgjunum (dative definite plural)
bylgju (genitive indefinite singular)
bylgjunnar (definite genitive singular)
bylgna (genitive indefinite plural)
bylgja (genitive indefinite plural)
bylgnanna (definite genitive plural)
bylgjanna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse bylgja, from Proto-Germanic *bulgijō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-.


hattur

hattur m (genitive singular hatts, nominative plural hattar)

hatts (genitive singular)
hattar (nominative plural)
hattur (indefinite nominative singular)
hatturinn (definite nominative singular)
hattar (indefinite nominative plural)
hattarnir (definite nominative plural)
hatt (accusative indefinite singular)
hattinn (accusative definite singular)
hatta (accusative indefinite plural)
hattana (accusative definite plural)
hatti (dative indefinite singular)
hattinum (dative definite singular)
höttum (dative indefinite plural)
höttunum (dative definite plural)
hatts (genitive indefinite singular)
hattsins (definite genitive singular)
hatta (genitive indefinite plural)
hattanna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse hǫttr, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz.


háttur

háttur m (genitive singular háttar, nominative plural hættir)

háttar (genitive singular)
hættir (nominative plural)
háttur (indefinite nominative singular)
hátturinn (definite nominative singular)
hættir (indefinite nominative plural)
hættirnir (definite nominative plural)
hátt (accusative indefinite singular)
háttinn (accusative definite singular)
hætti (accusative indefinite plural)
háttu (accusative archaic indefinite literary plural)
hættina (accusative definite plural)
hætti (dative indefinite singular)
hættinum (dative definite singular)
háttum (dative indefinite plural)
háttunum (dative definite plural)
háttar (genitive indefinite singular)
háttarins (definite genitive singular)
hátta (genitive indefinite plural)
háttanna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse háttr, from Proto-Germanic *hahtuz.


mál

non-decl-blank-full

mál

mál (indefinite nominative singular)
málit (definite nominative singular)
mǫ́l (indefinite nominative plural)
mǫ́lin (definite nominative plural)
mál (accusative indefinite singular)
málit (accusative definite singular)
mǫ́l (accusative indefinite plural)
mǫ́lin (accusative definite plural)
máli (dative indefinite singular)
málinu (dative definite singular)
mǫ́lum (dative indefinite plural)
mǫ́lunum (dative definite plural)
máls (genitive indefinite singular)
málsins (definite genitive singular)
mála (genitive indefinite plural)
málanna (definite genitive plural)

Icelandic: mál

Faroese: mál

Norwegian Bokmål: mål

Old Swedish: māl

Swedish: mål

Danish: mål

desc

→ Old English: māl (“speech, contract, agreement”)

Middle English: mal, male

English: mail

Scots: mail

From Proto-Germanic *maþlą, whence also Old Saxon mahal, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌸𐌻 (maþl).

bragarmál

contraction of unstressed words; poetic speech


ductus

Borrowed from Latin ductus (“leading, conducting”, noun). Doublet of duct and douit.

bor

The number of strokes that make up a written letter, and the direction, sequence and speed in which they are written (Compare graph; see also aspect.)

A subtle reduction of weight towards the middle of the stroke of the letter.


diacritical mark

en-noun

diacritical mark (plural diacritical marks)

(orthography, typography) A symbol in writing used with a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.


acute accent

From Latin accentus (“accent”) acūtus (“sharp”), a calque of Ancient Greek προσῳδία (prosōidía, “accent”) ὀξύς (oxús, “sharp”).
Cognate to French accent aigu.

der

(orthography): A diacritical mark ( ´ ) that can be placed above a number of letters in many languages of the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic writing systems.


我們

/wɔ²¹⁴ mən⁴/

/wän²¹⁴ mə⁴/

/ŋo⁵³ mən²¹⁻⁵⁵/

/ŋɔː¹³ muːn²¹/

/ŋo²¹³⁻²¹ mɨn¹/

/ŋo⁴⁴⁻³⁵ mun¹¹/

/ŋo³³⁻²¹ muoŋ⁵³/

/ua⁵²⁻³⁵ muŋ⁵⁵/

/ŋu²² mən⁴⁴/

/ɦu²² mən⁴⁴/

/wɔ²¹⁴ mən⁴/

/wän²¹⁴ mə⁴/

/ŋo⁵³ mən²¹⁻⁵⁵/

/ŋɔː¹³ muːn²¹/

/ŋo²¹³⁻²¹ mɨn¹/

/ŋo⁴⁴⁻³⁵ mun¹¹/

/ŋo³³⁻²¹ muoŋ⁵³/

/ua⁵²⁻³⁵ muŋ⁵⁵/

/ŋu²² mən⁴⁴/

/ɦu²² mən⁴⁴/

2020, 杨琳, “流行的词源误说辨正”, in 励耘语言学刊, number 2:

We believe that the sense of “need” of 消 xiāo is self-extended.

Wǒmen rènwéi “xiāo” de xūyào yì shì zìshēn yǐnshēn chūlái de.

我们认为“消”的需要义是自身引申出来的。

我們認為“消”的需要義是自身引申出來的。

(academic writing) we; us (referring to the author(s) of the paper, even if the paper has only one author)

筆者

used in both academic and general writings


vox pop

The reporter got some vox pops in the city square to see what people thought of the country's new flag.

While the BBC guidelines relating to balance are[…] so diligently applied that the opinion of 100 so-called experts must always be weighed[…], vox pops remain a chance for journalists to run more or less free.

2017 April 29, Catherine Bennett, “Want to know what people really think? Don’t do a vox pop”, in The Guardian:

Vox pops – a series of comments from a variety of people – are a great way to include a sample of public opinion in your programmes and to add colour to reports that would otherwise suffer from a lack of lively soundbites.

2018, Gary Hudson, Sarah Rowlands, The Broadcast Journalism Handbook, Routledge, →ISBN:

(journalism) A short, informal, non-prearranged interview with a member of the public, especially to canvas opinion.


accent grave

nl-noun

accent grave n (plural accents graves or accent graves)

accents graves (plural)
accent graves (plural)

Unadapted borrowing from French accent grave.


accent grave

id-noun

accent grave (plural accent-accent grave)

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch accent grave (“grave accent”), from unadapted borrowing from French accent grave (“grave accent”).


accent grave

accent grave m (definite singular accent graven, indefinite plural accent graver, definite plural accent gravene)

accent graven (definite singular)
accent graver (indefinite plural)
accent gravene (definite plural)

[lærerinnen] kom med accent aigu og accent grave. Og det underlige skjedde at Frida Grytum i løpet av få uker hadde ført Paris inn i klasseværelset

1985, Gerd Brantenberg, Ved fergestedet, page 153:

[the teacher] came with acute accent and grave accent. And the strange thing happened that in a few weeks Frida Grytum had brought Paris into the classroom

(orthography) a grave accent (a diacritic mark ( ` ) used in many languages to distinguish the pronunciations of vowels.)


tombstone

tombstones (plural)
tomb-stone (alternative archaic)

(journalism) A printed advertisement in a newspaper or magazine, typically having unadorned centered text in black and white, enclosed in a simple box.


liten

head

liten (comparative mindre, superlative minst)

mindre (comparative)
minst (superlative)
liten (indefinite positive)
mindre (comparative indefinite)
minst (indefinite superlative)
litet (indefinite neuter positive singular)
mindre (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
minst (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
små (indefinite plural positive)
mindre (comparative indefinite plural)
minst (indefinite plural superlative)
små (archaic indefinite masculine plural positive)
mindre (archaic comparative indefinite masculine plural)
minst (archaic indefinite masculine plural superlative)
lille (definite masculine positive singular)
mindre (comparative definite masculine singular)
minste (definite masculine singular superlative)
lilla (definite positive)
mindre (comparative definite)
minsta (definite superlative)

From Old Norse lítinn, accusative of lítill, from Proto-Germanic *lītilaz.

(writing, not comparable) small, lowercase


بحر

ar-noun

بَحْر • (baḥr) m (plural بِحَار (biḥār) or بُحُور (buḥūr) or أَبْحُر (ʔabḥur))

بَحْر (canonical)
baḥr (romanization)
بِحَار (plural)
بُحُور (plural)
أَبْحُر (plural)
بَحْر (indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْبَحْر (definite informal singular triptote)
بَحْر (construct informal singular triptote)
بَحْرٌ (indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْبَحْرُ (definite nominative singular triptote)
بَحْرُ (construct nominative singular triptote)
بَحْرًا (accusative indefinite singular triptote)
الْبَحْرَ (accusative definite singular triptote)
بَحْرَ (accusative construct singular triptote)
بَحْرٍ (genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْبَحْرِ (definite genitive singular triptote)
بَحْرِ (construct genitive singular triptote)
بَحْرَيْن (dual indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْبَحْرَيْن (definite dual informal singular triptote)
بَحْرَيْ (construct dual informal singular triptote)
بَحْرَانِ (dual indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْبَحْرَانِ (definite dual nominative singular triptote)
بَحْرَا (construct dual nominative singular triptote)
بَحْرَيْنِ (accusative dual indefinite singular triptote)
الْبَحْرَيْنِ (accusative definite dual singular triptote)
بَحْرَيْ (accusative construct dual singular triptote)
بَحْرَيْنِ (dual genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْبَحْرَيْنِ (definite dual genitive singular triptote)
بَحْرَيْ (construct dual genitive singular triptote)
بِحَار (broken-form indefinite informal plural triptote)
بُحُور (broken-form indefinite informal plural triptote)
أَبْحُر (broken-form indefinite informal plural triptote)
الْبِحَار (broken-form definite informal plural triptote)
الْبُحُور (broken-form definite informal plural triptote)
الْأَبْحُر (broken-form definite informal plural triptote)
بِحَار (broken-form construct informal plural triptote)
بُحُور (broken-form construct informal plural triptote)
أَبْحُر (broken-form construct informal plural triptote)
بِحَارٌ (broken-form indefinite nominative plural triptote)
بُحُورٌ (broken-form indefinite nominative plural triptote)
أَبْحُرٌ (broken-form indefinite nominative plural triptote)
الْبِحَارُ (broken-form definite nominative plural triptote)
الْبُحُورُ (broken-form definite nominative plural triptote)
الْأَبْحُرُ (broken-form definite nominative plural triptote)
بِحَارُ (broken-form construct nominative plural triptote)
بُحُورُ (broken-form construct nominative plural triptote)
أَبْحُرُ (broken-form construct nominative plural triptote)
بِحَارًا (accusative broken-form indefinite plural triptote)
بُحُورًا (accusative broken-form indefinite plural triptote)
أَبْحُرًا (accusative broken-form indefinite plural triptote)
الْبِحَارَ (accusative broken-form definite plural triptote)
الْبُحُورَ (accusative broken-form definite plural triptote)
الْأَبْحُرَ (accusative broken-form definite plural triptote)
بِحَارَ (accusative broken-form construct plural triptote)
بُحُورَ (accusative broken-form construct plural triptote)
أَبْحُرَ (accusative broken-form construct plural triptote)
بِحَارٍ (broken-form genitive indefinite plural triptote)
بُحُورٍ (broken-form genitive indefinite plural triptote)
أَبْحُرٍ (broken-form genitive indefinite plural triptote)
الْبِحَارِ (broken-form definite genitive plural triptote)
الْبُحُورِ (broken-form definite genitive plural triptote)
الْأَبْحُرِ (broken-form definite genitive plural triptote)
بِحَارِ (broken-form construct genitive plural triptote)
بُحُورِ (broken-form construct genitive plural triptote)
أَبْحُرِ (broken-form construct genitive plural triptote)

Gulf Arabic: بَحَر (bəḥər)

Maltese: baħar

Moroccan Arabic: بحر (bḥar)

→ Azerbaijani: bəhr

→ Bengali: বহর (bohor)

→ Lishana Deni: בחר (baḥḥaṛ)

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: بحر (baḥr)
Turkish: bahir

→ Punjabi:

Gurmukhi script: ਬਹਿਰ (bahir)

Shahmukhi script: بحر (bḥr)

→ Swahili: bahari
→ Malagasy: bahary

→ Uzbek: bahr

→ Zaghawa: bahar


pup

(chiefly US, newspapers, publishing) An early edition of a periodical publication, intended for distribution to distant locations.


clipping

en-noun

clipping (countable and uncountable, plural clippings)

When a 90-year-old yellowed clipping appeared one day at my feet, an implausible new mystery entered my life.

2011 November 19, James Bishop Jr., “Grand Canyon mystery runs deep”, in The Arizona Republic:

(countable, journalism) An article clipped from a newspaper (especially) or from a magazine.


catalectic

From Latin catalecticus, from Ancient Greek καταληκτικός (katalēktikós, “leaving off, incomplete”) from κατάληξις (katálēxis).

der

καταληκτικός

(poetry) A line with incomplete meter, lacking a syllable at the end or ending with an incomplete foot.


introverted

en-adj

introverted (comparative more introverted, superlative most introverted)

more introverted (comparative)
most introverted (superlative)
introvert (alternative)

In the Quatrain Reversed or Introverted, the first line corresponds with the fourth.

1896, Richard Green Moulton, The Literary Study of the Bible, page 50:

(poetry, literature) Arranged so that two similar words, lines, etc. form the middle of the structure.


voet

nl-noun

voet m (plural voeten, diminutive voetje n)

voeten (plural)
voetje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: voet

Jersey Dutch: vût

desc

Negerhollands: voet, voeti, fut, futu, vut

→ Virgin Islands Creole: voet (dated)

Skepi Creole Dutch: fut

→? Sranan Tongo: futu

→? Aukan: futu

→ Saramaccan: fútu

From Middle Dutch voet, from Old Dutch fuot, from Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds.

Dit gedicht heeft een ritme van vier voeten per vers.

This poem has a rhythm of four feet per line.

Een jambische pentameter heeft vijf voeten per vers.

An iambic pentameter has five feet per line.

(poetry) foot (most basic element of a metre)


englyn

The concluding Englyn has written below it, in a very bad and quite different hand, "Dauid (or Daniel?) Davies," but whether this name is that of the supposed author of the Englynion, or that of one of the owners of the MS., we cannot say.

1892, F[rancis] T[urner] Palgrave, “Henry Vaughan of Scethrog, 1622–1695: Some Notes on His Life and Characteristics as a Poet of Welsh Descent”, in Egerton Phillimore, editor, Y Cymmrodor: The Magazine of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, volume XI, London: Printed for the Society [Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion] by Gilbert & Rivington, Limited, St. John's House, Clerkenwell, London, E.C., page 222:

The metrical system of the canine original, which recalls the intricate alliterative and isosyllabic rules of the Welsh englyn, is infinitely more complicated but we believe our readers will agree that the spirit has been well caught.

1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses: A Novel, Paris: Shakespeare and Company; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483, page 299

The englyn as we know it in Canu Llywarch Hen and Elegy on Cynddylan is characterized by three lines with end rhyme.

1993, Sarah Lynn Higley, Between Languages: The Uncooperative Text in Early Welsh and Old English Nature Poetry, University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, →ISBN:

(poetry) A short Welsh or Cornish poem of a variable structure, with each line using quantitative metre and cynghanedd (a repeating pattern of consonants and accent), and different lines being arranged in standardized patterns of rhyme and half rhyme.


μέτρον

grc-noun

μέτρον • (métron) n (genitive μέτρου); second declension

métron (romanization)
μέτρου (genitive)
τὸ μέτρον (nominative singular)
μέτρω (dual nominative)
τᾰ̀ μέτρᾰ (nominative plural)
τοῦ μέτρου (genitive singular)
μέτροιν (dual genitive)
μέτρων (genitive plural)
τῷ μέτρῳ (dative singular)
μέτροιν (dative dual)
τοῖς μέτροις (dative plural)
τὸ μέτρον (accusative singular)
μέτρω (accusative dual)
τᾰ̀ μέτρᾰ (accusative plural)
μέτρον (singular vocative)
μέτρω (dual vocative)
μέτρᾰ (plural vocative)

Greek: μέτρο (métro)

→ English: metron

desctree

→ Latin: metrum
→ Dutch: metrum
→ Indonesian: metrum
→ French: mètre (see there for further descendants)
→ German: Metrum
→ Luxembourgish: Metrum
→ Old Irish: metar
Irish: meadar
→ English: mether, medar, meather, madder
→ Fingallian: meddar
→ Italian: metro
→ Polish: metrum
Spanish: miedro

From Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”) + -τρον (-tron).


ottava

From Italian ottava (“octave”) (also feminine form of ottavo (“eighth”), ordinal form of otto).


manchette

→ English: manchette

→ Czech: manžeta

desctree

→ Dutch: manchet
Afrikaans: mansjet
→ Indonesian: manset

→ German: Manschette

→ Haitian Creole: manchèt

→ Hebrew: מנג׳ט

→ Hungarian: mandzsetta

→ Norwegian Bokmål: mansjett

→ Portuguese: manchete

→ Romanian: manșetă

→ Russian: манже́та (manžéta)
→ Uyghur: مانجىت (manjit)
→ Uzbek: manjeta

→ Swedish: manschett

→ Turkish: manşet


runa

pl-noun

runa f (related adjective runiczny or runicki or runowy or runiany)

runiczny (adjective)
runicki (adjective)
runowy (adjective)
runiany (adjective)
runa (nominative singular)
runy (nominative plural)
runy (genitive singular)
run (genitive plural)
runie (dative singular)
runom (dative plural)
runę (accusative singular)
runy (accusative plural)
runą (instrumental singular)
runami (instrumental plural)
runie (locative singular)
runach (locative plural)
runo (singular vocative)
runy (plural vocative)

(chiefly in the plural, poetry) rune (Finnic or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala)


punctum

la-noun

pūnctum n (genitive pūnctī); second declension

pūnctum (canonical neuter)
pūnctī (genitive)
pūnctum (nominative singular)
pūncta (nominative plural)
pūnctī (genitive singular)
pūnctōrum (genitive plural)
pūnctō (dative singular)
pūnctīs (dative plural)
pūnctum (accusative singular)
pūncta (accusative plural)
pūnctō (ablative singular)
pūnctīs (ablative plural)
pūnctum (singular vocative)
pūncta (plural vocative)

Asturian: puntu

Catalan: punt

→ Danish: punktum

→ Dutch: punt

→ English: punctum

Friulian: pont

Galician: punto

→ German: Punkt, Punktum

→ Esperanto: punkto

→ Serbo-Croatian: punkt

→ Hungarian: pont

→ Romanian: pont

Irish: ponc

Italian: punto

→ English: punto

→ Ottoman Turkish: پونطو (punto)

Turkish: punto

→ Middle Low German: punct

→ Old Norse: punktr

Danish: punkt

Norwegian Bokmål: punkt

Swedish: punkt

→ Middle Welsh: pwnc

Welsh: pwnc

→ Norwegian Bokmål: punktum

Occitan: ponch

desctree

→ Old Czech: punkt (learned)
Czech: punkt

Old French: point

→ Middle English: point

→ Middle Welsh: pwynt

Welsh: pwynt

English: point, p'int
→ Cantonese: point
→ Indonesian: poin
→ Japanese: ポイント (pointo)
→ Korean: 포인트 (pointeu)
→ Malay: poin

Middle French: poinct

French: point

→ Danish: point

→ Dutch: punt

→ Norwegian Bokmål: poeng

→ Polish: pointa

→ Swedish: poäng

→ Turkish: puan

→ Middle Irish: pointe

Irish: pointe

Norman: point

Portuguese: ponto

→ Polish: punkt (learned)

→ Proto-Brythonic: *puɨθ

Middle Welsh: pwyth

Welsh: pwyth

→ Romanian: punct

→ Russian: пункт (punkt)

Sicilian: puntu

Spanish: punto, puento (dialectal)

→ Tagalog: punto

Venetan: ponto

Neuter form of pūnctus, the perfect passive participle of pungō (“to prick, puncture”).


romp

en-verb

romp (third-person singular simple present romps, present participle romping, simple past and past participle romped)

romps (present singular third-person)
romping (participle present)
romped (participle past)
romped (past)

This wasn't salacious, romping 'sex', tabloid style

1997, Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture:

Ladbrokes is offering 2-1 odds that contestants WILL romp in the ten-week show.

2006, Martin Conboy, quoting The Sun, Tabloid Britain: Constructing a Community Through Language, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 204:

One young lady who had just romped with an A-List Hollywood star, panicked during my strategic silence and threw in an entirely unexpected line about how he'd enjoyed throttling himself with his tie.

2010 May 13, Sharon Marshall, Tabloid Girl, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

(slang, chiefly newspapers) To engage in playful or illicit sex.


prosody

en-noun

prosody (countable and uncountable, plural prosodies)

From Middle French prosodie, from Latin prosōdia, from Ancient Greek προσῳδία (prosōidía, “song sung to music; pronunciation of syllable”), from πρός (prós, “to”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).

der

But the system of prosody in Samson plainly forbids extrametrical syllables in the midst of the line, and there is certainly no other example.

1894, Robert Bridges, Milton's Prosody, Oxford University Press, page 30:

(poetry) The study of poetic meter; the patterns of sounds and rhythms in verse.


بيت

ar-noun

بَيْت • (bayt) m (plural أَبْيَات (ʔabyāt))

بَيْت (canonical)
bayt (romanization)
أَبْيَات (plural)
بَيْت (indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْبَيْت (definite informal singular triptote)
بَيْت (construct informal singular triptote)
بَيْتٌ (indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْبَيْتُ (definite nominative singular triptote)
بَيْتُ (construct nominative singular triptote)
بَيْتًا (accusative indefinite singular triptote)
الْبَيْتَ (accusative definite singular triptote)
بَيْتَ (accusative construct singular triptote)
بَيْتٍ (genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْبَيْتِ (definite genitive singular triptote)
بَيْتِ (construct genitive singular triptote)
بَيْتَيْن (dual indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْبَيْتَيْن (definite dual informal singular triptote)
بَيْتَيْ (construct dual informal singular triptote)
بَيْتَانِ (dual indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْبَيْتَانِ (definite dual nominative singular triptote)
بَيْتَا (construct dual nominative singular triptote)
بَيْتَيْنِ (accusative dual indefinite singular triptote)
الْبَيْتَيْنِ (accusative definite dual singular triptote)
بَيْتَيْ (accusative construct dual singular triptote)
بَيْتَيْنِ (dual genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْبَيْتَيْنِ (definite dual genitive singular triptote)
بَيْتَيْ (construct dual genitive singular triptote)
أَبْيَات (broken-form indefinite informal plural triptote)
الْأَبْيَات (broken-form definite informal plural triptote)
أَبْيَات (broken-form construct informal plural triptote)
أَبْيَاتٌ (broken-form indefinite nominative plural triptote)
الْأَبْيَاتُ (broken-form definite nominative plural triptote)
أَبْيَاتُ (broken-form construct nominative plural triptote)
أَبْيَاتًا (accusative broken-form indefinite plural triptote)
الْأَبْيَاتَ (accusative broken-form definite plural triptote)
أَبْيَاتَ (accusative broken-form construct plural triptote)
أَبْيَاتٍ (broken-form genitive indefinite plural triptote)
الْأَبْيَاتِ (broken-form definite genitive plural triptote)
أَبْيَاتِ (broken-form construct genitive plural triptote)

→ Azerbaijani: beyt

→ Persian: بیت (beyt)

→ Urdu: بیت (bait)

→ Ottoman Turkish: بیت (beyt, beyit)

> Turkish: beyit (inherited)

→ Uyghur: بېيىت (bëyit)

→ Uzbek: bayt


adaptation

en-noun

adaptation (countable and uncountable, plural adaptations)

adaptations (plural)
adaption (alternative rare)

/ˌædəpˈteɪʃən/

/ˌædæpˈteɪʃən/

/aˈɖæpˌʈeːʃan/

From French adaptation, from Medieval Latin adaptātiō, from Latin adaptō (“I fit, adjust, modify; I adapt, fit or adjust to”); see adapt. Equivalent to adapt + -ation.

der

Having partly a bibliographic value, and partly confirming the statements above as to Balzac's influence, the following details concerning theatrical adaptations of some of his novels may serve as a supplement to this chapter.

(countable, authorship) An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.


polje

pọ̑lje (canonical)
poljẹ̑ (canonical neuter)
pọ̑lje (nominative singular)
pọ̑lji (dual nominative)
pọ̑lja (nominative plural)
pọ̑lja (genitive singular)
pọ̑lj (dual genitive)
pọ̑lj (genitive plural)
pọ̑lju (dative singular)
pọ̑lji (dative singular)
pọ̑ljema (dative dual)
pọ̑ljama (dative dual)
pọ̑ljem (dative plural)
pọ̑ljam (dative plural)
pọ̑lje (accusative singular)
pọ̑lji (accusative dual)
pọ̑lja (accusative plural)
pọ̑lju (locative singular)
pọ̑lji (locative singular)
pọ̑ljih (dual locative)
pọ̑ljah (dual locative)
pọ̑ljih (locative plural)
pọ̑ljah (locative plural)
pọ̑ljem (instrumental singular)
pọ̑ljema (dual instrumental)
pọ̑ljama (dual instrumental)
pọ̑lji (instrumental plural)
pọ̑lje (singular vocative)
pọ̑lji (dual vocative)
pọ̑lja (plural vocative)
poljẹ̑ (nominative singular)
pọ̑lji (dual nominative)
pọ̑lja (nominative plural)
poljȃ (genitive singular)
pọ̑lj (dual genitive)
pọ̑lj (genitive plural)
pọ̑lju (dative singular)
pọ̑lji (dative singular)
pọ̑ljema (dative dual)
pọ̑ljama (dative dual)
pọ̑ljem (dative plural)
pọ̑ljam (dative plural)
poljẹ̑ (accusative singular)
pọ̑lji (accusative dual)
pọ̑lja (accusative plural)
pọ̑lju (locative singular)
pọ̑lji (locative singular)
pọ̑ljih (dual locative)
pọ̑ljah (dual locative)
pọ̑ljih (locative plural)
pọ̑ljah (locative plural)
pọ̑ljem (instrumental singular)
pọ̑ljema (dual instrumental)
pọ̑ljama (dual instrumental)
pọ̑lji (instrumental plural)
poljẹ̑ (singular vocative)
pọ̑lji (dual vocative)
pọ̑lja (plural vocative)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *poľe, probably from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, wide”).


草書

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (草書):
* → Japanese: 草書(そうしょ) (sōsho)
* → Korean: 초서(草書) (choseo)
* → Vietnamese: thảo thư (草書)

/t͡sʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂu⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰou̯³⁵ syː⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰo⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡sɯ³³/

/t͡sʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ su⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ su⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ si⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰau⁴⁴⁵⁻³³ su³³/

/t͡sʰɔ³³ sz̩⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂu⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰou̯³⁵ syː⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰo⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡sɯ³³/

/t͡sʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ su⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ su⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ si⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰau⁴⁴⁵⁻³³ su³³/

/t͡sʰɔ³³ sz̩⁴⁴/

(calligraphy) a Chinese calligraphic style

cursive script
a Chinese calligraphic style


Vokal

de-noun

Vokal m (strong, genitive Vokales or Vokals, plural Vokale)

Vokales (genitive)
Vokals (genitive)
Vokale (plural)
Vokal (nominative singular)
Vokale (definite nominative plural)
Vokales (genitive singular)
Vokals (genitive singular)
Vokale (definite genitive plural)
Vokal (dative singular)
Vokale (dative singular)
Vokalen (dative definite plural)
Vokal (accusative singular)
Vokale (accusative definite plural)
Vocal (alternative obsolete)
Vocalis (alternative obsolete)

15th century, from Latin (littera) vōcālis (“vowel”).

(orthography) vowel letter (letter representing such a sound)


flashback

→ German: Flashback

→ Spanish: flashback

→ Norwegian: flashback

→ Portuguese: flashback

(authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.

salt enrere

a dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative


decima

Borrowed from Spanish décima, from Latin decima (“a tenth”). Doublet of decim, decime, and dime.

His album... dealt with the song form of Puerto Rican back-country troubadours, and it had a preoccupation with... the décima, a 10-line stanza with specific rhyme schemes.

(poetry) A 10-line verse or stanza, (chiefly) in the form of a song comprising an introductory verse followed by four such divisions.


jamb

jambi (genitive)
jambi (partitive)
jamb (nominative singular)
jambid (nominative plural)
jamb (accusative nominative singular)
jambid (accusative nominative plural)
jambi (accusative genitive singular)
jambid (accusative genitive plural)
jambi (genitive singular)
jambide (genitive plural)
jambi (partitive singular)
jambe (partitive plural)
jambisid (partitive plural)
jambi (illative singular)
jambisse (illative singular)
jambidesse (illative plural)
jambesse (illative plural)
jambis (inessive singular)
jambides (inessive plural)
jambes (inessive plural)
jambist (elative singular)
jambidest (elative plural)
jambest (elative plural)
jambile (allative singular)
jambidele (allative plural)
jambele (allative plural)
jambil (adessive singular)
jambidel (adessive plural)
jambel (adessive plural)
jambilt (ablative singular)
jambidelt (ablative plural)
jambelt (ablative plural)
jambiks (singular translative)
jambideks (plural translative)
jambeks (plural translative)
jambini (singular terminative)
jambideni (plural terminative)
jambina (essive singular)
jambidena (essive plural)
jambita (abessive singular)
jambideta (abessive plural)
jambiga (comitative singular)
jambidega (comitative plural)

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἴαμβος (íambos).


jamb

pl-noun

jamb m inan (related adjective jambiczny)

jambiczny (adjective)
jamb (nominative singular)
jamby (nominative plural)
jambu (genitive singular)
jambów (genitive plural)
jambowi (dative singular)
jambom (dative plural)
jamb (accusative singular)
jamby (accusative plural)
jambem (instrumental singular)
jambami (instrumental plural)
jambie (locative singular)
jambach (locative plural)
jambie (singular vocative)
jamby (plural vocative)

(poetry, prosody) iamb (metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable)


clustering

(writing) A prewriting technique consisting of writing ideas down on a sheet of paper around a central idea within a circle, with the related ideas radially joined to the circle using rays.


envoy

From French envoyé (“envoy, messenger”), from envoyer (“send”).

(poetry) Alternative spelling of envoi (“short stanza at end of poem”).


teleplay

(authorship) A script formatted like a screenplay for cinema, but written to be made into an episode of a television show.


screenplay

screenplays (plural)
screen play (alternative)

I know Corinne would be happy if I started writing scripts again. Since my last screenplay, I haven't written anything in over four months.

(authorship, cinematography) A script for a movie or a television show; especially, the former specifically.


háček

háčeks (plural)
háčky (plural)
haček (alternative)
hacek (alternative)
hachek (alternative)
haċek (alternative)
hatcheck (alternative)
hatschek (alternative)
hatchek (alternative)
hacheck (alternative)
hac̬ek (alternative)
haczek (alternative)
hácek (alternative)
haĉek (alternative)
haceck (alternative)

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First attested in 1951; from the Czech háček (“háček”, literally “little hook”), the diminutive of hák (“hook”) (from Middle High German hāken, from Old High German hāko (“hook”), from Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook”)) + the diminutive suffix -ek. Cognate with and formed like English hooklet and German Häkchen. Also cognate with Old English haca (“hook, door-fastening”) and modern English hake (more information below).

cog

The caret (ˇ), háček, is used over the following consonants: c, d, n, t, r, s, and z to indicate the soft sound.

1948, Bohumil Emil Mikula, Progressive Czech (Bohemian), page 6:

Linguistic forms had to be set in ordinary roman type and the capital C of Cäxa had to be left without a háček.

1951, Hans Jakob Polotsky, Notes on Gurage Grammar, page 5:

Good Teutonic Kitsch looks rather forlorn and out of place wearing a Bohemian háček over its shrunken hind quarters. But the high traditions of scholarship must be maintained, and on these pages Meester Kitsch will masquerade as Mr. Kič.

1956, Morris Halle, editor, For Roman Jakobson, page 332:

In the system used here and elsewhere in this article for Bantu tone, low syllables are unmarked, high syllables have an acute accent, and rising syllables a haček respectively; thus a, á, ǎ.

1966, Charles Ernest Bazell et al., editors, In Memory of J.R. Firth, page 205:

The printer had no hatchek — the flattened “v” that appears over letters in Czech — to put over Dvořak’s R. So somebody laboriously inked in all the hatcheks.

1991, Peter Hugh Reed, American Record Guide, LIV:ii, page 69:

háček used to signify the third tone (wǔ — ‘five’)

2002, Torbjörn Lundmark, Quirky QWERTY, page 34:

Another orthographic practice […] was developed […] in the twentieth century: this is the adoption of the hacek for the representation of the Cypriot postalveolar fricatives and affricates, which are otherwise not distinguished by the normal characters of the Greek alphabet alone. It was not until very recently, therefore, that the spellings <σ̌>, <τσ̌>, <ζ̌> and <τζ̌>, for [ʃ], [tʃ], [ʒ] and [dʒ] respectively, became available.

2005, Stavroula Varella, Language Contact and the Lexicon in the History of Cypriot Greek, page 46:

My father always wrote Bětik with a little “v” called haĉek, above the “e”; Marušaks placed the haĉek above the “s”.

2006, Mary Betik Trojacek, Beyond Ellis Island, page 17:

For examples of the usage of other forms of this term see Citations:háček, Citations:haček, Citations:hacek, Citations:haċek, Citations:hachek, Citations:hatcheck, Citations:hatschek, Citations:hǎcek, Citations:hatchek, Citations:hacheck, Citations:hac̬ek, Citations:haczek, Citations:háçek, Citations:hácek, Citations:haĉek, Citations:haceck and Citations:háčky.

diacritical mark
diacritical mark#English

(orthography and typography) A caron; a diacritical mark (ˇ) usually resembling an inverted circumflex, but in the cases of ď, Ľ, ľ, and ť resembling a prime (′) instead.

Ǎǎ Čč Ďď Ěě Ǧǧ Ȟȟ Ǐǐ J̌ǰ Ǩǩ Ľľ Ňň Ǒǒ Řř Šš Ťť Ǔǔ Ǚǚ Žž Ǯǯ DŽDždž Ǆǅǆ

acute accent

diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts

comma

above right ( ̕); below ( ̦), reversed (ʽ), turned (ʻ)

hook

above ( ̉); palatal ( ̡), retroflex ( ̢), rhotic (˞)

tilde

above (˜); below ( ̰), double ( ͠ ), middle / overlay ( ̴), vertical ( ̾)


baria

bareia (alternative)
varia (alternative)

(orthography and typography) An Ancient Greek pitch-marking diacritic: ⟨ ` ⟩; written atop vowels, it denotes normal or low pitch.


rann

head

rann m (genitive singular rainn, nominative plural rainn)

rainn (genitive singular)
rainn (nominative plural)
rann (indefinite nominative singular)
rainn (indefinite nominative plural)
a rainn (indefinite singular vocative)
a ranna (indefinite plural vocative)
rainn (genitive indefinite singular)
rann (genitive indefinite plural)
rann (dative indefinite singular)
rainn (dative indefinite plural)
an rann (definite nominative singular)
na rainn (definite nominative plural)
an rainn (definite genitive singular)
na rann (definite genitive plural)
leis an rann (dative definite singular)
don rann (dative definite singular)
leis na rainn (dative definite plural)


rann

rann m (genitive singular rainn, plural rannan)

rainn (genitive singular)
rannan (plural)

às na ceithir ranna ruadha

from all corners of the earth, from all four corners of the world; from the four red parts


spondaic

From Latin spondaicus, spondiacus, from Ancient Greek σπονδειακός (spondeiakós, “(music) used at a libation”).

der

(poetry) Having or relating to spondees.


trochaic

trochaics (plural)
troch. (alternative abbreviation)
trochaick (alternative obsolete)

Either via the French trochaïque or directly from its etymon, the Latin trochaicus, from the Ancient Greek τροχαικός (trokhaikós), from τροχαῖος (trokhaîos), whence trochee.

(poetry) A poetical composition of this kind.


xenia

xenia (nominative singular)
xenie (nominative plural)
xenii (genitive singular)
xenii (genitive plural)
xenij (archaic genitive plural)
xenii (dative singular)
xeniom (dative plural)
xenię (accusative singular)
xenie (accusative plural)
xenią (instrumental singular)
xeniami (instrumental plural)
xenii (locative singular)
xeniach (locative plural)
xenio (singular vocative)
xenie (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ξενίᾱ (xeníā).

lbor

(poetry) Xenien (biting epigram in the form of a two-line poem)


dur

head

dur m (feminine singular dura, masculine and feminine plural dur)

dura (feminine singular)
dur (feminine masculine plural)
dür (alternative Modern)

From Latin dūrus, from Proto-Italic *dūros, from Proto-Indo-European *duh₂-ró-s (“long”), from *dweh₂- (“far, long”). Cognate with Ancient Greek δηρός (dērós, “long”), Sanskrit दूर (dūrá, “distant, far, long”).


terza rima

en-noun

terza rima (usually uncountable, plural terze rime)

/ˌtɛːtsə ˈɹiːmə/

Borrowed from Italian terza rima (literally “third rhyme”).

bor

In attempting to make the ‘Divina Commedia’ better known to English readers, it might have been held only a fitting mark of deference to my original to reproduce it, if practicable, in the metre of the poet's own choice. But on the appearance of my ‘Inferno,’ its Terza Rima was denounced as the one ‘deleterious ingredient’ which corrupted the version throughout, […]

1865, Dante Alighieri, “preface”, in John Dayman, transl., The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Translated in Terza Rima by John Dayman, page viii:

(poetry) An arrangement of triplets, generally in iambic pentameter in English, with rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc.

тэрцы́на

arrangement of triplets rhyming aba bcb cdc


terza rima

(poetry) terza rima (arrangement of triplets rhyming aba bcb cdc)


fixer

Yet at the same time, this is also the source of what journalists see as one of the major risks involved in dependence on the fixer: the fixer may determine, to some extent, what the journalist sees. It is at this point that differences between journalists become apparent in the interviews – they give different evaluations of the risks. Clearly, this is a point of tension in their understanding of the situation: the prime positive qualities of the fixer are also the potentially negative ones.

2007, Myriam Salama-Carr, Translating and Interpreting Conflict, Rodopi, →ISBN, page 25:

(journalism) A person who assists foreign journalists in volatile countries, often providing interpretation, personal connections, and transportation services.


legman

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Mélange a trois-legman.wav

From leg + -man, modelled after legwork, in reference to the walking such a person does.

[page 136] This was my abrupt introduction to the system by which most of the live news is handled for the New York evening newspapers [...] Its continued use has bred up two distinct and separate types of news-specialists—the leg man, who gets the story, but rarely writes it; and the rewrite man, who writes the story but rarely gets it. [...] [page 140] City editors rail against these news combines, but it was the instinct of self-preservation that long ago drove the leg men into tight and fast organizations.

1913, Irvin S[hrewsbury] Cobb, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 185, Philadelphia, Pa., London: Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23; republished in “The Third Stick”, in Stickfuls: (Myself—To Date) (The Works of Irvin S. Cobb), New York, N.Y.: The Review of Reviews Corporation publishers; published by arrangement with George H[enry] Doran Company, 1923, →OCLC, part 1 (Getting Set in New York: In Three Takes), pages 136 and 140:

Morris Cramm was night legman for a columnist and worked from seven in the evening to five in the morning.

1949, John Macdonald [pseudonym; Kenneth Millar], chapter 5, in The Moving Target, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →OCLC; republished as Ross Macdonald, The Moving Target (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, March 1998, →ISBN, page 32:

The guy looked and acted like a cheap hood when he was the head legman for one of the biggest of the syndicated columnists.

1951, Mickey Spillane, chapter 5, in The Big Kill (Guilt Edged Mystery), New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton, →OCLC; republished as The Big Kill (Mike Hammer series; 5), London: The Murder Room, 2015, →ISBN:

Many of the changes which have taken place in the newspaper field within the last fifty years have been in the direction of specialization. At the turn of the century, for example, a reporter got his stories, wrote them, and sometimes even made up his own headlines. Legmen and rewrite men were practically unknown.

1954, Edmond D[avid] Coblentz, “Introduction: The Drift toward Specialization”, in Edmond D. Coblentz, editor, Newsmen Speak: Journalists on Their Craft, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif., London: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 125:

LEG MEN cover local events and phone the information to a rewrite man. The leg man must have a good nose for news and the ability to give information over the phone quickly and accurately. He seldom writes his own stories.

1973, “Newspaper and Wire Service Operations”, in Journalist 3 & 2: Naval Training Command Rate Training Manual (NAVTRA 10294-C), Washington, D.C.: Published by Naval Training Command; United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 153, column 2:

They all said, "What can you expect when you put a leg-man into a spot like that?" and "How can a youngster like that, with only a year's experience in the newspaper business behind him, handle that sort of an assignment?" [...]

a. 1986, Theodore Sturgeon, “His Good Angel”, in Paul Williams, editor, The Ultimate Egoist, volume I (The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon), Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books, published 1994, →ISBN, page 107:

Of course newspapers have to have "leg men," especially for afternoon editions, who seldom write their own stories but have to telephone in facts to be hurried into type for press time. But leg men nowadays are expected to be literate, though sometimes barely.

2008, Louis M. Lyons, “Leg Men”, in M. A. Lyons, editor, A Pause to Copy: Memoirs of Louis M. Lyons, Journalist, volume IV, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 91:

[Allen] Raymond was the son of a Methodist lay preacher who traded his Ivy League, New England pedigree for a hardboiled journalistic persona cultivated over decades as a "legman," rewrite man, copyeditor, and reporter for a dozen urban newspapers, mostly in metropolitan New York.

2009, James T. Fisher, “Epilogue: Souls of the (Port) Apostolate”, in On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York (Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-century America), Ithaca, N.Y., London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 299:

(originally US, journalism) A reporter who frequently travels to conduct research, interview witnesses, etc., and then conveys the information to a rewriteman who writes up the story.


versification

en-noun

versification (countable and uncountable, plural versifications)

(poetry) The act, art, or practice of composing poetic verse; the construction or measure of verse or poetry; metrical composition.


lead-in

(journalism) A short phrase that begins the caption of a photograph.


apostrophic

All we need to know is that, in Shakespeare’s time, an apostrophe indicated omitted letters, which meant Hamlet could say with supreme apostrophic confidence: “Fie on’t! O fie!”; […]

2003 November 6, Lynne Truss, “The Tractable Apostrophe”, in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, London: Profile Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 38:

(orthography) Pertaining to the grammatical use of, or using, the apostrophe (the diacritical mark ').

apostrófico

pertaining to the apostrophe (the diacritical mark ')


hringur

is-noun

hringur m (genitive singular hrings, nominative plural (usually for non-jewelry) hringir or (usually for jewelry) hringar)

hrings (genitive singular)
hringir (nominative plural usually)
hringar (nominative plural usually)
hringur (indefinite nominative singular)
hringurinn (definite nominative singular)
hringir (indefinite nominative plural)
hringar (indefinite nominative plural)
hringirnir (definite nominative plural)
hringarnir (definite nominative plural)
hring (accusative indefinite singular)
hringinn (accusative definite singular)
hringi (accusative indefinite plural)
hringa (accusative indefinite plural)
hringina (accusative definite plural)
hringana (accusative definite plural)
hring (dative indefinite singular)
hringnum (dative definite singular)
hringjum (dative indefinite plural)
hringum (dative indefinite plural)
hringjunum (dative definite plural)
hringunum (dative definite plural)
hrings (genitive indefinite singular)
hringsins (definite genitive singular)
hringja (genitive indefinite plural)
hringa (genitive indefinite plural)
hringjanna (definite genitive plural)
hringanna (definite genitive plural)

is-ndecl

((<m,,ir􂀿usually for non-jewelry􂁀.j>,<m,,ar􂀿usually for jewelry􂁀.dat->))

From Old Norse hringr, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.


muta

Deverbal from mutare (“to change”) + -a.

(poetry, archaic) each of the two tercets in a Petrarchan sonnet


жёлтый

ru-adj

жёлтый • (žóltyj) (comparative (по)желте́е or (по)желте́й, superlative желте́йший, diminutive жёлтенький, augmentative желтю́щий)

žóltyj (romanization)
(по)желте́е (comparative)
(по)желте́й (comparative)
желте́йший (superlative)
жёлтенький (diminutive)
желтю́щий (augmentative)
жёлтый (masculine nominative)
жёлтое (neuter nominative)
жёлтая (feminine nominative)
жёлтые (nominative plural)
жёлтого (genitive masculine neuter)
жёлтой (feminine genitive)
жёлтых (genitive plural)
жёлтому (dative masculine neuter)
жёлтой (dative feminine)
жёлтым (dative plural)
жёлтого (accusative animate masculine)
жёлтое (accusative neuter)
жёлтую (accusative feminine)
жёлтых (accusative animate plural)
жёлтый (accusative inanimate masculine)
жёлтые (accusative inanimate plural)
жёлтым (instrumental masculine neuter)
жёлтой (feminine instrumental)
жёлтою (feminine instrumental)
жёлтыми (instrumental plural)
жёлтом (masculine neuter prepositional)
жёлтой (feminine prepositional)
жёлтых (plural prepositional)
жёлт (masculine short-form)
желто́ (neuter short-form)
жёлто (neuter short-form)
желта́ (feminine short-form)
желты́ (plural short-form)
жёлты (plural short-form)

From Old East Slavic жьлтъ (žĭltŭ), from Proto-Slavic *žьltъ (“yellow”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *gilˀtas, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”), whence English yellow.

der

жёлтая пре́сса

(publishing, journalism) of doubtful accuracy (for mass media)


subtitle

(authorship) A heading below or after a title.


confessionalism

en-noun

confessionalism (countable and uncountable, plural confessionalisms)

Confessionalism (poetry)
Confessionalism (religion)

Her rendition of "Dry Land" from her first album, Back to the Night, was a poetic fusion of music and lyrics that achieved an intimate tone too often sacrificed to confessionalism by other singers.

1977 April 23, Steve Blevins, “Armatrading: "Sit Back And See"”, in Gay Community News, page 11:

(poetry) A style of American poetry that draws on the personal history of the poet.


logline

loglines (plural)
logge-line (alternative)
log lyne (alternative)
logg line (alternative)
logg-line (alternative)
loggline (alternative)
log line (alternative)
log-line (alternative)

First attested in 1613 as logge-line. A compound of log + line.

Screenwriting Tip #12: If you don't know your own logline, you probably don't know what your script is about. Some writers will tell you they don't have a logline. Their screenplay is “too complex” or “too character-driven,” […]

2013, Xander Bennett, Screenwriting Tips, You Hack, page 16:

The first step in outlining is to make sure that your logline, that one-or-two- sentence summary of your movie you first created in chapter 2 (“Jump-starting the Screenplay”), is the best that it can be in capturing what your movie is about now.

2013, Linda Venis, Cut to the Chase: Writing Feature Films with the Pros at UCLA Extension Writers' Program, Penguin, →ISBN:

(authorship) A very short summary of a script or screenplay.


breu

Inherited from Latin brevem. Compare Occitan brèu.


brevis

la-noun

brevis f (genitive brevis); third declension

brevis (genitive)
brevis (nominative singular)
brevēs (nominative plural)
brevis (genitive singular)
brevium (genitive plural)
brevī (dative singular)
brevibus (dative plural)
brevem (accusative singular)
brevēs (accusative plural)
brevīs (accusative plural)
breve (ablative singular)
brevibus (ablative plural)
brevis (singular vocative)
brevēs (plural vocative)

English: breve

Italian: breve


introversion

en-noun

introversion (usually uncountable, plural introversions)

/ɪntɹəʊˈvɜːʃən/

/ɪntɹəˈvəɹʒən/

/ɪntɹəˈvəɹʃən/

/ɪntɹoʊˈvəɹʃən/

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-introversion.wav

From New Latin intrōversio, from intrōvertere (“to turn within”), from Classical Latin intro (“within”) and vertere (“to turn”). Equivalent to introvert + -sion.

Such introversion is merely a matter of form.

1896, Richard Green Moulton, The Literary Study of the Bible, page 50:

(poetry and literature) Arrangement of two similar words, lines, etc. to form the middle part of a structure.


Eridanus

la-proper noun

Ēridanus m sg (genitive Ēridanī); second declension

Ēridanus (canonical masculine singular)
Ēridanī (genitive)
Ēridanus (nominative singular)
Ēridanī (genitive singular)
Ēridanō (dative singular)
Ēridanum (accusative singular)
Ēridanō (ablative singular)
Ēridane (singular vocative)
Ēridanī (locative singular)

?Dutch: Eridanus

English: Eridanus

?Finnish: Eridanus

?French: Éridan

?Galician: Eridano

?German: Eridanus

Italian: Eridano

?Japanese: エリダヌス座 (Eridanusu-za)

?Polish: Erydan

?Russian: Эридан (Eridan)

?Spanish: Eridanus

?Turkish: Eridanus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἠρῐδᾰνός (Ērĭdănós).

(Greek mythology and poetry) synonym of Padus (“the River Po”)


poulter's measure

en-noun

poulter's measure (plural poulter's measures)

Coined by George Gascoigne in 1576, because it was said that poulters gave 12 eggs for the first dozen and 14 if you bought a second dozen.

Good ladies, ye that have your pleasure in exile
Step in your foot, come take a place and mourn with me awhile.
And such as by their lords do set but little price,
Let them sit still, it skills them not what chance come on the dice.

1547, Earl Surrey, Complaint on the absence of her lover being at sea.:

(poetry) A metre with alternate lines of 12 and 14 syllables.


screamer

(journalism, slang) An exclamation mark.

Hartley's argument usefully reminds us that the spread of celebrity is not just the consequence of an accumulation of publicity handouts, advertisements, chat show interviews, or the shock-horror revelations in the tabloid screamers.

2004, Graeme Turner, Understanding Celebrity, page 17:

(journalism, slang) A large, attention-getting headline.


kenning

A learned borrowing from Old Norse kenning, from kenna (“to know; to perceive”), from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną (“to make known”); see further at etymology 1. Compare can, keen, ken.

der

[A]s we are all aware, the Skalds used all sorts of kennings from Jewels, Gold, Silver, &c., to betoken Women, &c. Gold is called "The Sea's Blink (Blik)", and so on, and a female is "Gold's Mistress", "The Goddess of the Golden Jewel", and so forth.

1867–1868, George Stephens, “Bracteates”, in The Old-Northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England, Now First Collected and Deciphered, volume II, London: John Russell Smith; Copenhagen: Michaelsen and Tillge; printed by H. H. Thiele, →OCLC, pages 509–510:

I venture to say that a close study of the style of Piers Plowman would thoroughly dispose of alliteration as chief factor in the kenning-process.

1887 January, Francis B. Gummere, “Wilhelm Bode: Die Kenningar in der angelsächsen Dichtung. Mit Ausblicken auf andere Litteraturen. Darmstadt und Leipzig, 1886. [Strasburg Dissertation].”, in A. Marshall Elliott, editor, Modern Language Notes, volume II, number 1, Baltimore, Md.: [Johns Hopkins Press], →ISSN, →OCLC, column 36:

If we now move to the second helmingr, Kock tries to unscramble the two kenningar[…], but this is over-zealous, since there are ample parallels for such braiding of kenning elements. Finnbogi interprets the kenning 'ǫrbeiðanda bǫðvar jǫkla' contextually, to mean 'the one who provoked the warrior into drawing his sword' (Orkneyinga saga, 202).

2006, Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, Turnhout, Antwerp, Belgium: Brepols, →OCLC, page 149:

The original also makes frequent use of the circumlocutory type of poetic expression known as the kenning, which consists (in its simplest form) of a base-word (always a noun, sometimes the second of the two elements in a compound word) accompanied by a determinant (either a noun in the genitive or, in the case of a compound-word kenning, the first of the compound's two elements).

2007, Andrew Wawn with Graham Johnson and John Walter, editors, Constructing Nations, Reconstructing Myth: Essays in Honour of T. A. Shippey (Making in the Middle Ages; 9), Turnhout, Antwerp, Belgium: Brepols, →ISBN, page 172:

(poetry) A metaphorical compound or phrase, used especially in Germanic poetry (Old English or Old Norse) whereby a simple thing is described in an allusive way.

kenning

metaphorical phrase used in Germanic poetry


kenning

kenning (indefinite nominative singular)
kenningen (definite nominative singular)
kenninger (indefinite nominative plural)
kenningerne (definite nominative plural)
kennings (genitive indefinite singular)
kenningens (definite genitive singular)
kenningers (genitive indefinite plural)
kenningernes (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed from Old Norse kenning, from the verb kenna (“to know”).


kenning

is-noun

kenning f (genitive singular kenningar, nominative plural kenningar)

kenningar (genitive singular)
kenningar (nominative plural)
kenning (indefinite nominative singular)
kenningin (definite nominative singular)
kenningar (indefinite nominative plural)
kenningarnar (definite nominative plural)
kenningu (accusative indefinite singular)
kenninguna (accusative definite singular)
kenningar (accusative indefinite plural)
kenningarnar (accusative definite plural)
kenningu (dative indefinite singular)
kenningunni (dative definite singular)
kenningum (dative indefinite plural)
kenningunum (dative definite plural)
kenningar (genitive indefinite singular)
kenningarinnar (definite genitive singular)
kenninga (genitive indefinite plural)
kenninganna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse kenning (“feeling, knowledge”). By surface analysis, kenna (“to teach”) + -ing.

surf

(poetry) kenning (circumlocution used instead of an ordinary noun in Old Norse, Old English and later Icelandic poetry)


kenning

kenning (nominative singular)
kenningi (nominative plural)
kenningu (genitive singular)
kenningów (genitive plural)
kenningowi (dative singular)
kenningom (dative plural)
kenning (accusative singular)
kenningi (accusative plural)
kenningiem (instrumental singular)
kenningami (instrumental plural)
kenningu (locative singular)
kenningach (locative plural)
kenningu (singular vocative)
kenningi (plural vocative)

(poetry) kenning (metaphorical compound or phrase, used especially in Germanic poetry (Old English or Old Norse) whereby a simple thing is described in an allusive way)


cutline

(journalism, broadcasting) In production, a hypothetical line that separates items that will be executed and publicized, versus items that will be cut.

(journalism, broadcasting) A caption under a photograph, or more narrowly just the explanatory text block under a photograph, excluding the title.


paparazzo

paparazzo (nominative singular)
paparazzi (nominative plural)
paparazzo (genitive singular)
paparazzich (genitive plural)
paparazzo (dative singular)
paparazzim (dative plural)
paparazzo (accusative singular)
paparazzich (accusative plural)
paparazzo (instrumental singular)
paparazzimi (instrumental plural)
paparazzo (locative singular)
paparazzich (locative plural)
paparazzo (singular vocative)
paparazzi (plural vocative)
paparazzi (alternative)

Unadapted borrowing from Italian paparazzo.

ubor

(journalism, photography) paparazzo (freelance photographer who sells photographs of celebrities to the media, especially one who pursues celebrities and attempts to obtain candid photographs)


peon

peon (nominative singular)
peony (nominative plural)
peonu (genitive singular)
peonów (genitive plural)
peonowi (dative singular)
peonom (dative plural)
peon (accusative singular)
peony (accusative plural)
peonem (instrumental singular)
peonami (instrumental plural)
peonie (locative singular)
peonach (locative plural)
peonie (singular vocative)
peony (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek παιών (paiṓn).

lbor

(poetry) paeon (foot containing any pattern of three short syllables and one long syllable)


dipody

From di- + -pody, from Ancient Greek δι- (di-, “two”) and πούς, ποδός (poús, podós, “foot”).


corsivo

From Medieval Latin cursīvus (probably a semi-learned borrowing), from Latin cursus.

Eugenio Giovannetti in un suo corsivo pubblicato di recente […]

1925 October, “Rubrica delle rubriche”, in L’Italia che scrive, number 10, Notizie, page 15, column 1:

Eugenio Giovannetti, in a recently-published editorial of his […]

Le risposi: “Non dirlo al giornalista che ha scritto il corsivo sulla bora e sul vedutista austriaco. Potrebbe scriverne un altro.”

1989 October, Michele Serra, Il nuovo che avanza, 10ᵗʰ edition, Milan: Feltrinelli Editore, published 2003 April, →ISBN, page 141:

I replied to her: "Don't tell that to the reporter who wrote the commentary about the bora and the Austrian vedutista. He might write another one."

Manganelli stesso è chiamato in tribunale a difendersi da una querela per un suo corsivo

2022, Alessandro Gazzoli, “Manganelli corsivista [Manganelli the editorialist]” (chapter 1), Parte III, in Auto da fé: rileggere Giorgio Manganelli (Saggi letterari; 14), Milan, Udine: Mimesis Edizioni, →ISBN, «Ipotetiche grida, editti, “si ordina che”», page 194:

Manganelli himself is called to court to defend himself against a lawsuit for an editorial of his


hyperbaton

hyperbaton (nominative singular)
hyperbatonit (nominative plural)
hyperbaton (accusative nominative singular)
hyperbatonit (accusative nominative plural)
hyperbatonin (accusative genitive singular)
hyperbatonit (accusative genitive plural)
hyperbatonin (genitive singular)
hyperbatonien (genitive plural)
hyperbatonia (partitive singular)
hyperbatoneja (partitive plural)
hyperbatonissa (inessive singular)
hyperbatoneissa (inessive plural)
hyperbatonista (elative singular)
hyperbatoneista (elative plural)
hyperbatoniin (illative singular)
hyperbatoneihin (illative plural)
hyperbatonilla (adessive singular)
hyperbatoneilla (adessive plural)
hyperbatonilta (ablative singular)
hyperbatoneilta (ablative plural)
hyperbatonille (allative singular)
hyperbatoneille (allative plural)
hyperbatonina (essive singular)
hyperbatoneina (essive plural)
hyperbatoniksi (singular translative)
hyperbatoneiksi (plural translative)
hyperbatonitta (abessive singular)
hyperbatoneitta (abessive plural)
hyperbatonein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
hyperbatonini (nominative singular)
hyperbatonini (nominative plural)
hyperbatonini (accusative nominative singular)
hyperbatonini (accusative nominative plural)
hyperbatonini (accusative genitive singular)
hyperbatonini (accusative genitive plural)
hyperbatonini (genitive singular)
hyperbatonieni (genitive plural)
hyperbatoniani (partitive singular)
hyperbatonejani (partitive plural)
hyperbatonissani (inessive singular)
hyperbatoneissani (inessive plural)
hyperbatonistani (elative singular)
hyperbatoneistani (elative plural)
hyperbatoniini (illative singular)
hyperbatoneihini (illative plural)
hyperbatonillani (adessive singular)
hyperbatoneillani (adessive plural)
hyperbatoniltani (ablative singular)
hyperbatoneiltani (ablative plural)
hyperbatonilleni (allative singular)
hyperbatoneilleni (allative plural)
hyperbatoninani (essive singular)
hyperbatoneinani (essive plural)
hyperbatonikseni (singular translative)
hyperbatoneikseni (plural translative)
hyperbatonittani (abessive singular)
hyperbatoneittani (abessive plural)
hyperbatoneineni (comitative plural)
hyperbatonisi (nominative singular)
hyperbatonisi (nominative plural)
hyperbatonisi (accusative nominative singular)
hyperbatonisi (accusative nominative plural)
hyperbatonisi (accusative genitive singular)
hyperbatonisi (accusative genitive plural)
hyperbatonisi (genitive singular)
hyperbatoniesi (genitive plural)
hyperbatoniasi (partitive singular)
hyperbatonejasi (partitive plural)
hyperbatonissasi (inessive singular)
hyperbatoneissasi (inessive plural)
hyperbatonistasi (elative singular)
hyperbatoneistasi (elative plural)
hyperbatoniisi (illative singular)
hyperbatoneihisi (illative plural)
hyperbatonillasi (adessive singular)
hyperbatoneillasi (adessive plural)
hyperbatoniltasi (ablative singular)
hyperbatoneiltasi (ablative plural)
hyperbatonillesi (allative singular)
hyperbatoneillesi (allative plural)
hyperbatoninasi (essive singular)
hyperbatoneinasi (essive plural)
hyperbatoniksesi (singular translative)
hyperbatoneiksesi (plural translative)
hyperbatonittasi (abessive singular)
hyperbatoneittasi (abessive plural)
hyperbatoneinesi (comitative plural)
hyperbatonimme (nominative singular)
hyperbatonimme (nominative plural)
hyperbatonimme (accusative nominative singular)
hyperbatonimme (accusative nominative plural)
hyperbatonimme (accusative genitive singular)
hyperbatonimme (accusative genitive plural)
hyperbatonimme (genitive singular)
hyperbatoniemme (genitive plural)
hyperbatoniamme (partitive singular)
hyperbatonejamme (partitive plural)
hyperbatonissamme (inessive singular)
hyperbatoneissamme (inessive plural)
hyperbatonistamme (elative singular)
hyperbatoneistamme (elative plural)
hyperbatoniimme (illative singular)
hyperbatoneihimme (illative plural)
hyperbatonillamme (adessive singular)
hyperbatoneillamme (adessive plural)
hyperbatoniltamme (ablative singular)
hyperbatoneiltamme (ablative plural)
hyperbatonillemme (allative singular)
hyperbatoneillemme (allative plural)
hyperbatoninamme (essive singular)
hyperbatoneinamme (essive plural)
hyperbatoniksemme (singular translative)
hyperbatoneiksemme (plural translative)
hyperbatonittamme (abessive singular)
hyperbatoneittamme (abessive plural)
hyperbatoneinemme (comitative plural)
hyperbatoninne (nominative singular)
hyperbatoninne (nominative plural)
hyperbatoninne (accusative nominative singular)
hyperbatoninne (accusative nominative plural)
hyperbatoninne (accusative genitive singular)
hyperbatoninne (accusative genitive plural)
hyperbatoninne (genitive singular)
hyperbatonienne (genitive plural)
hyperbatonianne (partitive singular)
hyperbatonejanne (partitive plural)
hyperbatonissanne (inessive singular)
hyperbatoneissanne (inessive plural)
hyperbatonistanne (elative singular)
hyperbatoneistanne (elative plural)
hyperbatoniinne (illative singular)
hyperbatoneihinne (illative plural)
hyperbatonillanne (adessive singular)
hyperbatoneillanne (adessive plural)
hyperbatoniltanne (ablative singular)
hyperbatoneiltanne (ablative plural)
hyperbatonillenne (allative singular)
hyperbatoneillenne (allative plural)
hyperbatoninanne (essive singular)
hyperbatoneinanne (essive plural)
hyperbatoniksenne (singular translative)
hyperbatoneiksenne (plural translative)
hyperbatonittanne (abessive singular)
hyperbatoneittanne (abessive plural)
hyperbatoneinenne (comitative plural)
hyperbatoninsa (nominative singular)
hyperbatoninsa (nominative plural)
hyperbatoninsa (accusative nominative singular)
hyperbatoninsa (accusative nominative plural)
hyperbatoninsa (accusative genitive singular)
hyperbatoninsa (accusative genitive plural)
hyperbatoninsa (genitive singular)
hyperbatoniensa (genitive plural)
hyperbatoniaan (partitive singular)
hyperbatoniansa (partitive singular)
hyperbatonejaan (partitive plural)
hyperbatonejansa (partitive plural)
hyperbatonissaan (inessive singular)
hyperbatonissansa (inessive singular)
hyperbatoneissaan (inessive plural)
hyperbatoneissansa (inessive plural)
hyperbatonistaan (elative singular)
hyperbatonistansa (elative singular)
hyperbatoneistaan (elative plural)
hyperbatoneistansa (elative plural)
hyperbatoniinsa (illative singular)
hyperbatoneihinsa (illative plural)
hyperbatonillaan (adessive singular)
hyperbatonillansa (adessive singular)
hyperbatoneillaan (adessive plural)
hyperbatoneillansa (adessive plural)
hyperbatoniltaan (ablative singular)
hyperbatoniltansa (ablative singular)
hyperbatoneiltaan (ablative plural)
hyperbatoneiltansa (ablative plural)
hyperbatonilleen (allative singular)
hyperbatonillensa (allative singular)
hyperbatoneilleen (allative plural)
hyperbatoneillensa (allative plural)
hyperbatoninaan (essive singular)
hyperbatoninansa (essive singular)
hyperbatoneinaan (essive plural)
hyperbatoneinansa (essive plural)
hyperbatonikseen (singular translative)
hyperbatoniksensa (singular translative)
hyperbatoneikseen (plural translative)
hyperbatoneiksensa (plural translative)
hyperbatonittaan (abessive singular)
hyperbatonittansa (abessive singular)
hyperbatoneittaan (abessive plural)
hyperbatoneittansa (abessive plural)
hyperbatoneineen (comitative plural)
hyperbatoneinensa (comitative plural)

Internationalism (compare English hyperbaton), ultimately from Ancient Greek ὑπερβατόν (huperbatón).


duple

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Latin duplus (“twofold, double”). Attested since the 16th century. Doublet of double and doppio.

McGonagall is earnestly trying to gather the resources of a metrical tradition, not subvert it, but the mismatch of duple and triple measure in the first line alone means that, while it’s made of recognisable metrical feet, the line doesn’t feel like it belongs to any specific metrical pattern (iambic, dactylic, anapestic etc) or mode (pastoral, elegy or ballad).

2015, Ben Lerner, “Diary”, in London Review of Books, volume 38, number 12:


BU

BU (genitive)
BUen (plural)
BU (nominative singular)
BUen (definite nominative plural)
BU (genitive singular)
BUen (definite genitive plural)
BU (dative singular)
BUen (dative definite plural)
BU (accusative singular)
BUen (accusative definite plural)

(marketing, journalism) abbreviation of Bildunterschrift


reiður

head

reiður (comparative reiðari, superlative reiðastur)

reiðari (comparative)
reiðastur (superlative)
reiður (masculine nominative singular)
reið (feminine nominative singular)
reitt (neuter nominative singular)
reiðan (accusative masculine singular)
reiða (accusative feminine singular)
reitt (accusative neuter singular)
reiðum (dative masculine singular)
reiðari (dative feminine singular)
reiðum (dative neuter singular)
reiðs (genitive masculine singular)
reiðar (feminine genitive singular)
reiðs (genitive neuter singular)
reiðir (masculine nominative plural)
reiðar (feminine nominative plural)
reið (neuter nominative plural)
reiðar (accusative masculine plural)
reiðar (accusative feminine plural)
reið (accusative neuter plural)
reiðum (dative masculine plural)
reiðum (dative feminine plural)
reiðum (dative neuter plural)
reiða (genitive masculine plural)
reiða (feminine genitive plural)
reiða (genitive neuter plural)
reiði (masculine nominative singular)
reiða (feminine nominative singular)
reiða (neuter nominative singular)
reiða (accusative masculine singular)
reiðu (accusative feminine singular)
reiða (accusative neuter singular)
reiða (dative masculine singular)
reiðu (dative feminine singular)
reiða (dative neuter singular)
reiða (genitive masculine singular)
reiðu (feminine genitive singular)
reiða (genitive neuter singular)
reiðu (plural)

From Old Norse reiðr, from older vreiðr.


kavya

(poetry) A highly artificial Sanskrit literary style used by Indian court poets in the early centuries AD.


improvisatore

en-noun

improvisatore (plural improvisatores or improvisatori)

improvisatores (plural)
improvisatori (plural)
improvvisatore (alternative)

There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine.

1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death:

(poetry) An individual who recites impromptu verse, as from a song or poem.


gruk

→ English: grook

Contraction of grin (“laugh”) and suk (“sigh”) (from sukke, a side form of suge (“to suck”)).


mác

vi-noun

(classifier cái, cây) mác • (𢨃, 鏌, 鉳, 博)

cái (classifier)
cây (classifier)
𢨃 (CJK)
鏌 (CJK)
鉳 (CJK)
博 (CJK)

Attested as mlác in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651).

(calligraphy) kind of stroke that falls downwards towards the right (㇏)


apologetic apostrophe

en-noun

apologetic apostrophe (plural apologetic apostrophes)

While not all agreements were carried out as planned, what this attempt at consistency achieved in Smith's case was to give his poetry the appearance of a distinctive literary language, related to English, but having its own identity and forms, and without the distraction for the reader of the apologetic apostrophes.

2009, Margery Palmer McCulloch, Scottish Modernism and Its Contexts 1918-1959:

(sociolinguistics, orthography) An apostrophe added to a Scots word in order to give the appearance that it is a contraction of an English word.