alba

alba (nominative singular)
alby (nominative plural)
alby (genitive singular)
alb (genitive plural)
albie (dative singular)
albom (dative plural)
albę (accusative singular)
alby (accusative plural)
albą (instrumental singular)
albami (instrumental plural)
albie (locative singular)
albach (locative plural)
albo (singular vocative)
alby (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Occitan alba. First attested in the 20th century.

ref

Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “alba”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN

(historical, poetry) alba (genre of Old Occitan lyric poetry)


boilerplate

en-noun

boilerplate (countable and uncountable, plural boilerplates)

The Star (1788)
boilerplate
boilerplate (spaceflight)

From boiler + plate. First use appears c. 1793 in the periodical Star.

[…] they have neither the responsibility nor the inclination to cover the real news of the community and consequently have little editorial expense, relying on handouts and cheap boilerplate materials to fill up the spots where they have no ads.

1966, Editor & Publisher, volume 99, page 46:


retrograde

en-adj

retrograde (comparative more retrograde, superlative most retrograde)

more retrograde (comparative)
most retrograde (superlative)

The adjective is derived from Middle English retrograd, retrograde (“of a planet: appearing to move in a direction opposite to the order of the zodiac signs, retrograde; unfortunate”), from Middle French retrograde and Old French retrograde (“of a celestial object: appearing to move backwards; moving backwards; reverse; palindromic; opposed to change”) (modern French rétrograde), and from their etymon Latin retrōgradus (“of a celestial object: appearing to move backwards”) (compare Late Latin retrōgradus (“reverse; palindromic”)), from retrō (“back, backwards; behind; before, formerly”) + gradus (“pace, step”). By surface analysis, retro- + -grade.
The adverb and noun are derived from the adjective.

cog

/ˈɹɛtɹə(ʊ)ɡɹeɪd/

/ˈɹɛtɹəˌɡɹeɪd/

retrògrad

reverting to an inferior or less developed state — see also declining, regressing

(poetry, archaic) Of verse: reading the same forwards or backwards; palindromic.


metro

eo-head

metro (accusative singular metron, plural metroj, accusative plural metrojn)

metron (accusative singular)
metroj (plural)
metrojn (accusative plural)


metro

Borrowed from French mètre, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”).

der

(poetry, music) metre (the rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition)


metro

→ Tagalog: metro


breve

From Middle English breve, variant of bref, from Old French brieve, breve (feminine form of brief, bref), from Latin brevis (“short”).

(orthography, printing) A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.


breve

nl-noun

breve f (plural breves, diminutive brevetje n)

breves (plural)
brevetje (diminutive neuter)


breve

Borrowed from Dutch breve (“breve”), from Latin brevis (“short”).

(orthography) breve: a semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short


Sapphic

Sappho (Ancient Greek Σαπφώ (Sapphṓ)) + -ic, whence Latin Sapphicus. Sense related to sexuality alludes to Sappho's poetry discussing love between women (see also lesbian).

(poetry) Of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five metrical feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl.


Sapphic

Sapphics (plural)
Sapphick (alternative)

His Sapphics, on the story of Bacchus and Ariadne, are easy, elegant, and poetical.

1824, Vicesimus Knox, The Works of Vicesimus Knox, D.D.: With a Biographical Preface:

The first line (which goes by the name of Aristophanes) is a Sapphic without the initial trochees.

1887, Horace, Horace: The Odes, Carmen Seculare, and Epodes, page 174:

"A real Sapphic," said Crane, dropping into a poetical tone, as an elocutionist does when he is hungry for an opportunity to recite a favorite sketch.

1888, Maurice Thompson, A Fortnight of Folly, page 41:


furniture

en-noun

furniture (usually uncountable, plural furnitures)

From Middle French fourniture (“a supply, or the act of furnishing”), from fournir (“to furnish”).

uder

It read: “This article was amended on 3 January 2023. The original furniture said the fireworks display was on Christmas Eve.”

2023 January 31, Elisabeth Ribbans, “The perils of using journalist jargon outside the newsroom”, in The Guardian:

(journalism) Any material on the page other than the body text and pictures of articles; for example, headlines, datelines and dinkuses, lines and symbols (though in earlier use, only non-text elements of page design, such as lines and symbols).


loa

ᜎᜓᜏ (Baybayin)
lowa (alternative)
luwa (alternative)

poetic panegyric of eulogy (usually in praise of the Virgin Mary and the saints)


diaeresis

diaereses (plural)
diaresis (alternative)
dieresis (alternative)
diæresis (alternative)
diaëresis (alternative)

/daɪˈɛɹɪsɪs/

/daɪˈɪəɹɪsɪs/

/daɪˈɪəɹɪsɪs/

/daɪˈɛɹəsɪs/

/daɪˈɪəɹɪsiːz/

PIE word
 *dwís
Unadapted borrowing from Late Latin diaeresis (“distribution; division of a diphthong into two syllables”), from Ancient Greek δῐαίρεσῐς (dĭaíresĭs, “distribution, division; division of a poetic line when the end of a word and a metrical foot coincide; division of a diphthong into two syllables”), from δῐαιρέω (dĭairéō, “to divide; to distinguish; to resolve a diphthong or contracted form”) + -σῐς (-sĭs, suffix forming abstract nouns or nouns of action, process, or result). Δῐαιρέω (Dĭairéō) is derived from δῐᾰ- (dĭă-, prefix meaning ‘across; through; in different directions’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dwís (“doubly, twice; in two”)) + αἱρέω (hairéō, “to grasp, seize, take”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to grasp, seize, take”)).
The plural is borrowed from Latin diaeresēs.

diërese

separation of one syllable (especially a vowel which is a diphthong) into two distinct syllables

Diæreſis is vvhen tvvo points ouer a vovvell diuide it from another vovvel, as bouë, queuë, read bou-e, queu-e, not bo-ue, que-ue.

1611, Randle Cotgrave, compiler, “Briefe Directions for Such as Desire to Learne the French Tongue. And First, of the Vowels, and Diphthongs.”, in A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, signature Nnnn, recto, column 2:

The Diæresis is used to divide a diphthong into two syllables; as, Creätor.

1841, William Corry, “Grammatical Terms, with Their Respective Marks and Explanations”, in An English Spelling Book, with Reading Lessons; for the Use of the Parish and Other Schools of New Brunswick, St. John, N.B.: […] Henry Chubb, […], →OCLC, page 8:

An 85-year injustice has been rectified at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey with the corrected spelling of one of the greatest of all literary names. Reader, it is finally Brontë, not Bronte. An amended memorial to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë was unveiled on Thursday with added diaereses (two dots) that ensure people pronounce it with two syllables. As if it rhymed with Monty, not font. The memorial was installed in 1939 and, for whatever reason, came without the diaereses that the Brontës used.

2024 September 26, Mark Brown, “Brontë sisters finally get their dots as names corrected at Westminster Abbey”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-10-05:

A separation of one syllable (especially a vowel which is a diphthong, that is, beginning with one sound and ending with another) into two distinct syllables; distraction.

(orthography) The diacritical mark consisting of two dots (¨) placed over a letter (especially the second of two consecutive vowels) to indicate that it is sounded separately, usually as a distinct syllable.

deelteken

diacritical mark consisting of two dots (¨) placed over a letter to indicate that it is sounded separately


tren

trenowy (adjective)
tren (nominative singular)
treny (nominative plural)
trenu (genitive singular)
trenów (genitive plural)
trenowi (dative singular)
trenom (dative plural)
tren (accusative singular)
treny (accusative plural)
trenem (instrumental singular)
trenami (instrumental plural)
trenie (locative singular)
trenach (locative plural)
trenie (singular vocative)
treny (plural vocative)

(poetry) threnody (poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy)


avail

en-noun

avail (countable and uncountable, plural avails)

From Middle English availen (“to be of use”), from Old French a (“to”) + vail from valoir (“to be worth”), from Latin valere (“to be worthy, strong”).

While holding an avail yesterday, the candidate lashed out at critics.

(US, politics, journalism) A press avail.


tabloid

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-tabloid.wav

The noun is derived from tabl(et) + -oid (suffix meaning ‘having the likeness of, resembling’), originally coined by the United Kingdom firm Burroughs, Wellcome & Company as a brand name for their medicines and other products such as tea in tablet form and registered as a trademark on 14 March 1884.
Sense 2 (“compact or compressed version of something; especially something having a popular or sensational nature”) is influenced by sense 2.3 (“newspaper characterized as favouring stories of a popular or sensational nature over serious news”).
The adjective and verb are derived from the noun.

tiivistetty muoto

[…] Lyle Stuart, […] is known—notorious would be the proper word—for his publishing and writing in the fields of obscenity and extreme leftism: he puts out a sort of tabloid called "The Independent".

1967 May 17, Edward Hunter, “Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 [Exhibit 2: Anatomy of a Film Analysis of ‘Three Faces of Cuba’]”, in Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 90th Congress, First Session (United States Senate), volume 113, part 10, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12998, column 2:

A public school in Moperville, where the local newspaper is sold in neighboring towns with all the regard of a tabloid. / We've got a reputation to protect! We can only report on confirmed monsters, like mega hogs, or Bigfoot!

2009 January 20, Dan Shive, “Sister 2: Part 5: Moperville News”, in El Goonish Shive (webcomic), archived from the original on 2024-11-05:

Train operating companies get plenty of column inches in the tabloids, usually for negative reasons. Happily, Southeastern is worthy of praise for having made The Sun for something positive.

2024 February 21, Nick Brodrick, “Inclusion and Development for All”, in Rail, number 1003, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 62:

(figurative) A compact or compressed version of something; especially something having a popular or sensational nature.

(newspapers) A newspaper having pages half the dimensions of a broadsheet, especially characterized as favouring stories of a popular or sensational nature over serious news.

تابلويد

newspaper especially characterized as favouring stories of a popular or sensational nature over serious news

小报 (xiǎobào, literally “small newspaper”)


tabloid

en-verb

tabloid (third-person singular simple present tabloids, present participle tabloiding, simple past and past participle tabloided)

tabloids (present singular third-person)
tabloiding (participle present)
tabloided (participle past)
tabloided (past)

The ‘tabloiding’ of local newspapers has resulted in a ‘dumbing down’ of the local press. The publication of shorter, brighter, ‘frothier’ stories and the increasing reliance on stories about entertainment, consumer items and ‘human interest’ stories, are the infallible hallmarks of the tabloid genre.

1998, Bob Franklin, David Murphy, “Changing Times: Local Newspapers, Technology and Markets”, in Bob Franklin, David Murphy, editors, Making the Local News: Local Journalism in Context, London: Routledge, →ISBN, part I (Local Newspapers and Local Media), page 15:

The first key developments in the tabloiding of British newspapers are defined initially and literally by the shift of the Sun to a tabloid format in 1969 and the Daily Mail in 1971.

2013, Martin Conboy, “Products”, in Journalism Studies (The Basics), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 121:

(newspapers) To convert (a newspaper) into a tabloid (noun sense 2.3) format.

siirtää tabloidikokoon

to convert (a newspaper) into a tabloid format


Oktave

de-noun

Oktave f (genitive Oktave, plural Oktaven)

Oktave (genitive)
Oktaven (plural)
Oktave (nominative singular)
Oktaven (definite nominative plural)
Oktave (genitive singular)
Oktaven (definite genitive plural)
Oktave (dative singular)
Oktaven (dative definite plural)
Oktave (accusative singular)
Oktaven (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German octāv, from Medieval Latin octava (“eighth”).


pes

la-noun

pēs m (genitive pedis); third declension

pēs (canonical masculine)
pedis (genitive)
pēs (nominative singular)
pedēs (nominative plural)
pedis (genitive singular)
pedum (genitive plural)
pedī (dative singular)
pedibus (dative plural)
pedem (accusative singular)
pedēs (accusative plural)
pede (ablative singular)
pedibus (ablative plural)
pēs (singular vocative)
pedēs (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

⇒ Aromanian: pezã

Romanian: piez ⇒ piază

Dalmatian:

pi

Italo-Romance

Corsican: pede

Gallurese: pedi

Italian: piede

→ Esperanto: piedo

→ Ladino: piede (regional)

Neapolitan: pede

Sassarese: pedi

Sicilian: pedi, peri

Rhaeto-Romance:

Friulian: pît

Romansch: pe

Padanian:

Istriot: peîe, pèie

Gallo-Italic:

Ligurian: pê

Piedmontese: pe

Romagnol: pè, pid (Rimini, San Marino)

Venetan: piè

Northern Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: pièd

Norman: pid, pyid

desctree

Old French: pié, pé (Anglo-Norman), *pied, *piet
Middle French: pied
French: pied
Walloon: pî

Southern Gallo-Romance:

Catalan: peu

Old Occitan: pe
Occitan: pè

Ibero-Romance:

Asturian: pie

Extremaduran: pie

Leonese: pía

Mirandese: pie

Old Navarro-Aragonese: pie, pied

Aragonese: piet

Old Galician-Portuguese: pee
Galician: pé
Portuguese: pé

Old Spanish: pie
Ladino: pye
Spanish: pie

Sardinian:

Campidanese: pei

Logudorese: pe

Nuorese: pede

Derived forms:

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pedicāre

Catalan: petjar

Borrowings:

→ English: pes

→ Ido: pedo

→ Interlingua: pede

→⇒ German: stante pede

From Proto-Italic *pets, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds (compare Sanskrit पद् (pád), Ancient Greek πούς (poús) and Old English fōt, whence English foot).

vāde, liber, verbīsque meīs loca grāta salūtā:

Go, [my] book, and greet with my words [those] beloved places: at least I shall reach [them] with the ‘foot’ that is allowed!
(The exiled poet puns that the metrical “feet” of his poem shall go where his own “feet” cannot.)

(poetry) a metrical foot: the basic unit of metered poetry


rest

en-noun

rest (countable and uncountable, plural rests)

From Middle English rest, reste, from Old English ræst, from Proto-West Germanic *rastu, from Proto-Germanic *rastō, from Proto-Indo-European *ros-, *res-, *erH- (“rest”). Cognate with West Frisian rêst (“rest”), Dutch rust (“rest”), German Rast (“rest”), Swedish rast (“rest”), Norwegian rest (“rest”), Icelandic röst (“rest”), Old Irish árus (“dwelling”), German Ruhe (“calm”), Albanian resht (“to stop, pause”), Welsh araf (“quiet, calm, gentle”), Lithuanian rovà (“calm”), Ancient Greek ἐρωή (erōḗ, “rest, respite”), Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬨𐬈 (aⁱrime, “calm, peaceful”), Sanskrit रमते (rámate, “he stays still, calms down”), Gothic 𐍂𐌹𐌼𐌹𐍃 (rimis, “tranquility”). Related to roo.

rest

stick used to support the cue in snooker

(poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.


نسخ

(calligraphy) Naskh (style of calligraphy)


foil

en-noun

foil (countable and uncountable, plural foils)

From Middle English foyle, from Middle French fueille, from Old French fueille (“plant leaf”), from Late Latin folia, the plural of folium, mistaken as a singular feminine.
The literary sense is from the practice of backing a gem with metal foil to make it shine more brilliantly.
Doublet of folio and folium, distantly also with phyllo and phyllon.

As Puss comes to realize his legendary status is not a substitute for interpersonal connection, his interactions with Kitty and the therapy dog start to take on a surprising amount of weight, while Goldilocks serves as a well-realized foil who has more in common with Puss that is at first apparent.

2022 December 20, Leigh Monson, “Puss In Boots: The Last Wish review: Antonio Banderas leads the best film yet in the Shrek franchise”, in AV Club:

(authorship, figuratively) In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character and who usually acts as an opponent or antagonist, but can also serve as the sidekick of the protagonist.

contrastfiguur

character who helps emphasise the traits of the main character


blank verse

blank verse (countable and uncountable, plural blank verses)

Milton's command of blank verse exceeds even Shakespeare's.

[T]here is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and beeing an absolute Iohannes fac totum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey.

1592, Robert Greene, Groats-Worth of Witte, Bought with a Million of Repentance, London: imprinted for William Wright, folio F¹v:

I could have spoken in blank verse of Shakespearean beauty, all sorts of great ideas flashed through my mind; it was as though the bonds of my flesh had been loosened, and left the spirit free to soar to the empyrean of its native power.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “The Spirit of Life”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 288:

Soon after Surrey's translation of Virgil, blank verse became a persuasive rival to the heroic couplet.

2006, Philip Hobsbaum, “The heroic couplet”, in Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form, Routledge, →ISBN, page 18:

(poetry) A poetic form with regular meter, particularly iambic pentameter, but no fixed rhyme scheme.


septet

PIE word
 *septḿ̥
From Latin septem (“seven”).

A group of seven, particularly
(poetry) A set of seven lines.

A group of seven, particularly
A set of seven lines.


Curved single quotation marks and apostrophes

Straight single quotation mark and apostrophe


Shakespearean sonnet

Shakespearean sonnet (plural Shakespearean sonnets)

Named after English playwright and poet William Shakespeare (1564–1616) and strongly associated with his authorship.

named-after

(poetry) A sonnet comprising three quatrains and a final couplet, in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.


Spenserian sonnet

en-noun

Spenserian sonnet (plural Spenserian sonnets)

Named after English poet Edmund Spenser (1552/1553–1599) and associated with his authorship.

named-after

(poetry) A sonnet comprising three quatrains with the latter rhyme part being carried over from one quatrain to the next, and a concluding couplet, therefore comprising a rhyme scheme of abab bcbc cdcd ee.


Petrarchan sonnet

en-noun

Petrarchan sonnet (plural Petrarchan sonnets)

Named after Italian scholar, poet and humanist Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374), who did not invent but made large use of this form in his authorship.

named-after

(poetry) A sonnet comprising an octave and a closing sestet, following the rhyme scheme of either abba abba cde cde or abba abba cd cd cd or abba abba cce dde or abba abba cdd cee.


tag

From Middle English tagge (“small piece hanging from a garment”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian tagg (“point; prong; barb; tag”), Swedish tagg (“thorn; prickle; tine”), Icelandic tág (“a willow-twig”). Compare also tack.

cog

Seems here like Russ would be speaking. You could use a tag here.

(Can we date this quote?), michael, alt.fiction.original (Usenet):

If you want to start with talk, stick a tag in right away

(Can we date this quote?), Jane MacDonald, alt.fiction.original (Usenet):

You could combine these two paragraphs, I think, and rewrite to lose the tag portion of the third sentence.

(Can we date this quote?), bart_...@hotmail.com, alt.fiction.original (Usenet):

(informal, authorship) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").


vend

vend f (definite singular venda, indefinite plural vender, definite plural vendene)

venda (definite singular)
vender (indefinite plural)
vendene (definite plural)

(poetry, music) a stanza, or the tune of one


slot

From Middle English slot, from Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). As a gambling machine, via clipping of slot machine. Compare sleuth. The scheduling (calendar) sense is by a metaphor whereby the time span is equated with the segment of a page or part of a device that represents it.

The slot is not a glamorous job. It hasn't been discovered by Shubert Alley or the fiction magazines. To the cub reporter, eager for by-lines and self-expression, the whole copy desk looks like a backwater.

1940, LIFE, volume 8, number 17, page 111:

(journalism) The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors.


quiescent

en-adj

quiescent (comparative more quiescent, superlative most quiescent)

more quiescent (comparative)
most quiescent (superlative)

Learned borrowing from Latin quiēscēns, quiēscentem.

lbor

The k is quiescent in "knight" and "know".


measure

→ Japanese: メジャー (mejā)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-measure.wav

From Middle English mesure, from Old French mesure, from Latin mēnsūra (“a measure”), from mēnsus, past participle of mētīrī (“to measure”). Largely displaced native Old English metan ("to measure" whence modern mete) and ġemet (“a measure”).

lainsäädäntötoimenpide

piece of legislation as course of action

a poem in iambic measure

(poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.

размер

poetry: manner of ordering and combining the quantities


BOM

balm (some speakers with the father-bother merger)

(journalism) Acronym of business-office must (“a story that must be published at the behest of the publication's business office”).


redundant

en-adj

redundant (comparative more redundant, superlative most redundant)

more redundant (comparative)
most redundant (superlative)

From Latin redundāns, present participle of redundō (“to overflow, redound”), from red- (“again, back”) + undō (“to surge, flood”), from unda (“a wave”).

(of words, writing, etc) Repetitive or needlessly wordy.


octave

From Latin octavus (“eighth”). Doublet of octavo, ochava, and oitava.

Octave in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

With mournful melody it continued this octave.

a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:

(poetry) A poetic stanza consisting of eight lines; usually used as one part of a sonnet.


leonine

Léonin
Pope Leo II
Pope Leo IV
San Clemente al Laterano

The adjective is derived from Late Middle English leonin, leonine (“of or pertaining to a person named Leo; specifically Pope Leo IV”), from Latin leōnīnus, from Leo (“man’s name”) (from leo (“lion”): see etymology 1) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’).
Sense 2 (“being or relating to a kind of verse with internal rhyme”) is said to refer to a (possibly apocryphal) medieval monk named Leo or Leonius who composed verse with this characteristic; his identity is uncertain, but the composer Léonin (also known as Leo, Leoninus, or Leonius; flourished 1135–1201) has been suggested. Alternatively, the word may refer to Pope Leo II (c. 611–683): see the c. 1760–1761 quotation.
The noun is derived from the adjective.

leonine rhyme

In the Church of St. Dominick is a ſmall Picture of the Bleſſed Virgin, vvith the Infant JESUS in her Arms, vvell painted, and yet, appears to have been done in the Iron Age of Painting and other Arts, by the follovving verses, vvrit under it. […] Theſe Leonine Verſes, as plainly appears by them, expreſs a Senſe contrary to the Intention of the VVriter.

1712, [Bernard de] Montfaucon, “My Journey to Siena; […]”, in [John Henley?], transl., The Travels of the Learned Father Montfaucon from Paris thro’ Italy. […], London: […] D. L. for E[dmund] Curll […], E[gbert] Sanger […], R[obert] Gosling […], and W. Lewis […], →OCLC, page 403:

Observe, that, if the date of this poem be true, the general opinion, that the Leonine verse owes its name to Leonius, seems to be false; […] It is not therefore very likely, as Leonius flourished in 1154, that he should give name to such Latin verses upwards of thirty years before. Indeed some people have thought that it was called after Leo, probably the Second, who lived in 684, a pope who is said to have reformed the hymns and the music of the church.

c. 1760–1761 (date written; published 1814), Thomas Gray, “[Essays. Metrum.] Observations on the Pseudo-Rhythmus.”, in Edmund Gosse, editor, The Works of Thomas Gray in Prose and Verse. […], volume I (Poems, Journals, and Essays), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1884, →OCLC, pages 374–375:

[T]he Latin poetry, instead of Leonine rhymes, or attempts at regular hexameters almost equally bad, becomes, in the hands of Gunther, Gualterus de Insulis, Gulielmus Brito, and Joseph Iscanus, to whom a considerable number of names might be added, always tolerable, sometimes truly spirited; […]

1837–1839, Henry Hallam, “On the General State of Literature in the Middle Ages to the End of the Fourteenth Century”, in Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, paragraph 84, page 100:

(poetry) Being or relating to a kind of medieval Latin verse, generally alternative hexameter and pentameter, with rhyming at the middle and end of a line (that is, internal rhyme); also (by extension), of or relating to modern verse having internal rhyme.

leoniininen

being or relating to a kind of medieval Latin verse; of or relating to modern verse having internal rhyme


leonine

A[llen]. The Clink of Syllables call'd Rymes, / Brought in ith' barb'rous Runick times, / To ſober Criticks ſeems to be / A paultry part of Poetry, / Becoming Monkiſh dull Divines, / VVho traded much in Leonines. / J[ohn]. Altho' to ſpoil I ſhould be ſorry, / An undergraduate Antiquary, / Yet I'll produce a Line or tvvo / Of Leonines in Cicero, / Before the Monks long time ago.

1715, “Canto III”, in The Miller of Trompington: being an Exercise upon Chaucer’s Reeve’s Tale, London: […] Jonas Brown, […]; and sold by J[ames] Roberts […], →OCLC, pages 44–45:

[F]rom the jingling of the Greek couplet juſt before, and ſimilar inſtances of his taſte, I am perſuaded Sir VVilliam intended theſe as Leonines perfect in their kind.

1771 December, “Illustration of the Inscription on Sir W[illiam] Browne’s Monument. […] Continued from Our Last. The Notes.”, in The Town and Country Magazine; or, Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment, volume III, London: […] A[rchibald] Hamilton Junr. […]; [a]nd sold by Robinson and Roberts, […], →OCLC, page 648, column 1:

The manuscript of Trinity College, Cambridge, which we have already mentioned, was written at the beginning of the thirteenth century, and the proverbs which it contains are translations into Latin leonines of some of the more popular English, and, in one or two instances, Norman proverbs of that time.

1835 March, “Art. V.— […] 4. Collection of English Proverbs of the Twelfth Century, Translated into Latin Leonines. MS. Trin. Coll. Camb. O. 2. 45. (Unpublished.) [book review]”, in Cochrane’s Foreign Quarterly Review, volume I, number II, London: Whittaker & Co. […]; Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 395:

(poetry, chiefly in the plural) Synonym of Leonine verse (“a kind of medieval Latin verse, generally alternative hexameter and pentameter, with rhyming at the middle and end of a line (that is, internal rhyme)”).


-o

اَوُرَكِيْبُوُ جُوَ نِمَاسِ ، كَكُلَ خَسَرَ اُخَسِرِيِ

18th century, Abdallah bin Ali bin Nasir, Al-Inkishafi, stanza 13:

The one who rides it, know you are a rebel; you harm yourself.

Aurakibuo jua ni-mwasi, kwa-kula khasara ukhasiriye.

(archaic, Northern Swahili, poetry) relative marker for any noun class


tempus

la-noun

tempus n (genitive temporis); third declension

temporis (genitive)
tempus (nominative singular)
tempora (nominative plural)
temporis (genitive singular)
temporum (genitive plural)
temporī (dative singular)
temporibus (dative plural)
tempus (accusative singular)
tempora (accusative plural)
tempore (ablative singular)
temporibus (ablative plural)
tempus (singular vocative)
tempora (plural vocative)
temporī (locative singular)
tempore (locative singular)
temporibus (locative plural)

Eastern Romance:

Megleno-Romanian: timp

Romanian: timp

Italo-Dalmatian:

Corsican: tempu

Dalmatian: tiamp

Istriot: tenpo

Italian: tempo (see there for further descendants)

desc

Judeo-Italian: טִִינְפוֹ (ṭinəpo /tinpo/)

Neapolitan: tiempo

Sicilian: tempu

Venetan: tenpo, tempo, tènp

Rhaeto-Romance:

Friulian: timp

Ladin: tëmp

Romansch: temp, taimp, tains

Gallo-Italic:

Emilian: tänp

Ligurian: tempo

Lombard: temp

Piedmontese: temp

Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: temps

Old French: temps (see there for further descendants)

Occitano-Romance:

Old Catalan: temps

Catalan: temps

desctree

Old Occitan: tems
Occitan: tèms, tems, temps

Ibero-Romance:

Asturian: tiempu

Old Galician-Portuguese: tempo

Galician: tempo

Portuguese: tempo

Spanish: tiempo

Borrowings:

→ Finnish: tempus

→ Middle Welsh: tymhor

Welsh: tymor

→ Norwegian Bokmål: tempus

→ Russian: темп (temp)

→ Sardinian: tempus

→ Swedish: tempus

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *tempula, *templa

Catalan: templa

Italian: tempia

Old French: temple
French: tempe
→ Middle English: temple
English: temple

Romanian: tâmplă

⇒ Asturian: tenllera

⇒ Galician: tempas

→ Basque: denbora

→ Italian: tempora

→ Portuguese: têmpora

→ Sicilian: tèmpura

→ Spanish: témpora

From Proto-Italic *tempos; thence, two ultimate origins have been proposed:
* From Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the extension *temp- of the root *ten- (“to stretch, string”), with meaning development "what is stretched, stretching" → "stretch (of time)" → "time, occasion".
* From Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- (“to cut”), thus "a section (of time)", this root also giving Latin temnō, tondeō, Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō). templum is a possible cognate that has also been assigned to both roots.
Sense 2 is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek τὰ καίρῐᾰ (tà kaírĭă, “the vital or fatal place (on the body)”), from καιρός (kairós, “time, opportunity, etc.”), and is less frequent in singular form. Compare Old English þunwang (“temple of the head”), Middle High German tinne, tinge (“forehead, temples”).
As seen from the adverb temperī, the noun would originally have declined like genus.

cog

(poetry, rhetoric) time; measure, quantity


canto

From Old Galician-Portuguese canto, from Latin cantus (“song; singing”), perfect passive participle of canō (“to sing”), from Proto-Indo-European *kan- (“to sing”). Cognate of English chant.


chuff

en-noun

chuff (countable and uncountable, plural chuffs)

(scriptwriting, uncountable) Superfluous small talk that is free of conflict, offers no character development, description or insight, and does not advance the story or plot.


corona

A favorite and most attractive combination is that of the corona or series of sonnets, employed to frame or develop some one theme. A list of these corone is given by Biadene, who selects and publishes from among them a series of three by Petrarch, and the famous corona of the months by Folgore da San Gemignano.

1889 May, F. M. Warren, “The Sonnet. Morfologia del Sonetto nei secoli xiii e xiv. L. Biadene [Studj di Filologia Romanza, Fasc. 10.]”, in A. Marshall Elliott, editor, Modern Language Notes, volume IV, Baltimore, Md.: [Johns Hopkins University Press], →ISSN, →OCLC, column 308:

But the poets of Siena, and particularly the Academy of the Intronati, found the proper way of constructing coronas—since the ones mentioned above should really be called sequences ['catene'] rather than coronas.

1997, Michael R. G. Spiller, The Sonnet Sequence: A Study of Its Strategies (Studies in Literary Themes and Genres; 13), New York, N.Y.: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, page 144:

[Lady Mary] Wroth alludes to these contexts as the corona of sonnets that crowns the sequence opens: "In this strang labourinth how shall I turne?" (Wroth, Poems 127).

2000, Mary B. Moore, “The Labyrinth of Style: Lady Mary Wroth and the Idea of Petrarchism”, in Desiring Voices: Women Sonneteers and Petrarchism, Carbondale, Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 125:

Both sets of echoes derive from the poets' first poems, and since first poems in Petrarchan sequences set stylistic, tonal, and thematic expectations, Robert [Sidney]'s double allusion to first poems should color readings of this, the first poem of his corona.

2015, Mary B. Moore, “Robert Sidney’s Poetry”, in Margaret P. Hannay, Mary Ellen Lamb, Michael G. Brennan, editors, The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500–1700, volume 2 (Literature), Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, part VI (Poetry), page 250:

(poetry) A series of sonnets linked together such that the last word of each is the first word of the next.


haiku

nb-noun

haiku m or n (definite singular haikuen or haikuet, indefinite plural haiku, definite plural haikuene)

haikuen (definite singular)
haikuet (definite singular)
haiku (indefinite plural)
haikuene (definite plural)

Ultimately borrowed from Japanese 俳(はい)句(く) (haiku).

Det opprinnelige haikuet er japansk


haiku

nn-noun-multi

haiku m or n (definite singular haikuen or haikuet, indefinite plural haikuar or haiku, definite plural haikuane or haikua)

haikuen (definite singular)
haikuet (definite singular)
haikuar (indefinite plural)
haiku (indefinite plural)
haikuane (definite plural)
haikua (definite plural)

der finst ikkje så mange ord i eit haiku

Paal-Helge Haugen sette om japanske haikuar til norsk[.]

1998, Hadle Oftedal Andersen, editor, Poesiens pil, [Oslo]: Cappelen, page 170:

Paal-Helge Haugen translated Japanese haikus into Norwegian.


haiku

(poetry) haiku (Japanese poem in three lines, the first and last consisting of five morae, and the second consisting of seven morae, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme)

(poetry) haiku (three-line poem in any language, with five syllables in the first and last lines and seven syllables in the second, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme)


haiku

(poetry) haiku (type of poem used in Japanese poetry)


rondo

rondko (diminutive)
rondo (nominative singular)
ronda (nominative plural)
ronda (genitive singular)
rond (genitive plural)
rondu (dative singular)
rondom (dative plural)
rondo (accusative singular)
ronda (accusative plural)
rondem (instrumental singular)
rondami (instrumental plural)
rondzie (locative singular)
rondach (locative plural)
rondo (singular vocative)
ronda (plural vocative)


volta

[…][Larmona] Ash describes how “conversion arrives like a volta [poetic shift]^([sic]) in a person's life.” The metaphor is apt, imagining one's spiritual life as a poem, an authored thing, and not preserved on vellum either, but open to revision.

2025 May 31, Tanjil Rashid, quoting Lamorna Ash, “Finding their religion”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 9:

(poetry) A turning point or point of change in a poem, most commonly a sonnet.


banner

From Middle English baner, from Old French baniere (Modern bannière), of Germanic origin. More at band.

(journalism) The title of a newspaper as printed on its front page; the nameplate; masthead.


banner

en-verb

banner (third-person singular simple present banners, present participle bannering, simple past and past participle bannered)

banners (present singular third-person)
bannering (participle present)
bannered (participle past)
bannered (past)

At 8:11, bannering the headline “Cheney in Charge?” the Drudge Report runs a story speculating that the president may be incapacitated.

2008, Howard Rosenberg, Charles S. Feldman, No Time To Think:

(transitive, journalism) To display as a banner headline.


clarification

en-noun

clarification (countable and uncountable, plural clarifications)

/ˌklæɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

/ˌklɛɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

/ˌklæɹɪfɪˈkæɪʃən/

Borrowed from Middle French clarification, from Latin clārificātiō.

избистряне

physical clarification (wine, butter, etc.)

(journalism) A small piece of writing supplemental to a previously published text, intended to disambiguate, explain away obscurities, but not contradict or emend the text (as would a correction).


deck

From Middle English dekke, borrowed from Middle Dutch dec (“roof, covering”), from Middle Dutch decken, from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną. Formed the same: German Decke (“covering, blanket”). Doublet of thatch and thack.

rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic

shuffle the chairs on the deck of the Titanic

If there's a strapline or subdeck, write these after the main deck and don't use the same words.

2005, Richard Keeble, Print Journalism: A Critical Introduction, page 114:

(journalism) A headline consisting of one or more full lines of text; especially, a subheadline.


embed

(journalism) An embedded reporter or journalist, such as a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit, or a political reporter assigned to follow and report on the campaign of a candidate.


premise

premises (plural)
premiss (alternative)
præmise (alternative archaic)
præmiss (alternative archaic)

From Middle English premise, premisse, from Old French premisse, from Medieval Latin premissa (“set before”) (premissa propositio (“the proposition set before”)), feminine past participle of Latin praemittere (“to send or put before”), from prae- (“before”) + mittere (“to send”).
The sense "a piece of real estate" arose from the misinterpretation of the word by property owners while reading title deeds where the word was used with the legal sense.

der

In 1949, the simple premise of discovering ordinary people who have hidden, extraordinary talents came to prominence in the UK with Opportunity Knocks, which started out as a nationwide touring radio show, before moving onto TV in 1956.

2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC:

(authorship) The fundamental concept that drives the plot of a film or other story.


scan

en-verb

scan (third-person singular simple present scans, present participle scanning, simple past and past participle scanned)

scans (present singular third-person)
scanning (participle present)
scanned (participle past)
scanned (past)

⇒ Lithuanian: skenuoti

From late Middle English scanne (“to mark off verse to show metrical structure”), from earlier scanden, from Late Latin scandere (“to scan verse”), from Classical Latin scandō (“I climb, rise, mount”), from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to jump, dart, climb, scale, scan”).

مَحَّصَ

to examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely

In such cases as these, almost any one with a good ear will "scan" the verse correctly enough without instruction. It is not proposed to give here a list of Shakspere's slurred and contracted words; […]

1886, Francis Barton Gummere, A Handbook of Poetics for Students of English Verse, page 218:

(poetry, transitive) To read or mark so as to show a specific metre.

escandir

to read or mark so as to show a specific metre

You're right, sir, it doesn't scan very well in the English, but in the Gaelic it's sheer poetry. Have you the Gaelic?

1998, Milton Acorn, Cedric Smith, edited by James Deahl, The Road to Charlottetown: A Play, UnMon Northland:

(poetry, intransitive) To conform to a metrical structure.


slam

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from slam poetry.


spike

en-verb

spike (third-person singular simple present spikes, present participle spiking, simple past and past participle spiked)

spikes (present singular third-person)
spiking (participle present)
spiked (participle past)
spiked (past)

From Middle English spike, spyke, spik, from Old Norse spík (“spike, sprig”), from Proto-Germanic *spīkō (“stick, splinter, point”), from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“to be pointed; sharp point, stick”). Cognate with Icelandic spík (“spike”), Swedish spik (“spike, nail”), Dutch spijker (“nail”), Old English spīcing (“spike”), and Latin spīca (“ear of corn”), which may have influenced some senses.

terästää

to covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance into a drink

Nicolaas, or Nick, as the family called him, wanted to turn professional but an ear injury, sustained during the war, spiked his plans.

1981, Chris Greyvenstein, The Fighters, page 145:

Instead, the "Beaver" declared he would spike the story about Wallis Simpson and make sure his fellow media moguls sat on it too.

2002 October 14, Jonathan Sale, “Edward VIII news blackout”, in The Guardian:

Anyway, on this day I was still struggling with how to use fewer than twenty words to sum up my day in Blackpool in a manner which would not prove too upsetting for my parents, when I learned that I'd got spiked. Again.

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

With two such wildly contradictory versions of why and how NBC News spiked Farrow’s Weinstein story, it’s difficult to determine what objectively occurred.

2017 October 11, Lloyd Grove, “How NBC ‘Killed’ Ronan Farrow’s Weinstein Exposé”, in Daily Beast:

Last October, Bezos halted the Post’s practice of endorsing presidential candidates, spiking the editorial board’s plans to endorse former Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of the general election.

2025 June 11, Gregory Svirnovskiy, “Washington Post announces new editor of opinions desk overhauled by Jeff Bezos”, in Politico:

(figurative, journalism) To discard; to decide not to publish or make public.


stave

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-stave.wav

Back-formation from staves, the plural of staff.

Let us chaunt a passing stave / In honour of that hero brave.

1815, William Wordsworth, Rob Roy's Grave:

(poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

Ley, in his work on the Metrical Forms of Hebrew Poetry, 1866, has taken too little notice of these frequently occurring alliteration staves; Lagarde communicated to me (8th Sept. 1846) his view of the stave-rhyme in the Book[…]

1874, Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Proverbs of Solomon, page 73:

[The] stave that binds the two halves of the line together the on-verse must be classified as D in spite of the f-stave . . stave-rhyme (OED s.v. Stave sb.)

1974, John Collins Pope, Old English Studies in Honour of John C. Pope, page 193:

... consisting only of the two staves, folches . . . fehta. […] Line 63 contains the two-stave rhyme, aerist ... asckim; the suggested reduplicative rhyme [...] is technically doubtful according to the standards we have[…]

1975, Studies in Medieval Culture, page 11:

This may seem sparse and incomplete, but is reminiscent of the Old Norse stave rhyme technique in which one avoided two alliterating staves in one dipod – which the poets of that time considered superfluous.

(poetry, rare) The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another word with the same consonant or vowel in stave-rhyme.


strain

From Middle English streen, strene, streon, istreon (“race, stock, generation”), from Old English strēon, ġestrēon (“gain, wealth”), from Proto-Germanic *streuną (“heap, treasure, profit, gain”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread, strew”) (cognate with Old Saxon gistriuni, Old High German gistriuni (“gain, property, wealth, business”), Latin strues (“heap”)). Confused in Middle English with the related noun strend, strynd, strund, from Old English strȳnd (“race; stock”), from strēonan, strȳnan (“to beget; acquire”). Related also to Dutch struinen (“to prowl, root about, rout”).

cog

Yet Keats, though for so many years he has given nothing to the world, is understood to have devoted himself to the composition of an epic poem. Some passages of it have been communicated to the inner circle of his admirers, and impressed them as the loftiest strains that have been audible on earth since Milton’s days.

1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “P.'s Correspondence”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:

A baby gurgled, a photographer dropped her lens cap, and the strains of the U.S. Army Brass Quintet echoed off the murals depicting seminal moments in American history.

2024, Christa Case Bryant, As US marks 9/11, a divided Congress unites to honor 13 fallen in Afghanistan, in: The Christian Science Monitor, September 11, 2024

(music, poetry) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.

напев

music, poetry: any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.


lament

lament (nominative singular)
lamenty (nominative plural)
lamentu (genitive singular)
lamentów (genitive plural)
lamentowi (dative singular)
lamentom (dative plural)
lament (accusative singular)
lamenty (accusative plural)
lamentem (instrumental singular)
lamentami (instrumental plural)
lamencie (locative singular)
lamentach (locative plural)
lamencie (singular vocative)
lamenty (plural vocative)

(poetry) threnody (poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy)


pentameter

en-noun

pentameter (countable and uncountable, plural pentameters)

pentameters (plural)
pentametre (alternative)

PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle French pentamètre, by surface analysis, penta- + meter.

The best verses, more especially pentameters, are written on the principle of attracting and fixing the attention to their close.

1822, Robert Bland, Elements of Latin Hexameters and Pentameters, third edition, London: John Robinson, page vi:

(poetry, countable) A line in a poem having five metrical feet.

(poetry) Poetic metre in which each line has five feet.


tetrameter

tetrameter (countable and uncountable, plural tetrameters)

tetrameters (plural)
tetrametre (alternative)

(poetry) A line in a poem having four metrical feet.

tetrametër

a line in a poem having four metrical feet (poetry)


dimeter

dimeter (countable and uncountable, plural dimeters)

(poetry) A line in a poem having two metrical feet.

(poetry) A poetic metre in which each line has two feet.


desk

en-verb

desk (third-person singular simple present desks, present participle desking, simple past and past participle desked)

desks (present singular third-person)
desking (participle present)
desked (participle past)
desked (past)

From Middle English deske, desque, from Medieval Latin desca, modified from Old Italian desco, from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, disc, discus, dish, disk, and diskos. See also German Tisch, "table".

doublet

(transitive, journalism) To reject (an article submitted to a newspaper or academic journal etc.) on initial receipt, without reviewing it further.


seagull

seagulls (plural)
sea gull (alternative)
sea-gull (alternative)

From sea + gull. The second element is from a Brythonic language. Compare Welsh gwylan, Breton gouelan.

(orthography) The symbol ̼, which combines under a letter as a sort of accent.


diacritic

en-adj

diacritic (comparative more diacritic, superlative most diacritic)

more diacritic (comparative)
most diacritic (superlative)

/ˌdaɪəˈkɹɪtɪk/

/ˌdaɪəˈkɹɪtɪk/

[ˌdaɪəˈkɹɪɾɪk]

/ˌdɑɪəˈkɹɪtɪk/

[ˌdɑɪəˈkɹɪɾɪk]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek διακριτικός (diakritikós, “distinguishing, separative”), from διακρίνειν (diakrínein, “to distinguish, separate”), from διά (diá, “between”) + κρίνω (krínō, “I separate, distinguish”).

bor+

(orthography, not comparable) Denoting a distinguishing mark applied to a letter or character.


national

From Middle French national, corresponding to nation + -al.

I had a crush on Bardot / Fell in love with Monroe / Read about 'em in the nationals / All the juicy little scandals

1978, “Blondes (Have More Fun)”, performed by Rod Stewart:

(usually in the plural, journalism) A national newspaper.


cedilla

From Spanish cedilla (literally “little zed”), c. 1600. In Spanish cedilla referred to the letter ⟨Ç⟩, which had evolved from ⟨Ꝣ⟩, a Visigothic form of the letter Z (called a Z with copete); hence the name. The lower part of ⟨Ç⟩ (which came to be reinterpreted as a diacritical mark under a C) is the remnant of the original Z, after it gradually reduced in size; whereas the upper part was originally just an ornamentation over the Z (which increased in size until it resembled letter C, and finally came to be identified with this letter).

bor

(orthography) In the spelling of Catalan, French, Portuguese and some other languages, a mark ⟨¸⟩ sometimes placed under the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced /s/ rather than /k/, as in Catalan força, French menaçant, and Portuguese almoço, and also used in various other languages to change the sounds of other letters.


cedilla

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish cedilla.


cedilla

→ English: cedilla

desctree

→ French: cédille
→ English: cédille
→ Finnish: sedilji
→ German: Cedille

→ Italian: cediglia

→ Portuguese: cedilha

→ Romanian: sedilă

From Old Spanish ceda (“letter Z”) + -illa (diminutive suffix); cognate with modern Spanish zeta.


identical

The strictest construction of the rule requires complete and unvarying repetition of end-words, but some license is granted in the use of identicals.

1992, Clarence Hugh Holman, William Harmon, A Handbook to Literature, page 439:

(poetry) A rhyme on the same syllable, such as "leave" and "believe".


prompt

The adjective is from Middle English prompte, from Middle French prompt and its etymon Latin prōmptus (“visible, apparent, evident”), past participle of prōmō (“to take or bring out or forth, produce, bring to light”), from prō (“forth, forward”) + emō (“to take, acquire, buy”). Doublet of pronto.
The verb is from Middle English prompen, apparently from the adjective. The noun is from the verb.

der

(writing) A suggestion for inspiration given to an author.


waka

Borrowed from Japanese 和歌 (waka), from Middle Chinese 和 (ɣwa), a gloss for 倭 (ʔwa, “Japan”) + 歌 (ka, “song”).

“Hey, look. There's one of those Jap waka poems on the back of this cigarette package.”

1962, Philip K. Dick, “The Man in the High Castle”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 122:

(poetry) A kind of classical Japanese poem.


dateline

Other bits of furniture include the dateline, which says where a journalist is reporting from – historically with the date of dispatch, eg “Buenos Aires, 1 March.”

2023 January 31, Elisabeth Ribbans, “The perils of using journalist jargon outside the newsroom”, in The Guardian:

(journalism) A line at the beginning of a document (such as a newspaper article) stating the place of origin and typically the date, and often written in capital letters.

dátlíne

a line at the beginning of a document stating the date and place of origin


kreska

pl-noun

kreska f (diminutive kreseczka, augmentative krecha, related adjective kreskowy)

kreseczka (diminutive)
krecha (augmentative)
kreskowy (adjective)
kreska (nominative singular)
kreski (nominative plural)
kreski (genitive singular)
kresek (genitive plural)
kresce (dative singular)
kreskom (dative plural)
kreskę (accusative singular)
kreski (accusative plural)
kreską (instrumental singular)
kreskami (instrumental plural)
kresce (locative singular)
kreskach (locative plural)
kresko (singular vocative)
kreski (plural vocative)
kryska (alternative obsolete)

(orthography) diacritic closely resembling an acute accent


בית

he-noun

בַּיִת • (báyit) m (plural indefinite בָּתִּים, singular construct בֵּית־, plural construct בָּתֵּי־, Biblical Hebrew pausal form בָּיִת) [pattern: קֶטֶל]

בַּיִת (canonical)
báyit (romanization)
בָּתִּים (indefinite plural)
בֵּית־ (construct singular)
בָּתֵּי־ (construct plural)
form בָּיִת (Biblical-Hebrew pausal)
בַּיִת (indefinite singular)
בֵּיתִי (feminine first-person masculine possessed-form singular)
בֵּיתֵנוּ (feminine first-person masculine plural possessed-form)
הַבַּיִת (definite singular)
בֵּיתְךָ (masculine possessed-form second-person singular)
בֵּיתֵךְ (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
בֵּיתְכֶם (masculine plural possessed-form second-person)
בֵּיתְכֶן (feminine plural possessed-form second-person)
בֵּית־ (construct singular)
בֵּיתוֹ (masculine possessed-form singular third-person)
בֵּיתָהּ (feminine possessed-form singular third-person)
בֵּיתָם (masculine plural possessed-form third-person)
בֵּיתָן (feminine plural possessed-form third-person)
בָּתִּים (indefinite plural)
בתיי (feminine first-person masculine possessed-form singular)
בָּתַּי (feminine first-person masculine possessed-form singular)
בָּתֵּינוּ (feminine first-person masculine plural possessed-form)
הַבָּתִּים (definite plural)
בָּתֶּיךָ (masculine possessed-form second-person singular)
בתייך (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
בָּתַּיִךְ (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
בָּתֵּיכֶם (masculine plural possessed-form second-person)
בָּתֵּיכֶן (feminine plural possessed-form second-person)
בָּתֵּי־ (construct plural)
בָּתָּיו (masculine possessed-form singular third-person)
בָּתֶּיהָ (feminine possessed-form singular third-person)
בָּתֵּיהֶם (masculine plural possessed-form third-person)
בָּתֵּיהֶן (feminine plural possessed-form third-person)

desctree

→ Yiddish: בית (beys)
→ Alemannic German: Beiz
→ German: Beiz

From Proto-Semitic *bayt- (“house”). Cognate with Akkadian 𒂍 (bītum) and Arabic بَيْت (bayt).

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


boustrophedon

PIE word
 *gʷṓws
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βουστροφηδόν (boustrophēdón, literally “turning like an ox”), from βοῦς (boûs, “ox”) + στροφή (strophḗ, “turning”) + -ηδόν (-ēdón, adverbial suffix).

bor+

βουστροφηδόν

af

(historical, calligraphy, of writing) In a fashion such that the reading direction changes from right-to-left to left-to-right with each new line.


boustrophedon

bor+

βουστροφηδόν

(historical, calligraphy, of writing) Written from right-to-left and left-to-right on alternate lines.


boustrophedon

en-noun

boustrophedon (countable and uncountable, plural boustrophedons)

boustrophedons (plural)
bustrophedon (alternative)

bor+

βουστροφηδόν

The number of Attic boustrophedon texts is fairly small; most of those just cited have been brought down by the experts to a date close to 550 B.C., a date to which several texts of more than one line inscribed left to right may also be assigned (cf. pp.56—57 infra), besides the four-line retrograde sep. mon. of Pediarchus cited in the previous section (cf. p.52 supra). Stone texts only really become numerous in Attica about 550, and by this time it is clear that left-to-right writing is just as common as boustrophedon, and may have been so even earlier.[…]After 540 boustrophedon was certainly unusual.

1980, Leslie Threatte, The Grammar of Attic Inscriptions: Phonology, page 55:

(Venetic apparently had both kinds of boustrophedon, either flipping the face of the characters when switching direction or else inverting them (Lejeune, 1974, pages 180-181).)

2000, Richard Sproat, A Computational Theory of Writing Systems, page 61:

He draws a sharp distinction between true boustrophedon, which has the tops of the runes pointed in the same direction, but with a change in the direction of writing with each line, and false boustrophedon, which changes from upright to inverted runes with each line, but the lines themselves are each written in the same direction.

2002, Elmer H. Antonsen, Runes and Germanic Linguistics, page 132:

(historical, calligraphy, of writing) Writing that is right-to-left and left-to-right on alternate lines.

بُطْرُفَة

writing that is alternately right-to-left and left-to-right


apóstrofo

From Latin apostrophus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστροφος (apóstrophos, “accent of elision”).

der

A expressão "d’água" deve ser escrita com apóstrofo.

The expression "d’água" [of the water] must be written with an apostrophe.

(orthography) apostrophe (the character ’)


nebo

nebọ̑ (canonical neuter)
nebọ̑ (nominative singular)
nẹ̑bi (dual nominative)
nẹ̑ba (nominative plural)
nebȃ (genitive singular)
nẹ̑b (dual genitive)
nẹ̑b (genitive plural)
nẹ̑bu (dative singular)
nẹ̑bi (dative singular)
nẹ̑boma (dative dual)
nẹ̑bama (dative dual)
nẹ̑bom (dative plural)
nẹ̑bam (dative plural)
nebọ̑ (accusative singular)
nẹ̑bi (accusative dual)
nẹ̑ba (accusative plural)
nẹ̑bu (locative singular)
nẹ̑bi (locative singular)
nẹ̑bih (dual locative)
nẹ̑bah (dual locative)
nẹ̑bih (locative plural)
nẹ̑bah (locative plural)
nẹ̑bom (instrumental singular)
nẹ̑boma (dual instrumental)
nẹ̑bama (dual instrumental)
nẹ̑bi (instrumental plural)
nebọ̑ (singular vocative)
nẹ̑bi (dual vocative)
nẹ̑ba (plural vocative)
nebọ̑ (nominative singular)
nebẹ́si (dual nominative)
nebẹ́sa (nominative plural)
nebẹ́sa (genitive singular)
nebẹ̄s (dual genitive)
nebẹ̄s (genitive plural)
nebẹ́su (dative singular)
nebẹ́si (dative singular)
nebẹ́soma (dative dual)
nebẹ́sama (dative dual)
nebẹ́som (dative plural)
nebẹ́sam (dative plural)
nebọ̑ (accusative singular)
nebẹ́si (accusative dual)
nebẹ́sa (accusative plural)
nebẹ́su (locative singular)
nebẹ́si (locative singular)
nebẹ́sih (dual locative)
nebẹ́sih (locative plural)
nebẹ́som (instrumental singular)
nebẹ́soma (dual instrumental)
nebẹ́sama (dual instrumental)
nebẹ́si (instrumental plural)
nebọ̑ (singular vocative)
nebẹ̑si (dual vocative)
nebẹ̑sa (plural vocative)

sl-infl-noun

* obsolete; compare pluralia tantum nebesa

From Proto-Slavic *nebo, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *néba, from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos.

(journalism) field (domain of study, knowledge or practice)


refer

From Middle English referren, from Old French referer, from Latin referre. The noun (used in journalism) is from the verb. Doublet of relate. See also infer, collate and confer, delate and defer, as well as prelate and prefer among others.

A refer on page 1 of the Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015, edition of The Herald-News contained incorrect information about the story “Neighbors at odds over Joliet liquor license” that appeared on Page 4 of the same edition.

2015 August 5, “Corrections”, in The Herald-News, Joliet, Illinois: Shaw Media, via Issuu, page 2:

Looking at the refers on page 2, it's obvious that May became something of an accidental women's issue.

2017 May 10, Amanda May Aruani, “Letter from the Editor”, in The Arts Paper, New Haven, Connecticut: The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, via Issuu, page 3:

The paper of Sept. 11 was not without its alarms. On Page One, an ominous “refer” (pronounced reefer) to an article inside the paper: Palestinian snipers had killed two Israelis, bringing a retaliatory shelling by Israeli tanks. On A3: A suicide bomber had killed two police officers in Istanbul.

2021 September 10, Ralph Blumenthal, “A Time Capsule in Two Front Pages”, in The New York Times, New York City:

(journalism) A blurb on the front page of a newspaper issue or section that refers the reader to the full story inside the issue or section by listing its slug or headline and its page number.


editorial

(journalism) editorial (relating to an article written by the management of a publication that expresses its opinion on a specific current issue)


gonzo

en-adj

gonzo (comparative more gonzo, superlative most gonzo)

more gonzo (comparative)
most gonzo (superlative)

Coined in 1971 by Boston Globe editor Bill Cardoso. Of uncertain origin; OED proposes Italian gonzo (“dolt”) and / or Spanish ganso (“dolt, goose”). The etymology supplied by Cardoso himself (French gonzeaux) is spurious.

I ask Hunter to explain ... Just what is Gonzo Journalism? ... “Gonzo all started with Bill Cardosa ^([sic]), ... after I wrote the Kentucky Derby piece for Scanlan's ... the first time I realized you could write different. And ... I got this note from Cardosa saying, ‘That was pure gonzo journalism!’ ... Some Boston word for weird, bizarre.”

1972, Richard Pollack, chapter VI, in Stop the Presses, I Want to Get Off!:

(journalism) Using an unconventional, exaggerated, and highly subjective style, often when the reporter takes part in the events of the story.


gonzo

pt-adj

gonzo (feminine gonza, masculine plural gonzos, feminine plural gonzas)

gonza (feminine)
gonzos (masculine plural)
gonzas (feminine plural)


quaderno

From Latin quaternus (“fourfold”), from quater (“four times”), from quattuor (“four”).


lyric

en-adj

lyric (comparative more lyric, superlative most lyric)

more lyric (comparative)
most lyric (superlative)
lyrick (alternative obsolete)

From French lyrique, or its source, Latin lyricus, from Ancient Greek λυρικός (lurikós), from λύρα (lúra, “lyre”). Its English equivalent would be lyre + -ic.
The original Greek sense of "lyric poetry"—"poetry accompanied by the lyre" i.e. "words set to music"—eventually led to its use as "lyrics", first attested in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Stainer and Barrett used the word as a singular substantive: "Lyric, poetry or blank verse intended to be set to music and sung". By the 1930s, the present use of the plurale tantum "lyrics" had begun; it has been standard since the 1950s for many writers. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song by authorities such as Alec Wilder, Robert Gottlieb, and Stephen Sondheim. However, the singular form is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics.

(poetry) Of, or relating to a type of poetry (such as a sonnet or ode) that expresses subjective thoughts and feelings, often in a songlike style.


rhapsody

The noun is derived from Latin rhapsōdia (“part of an epic poem suitable for uninterrupted recitation”), from Koine Greek ῥαψῳδία (rhapsōidía, “part of an epic poem suitable for uninterrupted recitation; rigmarole”), Ancient Greek ῥαψῳδία (rhapsōidía, “composition or recitation of Epic poetry”), from ῥαψῳδός (rhapsōidós, “composer or performer of Epic poetry”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). Ῥαψῳδός (Rhapsōidós) is derived from ῥᾰ́πτω (rhắptō, “to sew”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to bend; to turn”)) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “ode; song”) (ultimately from Proto-Hellenic *awoidā́ (“song”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming o-grade action nouns).
Sense 2.2 (“instrumental composition of irregular form”) probably developed from sense 2.1 (“exaggeratedly enthusiastic or exalted expression of feeling in speech or writing”), and both of these senses may have been influenced by rapture (“extreme excitement, happiness, or pleasure”), the latter being a quality associated with the senses. Sense 2.3 (“literary composition consisting of miscellaneous works”) is borrowed from Middle French rhapsodie (modern French rhapsodie), from Latin rhapsōdia: see above.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
* French rhapsodie (“instrumental composition of irregular form”)
* German Rhapsodie (“instrumental composition of irregular form”)

cog

(Ancient Greece, poetry, historical) An epic poem, or part of one, suitable for uninterrupted recitation.

狂想曲

ancient Greek epic poem, or part of one, suitable for uninterrupted recitation


stichomythia

en-noun

stichomythia (countable and uncountable, plural stichomythias)

/stɪkəˈmɪθɪə/

From Latin, from Ancient Greek στιχομυθία (stikhomuthía), from στίχος (stíkhos, “line of verse”) (see sticho-) + μῦθος (mûthos, “speech”).

The trial in the great hall under its high vaults, dusty sunlight shafting in, full of murmurers and growlers quietened by beadles and bailiffs, with howlers in the street held back with pikes, was by way of being a play without plot or exercise in what the Senecans term stichomythia.

1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man In Deptford:

The stichomythias are just as necessary in Sophocles' tragedies as are his choruses.

2006, Olga Freidenberg, Image and Concept, page 297:

The two modes have different effects: while a rhesis allows the speaker to give an account of himself, attempt to persuade his hearers, or move freely across a range of emotions or types of argument, stichomythia is better suited to swift exchange of information through question and answer, though it can also be used for spicy polemic, aggressive interrogation, or accusation and defence.

2012, R. B. Rutherford, Greek Tragic Style: Form, Language and Interpretation, page 165:

(poetry) A technique in drama or poetry, in which alternating lines, or half-lines, are given to alternating characters, voices, or entities.


macron

From Ancient Greek μακρόν (makrón), neuter form of μακρός (makrós, “long”) (English macro-).

We say such words belong to a Long family, because of the long macron hat the vowels wear. Like the other twin o's, one hat is enough for both, for these twins are always found together.

1889, Rebecca S[mith] Pollard, A Complete Manual: Pollard’s Synthetic Method of Reading and Spelling. Designed to Accompany Synthetic Readers and Spellers, New York, N.Y.: American Book Company, →OCLC, page 75:

A macron is a mark placed above a long vowel to mark its quantity.

1974, Floyd L. Moreland, Rita M. Fleischer, Latin: An Intensive Course, University of California Press, page 13:

All vowels are pronounced short unless marked with a ¯ (macron) over them. So observe different vowel length of ‘i ’ in, e.g., fīlia, etc. It may be helpful, but is not essential, to mark macra in your exercises.

1986, Peter V. Jones, Keith C. Sidwell, “Introduction”, in Reading Latin, volumes 1 (Grammar, Vocabulary and Exercises), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 2, general note 1:

(orthography) A short, straight, horizontal diacritical mark (◌̄) placed over a letter, usually to indicate that the pronunciation of a vowel is long.


macron

nl-noun

macron m (plural macrons, diminutive macrontje n)

macrons (plural)
macrontje (diminutive neuter)

From Ancient Greek μακρόν (makrón), neuter form of μακρός (makrós, “long”).


stor

head

stor (comparative större, superlative störst)

större (comparative)
störst (superlative)
stor (indefinite positive)
större (comparative indefinite)
störst (indefinite superlative)
stort (indefinite neuter positive singular)
större (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
störst (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
stora (indefinite plural positive)
större (comparative indefinite plural)
störst (indefinite plural superlative)
stora (archaic indefinite masculine plural positive)
större (archaic comparative indefinite masculine plural)
störst (archaic indefinite masculine plural superlative)
store (definite masculine positive singular)
större (comparative definite masculine singular)
störste (definite masculine singular superlative)
stora (definite positive)
större (comparative definite)
största (definite superlative)

From Old Swedish stōr, from Old Norse stórr (“big, large, tall, great”), from Proto-Germanic *stōraz, from Proto-Indo-European *stāro-.

inh

Namn på länder skrivs med stor bokstav.

Names of countries are written with capital letters.

(writing, not comparable) uppercase, capital (of a letter)


pont

pontok (plural)
pont (nominative singular)
pontok (nominative plural)
pontot (accusative singular)
pontokat (accusative plural)
pontnak (dative singular)
pontoknak (dative plural)
ponttal (instrumental singular)
pontokkal (instrumental plural)
pontért (causal-final singular)
pontokért (causal-final plural)
ponttá (singular translative)
pontokká (plural translative)
pontig (singular terminative)
pontokig (plural terminative)
pontként (essive-formal singular)
pontokként (essive-formal plural)
pontban (inessive singular)
pontokban (inessive plural)
ponton (singular superessive)
pontokon (plural superessive)
pontnál (adessive singular)
pontoknál (adessive plural)
pontba (illative singular)
pontokba (illative plural)
pontra (singular sublative)
pontokra (plural sublative)
ponthoz (allative singular)
pontokhoz (allative plural)
pontból (elative singular)
pontokból (elative plural)
pontról (delative singular)
pontokról (delative plural)
ponttól (ablative singular)
pontoktól (ablative plural)
ponté (singular)
pontoké (plural)
pontéi (singular)
pontokéi (plural)
pontom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
pontjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
pontod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
pontjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
pontja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
pontjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
pontunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
pontjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
pontotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
pontjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
pontjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
pontjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

Borrowed from German Punkt, from Latin punctum.

(orthography) point, full stop, period (a terminal punctuation mark or a symbol of abbreviation)


background

en-verb

background (third-person singular simple present backgrounds, present participle backgrounding, simple past and past participle backgrounded)

backgrounds (present singular third-person)
backgrounding (participle present)
backgrounded (participle past)
backgrounded (past)
back ground (alternative obsolete)

(journalism) To gather and provide background information (on).


ĉapelo

eo-head

ĉapelo (accusative singular ĉapelon, plural ĉapeloj, accusative plural ĉapelojn)

ĉapelon (accusative singular)
ĉapeloj (plural)
ĉapelojn (accusative plural)
chapelo (alternative)
cxapelo (alternative)

Ido: chapelo

From French chapeau and Italian cappello, both from Medieval Latin capellus, diminutive of Late Latin cappa. Doublet of ĉapo.

La esperantista memkonscio pri la ĉapeloj, kiujn portas iuj literoj, igas min ĝoji, ke ĉi tiu libro, apud anglalingva naskiĝo, ankaŭ kromnaskiĝas en la supersignita lingvo.

2011, Probal Dasgupta, Loĝi en homaj lingvoj: la substancisma perspektivo, Mondial, →ISBN, page 9:

The Esperantist self-awareness about the circumflexes that some letters bear causes me to rejoice that this book, beside its English birth, is also born again in the diacritically marked language.


initial

From Middle French initial or directly from its Latin etymon initiālis (“of the beginning, incipient, initial”), from initium (“a going in, entrance, beginning”), from inire (“to go in, enter upon, begin”), from in (“in”) + ire (“to go”).

(typography, calligraphy) A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document.

caplletra

calligraphy: distinguished initial letter


stock character

en-noun

stock character (plural stock characters)

(writing, theater, film) Any fictional character drawn from some stereotype who is instantly recognizable.

ամպլուա

fictional character based on a recognizable stereotype


journalist

head

journalist c (singular definite journalisten, plural indefinite journalister)

journalisten (definite singular)
journalister (indefinite plural)
journalist (indefinite nominative singular)
journalisten (definite nominative singular)
journalister (indefinite nominative plural)
journalisterne (definite nominative plural)
journalists (genitive indefinite singular)
journalistens (definite genitive singular)
journalisters (genitive indefinite plural)
journalisternes (definite genitive plural)

(journalism) a journalist, a reporter (reporter on a newspaper)


taut

en-adj

taut (comparative tauter, superlative tautest)

tauter (comparative)
tautest (superlative)

The adjective is derived from Middle English taught [and other forms], Early Middle English tohte, towehte (“strained, stretched; distended; tight; firm”), probably from tough, touth, touʒth, toʒt (“powerful, strong; fierce, violent; not tender, tough; hardy, resilient; steadfast, stout; difficult to do or endure”) and possibly influenced by togen, towen, past participle of ten (“to extend, stretch out; to drag, haul, pull, tow, tug”) (modern English tee (“(obsolete) to draw, lead; to draw away; to go, proceed”)), or directly from its etymon Old English tēon (“to drag, draw, pull”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to draw, pull”)) The word may be related to thight (“(dialectal) compact, dense; close-fitting, tight”) and tight; and is cognate with Scots tacht, taght (“taut”).
The verb is probably derived from the adjective.

nb...

toft, toght, tohte, toth, tought, touht, tout, touȝt, touʒt, towght, towht, towt, towte, toȝt, toʒte

der

If he curbs his swing a little and gets something crisper and tauter in his methods he may yet be very good.

1921 March 19, Bernard Darwin, “Golf on the Forest”, in Peter Anderson Graham, editor, Country Life, volume XLIX, number 1263, London: George Newnes […], →OCLC, page 321, column 2:

The superbly crafted suspense thriller that director Jonathan Demme has made from Thomas Harris's taut best-selling novel The Silence of the Lambs slams you like a sudden blast of bone-chilling, pulse-pounding terror.

1991 February 14, Peter Travers, “The Silence of the Lambs [film review]”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Wenner Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-12-05:

Quick action and dialogue create a taut story, although it is illustration that shapes the characters.

1997, “Minty: A Story of a Young Harriet Tubman (written by Alan Schroeder, 1996) [book review]”, in Linda R. Andres, editor, Children’s Literature Review, volume 43, Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research, →ISBN, page 174, column 2; quoted in Milton C. Sernett, “‘Minty’”, in Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory and History, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007, →ISBN, page 35:

Guitarist Jade Puget and vocalist Davey Havok have distilled AFI's strengths (a ferocious, post-hardcore rhythmic backbone; goth-tinctured, post-punky guitars; and Havok's desperate, dramatic croon) into 14 taut, hook-driven songs.

2017 January 20, Annie Zaleski, “AFI Sounds Refreshed and Rejuvenated on Its 10th Album, AFI (The Blood Album)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2019-11-03:

(of music, writing, etc.) Containing only relevant parts; brief and controlled.

napínavý

containing only relevant parts; brief and controlled


dek

Deliberate misspelling of deck, to distinguish the word as not belonging in the story.

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-deque.wav

(journalism, slang) The subhead of a news story.


lineo

Borrowed from English line, French ligne, German Linie, Italian linea, Russian ли́ния (línija), Spanish línea. Compare Esperanto linio.

io-bor

(genealogy, geometry, military, printing, telegraphy, writing, etc.) line


mediasphere

(journalism) The collective ecology of the world's media, including newspapers, journals, television, radio, books, novels, advertising, press releases, publicity and the blogosphere; any and all media both broadcast and published.


ultraism

en-noun

ultraism (countable and uncountable, plural ultraisms)

The eight young signers of this “Ultra manifesto” could not have known at the time how accurate and prescient their declaration was. Spanish ultraism, born as a movement with that document, would be distinguished, ironically, by its indiscriminate and eclectic borrowings from the other European vanguard tendencies.

1981, Thorpe Running, Borges' Ultraist Movement and its Poets, Lathrup Village, Mich.: International Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 1:

(poetry) A Spanish poetic movement opposed to modernism.


redaktar

head

redaktar (present tense redaktas, past tense redaktis, future tense redaktos, imperative redaktez, conditional redaktus)

redaktas (present)
redaktis (past)
tense redaktos (future)
redaktez (imperative)
redaktus (conditional)
redaktar (infinitive present)
redaktir (infinitive past)
redaktor (future infinitive)
redaktas (present)
redaktis (past)
redaktos (future)
redaktus (conditional present)
redaktez (imperative present)
redaktanta (active adjective participle present)
redaktinta (active adjective participle past)
redaktonta (active adjective future participle)
redaktante (active adverbial participle present)
redaktinte (active adverbial participle past)
redaktonte (active adverbial future participle)
redaktanto (active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
redaktinto (active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
redaktonto (active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
redaktanti (active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
redaktinti (active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
redaktonti (active future noun-from-verb participle plural)
redaktata (adjectival participle passive present)
redaktita (adjectival participle passive past)
redaktota (adjectival future participle passive)
redaktate (adverbial participle passive present)
redaktite (adverbial participle passive past)
redaktote (adverbial future participle passive)
redaktato (noun-from-verb participle passive present singular)
redaktito (noun-from-verb participle passive past singular)
redaktoto (future noun-from-verb participle passive singular)
redaktati (noun-from-verb participle passive plural present)
redaktiti (noun-from-verb participle passive past plural)
redaktoti (future noun-from-verb participle passive plural)

Borrowed from English redaction, French rédaction, German Redaktion, Italian redazione, Russian реда́кция (redákcija), Spanish redacción. (Compare Esperanto redakti).

redakturo

drawing up (deeds, etc.); editing periodicals; redaction

(journalism, computing) to edit (a newspaper, journal, document, file)


huddle

From Middle English *hudelen, alteration (due to hudels, hidels (“hiding place”), see hiddle) of *huderen, hoderen (“to cover; press together; huddle”), a frequentative form of Middle English huden, hiden (“to hide”), equivalent to hide + -le and/or hide + -er. Compare Low German huderken (“to brood; coddle; nurse; lull children to sleep”).

cog

The post-PMQs huddle takes place just outside the press gallery, and all the journalists swarm first around the Prime Minister's press team[…]

2018, Ayesha Hazarika, Tom Hamilton, Punch and Judy Politics: An Insiders' Guide to Prime Minister's Questions:

A small group of individuals in very close proximity to one another.

(journalism) A session in which a group of journalists assemble in an informal, dense cluster to question a person of interest.


aubade

Princess Christina of the Netherlands
Rosalía de Castro

PIE word
 *albʰós
Borrowed from French aubade, from Old French albade, from Old Spanish albada (“musical or poetic composition to be performed in the morning”), from alba (“dawn”), from Vulgar Latin *alba (“dawn; sunrise”), from Latin albus (“bright, clear; white”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós (“white”).

beuregan

And there he lingered till the crowing cock, / The Alectryon of the farmyard and the flock, / Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear, / To tell the sleeping world that dawn was near.

1873 August, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[I. Tales of a Wayside Inn.] The Student’s Tale. Emma and Eginhard.”, in Aftermath, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 27:

Alladad Khan woke to the far crying of kampong cocks in the dark. That noise had been the farmyard aubade in the Punjab in his dream.

1956, Anthony Burgess, chapter 11, in Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), London: William Heinemann, published 1968, →ISBN, page 155:

(music, poetry) A poem or song evoking or greeting the dawn or early morning.

(music, specifically) A morning love song, or a song of lovers parting in the morning.

aubade

morning love song; song of lovers parting in the morning


alio

alio (nominative singular)
aliot (nominative plural)
alio (accusative nominative singular)
aliot (accusative nominative plural)
alion (accusative genitive singular)
aliot (accusative genitive plural)
alion (genitive singular)
alioiden (genitive plural)
alioitten (genitive plural)
aliota (partitive singular)
alioita (partitive plural)
aliossa (inessive singular)
alioissa (inessive plural)
aliosta (elative singular)
alioista (elative plural)
alioon (illative singular)
alioihin (illative plural)
aliolla (adessive singular)
alioilla (adessive plural)
aliolta (ablative singular)
alioilta (ablative plural)
aliolle (allative singular)
alioille (allative plural)
aliona (essive singular)
alioina (essive plural)
alioksi (singular translative)
alioiksi (plural translative)
aliotta (abessive singular)
alioitta (abessive plural)
alioin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
alioni (nominative singular)
alioni (nominative plural)
alioni (accusative nominative singular)
alioni (accusative nominative plural)
alioni (accusative genitive singular)
alioni (accusative genitive plural)
alioni (genitive singular)
alioideni (genitive plural)
alioitteni (genitive plural)
aliotani (partitive singular)
alioitani (partitive plural)
aliossani (inessive singular)
alioissani (inessive plural)
aliostani (elative singular)
alioistani (elative plural)
aliooni (illative singular)
alioihini (illative plural)
aliollani (adessive singular)
alioillani (adessive plural)
alioltani (ablative singular)
alioiltani (ablative plural)
aliolleni (allative singular)
alioilleni (allative plural)
alionani (essive singular)
alioinani (essive plural)
aliokseni (singular translative)
alioikseni (plural translative)
aliottani (abessive singular)
alioittani (abessive plural)
alioineni (comitative plural)
aliosi (nominative singular)
aliosi (nominative plural)
aliosi (accusative nominative singular)
aliosi (accusative nominative plural)
aliosi (accusative genitive singular)
aliosi (accusative genitive plural)
aliosi (genitive singular)
alioidesi (genitive plural)
alioittesi (genitive plural)
aliotasi (partitive singular)
alioitasi (partitive plural)
aliossasi (inessive singular)
alioissasi (inessive plural)
aliostasi (elative singular)
alioistasi (elative plural)
alioosi (illative singular)
alioihisi (illative plural)
aliollasi (adessive singular)
alioillasi (adessive plural)
alioltasi (ablative singular)
alioiltasi (ablative plural)
aliollesi (allative singular)
alioillesi (allative plural)
alionasi (essive singular)
alioinasi (essive plural)
alioksesi (singular translative)
alioiksesi (plural translative)
aliottasi (abessive singular)
alioittasi (abessive plural)
alioinesi (comitative plural)
aliomme (nominative singular)
aliomme (nominative plural)
aliomme (accusative nominative singular)
aliomme (accusative nominative plural)
aliomme (accusative genitive singular)
aliomme (accusative genitive plural)
aliomme (genitive singular)
alioidemme (genitive plural)
alioittemme (genitive plural)
aliotamme (partitive singular)
alioitamme (partitive plural)
aliossamme (inessive singular)
alioissamme (inessive plural)
aliostamme (elative singular)
alioistamme (elative plural)
alioomme (illative singular)
alioihimme (illative plural)
aliollamme (adessive singular)
alioillamme (adessive plural)
alioltamme (ablative singular)
alioiltamme (ablative plural)
aliollemme (allative singular)
alioillemme (allative plural)
alionamme (essive singular)
alioinamme (essive plural)
alioksemme (singular translative)
alioiksemme (plural translative)
aliottamme (abessive singular)
alioittamme (abessive plural)
alioinemme (comitative plural)
alionne (nominative singular)
alionne (nominative plural)
alionne (accusative nominative singular)
alionne (accusative nominative plural)
alionne (accusative genitive singular)
alionne (accusative genitive plural)
alionne (genitive singular)
alioidenne (genitive plural)
alioittenne (genitive plural)
aliotanne (partitive singular)
alioitanne (partitive plural)
aliossanne (inessive singular)
alioissanne (inessive plural)
aliostanne (elative singular)
alioistanne (elative plural)
alioonne (illative singular)
alioihinne (illative plural)
aliollanne (adessive singular)
alioillanne (adessive plural)
alioltanne (ablative singular)
alioiltanne (ablative plural)
aliollenne (allative singular)
alioillenne (allative plural)
alionanne (essive singular)
alioinanne (essive plural)
alioksenne (singular translative)
alioiksenne (plural translative)
aliottanne (abessive singular)
alioittanne (abessive plural)
alioinenne (comitative plural)
alionsa (nominative singular)
alionsa (nominative plural)
alionsa (accusative nominative singular)
alionsa (accusative nominative plural)
alionsa (accusative genitive singular)
alionsa (accusative genitive plural)
alionsa (genitive singular)
alioidensa (genitive plural)
alioittensa (genitive plural)
aliotaan (partitive singular)
aliotansa (partitive singular)
alioitaan (partitive plural)
alioitansa (partitive plural)
aliossaan (inessive singular)
aliossansa (inessive singular)
alioissaan (inessive plural)
alioissansa (inessive plural)
aliostaan (elative singular)
aliostansa (elative singular)
alioistaan (elative plural)
alioistansa (elative plural)
alioonsa (illative singular)
alioihinsa (illative plural)
aliollaan (adessive singular)
aliollansa (adessive singular)
alioillaan (adessive plural)
alioillansa (adessive plural)
alioltaan (ablative singular)
alioltansa (ablative singular)
alioiltaan (ablative plural)
alioiltansa (ablative plural)
aliolleen (allative singular)
aliollensa (allative singular)
alioilleen (allative plural)
alioillensa (allative plural)
alionaan (essive singular)
alionansa (essive singular)
alioinaan (essive plural)
alioinansa (essive plural)
aliokseen (singular translative)
alioksensa (singular translative)
alioikseen (plural translative)
alioiksensa (plural translative)
aliottaan (abessive singular)
aliottansa (abessive singular)
alioittaan (abessive plural)
alioittansa (abessive plural)
alioineen (comitative plural)
alioinensa (comitative plural)

(journalism) an article, often speculative and/or opinionated, placed against the bottom edge of a page and spread over multiple columns, often on the same spread as the main editorial or leader


wrapping

From Middle English wrappinge, wrappynge, equivalent to wrap + -ing.

See also: autowrap, backwrap, line break, word wrap, and wraparound

(computing, writing) The breaking of a section of text into lines so that it will fit into the available width of a display area.


soliloquy

en-noun

soliloquy (countable and uncountable, plural soliloquies)

Augustine of Hippo
Hamlet
Soliloquiorum libri duo
To be, or not to be
William Shakespeare

1595–1605; From Late Latin sōliloquium in the title of St. Augustine's Soliloquiorum libri duo ("Two Books of Soliloquies"), from sōlus (“only, sole”) + loquor (“I speak”).

The feeling of Singleton's bosom grew heightened in its tone of melancholy, and a more passionate emphasis of thought broke forth in his half-muttered soliloquy:— ¶"How I remember as I look […]

1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XI, page 135:

Here is a very over-simplified example, this time expressed in the form of a subjective soliloquy rather than a computer simulation.

1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Kindle edition, OUP Oxford, published 2016, page 126:

(authorship) A speech or written discourse in this form.


echolalia

echolalia (nominative singular)
echolalii (genitive singular)
echolalii (dative singular)
echolalię (accusative singular)
echolalią (instrumental singular)
echolalii (locative singular)
echolalio (singular vocative)

(rhetoric, poetry) echolalia (stylistic device consisting of the repetition of identical or similar vocal groups solely in order to emphasise the rhythmic or melodic character of the text)


doggerel

Probably from dog + -rel (“pejorative suffix”), akin to Dog Latin, late 14th c.

dogrel (alternative obsolete)
doggrel (alternative archaic)

True Wit has ſeen its best days long ago, / It ne're look'd up, ſince we were dipt in Show: / When Senſe in Dogrel Rimes and Clouds was loſt, / And Dulneſs flouriſh'd at the Actors coſt.

1677 (date written), John Dryden, “Prologue”, in The Kind Keeper; or, Mr. Limberham: A Comedy: […], London: […] R[ichard] Bentley, and M[ary] Magnes, […], published 1680, →OCLC:

(poetry) Of a crude or irregular construction.


doggerel

doggerel (countable and uncountable, plural doggerels)

doggerels (plural)
dogrel (alternative obsolete)
doggrel (alternative archaic)

Taffy drew a long breath into his manly bosom, and kept it there as he read this characteristic French doggerel (for so he chose to call this touching little symphony in ère and ra).

1894, George du Maurier, “Part Sixth”, in Trilby: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 302:

As he marched he sang a bit of doggerel in a high and quavering voice: / "Sing a song 'a vic'try, / A pocketful 'a bullets, / Five an' twenty dead men / Baked in a—pie."

1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter VIII, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 86:

(poetry) A comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measure.


tieback

(journalism) A newspaper rewrite or short synopsis of the information presented in the original story. in order to refresh the memories of readers who saw the old story and to update new readers.


refactor

en-verb

refactor (third-person singular simple present refactors, present participle refactoring, simple past and past participle refactored)

refactors (present singular third-person)
refactoring (participle present)
refactored (participle past)
refactored (past)

Two significant activities which to contribute to community projects, such as Wikipedia, are to refactor complicated articles into simpler ones, and to refactor duplicated content into reusable templates.

(writing) To rewrite existing text in order to improve its readability, reusability or structure without intentionally affecting its meaning. Similar to, but sometimes involving more extensive restructuring than, copy editing.


byline

bylines (plural)
by-line (alternative British)

Paste Magazine opted not to put a byline on its harsh review of Swift’s album, citing safety concerns for the writer.

2024 April 22, Matt Stevens, Shivani Gonzalez, “Taylor Swift Has Given Fans a Lot. Is It Finally Too Much?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(journalism) A line at the head of a newspaper or magazine article carrying the writer's name.


byline

byline (third-person singular simple present bylines, present participle bylining, simple past and past participle bylined)

bylines (present singular third-person)
bylining (participle present)
bylined (participle past)
bylined (past)
by-line (alternative British)

Mitchell, Lange and Brus (2013) find that in a top international relations Journal^([sic])—ISQ—83 percent of men's citation are to research bylined by just men, while 57 percent of women's citations are to articles bylined by just men (table 2).

2020, Colin Elman, John Gerring, James Mahoney, editors, The Production of Knowledge: Enhancing Progress in Social Science, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, footnote 34, page 416:

(journalism, transitive) To provide (an article) with a byline.


stanco

eo-noun

stanco (accusative singular stancon, plural stancoj, accusative plural stancojn)

stancon (accusative singular)
stancoj (plural)
stancojn (accusative plural)


syllabary

/ˈsɪləˌbɛɹi/

From Neo-Latin syllabārium, from syllaba.

(orthography) A table or list of syllabic letters or syllables.

It shouldn't be hard to come up with a musical syllabary in which pitches code for vowels and timbres code for consonants.

(orthography) A writing system where each character represents a complete syllable.


nutgraf

nutgrafs (plural)
nut graf (alternative)
nut graph (alternative)
nutgraph (alternative)

/ˈnʌtˌɡɹɑːf/

(journalism, colloquial) The sentence or paragraph that summarizes a story.


coverage

en-noun

coverage (countable and uncountable, plural coverages)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Old Latin com
Latin cum
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi
Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Latin operiō
Latin cooperiō
Old French covrirbor.
Middle English coveren
English cover
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Proto-Italic *-kos
Latin -cus
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English coverage
From cover + -age. First attested in 1912. Compare Middle English coverage (“a charge for having or stall or booth at a fair”).

cog

Through services using the Elizabeth line were increased from November 6, but this did not attract significant media coverage - mainly because it has been an operational success, […].

2022 November 30, Industry Insider, “Autumn Statement boost”, in RAIL, number 971, page 84:

(journalism) The amount and type of attention given to an event or topic in news media or other media.

լուսաբանում

(journalism) the amount and type of attention given to an event or topic in news media


chancery

en-noun

chancery (countable and uncountable, plural chanceries)

/ˈt͡ʃɑːnsəɹɪ/

/ˈt͡ʃænsəɹɪ/

/ˈt͡ʃɑːnsəɹi/

From French chancellerie, from Late Latin cancellaria, from Latin cancellarius, from Latin cancellus (“lattice”) (English chancel), from Latin cancelli (“grating, bars”), from the lattice-work that separated a section of a church or court.
See related chancellor and chancellery, and the more distantly related incarcerate (“put behind bars”), from carcer (“prison”).
The adverbial form is an allusion to the condition of a person involved in the chancery court.


madrigal

/ˈmæd͡ɹɪɡəl/

From Italian madrigale, from Latin mātrīcālis.

(poetry) A short poem, often pastoral, and suitable to be set to music.


referent

referent (nominative singular)
referenti (nominative plural)
referenta (genitive singular)
referentů (genitive plural)
referentovi (dative singular)
referentu (dative singular)
referentům (dative plural)
referenta (accusative singular)
referenty (accusative plural)
referente (singular vocative)
referenti (plural vocative)
referentovi (locative singular)
referentu (locative singular)
referentech (locative plural)
referentem (instrumental singular)
referenty (instrumental plural)


sidekick

From side + kick, which in the late 19th and early 20th century was a slang term for the front side pocket of a pair of trousers, known as the pocket safest from theft. Thus, by analogy, a "side-kick" was a person's closest companion.

So even though he had – no question – the best lines in Friends, he was never what he would have been in an earlier era: the sidekick.

2023 October 29, Zoe Williams, “‘An ironic, self-deprecating metrosexual’: how Matthew Perry captured the spirit of the age”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(authorship, figuratively) In literature, theatre, etc., a good foil of the protagonist, a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character.


Aluminium

de-noun

Aluminium n (strong, genitive Aluminiums, no plural)

Aluminiums (genitive)
Aluminium (nominative singular)
Aluminiums (genitive singular)
Aluminium (dative singular)
Aluminium (accusative singular)
Alu (alternative abbreviation informal)

(ball games slang, journalism) woodwork, the post or crossbar of a goal


Ente

Ente f (genitive Ente, plural Enten, diminutive Entchen n or Entlein n)

Ente (genitive)
Enten (plural)
Entchen (diminutive neuter)
Entlein (diminutive neuter)
Ente (nominative singular)
Enten (definite nominative plural)
Ente (genitive singular)
Enten (definite genitive plural)
Ente (dative singular)
Enten (dative definite plural)
Ente (accusative singular)
Enten (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German ente, confluence of (1.) the plural and oblique singular of ant and (2.) the Old High German variant enita, both from older anut, from Proto-West Germanic *anad. Cognate with Dutch eend.
The sense “canard” (mid-19th c.) is a calque of French canard, but also ties in with the expression blaue Enten (“lies, humbug”, literally “blue ducks”, since 15th c.).
The sense “Citroën 2CV” is shared with Dutch eend.

einer Ente aufsitzen

Fake News etwa, die hier noch klassisch „Enten“ heißen, auch dafür gibt es eine Erklärung.

2022 December 22, Thomas Abeltshauser, “Balzac-Verfilmung „Verlorene Illusionen“: Als Fake News noch Enten waren”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN:

(journalism) canard (false or misleading report)


Grande

Grande m (weak, genitive Granden, plural Granden)

Granden (genitive)
Granden (plural)
Grande (nominative singular)
Granden (definite nominative plural)
Granden (genitive singular)
Granden (definite genitive plural)
Granden (dative singular)
Granden (dative definite plural)
Granden (accusative singular)
Granden (accusative definite plural)

Verglichen mit späteren Streitereien verlief die Aufteilung des Erbes nach dem Tod von Strauß noch am friedlichsten, wenngleich auch nicht ohne Opfer. Damals einigten sich die Granden relativ rasch auf eine Ämterteilung an der Spitze: CSU-Chef wurde Theo Waigel, Ministerpräsident Max Streibl.

2017 November 30, Peter Fahrenholz, “Stammbaum der Streithanseln”, in Süddeutsche Zeitung:

(often journalism, politics) grandee, an influential person, especially a high-ranking member of a party, club, or company group


Guardian

(newspapers) A British daily national newspaper.


H

We expect the amendment to enter into force in H2 2013.


Ionic

From Ancient Greek ἰωνικός (iōnikós, “related to Ionians”).

uder

(poetry) A four-syllable metrical unit of light-light-heavy-heavy (‿ ‿ — —) that occurs in Ancient Greek and Latin poetry.


Mercurio

planets of the Solar System: planeta del sistema solar: Mercurio · Venus · Tierra · Marte · Júpiter · Saturno · Urano · Neptuno [edit]

(newspapers) a Chilean daily national newspaper


Post

en-proper noun

Post (countable and uncountable, plural Posts)

(newspapers) A common name (often in combination) for a newspaper or periodical, such as The Washington Post or the New York Post.

bưu báo

common name for a newspaper or periodical


Sun

the Sun (canonical)
sonne (alternative obsolete)
sunne (alternative obsolete)
sun (alternative)

From Middle English sunne, from Old English sunna, sunne (“sun; the Sun”), from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ, from the heteroclitic inanimate Proto-Indo-European *sh₂wén-, oblique form of *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun; the Sun”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sunne, West Frisian sinne, Dutch zon, Old Dutch sunna, German Low German Sünn, Old Saxon sunna, German Sonne, Old High German sunna, Faroese sunna, Icelandic sunna, Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌽𐍉 (sunnō). More at sun.

inh

(newspapers) An English tabloid newspaper.