rock and roll

/ˈɹɒk ən(d)ˈɹəʊl/

From rock (move back and forth) + and + roll; originally a verb phrase common among African Americans, meaning "to have sexual intercourse"; it was an euphemism that appeared in song titles since at least 1914 (Trixie Smith's "My Man Rocks Me With One Steady Roll").
As a name for a specific style of popular music from the early 1950s, popularized by disc jockey Alan Freed in reference to the euphemistic use in song titles.

rock-and-roll (alternative)
rock'n'roll (alternative)
rock 'n' roll (alternative)
rock n roll (alternative)
rock 'n roll (alternative)
rock-n-roll (alternative)
rock-'n'-roll (alternative)
rock & roll (alternative)

The dubbing theatre is a viewing theatre equipped for running the picture with a great many tracks interlocked to run synchronously. Once laced up, they can be run forwards or backwards remaining in synch; when it was first introduced this system was given the name 'rock and roll'.

2004, Robert Angell, Getting Into Films & Television, page 56:

It is very rare that an entire commentary is recorded in one take. If you need to stop for some reason — the performance isn't quite right, there's a rustle of papers, etc — you can always go back on the recording and pick it up from the point at which it went wrong. This is known as rock and roll.

2012, Colin Hart, Television Program Making, page 196:

An alternative method is the use of ADR (automated dialogue replacement), which consists basically of a high speed rock and roll dubbing system and a programmable locating device.

2014, K. G. Jackson, G. B. Townsend, TV & Video Engineer's Reference Book, pages 38–7:

(film, television) The ability to run the picture and audio back and forth in synchronization, allowing the correction of mistakes during dubbing.


coco

cocos (plural)
coca (alternative)
cucuy (alternative)
cuco (alternative)
cuca (alternative)
cucu (alternative)
cucuí (alternative)

Borrowed from Portuguese côco (“bogeyman, grinning face”), probably from Latin coccum (“kernel, seed”).

bor+

Duérmete niño, duérmete ya… que viene el coco y te comerá.

Sleep child, sleep now… lest the bogeyman come and eat you.


televisio

televisio (nominative singular)
televisiot (nominative plural)
televisio (accusative nominative singular)
televisiot (accusative nominative plural)
television (accusative genitive singular)
televisiot (accusative genitive plural)
television (genitive singular)
televisioiden (genitive plural)
televisioitten (genitive plural)
televisiota (partitive singular)
televisioita (partitive plural)
televisiossa (inessive singular)
televisioissa (inessive plural)
televisiosta (elative singular)
televisioista (elative plural)
televisioon (illative singular)
televisioihin (illative plural)
televisiolla (adessive singular)
televisioilla (adessive plural)
televisiolta (ablative singular)
televisioilta (ablative plural)
televisiolle (allative singular)
televisioille (allative plural)
televisiona (essive singular)
televisioina (essive plural)
televisioksi (singular translative)
televisioiksi (plural translative)
televisiotta (abessive singular)
televisioitta (abessive plural)
televisioin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
televisioni (nominative singular)
televisioni (nominative plural)
televisioni (accusative nominative singular)
televisioni (accusative nominative plural)
televisioni (accusative genitive singular)
televisioni (accusative genitive plural)
televisioni (genitive singular)
televisioideni (genitive plural)
televisioitteni (genitive plural)
televisiotani (partitive singular)
televisioitani (partitive plural)
televisiossani (inessive singular)
televisioissani (inessive plural)
televisiostani (elative singular)
televisioistani (elative plural)
televisiooni (illative singular)
televisioihini (illative plural)
televisiollani (adessive singular)
televisioillani (adessive plural)
televisioltani (ablative singular)
televisioiltani (ablative plural)
televisiolleni (allative singular)
televisioilleni (allative plural)
televisionani (essive singular)
televisioinani (essive plural)
televisiokseni (singular translative)
televisioikseni (plural translative)
televisiottani (abessive singular)
televisioittani (abessive plural)
televisioineni (comitative plural)
televisiosi (nominative singular)
televisiosi (nominative plural)
televisiosi (accusative nominative singular)
televisiosi (accusative nominative plural)
televisiosi (accusative genitive singular)
televisiosi (accusative genitive plural)
televisiosi (genitive singular)
televisioidesi (genitive plural)
televisioittesi (genitive plural)
televisiotasi (partitive singular)
televisioitasi (partitive plural)
televisiossasi (inessive singular)
televisioissasi (inessive plural)
televisiostasi (elative singular)
televisioistasi (elative plural)
televisioosi (illative singular)
televisioihisi (illative plural)
televisiollasi (adessive singular)
televisioillasi (adessive plural)
televisioltasi (ablative singular)
televisioiltasi (ablative plural)
televisiollesi (allative singular)
televisioillesi (allative plural)
televisionasi (essive singular)
televisioinasi (essive plural)
televisioksesi (singular translative)
televisioiksesi (plural translative)
televisiottasi (abessive singular)
televisioittasi (abessive plural)
televisioinesi (comitative plural)
televisiomme (nominative singular)
televisiomme (nominative plural)
televisiomme (accusative nominative singular)
televisiomme (accusative nominative plural)
televisiomme (accusative genitive singular)
televisiomme (accusative genitive plural)
televisiomme (genitive singular)
televisioidemme (genitive plural)
televisioittemme (genitive plural)
televisiotamme (partitive singular)
televisioitamme (partitive plural)
televisiossamme (inessive singular)
televisioissamme (inessive plural)
televisiostamme (elative singular)
televisioistamme (elative plural)
televisioomme (illative singular)
televisioihimme (illative plural)
televisiollamme (adessive singular)
televisioillamme (adessive plural)
televisioltamme (ablative singular)
televisioiltamme (ablative plural)
televisiollemme (allative singular)
televisioillemme (allative plural)
televisionamme (essive singular)
televisioinamme (essive plural)
televisioksemme (singular translative)
televisioiksemme (plural translative)
televisiottamme (abessive singular)
televisioittamme (abessive plural)
televisioinemme (comitative plural)
televisionne (nominative singular)
televisionne (nominative plural)
televisionne (accusative nominative singular)
televisionne (accusative nominative plural)
televisionne (accusative genitive singular)
televisionne (accusative genitive plural)
televisionne (genitive singular)
televisioidenne (genitive plural)
televisioittenne (genitive plural)
televisiotanne (partitive singular)
televisioitanne (partitive plural)
televisiossanne (inessive singular)
televisioissanne (inessive plural)
televisiostanne (elative singular)
televisioistanne (elative plural)
televisioonne (illative singular)
televisioihinne (illative plural)
televisiollanne (adessive singular)
televisioillanne (adessive plural)
televisioltanne (ablative singular)
televisioiltanne (ablative plural)
televisiollenne (allative singular)
televisioillenne (allative plural)
televisionanne (essive singular)
televisioinanne (essive plural)
televisioksenne (singular translative)
televisioiksenne (plural translative)
televisiottanne (abessive singular)
televisioittanne (abessive plural)
televisioinenne (comitative plural)
televisionsa (nominative singular)
televisionsa (nominative plural)
televisionsa (accusative nominative singular)
televisionsa (accusative nominative plural)
televisionsa (accusative genitive singular)
televisionsa (accusative genitive plural)
televisionsa (genitive singular)
televisioidensa (genitive plural)
televisioittensa (genitive plural)
televisiotaan (partitive singular)
televisiotansa (partitive singular)
televisioitaan (partitive plural)
televisioitansa (partitive plural)
televisiossaan (inessive singular)
televisiossansa (inessive singular)
televisioissaan (inessive plural)
televisioissansa (inessive plural)
televisiostaan (elative singular)
televisiostansa (elative singular)
televisioistaan (elative plural)
televisioistansa (elative plural)
televisioonsa (illative singular)
televisioihinsa (illative plural)
televisiollaan (adessive singular)
televisiollansa (adessive singular)
televisioillaan (adessive plural)
televisioillansa (adessive plural)
televisioltaan (ablative singular)
televisioltansa (ablative singular)
televisioiltaan (ablative plural)
televisioiltansa (ablative plural)
televisiolleen (allative singular)
televisiollensa (allative singular)
televisioilleen (allative plural)
televisioillensa (allative plural)
televisionaan (essive singular)
televisionansa (essive singular)
televisioinaan (essive plural)
televisioinansa (essive plural)
televisiokseen (singular translative)
televisioksensa (singular translative)
televisioikseen (plural translative)
televisioiksensa (plural translative)
televisiottaan (abessive singular)
televisiottansa (abessive singular)
televisioittaan (abessive plural)
televisioittansa (abessive plural)
televisioineen (comitative plural)
televisioinensa (comitative plural)

tele- + visio; adapted form of French télévision.


cancel

en-verb

cancel (third-person singular simple present cancels, present participle cancelling or (US) canceling, simple past and past participle cancelled or (US) canceled)

cancels (present singular third-person)
cancelling (participle present)
canceling (US participle present)
cancelled (participle past)
cancelled (past)
canceled (US participle past)
canceled (US past)
cancell (alternative)

→ German: canceln

→ Gulf Arabic: كنسل (kansal)

→ Welsh: canslo

From Middle English cancellen, from Anglo-Norman canceler (“to cross out with lines”) (modern French chanceler (“to stagger, sway”)), from Latin cancellō (“to make resemble a lattice”), from cancellus (“a railing or lattice”), diminutive of cancer (“a lattice”).

der

kanzellieren (obsolete or translationese)

(transitive, media) To stop production of a programme.

(printing, dated) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.


cancel

(printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.


feuilleton

→ English: feuilleton

→ German: Feuilleton

→ Italian: feuilleton, fogliettone

→ Swedish: följetong

→ Danish: føljeton

(literature) serial, feuilleton, literary article


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)


fist

From Middle English fist, from Old English fȳst (“fist”), from Proto-West Germanic *fūsti, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fääste (“fist”), West Frisian fûst (“fist”), Dutch vuist (“fist”), German Low German Fuust (“fist”), German Faust (“fist”). More at five.


mush

en-noun

mush (countable and uncountable, plural mushes)

Probably a variant of mash, or from a dialectal variant of Middle English mos (“mush, pulp, porridge”); compare Middle English appelmos (“applesauce”), from Old English mōs (“food, victuals, porridge, mush”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōs, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą (“porridge, food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet, fat, dripping”).
Cognate with Scots moosh (“mush”), Dutch moes (“pulp, mush, porridge”), German Mus (“jam, puree, mush”), Swedish mos (“pulp, mash, mush”).

der

(radio) A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.


throw up

en-verb

throw up (third-person singular simple present throws up, present participle throwing up, simple past threw up, past participle thrown up)

throws up (present singular third-person)
throwing up (participle present)
threw up (past)
thrown up (participle past)

The vomit sense is a clipping of throw up one's accounts (18th century), from earlier idiom cast up one's accounts (15th century).

(obsolete, transitive, printing) To give special prominence to a line or lines.


shoulder

shoulders (plural)
shouder (alternative dialectal)

From Middle English schuldre, sholder, shulder, schulder, from Old English sculdra, sculdor (“shoulder”), from Proto-West Germanic *skuldru (“shoulder”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *skelduz (“shield”), see shield. Cognate with Old Frisian skuldere (“shoulder”) (West Frisian skouder (“shoulder”)), Middle Low German scholder (“shoulder”), Low German Schuller, Schulder (“shoulder”), Dutch schouder (“shoulder”), German Schulter (“shoulder”).

inh

you can't put an old head on young shoulders

(printing) The flat portion of type that is below the bevelled portion that joins up with the face.


CV

en-noun

CV (countable and uncountable, plural CVs)

CVs (plural)
C.V. (alternative)
C. V. (alternative)

Abbreviation
* (anime, Japanimation): From Japanese CV (CV), from English character+voice
* (aircraft carrier): Initialism of cruiser (“croiseur”) + French voler (“to fly”).

initialism

(anime) character's voice (“voice actor”)


hickey

hickeys (plural)
hicky (alternative)
hickie (alternative)

(printing) A printing defect caused by foreign matter on the printing surface resulting in a ring where the ink is missing, appearing as a spot of ink surrounded by a halo, or as an unprinted spot within a solid printed area.

pecka

Years ago, there were internal company standards for dark center (ink color) hickeys and for white voids in solids/type.

2008, American Printer, volume 125, page 63:

It is generally believed, by those who study such things, that serif typefaces are easier to read when reading a lot of words. The hickeys (serifs) on each letter tend to push our eye toward the next letter.

2018, Paul W. Ross, Revival: The Handbook of Software for Engineers and Scientists:

(printing, informal) A serif or other ornamentation on type.


post

posts (plural)
poast (alternative obsolete)

Inherited from Old English post (“pillar, door-post”) and Latin postis (“a post, a door-post”) through Old French. .

inh+

(paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.


post

we'll fix it in post

Admittedly many of these can be fixed in post, but this may limit your flexibility in other areas.

2013, Bruce Mamer, Film Production Technique: Creating the Accomplished Image:


organic

organics (plural)
organick (alternative)

From Middle English organic, organik, from Old French organique, from Latin organicus.

Pitiful organics.

2016, Paradox Interactive, Stellaris (video game), scene: Anomaly Event 3089:

(science fiction) A living organism, as opposed to a robot or hologram.


rushes

(cinematography) Unedited footage; film material as recorded to tape etc.


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


screen

screens (plural)
skreen (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English scren, screne (“windscreen, firescreen”), from Anglo-Norman escren (“firescreen, the tester of a bed”), Old French escren, escrein, escran (modern French écran (“screen”)), from Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch *skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz (“fur, shelter, covering, screen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”).
Cognate with Dutch scherm (“screen”), German Schirm (“screen”). Doublet of scherm.
An alternative etymology derives Old French escren, escran from Old Dutch *scranc (“barrier”) (compare Middle Dutch schranc, schranke (“palisade, trellis, grid”), German Schrank (“cupboard, cabinet”), German Schranke (“fence”)), from Proto-West Germanic *skrank, from Proto-Germanic *skrankaz.

skerm

viewing area of electronic output device

A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.

(printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.


screen

en-verb

screen (third-person singular simple present screens, present participle screening, simple past and past participle screened)

screens (present singular third-person)
screening (participle present)
screened (participle past)
screened (past)
skreen (alternative obsolete)

The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.

(film, television) To present publicly (on the screen).

上映

film, television: to present publicly (on the screen)


issue

From Middle English issue, from Old French issue (“an exit, a way out”), feminine past participle of issir (“to exit”), from Latin exeō (“go out, exit”), from prefix ex- (“out”) + eō (“go”).
The legal meaning originated from the concept of "the end or result of pleadings in a suit (by presenting the point to be determined by trial)," leading to the sense of "the controversy over facts in a trial" (early 14th century, Anglo-French). This later extended to mean "a point of contention between two parties" (early 15th century) and more generally, "an important point to be decided" (1836). Consequently, the verbal phrase take issue with emerged in 1797 (preceded by join issue in the 1690s), meaning "to adopt an affirmative or negative stance in a dispute with another." The expression to have issues, meaning "to have unresolved conflicts," dates back to 1990.

drain

small incision etc. to drain excess bodily fluid

Yeah, I just got the June issue of Wombatboy.

Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly:

(publishing) A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.

عَدَد

a single edition of a periodical publication


letterpress

en-noun

letterpress (countable and uncountable, plural letterpresses)

/ˈlɛtɚˌpɹɛs/

(printing) The printing process in which ink is applied to the top surface of a raised image area, which is then pressed against paper to transfer the image.

(printing) Printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates.

(printing) A machine used for such printing.


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 ’)


rientrare

it-verb

rientràre (first-person singular present riéntro, first-person singular past historic rientrài, past participle rientràto, auxiliary èssere)

rientràre (canonical)
riéntro (first-person present singular)
rientrài (first-person historic past singular)
rientràto (participle past)
èssere (auxiliary)
rientràre (infinitive)
èssere (auxiliary)
rientràndo (gerund)
rientrànte (participle present)
rientràto (participle past)
riéntro (first-person indicative present singular)
riéntri (indicative present second-person singular)
riéntra (indicative present singular third-person)
rientriàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
rientràte (indicative plural present second-person)
riéntrano (indicative plural present third-person)
rientràvo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
rientràvi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
rientràva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
rientravàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
rientravàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
rientràvano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
rientrài (first-person historic indicative past singular)
rientràsti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
rientrò (historic indicative past singular third-person)
rientràmmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
rientràste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
rientràrono (historic indicative past plural third-person)
rientrerò (first-person future indicative singular)
rientrerài (future indicative second-person singular)
rientrerà (future indicative singular third-person)
rientrerémo (first-person future indicative plural)
rientreréte (future indicative plural second-person)
rientrerànno (future indicative plural third-person)
rientrerèi (conditional first-person singular)
rientrerésti (conditional second-person singular)
rientrerèbbe (conditional singular third-person)
rientrerébbe (conditional singular third-person)
rientrerémmo (conditional first-person plural)
rientreréste (conditional plural second-person)
rientrerèbbero (conditional plural third-person)
rientrerébbero (conditional plural third-person)
riéntri (first-person present singular subjunctive)
riéntri (present second-person singular subjunctive)
riéntri (present singular subjunctive third-person)
rientriàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
rientriàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
riéntrino (plural present subjunctive third-person)
rientràssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
rientràssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
rientràsse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
rientràssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
rientràste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
rientràssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
riéntra (imperative second-person singular)
riéntri (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
rientriàmo (first-person imperative plural)
rientràte (imperative plural second-person)
riéntrino (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
rientràre (imperative negative second-person singular)
riéntri (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
rientriàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
rientràte (imperative negative plural second-person)
riéntrino (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)


xenophile

(science fiction) A human who is attracted to extraterrestrial aliens.


stun

en-noun

stun (countable and uncountable, plural stuns)

From Middle English stunien, stonien, stounien, from Old English stunian (“to crash, make a loud sound, resound, roar, strike with a loud sound, dash, impinge, knock, confound, astonish, stupefy”), from Proto-West Germanic *stunōn, from Proto-Germanic *stunōną, *stunjaną (“to sound, crash, bang, groan”), from Proto-Germanic *stenaną (“to moan, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tona-, *(s)tena- (“to thunder, roar, groan”) (compare thunder). Cognate with Middle Low German stonen (“to groan”), Middle High German stunen, stunden (“to drive, push, knock, strike”), Swedish stöna (“to moan, groan”), Danish stønne (“to moan, groan”), Icelandic stynja (“to moan”). Related also to Dutch steunen (“to groan; support”), German stöhnen (“to groan, moan”), German staunen (“to be astonished, be amazed, marvel at”), Russian стонать (stonatʹ), стена́ть (stenátʹ, “to moan, groan”). See also Occitan estonar, Old French estoner, French étonner, English astonish.

cog

Captain James Kirk: "Set your phaser on one quarter. I'll leave mine on stun."

1966 September 8, George Clayton Johnson, The Man Trap (Star Trek), season 1, episode 1:

(science fiction, uncountable) A low-range setting for an energy weapon that will stun its target but not injure or kill it.


Area 51

→ German: Area 51

desc

→ Mandarin: 51區 /51区 (Wǔshíyī qū) (calque)

Unclear, but perhaps from a grid numbering system of the area by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). While Area 51 is not part of this system, it is adjacent to Area 15.

Nevada Test and Training Range
w:Nevada Test and Training Range

(science fiction or ufology, informal) A secret military facility, airport, and airbase in Nevada Test and Training Range, Nevada, United States.

Atomic Energy Commission
en:Area 51
en:Area 51 (disambiguation)


Area 51

de-prop

Area 51 f (proper noun, genitive Area 51)

Area 51 (genitive)
Area 51 (nominative singular)
Area 51 (genitive singular)
Area 51 (dative singular)
Area 51 (accusative singular)

Unadapted borrowing from English Area 51.

ubor

(science fiction or ufology, informal) Area 51 (a secret military facility, airport, and airbase in Nevada Test and Training Range, Nevada, United States)


back up

en-verb

back up (third-person singular simple present backs up, present participle backing up, simple past and past participle backed up)

backs up (present singular third-person)
backing up (participle present)
backed up (participle past)
backed up (past)

(obsolete, printing) To run a printing press in reverse.


beamer

From beam (“project, transmit”) + -er (agent noun suffix), or, for the ball, + -er (patient suffix).

suf

For several days he went about his charge with disgust, trying everything he could to avoid the stench of rotting vegetation and of human feces, which was overpowering even as it all burned under the plasma from his beamer.

2013, Paul Alcorn, The Rhoedraegon Chronicles: Book Two:

(science fiction) A device that projects or transmits matter, information, or energy.


will o' the wisp

en-noun

will o' the wisp (plural will o' the wisps)

will o' the wisps (plural)
will-o'-the-wisp (alternative)
will-o'-wisp (alternative)
will of the wisp (alternative)
will-in-the-wisp (alternative)
Will-with-the-wisp (alternative)

/ˌwɪləðəˈwɪsp/

Will (“male given name”) + of + the + wisp (“bundle of straw or hay used as a torch”)

1988, Michael Weikath, "Keeper of the Seven Keys", Helloween, Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part II.
Will o' the wisps / Misguiding your path / You can't throw a curse / Without takin' their wrath

Any of several kinds of pale, flickering light, appearing over marshland in many parts of the world with diverse folkloric explanations and multiple possible scientific explanations including bioluminescence and chemiluminescence.

(British folklore) A flickering light or lantern, especially over bogs, swamps or marshes, held by a supernatural creature who uses it to lure travelers at night to their demise.


composition

composition (countable and uncountable, plural compositions)

→ Korean: 컴포지션 (keompojisyeon)

/ˌkɒmpəˈzɪʃən/

From Middle English composicioun, borrowed from Old French composicion, from Latin compositiō, compositiōnem.

hyvitys

agreement to pay money in order to clear a liability or obligation


composition

→ Korean: 콩포지숑 (kongpojisyong) (rare)

→ Turkish: kompozisyon

Inherited from Old French composicion, borrowed from Latin compositiōnem.


hug

hug m (definite singular hugen, indefinite plural hugar, definite plural hugane)

hugen (definite singular)
hugar (indefinite plural)
hugane (definite plural)
hau (alternative)

From Old Norse hugr (“thought”), from Proto-Germanic *hugiz og uncertain origin. Cognates include Norwegian Bokmål hu.

(uncountable, folklore) an itch in the nose which comes when someone is thinking of one, or as a warning that someone is about to arrive


terminator

[ˈtɜː.mɪ.næɪ.ɾə]

* Partly from post-classical Latin terminator (5th century), from Latin terminō; partly from terminate + -or.
* (android that kills humans): After the 1984 film The Terminator.

Opposite of natural monsters there are technological monsters such as terminators, cyborgs, and robocops—all of which undermine dichotomies between the artificial and the organic, the prosthetic and the natural.

2010, Tyson E. Lewis, Richard Kahn, Education Out of Bounds, page 1:

(science fiction) An intelligent android created to destroy humans.


bumper

Dutch: bumper

Japanese: バンパー (banpā)

Korean: 범퍼 (beompeo)

Russian: ба́мпер (bámper)

(broadcasting) A short ditty or jingle used to separate a show from the advertisements.


ellipse

head

ellipse c (singular definite ellipsen, plural indefinite ellipser)

ellipsen (definite singular)
ellipser (indefinite plural)
ellipse (indefinite nominative singular)
ellipsen (definite nominative singular)
ellipser (indefinite nominative plural)
ellipserne (definite nominative plural)
ellipses (genitive indefinite singular)
ellipsens (definite genitive singular)
ellipsers (genitive indefinite plural)
ellipsernes (definite genitive plural)

(grammar, rhetoric, typography) ellipsis


ellipse

ellipse m (definite singular ellipsen, indefinite plural ellipser, definite plural ellipsene)

ellipsen (definite singular)
ellipser (indefinite plural)
ellipsene (definite plural)

From Latin ellipsis, from Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis).

no:ellipse (retorikk)
no:ellipse (skrift)

(grammar, rhetoric, typography) an ellipsis


ellipse

ellipse m (definite singular ellipsen, indefinite plural ellipsar, definite plural ellipsane)

ellipsen (definite singular)
ellipsar (indefinite plural)
ellipsane (definite plural)


western

From Middle English westerne, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz.
Morphologically west + -ern.

Coordinate term: northern

(film) A film, or some other dramatic work, set in, the historic (c. 1850–1910) American West (west of the Mississippi river) focusing on conflict between whites and Indians, lawmen and outlaws, ranchers and farmers, or industry (railroads, mining) and agriculture.


western

From English western, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz.


villain

villains (plural)
villan (alternative archaic)

→ Korean: 빌런 (billeon)

Probably from Middle English vilein, from Old French vilein (modern French vilain), in turn from Late Latin vīllānus, meaning serf or peasant, someone who is bound to the soil of a Latin vīlla, which is to say, worked on the equivalent of a plantation in late Antiquity, in Italy or Gaul. Doublet of villein.

Count Dracula
Darth Vader
Dracula
Harry Potter
Othello
Sauron
Star Wars
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings

Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.

1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

As The Dark Knight Rises brings a close to Christopher Nolan’s staggeringly ambitious Batman trilogy, it’s worth remembering that director chose The Scarecrow as his first villain—not necessarily the most popular among the comic’s gallery of rogues, but the one who set the tone for entire series.

2012 July 18, Scott Tobias, “The Dark Knight Rises”, in AV Club:

In some ways, it’s a relief to see tech bros, especially AI entrepreneurs, reach full, unambiguous movie-villain status.

2025 June 2, Adrian Horton, “Tech-bro satire Mountainhead is an insufferable disappointment”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(fiction) A character who has the role of being bad, especially antagonizing the hero; an antagonist who is also evil or malevolent.


strip

en-noun

strip (countable and uncountable, plural strips)

Brill Publishers
en:strip (disambiguation)

From alteration of stripe or from Middle Low German strippe, of uncertain ultimate origin, perhaps derived from a lost strong verb Proto-Germanic *strīpaną, with no clear cognates outside of Germanic except for Irish sríab (“line, stripe”).

ABC-TV this week put into effect its long anticipated plans to move into daytime programming in a bigger way by opening up its 4-5 across-the-board strip. The web is using its "Mickey Mouse Club," which is stoutly anchored in the 5-6 p.m. slot, as a backing up point for its afternoon expansion.

(television) A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.


strip

en-verb

strip (third-person singular simple present strips, present participle stripping, simple past and past participle stripped)

strips (present singular third-person)
stripping (participle present)
stripped (participle past)
stripped (past)

From Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English strīepan (“plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *strēpōną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter(h₁)- (“to be stiff; be rigid; exert”). Probably related to German Strafe (“deprivation, fine, punishment”).

cog

(television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.


clicker

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

(printing, obsolete) One who has charge of the work of a companionship.

(printing, historical) An employee who locks the type in the form to make it ready for printing.


cutter

→ Catalan: cúter

→ Korean: 커터 (keoteo)

From Middle English cutter, cuttere, kutter. By surface analysis, cut + -er.

Flags and other cutters allow the DP or gaffer to throw large controlled shadows on parts of the scene.

2012, John Jackman, Lighting for Digital Video and Television, page 86:

(television) A flag or similar instrument for blocking light.


query

queries (plural)
quæry (alternative archaic)

An anglicisation of quere, an obsolete variant form of Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaerō (“seek, look for; ask”). Cognate with French quérir, Italian chiedere, Portuguese querer, Romanian cere, and Spanish querer. Compare question.

Although many agents accept email queries, check to see if they prefer mailed query letters.

2006, Michael Larsen, How to Get a Literary Agent, Sourcebooks Inc., page 46:


query

en-verb

query (third-person singular simple present queries, present participle querying, simple past and past participle queried)

queries (present singular third-person)
querying (participle present)
queried (participle past)
queried (past)
quæry (alternative archaic)

(intransitive, publishing) To send out a query letter.


comic strip

(comics) A series of drawings, in sequence, often but not necessarily depicting something funny or satirical in nature; more specifically, a single work consisting of a short row of such drawings.


airspace

en-noun

airspace (countable and uncountable, plural airspaces)

airspaces (plural)
air space (alternative)

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The legalisation of free radios caused a bitter fight for airspace.

(broadcasting) Space (i.e. a few neighboring frequencies) available for broadcasting within a particular frequency band.


comic book

(comics) A book or magazine that uses sequences of drawings to narrate a story or a series of stories, primarily in a serialized form, usually fiction.


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)


shank

From Middle English schanke, from Old English sċanca (“leg”), from Proto-West Germanic *skankō, from Proto-Germanic *skankô (compare West Frisian skonk, Dutch schenkel, Low German Schanke, German Schenkel (“shank, leg”), Danish skank, Norwegian skank, Swedish skänkel), from *skankaz (compare Old Norse skakkr (“wry, crooked”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (compare Middle Irish scingim (“I spring”), Ancient Greek σκάζω (skázō, “to limp”).

(printing, dated) The body of a type; between the shoulder and the foot.


dresser

From Middle English dresser, equivalent to dress + -er.

(theater, film, television) A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).


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 2, 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.


pixie

pixies (plural)
pigsie (alternative)
piskie (alternative)
pisky (alternative)
pixy (alternative)

Uncertain; 17thC, originally in the folklore of southwest England; perhaps diminutive of Swedish pysk (“fairy”); perhaps Puck + -sy; see Wikipedia.

Then she saw pixies — dozens and dozens of pixies — dancing and singing.

2005, Dan Keding, “The Pixies’ Bed”, in Dan Keding, Amy Douglas, editors, English Folktales, page 98:

When she looked around, Mary saw four pixies flying toward her. She had to jump out of the way to avoid being hit. Then the pixies turned around and attacked again.

2005, Kathryn Reyes, Mystery Door Manor and the Dragon Realm, page 72:

The servant that had raised him, an elderly pixie called Rolog, had died. On his deathbed he had called the young Captain to his side. Seeing the pixie dying had had no effect on him.

2007, Jeremy Phillips, The Wizardon Star, page 165:

Tiffy froze as the two pixies looked directly into each other's eyes.
Then Tiffy raised her hand and said, “Hi, I'm Tiffy the Tooth Fairy.” Even though the other pixie lifted her hand too, she didn't answer.

2010, Sandra A. Filbin, The Enchanted World: A Tooth Fairy's Tale, page 49:

(mythology, fantasy literature, fairy tales) A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.


editorial

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


blank

From Middle English blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Anglo-Norman blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Old French blanc, feminine blanche, from Frankish *blank (“gleaming, white, blinding”), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”). Akin to Old High German blanch (“shining, bright, white”) (German blank), Old English blanc (“white, grey”), blanca (“white steed”), Spanish blanco. More at blink, blind, blanch. Doublet of blanc.


FOC

final order cutoff
final order cutoff#English

(publishing, retailing) Initialism of final order cutoff.


fringe

From Middle English frenge, from Old French frenge, from Vulgar Latin *frimbia, a metathesis of Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”, plural), of uncertain origin. Compare German Franse and Danish frynse. Eclipsed native Middle English fnæd (“fringe”), Middle English byrd (“fringe”), Middle English fasel (“fringe”) from Old English fæs (“fringe”), and Old English fnæs (“fringe”). Doublet of fimbria.

der

(television, radio) A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.


subset

en-verb

subset (third-person singular simple present subsets, present participle subsetting, simple past and past participle subsetted)

subsets (present singular third-person)
subsetting (participle present)
subsetted (participle past)
subsetted (past)

(transitive, computing, typography) To extract only the portions of (a font) that are needed to display a particular document.


crawl

→ Portuguese: crol, crawl

From Middle English crawlen, crewlen, creulen, crallen, *cravelen, from Old Norse krafla (compare Danish kravle (“to crawl, creep”), Swedish kravla, kräla (“to creep, crawl”)), from Proto-Germanic *krablōną (compare Saterland Frisian krabbelje, Dutch krabbelen, German Low German krabbeln, German krabbeln), frequentative of *krabbōną (“to scratch, scrape”). Compare also Saterland Frisian krauelje (“to crawl, scuttle”), West Frisian kreauwelje (“to crawl”), Dutch krevelen, krieuwelen (“to crawl”), German Low German kribbeln, German kribbeln (“to creep, crawl, tingle”). See also crab, crabble.

cog

22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/
The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that “The Hunger Games” are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.

(television, film) A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.


cyberpunk

en-noun

cyberpunk (countable and uncountable, plural cyberpunks)

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From cyber- + -punk, coined by American writer and software developer Bruce Bethke as the title of a 1983 short story, and later popularized by Gardner Dozois.

coin

But by 1987, cyberpunk had become a cliche. Other writers had turned the form into formula: implant wetware (biological computer chips), government by multinational corporations, street-wise, leather-jacketed, amphetamine-loving protagonists and decayed orbital colonies.

1991 January 7, Lewis Shiner, “Confessions of an Ex-Cyberpunk”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Cyberpunk stories are set in a futuristic, dystopic environment—the opposite of utopian—in which computer technology plays an important role. […] The protagonists of cyberpunk stories are technologically proficient, lonely adventurers struggling with issues of identity and forced to use computer skills to fight menacing forces of domination.

2015, Abby H. P. Werlock, Encyclopedia of the American Short Story, Infobase Learning, →ISBN:

information technology
information technology

(science fiction, uncountable) A subgenre of science fiction which focuses on computer or information technology and virtual reality juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.


cyberpunk

cyberpunk (nominative singular)
cyberpunku (genitive singular)
cyberpunkowi (dative singular)
cyberpunk (accusative singular)
cyberpunkiem (instrumental singular)
cyberpunku (locative singular)
cyberpunku (singular vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English cyberpunk.

ubor

(film, science fiction) cyberpunk (sci-fi subgenre)


cyberpunk

cyberpunk (nominative singular)
cyberpunki (nominative plural)
cyberpunka (genitive singular)
cyberpunków (genitive plural)
cyberpunkowi (dative singular)
cyberpunkom (dative plural)
cyberpunka (accusative singular)
cyberpunków (accusative plural)
cyberpunkiem (instrumental singular)
cyberpunkami (instrumental plural)
cyberpunku (locative singular)
cyberpunkach (locative plural)
cyberpunku (singular vocative)
cyberpunki (plural vocative)

(film, science fiction) cyberpunk (cyberpunk character, a hacker punk, a high-tech low life)


cyberpunk

cyberpunk (indefinite nominative singular)
cyberpunks (genitive indefinite singular)
cyberpunken (definite nominative singular)
cyberpunkens (definite genitive singular)

(science fiction, uncountable) cyberpunk


barra

From Vulgar Latin *barra, possibly from Gaulish *barros (“the bushy end”), cognate with French barre and English bar. Doublet of bar.


barra

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *barra, possibly from Gaulish *barros (“the bushy end”), cognate with French barre and English bar. Doublet of bar.

(typography) bar (various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in ¹⁄₂))


squabble

en-verb

squabble (third-person singular simple present squabbles, present participle squabbling, simple past and past participle squabbled)

squabbles (present singular third-person)
squabbling (participle present)
squabbled (participle past)
squabbled (past)

The noun form first appears c. 1602, while the verbal form first appears c. 1616. Probably of North Germanic origin and ultimately imitative.
Related to Swedish dialectal skvabbel (“a dispute, quarrel, gossip”), Norwegian dialectal skvabba (“to prattle”), German dialectal schwabbeln (“to babble, prattle”), Swedish dialectal skvappa (“to chide, scold”, literally “make a splash”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

to squabble type

(transitive, printing) To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry and require readjustment.


catalyst

The current view by both Labour and Conservative politicians is that the state of the UK railway is unsustainable, and the pandemic acted as a catalyst in exposing its weaknesses.

2023 May 31, Tammy Samuel, Fergus McLaverty, “The political picture: what lies ahead for Britain's railways?”, in RAIL, number 984, page 31:

(literature) An inciting incident that sets the successive conflict into motion.


unicameral

In the ancient world, Greek was written in a script that was unicameral and atonic. It consisted of a single set of forms – the ones we now regard as upper case. There was little or no punctuation, and there were no diacritics.

2004, Letter Arts Review, volume 19, Norman, Okla.: Calligraphy Review, →OCLC, page 37:

There have been several misunderstandings with regard to Georgian. The Unicode table speaks of "capital" Georgian letters (for example, georgian capital letter an) and of caseless letters (for example, georgian letter an). In fact, the modern Georgian script is unicameral. Two issues gave rise to this confusion. First, the fact that there are two types of Georgian fonts: those for running text and those for titles. […] Second, in the ancient Georgian script, khutsuri, there were indeed two cases.

2007 September, Yannis Haralambous, translated by P. Scott Horne, Fonts & Encodings, Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 75:

(typography) Of a script or typeface: making no distinction between upper and lower case, but rather having only one case.


meridian

The noun is derived from Late Middle English meridian, meridien (“midday, noon; position of the sun at noon; the south; longitude of a place; (astronomy) celestial meridian”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman meridien (“midday”), Middle French meridien (“midday; the south; terrestrial meridian; (astronomy) celestial meridian”) (modern French méridien), and Old French meridiane, meridiiene, and from their etymon Latin merīdiānum (“midday; position of the sun at noon; the south”), a noun use of the neuter form of merīdiānus (“relating to midday; southern”); see further at etymology 1.
Sense 1.1 (“celestial meridian”) is ultimately modelled after Latin merīdiāna līnea (“meridian line”). Sense 5.2 (“midday rest; siesta”) is modelled after Late Latin meridiana (“midday; midday rest”), probably short for Latin merīdiāna hōra (“midday time”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

nb...

meridene, meridiane, meridien, meridyan, meridyen, merydien, merydyen,

cog

(US, printing, dated) The size of type between double great primer and canon, standardized as 44-point.


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”).

(publishing) any issue of a work published in episodes


quadro

From Latin quadrum. Compare Galician cadro, Spanish cuadro, and Italian quadro.

(electronics, film, animation, video games) division of time on a multimedia timeline

(television) sketch (brief musical, dramatic or literary work)


outline

(film) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.

juoni

(film industry) a prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay


bugbear

bugbears (plural)
bug-bear (alternative)

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From obsolete meaning of bug (“something terrifying”) + bear. See Middle English bugge, modern bogey.

Ha, ha: alas poore wretch: a poore Chipochia, haſt not ſlept to night? would he not (a naughty man) let it ſleepe: a bug-beare take him.

c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

“How could you lie so glaringly as to affirm I hated the ‘poor child’? and invent bugbear stories to terrify her from my door-stones?[…]”

1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter XXII, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:

"My young friends," quietly replied Jason, "I do not wonder that you think the dragon very terrible. You have grown up from infancy in the fear of this monster, and therefore still regard him with the awe that children feel for the bugbears and hobgoblins which their nurses have talked to them about.[…]"

1853, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Golden Fleece”, in Tanglewood Tales:

The partisans of the Administration object to the word “imperialism,” calling it a mere bugbear having no real existence.

1900, Carl Schurz, For Truth, Justice and Liberty:

(folklore, fantasy) A generic creature, often described as a large goblin, meant to inspire fear in children.


cutting

en-noun

cutting (countable and uncountable, plural cuttings)

(uncountable, cinematography, sound engineering) The editing of film or other recordings.


cred

cred (countable and uncountable, plural creds)

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And you're getting well paid, of course, but that's nothing to them, is it? They could double your salary, Gertler—pay you two million creds a year —and it'd still be peanuts to these people […]

2021, Michael Carroll, Laurel Sills, Matthew Smith, Judge Dredd Year Three:

(science fiction, slang) A credit (currency unit).


signature

/ˈsɪɡnət͡ʃə(ɹ)/

/ˈsɪɡnɪt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

/ˈsɪɡnət͡ʃɚ/

/ˈsɪɡnɪt͡ʃɚ/

/ˈsɪɡnɪt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

Borrowed from Middle French signature, or from Medieval Latin signātūra, future active periphrastic of verb signāre (“to sign”) from signum (“sign”), + -tūra, feminine of -tūrus, future active periphrastic suffix. Displaced native Old English handseten (literally “hand setting”).

ncog

(printing) A group of four (or a multiple of four) sheets printed such that, when folded, they become a section of a book.

сигнату́ра

printing: four or multiple of four pages folded to form a section of a book


stigma

stigmas (plural)
stigmat (alternative)
stigmate (alternative)
stigme (alternative)

Partly from Ancient Greek στίγμα (stígma, “mark, sign”), and partly from the acrophonic value of its initial st- as well as the analogy with the name of sigma.

der

(typography) A ligature of the Greek letters sigma and tau, (Ϛ/ϛ).

stigmo

a ligature of the Greek letters sigma and tau


kasha

(folklore) A yokai that steals the corpses of those who have died as a result of accumulating evil deeds.


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


stereotype

en-noun

stereotype (countable and uncountable, plural stereotypes)

Borrowed from French stéréotype, equivalent to stereo- + type. Printing sense is from 1817, the “conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image” sense is recorded from 1922 in Walter Lippmann's book Public Opinion.

(printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.


stereotype

en-verb

stereotype (third-person singular simple present stereotypes, present participle stereotyping, simple past and past participle stereotyped)

stereotypes (present singular third-person)
stereotyping (participle present)
stereotyped (participle past)
stereotyped (past)

to stereotype the Bible

(transitive, printing) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.

(transitive, printing) To print from a stereotype.


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.


ethos

la-noun

ēthos n (genitive ētheos); irregular, third declension

ēthos (canonical neuter)
ētheos (genitive)
ēthos (nominative singular)
ēthea (nominative plural)
ēthē (nominative plural)
ētheos (genitive singular)
ēthesi (dative plural)
ēthesin (dative plural)
ēthos (accusative singular)
ēthea (accusative plural)
ēthē (accusative plural)
ēthesi (ablative plural)
ēthesin (ablative plural)
ēthos (singular vocative)
ēthea (plural vocative)
ēthē (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἦθος (êthos).

Is omnium prīmus animum pīnxit et sēnsūs hominis expressit, quae vocant Graecī ēthē, item perturbātiōnēs, dūrior paulō in colōribus.

77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia 35.98

He [viz. Aristides of Thebes] was the first of all painters who depicted the mind and expressed the feelings of a human being, what the Greeks term ethe, and also the emotions; he was a little too hard in his colours.


hyper

en-noun

hyper (countable and uncountable, plural hypers)

Shortenings, all ultimately from the prefix hyper-.

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hyper

fetish for characters with large exaggerated body parts

(uncountable, science fiction, informal) Clipping of hyperspace.


catharsis

catharsis (countable and uncountable, plural catharses)

/kəˈθɑɹˌsɪs/

From Ancient Greek κάθαρσις (kátharsis, “cleansing, purging”), from καθαίρω (kathaírō, “I cleanse”). Coined in the dramatic-emotional sense by Aristotle.

uder

True, as the show has entered its later years, there have been more inspired moments of catharsis, but fewer unpredictable arcs and story beats, as a narrative nearing its conclusion is no longer attempting to shock.

2019 April 14, Alex McLevy, “Winter is Here on Game of Thrones’ Final Season Premiere (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2020-12-18:

(drama) A release of emotional tension after an overwhelming vicarious experience, resulting in the purging or purification of the emotions, as through watching a dramatic production (especially a tragedy).


catharsis

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάθαρσις (kátharsis).


cinema

en-noun

cinema (countable and uncountable, plural cinemas)

→ Bengali: সিনেমা (śinema)

→ Gujarati: સિનેમા (sinemā)

→ Hindi: सिनेमा (sinemā)

→ Kannada: ಸಿನಮಾ (sinamā)

→ Lao: ຊິເນມາ (si nē mā)

→ Malayalam: സിനിമ (sinima)

→ Punjabi: ਸਿਨਮਾ (sinmā)

→ Sinhalese: සිනමාහල (sinamāhala)

→ Tamil: சினிமா (ciṉimā)

desc

→ Telugu: సినిమా (sinimā), సైన్మ (sainma), సీన్మ (sīnma) — Telangana

→ Urdu: سِنیما (sinemā)

→ Welsh: sinema

→ Yoruba: sinimá

Borrowed from French cinéma, clipping of cinématographe (term coined by the Lumière brothers in the 1890s), from Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma, “movement”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write, record”). Compare German Kino (“cinema”), ultimately from the same Greek source.

der

Despite the critics, he produced excellent cinema.

In the long history of Spanish cinema[…].

Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:

(film, uncountable) The film and movie industry.

Throughout the history of cinema, filmmakers[…].

The French and Italian cinemas can seem to persist autonomously—in the sense of being spaces of separate development and marked difference from Hollywood and other national cinemas.

2005, Tom O'Regan, Australian National Cinema, page 79:

(film, countable, uncountable) The art of making films and movies; cinematography


comedy

en-noun

comedy (countable and uncountable, plural comedies)

comedies (plural)
comedie (alternative)
comœdie (alternative obsolete)
comœdy (alternative archaic)

drama

antonym(s) of “light, humorous, or satirical work”

→ Japanese: コメディ (komedi)

→ Korean: 코미디 (komidi)

From Middle English comedie, from Middle French comedie, from Latin cōmoedia, from Ancient Greek κωμῳδία (kōmōidía), from κῶμος (kômos, “revel, carousing”) + either ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”) or ἀοιδός (aoidós, “singer, bard”), both from ἀείδω (aeídō, “I sing”). Doublet of commedia.

(countable, drama) a dramatic work that is light and humorous or satirical in tone


climax

nl-noun

climax m (plural climaxen, diminutive climaxje n)

climaxen (plural)
climaxje (diminutive neuter)

→ Indonesian: klimaks

Borrowed from Latin climax, from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax).

De climax van het verhaal was voor mijn gevoel wel erg snel afgelopen.

The climax of the story felt like it ended too quickly.

(literature) climax (culmination of a narrative's rising action)


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

macron m (plural macrons, diminutive macrontje n)

macrons (plural)
macrontje (diminutive neuter)

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


mimesis

Learned borrowing from Latin mīmēsis, from Ancient Greek μῑ́μησις (mī́mēsis).

(art, literature) mimesis (representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions)


gallery

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

unk

unknown origin

en:production control room, in television program creation

(television) The production control room.


panorama

pl-noun

panorama f (related adjective panoramowy)

panoramowy (adjective)
panorama (nominative singular)
panoramy (nominative plural)
panoramy (genitive singular)
panoram (genitive plural)
panoramie (dative singular)
panoramom (dative plural)
panoramę (accusative singular)
panoramy (accusative plural)
panoramą (instrumental singular)
panoramami (instrumental plural)
panoramie (locative singular)
panoramach (locative plural)
panoramo (singular vocative)
panoramy (plural vocative)

Internationalism; compare English panorama, French panorama, German Panorama, ultimately from Ancient Greek ὅραμα (hórama).

(film, literature) panorama (comprehensive presentation of an issue in a literary work or film) [with genitive ‘of what’]


praxis

en-noun

praxis (countable and uncountable, plural praxes or praxises)

Partly from Latin prāxis and partly from its etymon Ancient Greek πρᾶξις (prâxis, “action, activity, practice”).

bor

(drama) The deliberate action of a rational being.

ihmistoiminta

drama: deliberate action of a rational being


sutra

sutra (nominative singular)
sutry (nominative plural)
sutry (genitive singular)
sutr (genitive plural)
sutrze (dative singular)
sutrom (dative plural)
sutrę (accusative singular)
sutry (accusative plural)
sutrą (instrumental singular)
sutrami (instrumental plural)
sutrze (locative singular)
sutrach (locative plural)
sutro (singular vocative)
sutry (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Sanskrit सूत्र (sū́tra, “thread, yarn, string; rule”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *súHtram, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *súHtram, from Proto-Indo-European *súh₁trom, from *syuh₁- (“to sew”).

bor+

(literature) sutra (rule or thesis in Sanskrit grammar or Hindu law or philosophy)


monotone

en-adj

monotone (comparative more monotone, superlative most monotone)

more monotone (comparative)
most monotone (superlative)

From the post-Classical Latin monotonus (“unvarying in tone”) or its etymon the Ancient Greek μονότονος (monótonos, “steady”, “unwavering”); compare cognate adjectives, namely the French monotone, the German monoton, the Italian monotono, and the Spanish monótono, as well as the slightly earlier English noun monotony and adjective monotonical.


FPS

frames per second
frame per second#English

(film, television, computing) Initialism of frames per second.


leprechaun

leprechauns (plural)
lepracaun (alternative)

→ German: Leprechaun

desc

→ Italian: leprecauno, leprechaun (unadapted), leprecano, lepricauno

→ Japanese: レプラコーン (repurakōn)

→ Korean: 레프러콘 (repeureokon)

→ Portuguese: leprechaun

→ Russian: лепреко́н (leprekón)

→ Spanish: leprechaun

/ˈlɛpɹəkɔːn/

/ˈlɛpɹəˌkɔn/

/ˈlɛpɹəˌkɑn/

From Irish leipreachán, luprachán, from Middle Irish luchrupán, from Old Irish luchorpán. See also Irish lucharachán.
The word's further etymology is disputed; it is traditionally explained as a compound containing lú (“small”, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ-) + corp (“body”, which is from Latin corpus). However, an alternative suggestion is that it is a derivative of Latin Lupercī (“priests of Lupercus”), who were misinterpreted as an antediluvian species by medieval Irish scholars.

af

from Proto-Indo-European <i class="Latn mention" lang="ine-pro">*h₁lengʷʰ-</i>

which is from Latin <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">corpus</i>

Do you not catch the tiny clamour, / Busy click of an elfin hammer, / Voice of the leprechaun singing shrill, / As he merrily plies his trade?

1888, William Allingham, “The Lepracaun; or Fairy Shoemaker”, in William Butler Yeats, editor, Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, pages 86–87:

(Irish folklore) One of a race of elves that can reveal hidden treasure to those who catch them.

（愛爾蘭民間傳說裡的）短妖精 /（爱尔兰民间传说里的）短妖精

[Àiěrlán mínjiān chuánshuō lǐ de] duǎn yāojing


leprechaun

Unadapted borrowing from English leprechaun, from Irish leipreachán.


antikva

head

antikva (countable and uncountable, plural antikvák)

antikvák (plural)
antikva (nominative singular)
antikvák (nominative plural)
antikvát (accusative singular)
antikvákat (accusative plural)
antikvának (dative singular)
antikváknak (dative plural)
antikvával (instrumental singular)
antikvákkal (instrumental plural)
antikváért (causal-final singular)
antikvákért (causal-final plural)
antikvává (singular translative)
antikvákká (plural translative)
antikváig (singular terminative)
antikvákig (plural terminative)
antikvaként (essive-formal singular)
antikvákként (essive-formal plural)
antikvában (inessive singular)
antikvákban (inessive plural)
antikván (singular superessive)
antikvákon (plural superessive)
antikvánál (adessive singular)
antikváknál (adessive plural)
antikvába (illative singular)
antikvákba (illative plural)
antikvára (singular sublative)
antikvákra (plural sublative)
antikvához (allative singular)
antikvákhoz (allative plural)
antikvából (elative singular)
antikvákból (elative plural)
antikváról (delative singular)
antikvákról (delative plural)
antikvától (ablative singular)
antikváktól (ablative plural)
antikváé (singular)
antikváké (plural)
antikváéi (singular)
antikvákéi (plural)
antikvám (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
antikváim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
antikvád (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
antikváid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
antikvája (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
antikvái (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
antikvánk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
antikváink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
antikvátok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
antikváitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
antikvájuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
antikváik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
antiqua (alternative)

From Latin antīqua littera (“classic letter”), from the nominative feminine singular of antīquus (“old, ancient, classic”). Doublet of antik.

der

(typography) roman type (upright, not italic)

(typography, now rare) the (classic) Latin script, often though not exclusively with serif, with a (strong) contrast between full and connecting strokes

Coordinate term: (incunable, printed before the 16th century) ősnyomtatvány

(palaeography) a (historically significant) sixteenth-century publication


-is

la-suffix-noun

-is f (genitive -idis); third declension

-idis (genitive)
-is (nominative singular)
-ides (nominative plural)
-idēs (nominative plural)
-idos (genitive singular)
-idis (genitive singular)
-idum (genitive plural)
-idī (dative singular)
-idibus (dative plural)
-ida (accusative singular)
-idem (accusative singular)
-idas (accusative plural)
-idēs (accusative plural)
-ide (ablative singular)
-idibus (ablative plural)
-is (singular vocative)
-i (singular vocative)
-ides (plural vocative)
-idēs (plural vocative)

English: -id

French: -ide

Italian: -ide

found in borrowings from Greek, suffixed to the root of masculine nouns, forms feminine nouns of the third declension


manikin

Borrowed from English mannequin, from French mannequin, from Dutch manneken. Doublet of maniki.


insectoid

Two hundred Earth years earlier, a race of Insectoids discovered them as the Squishys were sending their first probes to other planets in their own star system.

2017, A.K. Brown, Humans on the Menu (Champagne Universe Series: Book 2), page 24:

(science fiction, ufology) An insect-like creature.


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)

(typography) dot, point (a diacritical mark or accent mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḃ, Ḅ, Ċ, or in Semitic languages to indicate vowels, stress, etc.)

(typography) point (a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch, i.e., 0.3759 mm; exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era)


background

en-noun

background (countable and uncountable, plural backgrounds)

backgrounds (plural)
back ground (alternative obsolete)

(film) An extra who appears in the background, with no speaking role.


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).


zetten

zetten (infinitive)
zetten (gerund neuter)
zet (first-person present singular)
zette (first-person past singular)
zet (present second-person singular)
zette (past second-person singular)
zet (formal present second-person singular)
zette (formal past second-person singular)
zet (Flanders colloquial present second-person singular)
zet (archaic formal majestic present second-person singular)
zette (Flanders colloquial past second-person singular)
zette (archaic formal majestic past second-person singular)
zet (present singular third-person)
zette (past singular third-person)
zetten (plural present)
zetten (past plural)
zette (archaic present singular subjunctive)
zette (archaic past singular subjunctive)
zetten (archaic plural present subjunctive)
zetten (archaic past plural subjunctive)
zet (imperative present singular)
zet (archaic imperative plural present)
zettend (participle present)
gezet (participle past)

Afrikaans: sit

Berbice Creole Dutch: sete

Negerhollands: set, sit

From Middle Dutch setten, from Old Dutch setten, from Proto-West Germanic *sattjan, from Proto-Germanic *satjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sodéyeti. A causative verb to zitten (“to sit”).


fluffer

"This isn't MGM. I don't do this full-time," she said. "During production, I'm the AD. Occasionally, I fill in as a fluffer."

1991, Robert Reeves, Peeping Thomas, →ISBN, page 112:

(pornography) One who arouses male pornographic actors before filming.

撫弄師 /抚弄师

arouses a male pornographic actor through fellatio


lines

I have yet to learn my lines.

(film, theater) Words spoken by the actors.


viva

eo-head

viva (accusative singular vivan, plural vivaj, accusative plural vivajn)

vivan (accusative singular)
vivaj (plural)
vivajn (accusative plural)


dissolve

en-verb

dissolve (third-person singular simple present dissolves, present participle dissolving, simple past and past participle dissolved)

dissolves (present singular third-person)
dissolving (participle present)
dissolved (participle past)
dissolved (past)

Recorded since c. 1374 (displacing Old English toliesan) as Middle English dissolven, from Latin dissolvere (“to loosen up, break apart”) but with the sense from Anglo-Norman dissoldre (variant of Old French dissoudre), itself from dis- (“apart”) + solvere (“to loose, loosen”). By surface analysis, dis- + solve.

ərimək

intransitive: to be disintegrated into a solution by immersion

(cinematography, intransitive) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.


dissolve

While most of the film is done in medium and long shots (connected with dissolves and wipes which lend a lovely period effect)

1986 April 19, Michael Bronski, “Two Views on Desert Hearts: Sexy? or simply Slow?”, in Gay Community News, page 9:

(cinematography) a form of film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next


disintegrate

en-verb

disintegrate (third-person singular simple present disintegrates, present participle disintegrating, simple past and past participle disintegrated)

disintegrates (present singular third-person)
disintegrating (participle present)
disintegrated (participle past)
disintegrated (past)

Recorded since 1785, from dis- + integrate.

dīlābor (Due to Latin treating the verb "to disintegrate" as purely intransitive, "X disintegrates Y" is expressed with (nominative of Y) + (appropriate form of dīlābor) + (ablative of X), faciō dīlābī (literally "to cause to fall apart")

There is a Latvian gentleman named Theodore Nemor living at White Friars Mansions, Hampstead, who claims to have invented a machine of a most extraordinary character which is capable of disintegrating any object placed within its sphere of influence.

1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine:

(transitive) To undo the integrity of; to break into parts.

(science fiction, transitive) To cause to break up into infinitesimal parts through the use of a disintegrator.


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.


super-

Learned borrowing from Latin super-. Doublet of sur-, over-, and hyper-.

superheroic


highlight

Un jugador espectacular para ver en los "highlights", pero no creo que su estilo de juego encaje con el de este equipo.

2009 June 3, Borch, “Tema Eto'o”, in es.rec.deportes.futbol (Usenet):

A brilliant player to watch in the highlights, but I don't think his play style fits with his team's.


film noir

en-noun

film noir (countable and uncountable, plural film noirs or films noirs)

film noirs (plural)
films noirs (plural)

Borrowed from French film noir (“dark film”, literally “black film”), attributed to French film critic Nino Frank (1946).

bor

During this period his own films were being studied alongside classic film noir together with European arthouse cinema and the works of directors from around the world.

2017, Ian Brookes, Film Noir: A Critical Introduction, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN:

(film, uncountable) A film genre characterized by low-key lighting, a bleak urban setting, and corrupt, cynical or desperate characters.


margin

→ Cantonese: 孖展 (maa¹ zin²)

→ Korean: 마진 (majin)

/ˈmɑːɹd͡ʒ(ə)n/

From Middle English margyn, from Latin marginem (possibly via Old French margin), accusative of margō (“edge, brink, border, margin”). Doublet of marge and margo.

(typography) The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc.

kantlyn

typography: edge of the paper that remains blank


previously

(television) Recapitulating the preceding episodes of a series.

az előző részek tartalmából

recapitulating the preceding episodes of a series


smurf

Peyo
The Smurfs
fr:Les Schtroumpfs
nl:De Smurfen

Borrowed from Dutch smurf (via the Belgian comic De Smurfen, a translation of French Les Schtroumpfs), from French schtroumpf, a word that was created by Peyo based on German Strumpf (literally “stocking, sock”), either simply because it sounds funny to the French ear or based on a regional German use for “idiot”. Armand van Raalte was an employee for the Belgian publisher of Peyo's stories who felt that schtroumpf would not have the same effect in Dutch, so he tried to find a simple word that could be used both as a noun and a verb. The result was smurf. In other languages, the term was similarly altered; compare the translations below.

der

He occasionally used the proper noun of the restaurant as an adverb, the way a Smurf would.

2021 December 8, Geraldine DeRuiter, “Bros., Lecce: We Eat at The Worst Michelin Starred Restaurant, Ever”, in The Everywhereist:

(comics, fiction) A blue pixie with white stocking cap, from the media franchise The Smurfs.


smurf

nl-noun

smurf m (plural smurfen, diminutive smurfje n)

smurfen (plural)
smurfje (diminutive neuter)

Changed from the original French schtroumpf as described above.


smurf

smurf (indefinite nominative singular)
smurfs (genitive indefinite singular)
smurfen (definite nominative singular)
smurfens (definite genitive singular)
smurfar (indefinite nominative plural)
smurfars (genitive indefinite plural)
smurfarna (definite nominative plural)
smurfarnas (definite genitive plural)
smurf (indefinite nominative singular)
smurfs (genitive indefinite singular)
smurfen (definite nominative singular)
smurfens (definite genitive singular)
smurfer (indefinite nominative plural)
smurfers (genitive indefinite plural)
smurferna (definite nominative plural)
smurfernas (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed from Dutch smurf, from French schtroumpf.


mature

en-adj

mature (comparative more mature, superlative most mature)

more mature (comparative)
most mature (superlative)

From late Middle English mature, from Middle French mature, from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of maduro. Partially displaced ripe, from Old English rīpe (“ripe, mature”).

/məˈt͡ʃʊ(ə)ɹ/

mature content

(television, film) Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.


intergalactic

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

They say he's a member of the Exchange – you know, the big intergalactic criminal organization.

2003 July 16, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic:

(proscribed, science fiction) Occurring across a single galaxy, interstellar.


alt

head

alt m (genitive singular ailt, nominative plural ailt)

ailt (genitive singular)
ailt (nominative plural)
alt (indefinite nominative singular)
ailt (indefinite nominative plural)
a ailt (indefinite singular vocative)
a alta (indefinite plural vocative)
ailt (genitive indefinite singular)
alt (genitive indefinite plural)
alt (dative indefinite singular)
ailt (dative indefinite plural)
an t-alt (definite nominative singular)
na hailt (definite nominative plural)
an ailt (definite genitive singular)
na n-alt (definite genitive plural)
leis an alt (dative definite singular)
don alt (dative definite singular)
leis na hailt (dative definite plural)
allt (alternative obsolete)

From Old Irish alt (“joint, articulation”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸaltu- (“joint”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”). Cognate with Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌻𐌸𐌰𐌽 (falþan, “to fold”) and Ancient Greek πέπλος (péplos, “woven cloth”). The sense ‘article’ is a semantic loan from Latin articulus, itself a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (árthron).

sl

(grammar, parts of speech, publishing) article; clause


trombone

/ˌtɹɒmˈbəʊn/

Borrowed from Italian trombone, from tromba (“trumpet”) + -one (augmentative), literally “large trumpet”.
The telecommunications sense alludes to the shape of the musical instrument.

affix

The trombone […] permits an instrument to be positioned over a studio set wall, enabling the set wall to support the weight of the instrument.

1983, Alan Wurtzel, Television Production, page 131:

The two secondary controls are the trombone handle and the focus knob.

2013, Harry Box, Set Lighting Technician's Handbook, page 480:

(film, television) A kind of extendable support for attaching lighting elements to a set.


trombone

en-verb

trombone (third-person singular simple present trombones, present participle tromboning, simple past and past participle tromboned)

trombones (present singular third-person)
tromboning (participle present)
tromboned (participle past)
tromboned (past)

/ˌtɹɒmˈbəʊn/

[…] do things wrong (like rotating the lens turret while shooting or backwinding and doing multiple passes on the same strip of film or doing in-camera fades with the variable shutter or tromboning a zoom lens like a teenager on acid, etc., etc., etc.) […]

2015, Kathryn Ramey, Experimental Filmmaking: Break the Machine, page 357:

He recalls (email to editor, 2 December 2012) that Durgnat 'shouted out' in response to his 'tromboning' the zoom-lens at the film's 1967 London Film Festival screening: […]

2014, Henry K. Miller, The Essential Raymond Durgnat, page 71:

(film, slang, transitive) To extend and retract (the zoom lens); to use it too enthusiastically.


rating

Unadapted borrowing from English rating.

(television) rating (a quantitative measure of the audience of a television program)


warship

(science fiction) A spacecraft built or armed for space warfare.


watershed

Compound of water + shed. Calque of German Wasserscheide.

(Canada, British, television, radio) The time during the day which material of a more adult nature (e.g., violence, swear words, or sex) may be broadcast on television or radio, either one permitted by law or one contrived from convention (e.g. when children are not watching).

dos rombos

time after which adult material may be broadcast


MLS

en-noun

MLS (countable and uncountable, plural MLSs)

(television) Initialism of medium long shot.


interview

Unadapted borrowing from English interview.

ubor

(media) interview (conversation in which facts or opinions are sought)


black box

black boxes (plural)
blackbox (alternative)

black box
black box#History
flight recorder#Terminology
gray-box testing
white box (software engineering)

* Since circa 1945 in both main senses (that is, event recorders and objects with unknown innards), which are historically related to each other; for details, see black box § History and flight recorder § Terminology.
* (type of theater): Such theaters are often painted black.

(drama) A type of theater characterized by a lack of decoration or complex mechanisms.


ED

From Japanese ED(エンディング) (endingu), from English ending.

Coordinate term: OP

(films, television) Abbreviation of ending theme (end title sequence).


forma

pl-noun

forma f (diminutive foremka, related adjective foremny)

foremka (diminutive)
foremny (adjective)
forma (nominative singular)
formy (nominative plural)
formy (genitive singular)
form (genitive plural)
formie (dative singular)
formom (dative plural)
formę (accusative singular)
formy (accusative plural)
formą (instrumental singular)
formami (instrumental plural)
formie (locative singular)
formach (locative plural)
formo (singular vocative)
formy (plural vocative)

→ Kashubian: fòrma

(printing) template (set of printing elements prepared for printing)


forma

From Old Galician-Portuguese forma, inherited from Latin fōrma. Doublet of etymology 1, which was borrowed.

(typography) type; sort (block used to print a character)


forma

head

forma (definite accusative formayı, plural formalar)

formayı (accusative definite)
formalar (plural)
forma (nominative singular)
formalar (nominative plural)
formayı (accusative definite singular)
formaları (accusative definite plural)
formaya (dative singular)
formalara (dative plural)
formada (locative singular)
formalarda (locative plural)
formadan (ablative singular)
formalardan (ablative plural)
formanın (genitive singular)
formaların (genitive plural)
formam (first-person nominative singular)
formalarım (first-person nominative singular)
forman (nominative second-person singular)
formaların (nominative second-person singular)
forması (nominative singular third-person)
formaları (nominative singular third-person)
formamız (first-person nominative plural)
formalarımız (first-person nominative plural)
formanız (nominative plural second-person)
formalarınız (nominative plural second-person)
formaları (nominative plural third-person)
formamı (accusative definite first-person singular)
formalarımı (accusative definite first-person singular)
formanı (accusative definite second-person singular)
formalarını (accusative definite second-person singular)
formasını (accusative definite singular third-person)
formalarını (accusative definite singular third-person)
formamızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
formalarımızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
formanızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
formalarınızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
formalarını (accusative definite plural third-person)
formama (dative first-person singular)
formalarıma (dative first-person singular)
formana (dative second-person singular)
formalarına (dative second-person singular)
formasına (dative singular third-person)
formalarına (dative singular third-person)
formamıza (dative first-person plural)
formalarımıza (dative first-person plural)
formanıza (dative plural second-person)
formalarınıza (dative plural second-person)
formalarına (dative plural third-person)
formamda (first-person locative singular)
formalarımda (first-person locative singular)
formanda (locative second-person singular)
formalarında (locative second-person singular)
formasında (locative singular third-person)
formalarında (locative singular third-person)
formamızda (first-person locative plural)
formalarımızda (first-person locative plural)
formanızda (locative plural second-person)
formalarınızda (locative plural second-person)
formalarında (locative plural third-person)
formamdan (ablative first-person singular)
formalarımdan (ablative first-person singular)
formandan (ablative second-person singular)
formalarından (ablative second-person singular)
formasından (ablative singular third-person)
formalarından (ablative singular third-person)
formamızdan (ablative first-person plural)
formalarımızdan (ablative first-person plural)
formanızdan (ablative plural second-person)
formalarınızdan (ablative plural second-person)
formalarından (ablative plural third-person)
formamın (first-person genitive singular)
formalarımın (first-person genitive singular)
formanın (genitive second-person singular)
formalarının (genitive second-person singular)
formasının (genitive singular third-person)
formalarının (genitive singular third-person)
formamızın (first-person genitive plural)
formalarımızın (first-person genitive plural)
formanızın (genitive plural second-person)
formalarınızın (genitive plural second-person)
formalarının (genitive plural third-person)

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish فورمه (forma, “a compositor's form”), from Italian forma or French format.

inh+

(printing) A 16-page section of a book printed on a single sheet of paper; a signature.


pastel

pastél (canonical)
ᜉᜐ᜔ᜆᜒᜎ᜔ (Baybayin)
pastil (alternative obsolete)

Borrowed from Spanish pastel, from Old French pastel, from Italian pastello, from Medieval Latin pastellum, from Latin pasta, ultimately from Ancient Greek πάστη (pástē).

(letterpress typography) pi (metal type that has been spilled)