laiha

fi-adj

laiha (comparative laihempi, superlative laihin)

laihempi (comparative)
laihin (superlative)
laiha (nominative singular)
laihat (nominative plural)
laiha (accusative nominative singular)
laihat (accusative nominative plural)
laihan (accusative genitive singular)
laihat (accusative genitive plural)
laihan (genitive singular)
laihojen (genitive plural)
laihain (genitive plural rare)
laihaa (partitive singular)
laihoja (partitive plural)
laihassa (inessive singular)
laihoissa (inessive plural)
laihasta (elative singular)
laihoista (elative plural)
laihaan (illative singular)
laihoihin (illative plural)
laihalla (adessive singular)
laihoilla (adessive plural)
laihalta (ablative singular)
laihoilta (ablative plural)
laihalle (allative singular)
laihoille (allative plural)
laihana (essive singular)
laihoina (essive plural)
laihaksi (singular translative)
laihoiksi (plural translative)
laihatta (abessive singular)
laihoitta (abessive plural)
laihoin (instructive plural)
laihoine (comitative plural)
laihani (nominative singular)
laihani (nominative plural)
laihani (accusative nominative singular)
laihani (accusative nominative plural)
laihani (accusative genitive singular)
laihani (accusative genitive plural)
laihani (genitive singular)
laihojeni (genitive plural)
laihaini (genitive plural rare)
laihaani (partitive singular)
laihojani (partitive plural)
laihassani (inessive singular)
laihoissani (inessive plural)
laihastani (elative singular)
laihoistani (elative plural)
laihaani (illative singular)
laihoihini (illative plural)
laihallani (adessive singular)
laihoillani (adessive plural)
laihaltani (ablative singular)
laihoiltani (ablative plural)
laihalleni (allative singular)
laihoilleni (allative plural)
laihanani (essive singular)
laihoinani (essive plural)
laihakseni (singular translative)
laihoikseni (plural translative)
laihattani (abessive singular)
laihoittani (abessive plural)
laihoineni (comitative plural)
laihasi (nominative singular)
laihasi (nominative plural)
laihasi (accusative nominative singular)
laihasi (accusative nominative plural)
laihasi (accusative genitive singular)
laihasi (accusative genitive plural)
laihasi (genitive singular)
laihojesi (genitive plural)
laihaisi (genitive plural rare)
laihaasi (partitive singular)
laihojasi (partitive plural)
laihassasi (inessive singular)
laihoissasi (inessive plural)
laihastasi (elative singular)
laihoistasi (elative plural)
laihaasi (illative singular)
laihoihisi (illative plural)
laihallasi (adessive singular)
laihoillasi (adessive plural)
laihaltasi (ablative singular)
laihoiltasi (ablative plural)
laihallesi (allative singular)
laihoillesi (allative plural)
laihanasi (essive singular)
laihoinasi (essive plural)
laihaksesi (singular translative)
laihoiksesi (plural translative)
laihattasi (abessive singular)
laihoittasi (abessive plural)
laihoinesi (comitative plural)
laihamme (nominative singular)
laihamme (nominative plural)
laihamme (accusative nominative singular)
laihamme (accusative nominative plural)
laihamme (accusative genitive singular)
laihamme (accusative genitive plural)
laihamme (genitive singular)
laihojemme (genitive plural)
laihaimme (genitive plural rare)
laihaamme (partitive singular)
laihojamme (partitive plural)
laihassamme (inessive singular)
laihoissamme (inessive plural)
laihastamme (elative singular)
laihoistamme (elative plural)
laihaamme (illative singular)
laihoihimme (illative plural)
laihallamme (adessive singular)
laihoillamme (adessive plural)
laihaltamme (ablative singular)
laihoiltamme (ablative plural)
laihallemme (allative singular)
laihoillemme (allative plural)
laihanamme (essive singular)
laihoinamme (essive plural)
laihaksemme (singular translative)
laihoiksemme (plural translative)
laihattamme (abessive singular)
laihoittamme (abessive plural)
laihoinemme (comitative plural)
laihanne (nominative singular)
laihanne (nominative plural)
laihanne (accusative nominative singular)
laihanne (accusative nominative plural)
laihanne (accusative genitive singular)
laihanne (accusative genitive plural)
laihanne (genitive singular)
laihojenne (genitive plural)
laihainne (genitive plural rare)
laihaanne (partitive singular)
laihojanne (partitive plural)
laihassanne (inessive singular)
laihoissanne (inessive plural)
laihastanne (elative singular)
laihoistanne (elative plural)
laihaanne (illative singular)
laihoihinne (illative plural)
laihallanne (adessive singular)
laihoillanne (adessive plural)
laihaltanne (ablative singular)
laihoiltanne (ablative plural)
laihallenne (allative singular)
laihoillenne (allative plural)
laihananne (essive singular)
laihoinanne (essive plural)
laihaksenne (singular translative)
laihoiksenne (plural translative)
laihattanne (abessive singular)
laihoittanne (abessive plural)
laihoinenne (comitative plural)
laihansa (nominative singular)
laihansa (nominative plural)
laihansa (accusative nominative singular)
laihansa (accusative nominative plural)
laihansa (accusative genitive singular)
laihansa (accusative genitive plural)
laihansa (genitive singular)
laihojensa (genitive plural)
laihainsa (genitive plural rare)
laihaansa (partitive singular)
laihojaan (partitive plural)
laihojansa (partitive plural)
laihassaan (inessive singular)
laihassansa (inessive singular)
laihoissaan (inessive plural)
laihoissansa (inessive plural)
laihastaan (elative singular)
laihastansa (elative singular)
laihoistaan (elative plural)
laihoistansa (elative plural)
laihaansa (illative singular)
laihoihinsa (illative plural)
laihallaan (adessive singular)
laihallansa (adessive singular)
laihoillaan (adessive plural)
laihoillansa (adessive plural)
laihaltaan (ablative singular)
laihaltansa (ablative singular)
laihoiltaan (ablative plural)
laihoiltansa (ablative plural)
laihalleen (allative singular)
laihallensa (allative singular)
laihoilleen (allative plural)
laihoillensa (allative plural)
laihanaan (essive singular)
laihanansa (essive singular)
laihoinaan (essive plural)
laihoinansa (essive plural)
laihakseen (singular translative)
laihaksensa (singular translative)
laihoikseen (plural translative)
laihoiksensa (plural translative)
laihattaan (abessive singular)
laihattansa (abessive singular)
laihoittaan (abessive plural)
laihoittansa (abessive plural)
laihoineen (comitative plural)
laihoinensa (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *laiha, from earlier *laiša, borrowed from Baltic, compare Lithuanian liesas. Cognate with Estonian lahja, Karelian laiha, Erzya лавшо (lavšo, “weak”).

(typography) light (with little boldness)


program

programs (plural)
programme (alternative)

→ Malay: program

→ Tok Pisin: program

/ˈpɹəʊˌɡɹæm/

/ˈpɹoʊˌɡɹæm/

From French programme, from Late Latin programma (“a proclamation, edict”), from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma, “a written public notice, an edict”), from προγράφω (prográphō, “I set forth as a public notice”), from πρό (pró, “before”) + γράφω (gráphō, “I write”). Doublet of programma.

der

Tonight’s program was hosted by Johnny Carson.

(broadcasting) A performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television.


program

en-verb

program (third-person singular simple present programs, present participle programming or programing, simple past and past participle programmed or programed)

programs (present singular third-person)
programming (participle present)
programing (participle present)
programmed (participle past)
programmed (past)
programed (participle past)
programed (past)
programme (alternative)

/ˈpɹəʊˌɡɹæm/

/ˈpɹoʊˌɡɹæm/

We program for special audience groups, too, as shown by our Mexican language program each Sunday morning.

1956, United States. Congress. Senate, Hearings, volume 5, page 2586:

(broadcasting) To schedule the programming; to determine what will be broadcast.


program

pl-noun

program m inan (diminutive programik, related adjective programowy)

programik (diminutive)
programowy (adjective)
program (nominative singular)
programy (nominative plural)
programu (genitive singular)
programów (genitive plural)
programowi (dative singular)
programom (dative plural)
program (accusative singular)
programy (accusative plural)
programem (instrumental singular)
programami (instrumental plural)
programie (locative singular)
programach (locative plural)
programie (singular vocative)
programy (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French programme. First attested in the 19th cenetury.

ref

Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “program”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861

Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “program”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)

(broadcasting) program (a performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television)


programmer

/ˈpɹəʊɡɹæmə/

/ˈpɹoʊɡɹæmɚ/

*program + -er (US) / programme + -er (UK)

The handful of never-ending summer classics annually activated by rock-radio programmers.

1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 151:

So if there is a real shortage of training material and opportunities for radio programmers, then let's write some.

(radio, television) One who decides which programs will be shown on a television station, or which songs will be played on a radio station.

ohjelmapäällikkö

one who decides which programs will be shown on a television station


fount

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

A variant of font, influenced by fount (etymology 1) being a synonym of font (“natural source of water, spring”).

Of each Body he provides a Fount ſuitable to ſuch ſorts of VVork as he deſigns to do; But he provides not an equal vvieght^([sic – meaning weight]) of every Fount; Becauſe all theſe Bodies are not in equal uſe: For the Long-Primmer, Pica and Engliſh are the Bodies that are generally moſt uſed; And therefore he provides very large Founts of theſe, viz. of the Long-Primmer in a ſmall Printing-Houſe; Five hundred Pounds vveight Romain and Italica, vvhereof One hundred and fifty Pounds may be Italica.

1683, Joseph Moxon, “Numb[er] II. Applied to the Art of Printing.”, in Mechanick Exercises: Or, The Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the Art of Printing. […], volume II, London: […] Joseph Moxon […], →OCLC, § 2 (Of Letter), page 17:

Founts are large or ſmall, according to the demand of the printer. vvho orders them by the hundred vveight, or by ſheets. VVhen a printer orders a fount of five hundred, he means that the fount, conſiſting of letters, points, ſpaces, quadrates, &c. ſhall vveigh 500 ℔. […] [A] fount does not contain an equal number of a and b, or of b and c, &c. the letter-founders have therefore a lift or tariff, or as the French call it, a police, by vvhich they regulate the proportions betvveen the different ſorts of characters that compoſe a fount; […]

1765, Temple Henry Croker, Thomas Williams, Samuel Clark [et al.], “FOUNT, or Font”, in The Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. […], volume II, London: […] J. Wilson & J. Fell, […], →OCLC, signature [Kk3], verso, column 1:

For the small characters it was in fact imperative to use such a fount as was available; not to mention that no strictly accurate fount of Chinese type has as yet been cast.

1892, Herbert Giles, “Preface”, in A Chinese–English Dictionary, London: Bernard Quaritch […]; Shanghai; Hongkong: Kelly and Walsh, →OCLC, page v:

Mr. Tallboy corrected the misprints, damned their eyes for using the wrong name-block, made it clear to them that they had set the headlines in the wrong fount, cut the proof to pieces, pasted it up again in the correct size, and returned it.

1933, Dorothy L[eigh] Sayers, “Murder Must Advertise. Chapter 4. Remarkable Acrobatics of a Harlequin.”, in The Five Red Herrings (Suspicious Characters) and Murder Must Advertise, Garden City, N.Y.: Nelson Doubleday, published [1977?], →OCLC, page 344:

The company is to be congratulated on the neatness and businesslike look of the tickets, and also on the very clear and artistic founts of type which are used.

1940 May, G. W. J. Potter, “Tickets of the Great Southern Railways”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 292:

(UK, printing, typography, chiefly dated, historical) Synonym of font (“a set of glyphs of unified design, usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters belonging to one typeface, style, and weight; a typeface; a family of typefaces”).


hero

en-noun

hero (plural heroes or (sandwich sense) heros)

[ˈhɪə.ɹəʊ~ˈçɪə.ɹəʊ]

From Middle English heroes, from Old French heroes, from Latin hērōs (“hero”), from Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs, “demi-god, hero”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to watch over, protect”). Related to Latin servo (“protect”). Displaced Middle English heleð, haleð, from Old English hæleþ, hæle.

der

The preparation of the hero food involves any number of specialized techniques food stylists have developed to deal with the demands of photographing food.

2003, Solomon H. Katz, William Woys Weaver, Encyclopedia of Food and Culture:

Protect the hero food. Whether the hero items are on a table in the studio or in the refrigerator, freezer, etc., be sure they are identified as hero items and not for consumption.

2008, Linda Bellingham, Jean Ann Bybee, Brad G. Rogers, Food Styling for Photographers, page 8:

The food stylists this day had spent inordinate amounts of time preparing the hero product for a close-up scene.

2008, David Random, Defying Gravity, page 24:

(film, photography, chiefly attributive) The product chosen from several candidates to be photographed, as in food advertising, or with props used in a movie.


dystopia

dystopia (nominative singular)
dystopie (nominative plural)
dystopii (genitive singular)
dystopii (genitive plural)
dystopij (archaic genitive plural)
dystopii (dative singular)
dystopiom (dative plural)
dystopię (accusative singular)
dystopie (accusative plural)
dystopią (instrumental singular)
dystopiami (instrumental plural)
dystopii (locative singular)
dystopiach (locative plural)
dystopio (singular vocative)
dystopie (plural vocative)

(film, literature) dystopia (vision of a future that is a corrupted (usually beyond recognition) utopian society)


print

en-noun

print (countable and uncountable, plural prints)

cursive

antonym(s) of “writing without connected letters”

From Middle English *printen, prenten, preenten, an apheretic form of emprinten, enprinten (“to impress; imprint”) (see imprint). Compare Dutch prenten (“to imprint”), Middle Low German prenten (“to print; write”), Danish prente (“to print”), Swedish prenta (“to write German letters”). Compare also Late Old French printer, preindre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”).

cog

(film) A copy of a film that can be projected.


mechanical

From Middle English mechanical, mechanicalle, mechanycalle, equivalent to mechanic + -al.

Is it a mechanical, or a man in a clockwork suit?

2012, Cindy Spencer Pape, Moonlight & Mechanicals, →ISBN, page 90:

Mechanicals arose when advanced, organic societies somehow committed suicide, from war, degeneration, unimaginable things -- or retreated, from plain simple lack of interest in the tensions of the technological life.

2013, Gregory Benford, Sailing Bright Eternity: Galactic Centre, →ISBN:

This is an example of what can take place when mechanicals are programmed with human attributes and designed to interact closely with humans.

2013, Alan Dean Foster, Greenthieves, →ISBN:

(science fiction) A robot or mechanical creature.


octothorpe

octothorpes (plural)
octothorp (alternative)

/ˈɒktəʊθɔːp/

/ˈɑːktoʊθɔːɹp/

Origin disputed. There is no known usage before it was adopted by Bell Labs in the late 1960s or early 1970s, so most sources agree it was coined by someone at Bell Labs, but accounts from Bell Labs personnel conflict on the details. The derivation as a traditional term from octo- (“eight”) + thorpe (“field, hamlet or small village”) lacks any evidence, but there is near universal agreement that the first element refers to the number eight. Eight is derived from the number of ends of the lines. Thorpe could be a reference to Jim Thorpe, as one proponent was a fan of the athlete.

unk

disputed

prefix

The pad 1 provides keys for numerals 0 to 9, while the sextile or asterisk (*) key is decoded to provide a decimal point and the octothorp ( # ) key generates a command to send the contents of the memory unto the telephone line through a send circuit 7, a coupling circuit 8 and the hybrid network 2.

1973, US patent application ser. no. 05/422,816 (filed 3 December 1973), issued as patent no. 3,920,926 (18 November 1975), Telephone Data Set Including Visual Display Means, col. 3

Octothorp is the # on a push-button telephone. Rumor at the telephone company is that a man named Charles B. Octothorp, wanting to make his name famous, would approach anyone with a Touch-Tone ’phone, stop, and say admiringly, “That’s a mighty handsome octothorp you have there.”

1982, Willard R. Espy, A Children's Almanac of Words at Play, New York: Clarkson N. Potter, →ISBN, retrieved 2022-01-18, page 230:

Strings are enclosed in double quotation marks, numbers are not enclosed in anything, and dates and Boolean values are enclosed between octothorpe (#) characters.

2004, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak, Openoffice.org Macros Explained, Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin: Hentzenwerke Publishing, →ISBN, page 139:

(chiefly US, typography) The hash or square symbol #, used mainly in telephony and computing.


complement

en-noun

complement (countable and uncountable, plural complements)

From Middle English complement, from Latin complēmentum (“that which fills up or completes”), from compleō (“I fill up, I complete”) (English complete). Doublet of compliment. The verb is from the noun.

der

(palaeography, phonetics) A phonetic complement is a graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of its reading (as opposed to an adjunct that abbreviates an adjective that modifies that logogram).


novel

From Dutch novelle, from Italian novella, from Latin novella, feminine of novellus. Doublet of novela and novelet.

(literature) novel: a work of prose fiction, longer than a novella


novella

novellák (plural)
novella (nominative singular)
novellák (nominative plural)
novellát (accusative singular)
novellákat (accusative plural)
novellának (dative singular)
novelláknak (dative plural)
novellával (instrumental singular)
novellákkal (instrumental plural)
novelláért (causal-final singular)
novellákért (causal-final plural)
novellává (singular translative)
novellákká (plural translative)
novelláig (singular terminative)
novellákig (plural terminative)
novellaként (essive-formal singular)
novellákként (essive-formal plural)
novellában (inessive singular)
novellákban (inessive plural)
novellán (singular superessive)
novellákon (plural superessive)
novellánál (adessive singular)
novelláknál (adessive plural)
novellába (illative singular)
novellákba (illative plural)
novellára (singular sublative)
novellákra (plural sublative)
novellához (allative singular)
novellákhoz (allative plural)
novellából (elative singular)
novellákból (elative plural)
novelláról (delative singular)
novellákról (delative plural)
novellától (ablative singular)
novelláktól (ablative plural)
novelláé (singular)
novelláké (plural)
novelláéi (singular)
novellákéi (plural)
novellám (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
novelláim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
novellád (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
novelláid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
novellája (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
novellái (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
novellánk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
novelláink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
novellátok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
novelláitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
novellájuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
novelláik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

Borrowed from Italian novella, from Latin novella.

(literature) (relatively short) short story


umlaut

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

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

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

(informal, orthography) Synonym of diaeresis.


umlaut

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


arco

Inherited from Latin arcus (whence English archery), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo- (“bow, arrow”). In some senses inherited, in others borrowed directly from Latin. Cognate with English arrow, arc, and arch.


ek

head

ek (definite accusative eki, plural ekler)

eki (accusative definite)
ekler (plural)
ek (nominative singular)
ekler (nominative plural)
eki (accusative definite singular)
ekleri (accusative definite plural)
eke (dative singular)
eklere (dative plural)
ekte (locative singular)
eklerde (locative plural)
ekten (ablative singular)
eklerden (ablative plural)
ekin (genitive singular)
eklerin (genitive plural)
ekim (first-person nominative singular)
eklerim (first-person nominative singular)
ekin (nominative second-person singular)
eklerin (nominative second-person singular)
eki (nominative singular third-person)
ekleri (nominative singular third-person)
ekimiz (first-person nominative plural)
eklerimiz (first-person nominative plural)
ekiniz (nominative plural second-person)
ekleriniz (nominative plural second-person)
ekleri (nominative plural third-person)
ekimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
eklerimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
ekini (accusative definite second-person singular)
eklerini (accusative definite second-person singular)
ekini (accusative definite singular third-person)
eklerini (accusative definite singular third-person)
ekimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
eklerimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
ekinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
eklerinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
eklerini (accusative definite plural third-person)
ekime (dative first-person singular)
eklerime (dative first-person singular)
ekine (dative second-person singular)
eklerine (dative second-person singular)
ekine (dative singular third-person)
eklerine (dative singular third-person)
ekimize (dative first-person plural)
eklerimize (dative first-person plural)
ekinize (dative plural second-person)
eklerinize (dative plural second-person)
eklerine (dative plural third-person)
ekimde (first-person locative singular)
eklerimde (first-person locative singular)
ekinde (locative second-person singular)
eklerinde (locative second-person singular)
ekinde (locative singular third-person)
eklerinde (locative singular third-person)
ekimizde (first-person locative plural)
eklerimizde (first-person locative plural)
ekinizde (locative plural second-person)
eklerinizde (locative plural second-person)
eklerinde (locative plural third-person)
ekimden (ablative first-person singular)
eklerimden (ablative first-person singular)
ekinden (ablative second-person singular)
eklerinden (ablative second-person singular)
ekinden (ablative singular third-person)
eklerinden (ablative singular third-person)
ekimizden (ablative first-person plural)
eklerimizden (ablative first-person plural)
ekinizden (ablative plural second-person)
eklerinizden (ablative plural second-person)
eklerinden (ablative plural third-person)
ekimin (first-person genitive singular)
eklerimin (first-person genitive singular)
ekinin (genitive second-person singular)
eklerinin (genitive second-person singular)
ekinin (genitive singular third-person)
eklerinin (genitive singular third-person)
ekimizin (first-person genitive plural)
eklerimizin (first-person genitive plural)
ekinizin (genitive plural second-person)
eklerinizin (genitive plural second-person)
eklerinin (genitive plural third-person)
ekim (first-person singular)
eklerim (first-person singular)
eksin (second-person singular)
eklersin (second-person singular)
ek (singular third-person)
ektir (singular third-person)
ekler (singular third-person)
eklerdir (singular third-person)
ekiz (first-person plural)
ekleriz (first-person plural)
eksiniz (plural second-person)
eklersiniz (plural second-person)
ekler (plural third-person)
eklerdir (plural third-person)

(publishing) supplement (of newspapers, magazines &c.)


ufo

Orthographic borrowing from English UFO.

(science fiction, ufology) alternative spelling of UFO


flying saucer

From an interview given by amateur pilot Kenneth Arnold who described seeing nine flying objects that were "moving like saucers being skimmed across a lake". The description was not meant to describe the shape of the objects, only how they maneuvered, yet the misinterpretation took hold and gained popularity.

en:Flying saucer (confectionery)
en:flying saucer

(science fiction) An alien interplanetary vessel, typically disc-shaped and of metallic construction.


devil

devils (plural)
davil (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
debbil (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
diuel (alternative archaic dialectal)
divel (alternative archaic dialectal)
deuill (alternative obsolete)
devel (alternative obsolete)
devell (alternative obsolete)
devill (alternative obsolete)
diuell (alternative obsolete)

Tok Pisin: tewel

→ Chuukese: tefin

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δια- (dia-)
Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-der.
Ancient Greek βᾰ́λλω (bắllō)
Ancient Greek διαβάλλω (diabállō)
Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos)bor.
Latin diabolusbor.
Proto-West Germanic *diubul
Old English dēofol
Middle English devel
English devil
From Middle English devil, devel, deovel, from Old English dēofol, from Proto-West Germanic *diubul, from Latin diabolus, ultimately from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos, “false accuser, slanderer”), also as "Satan" (in Jewish/Christian usage, translating Biblical Hebrew שָׂטָן (śātān)), from διαβάλλω (diabállō, “to slander”), literally “to throw across”, from διά (diá, “through, across”) + βάλλω (bállō, “throw”). The Old English word was probably adopted under influence of Latin diabolus (itself from the Greek). Other Germanic languages adopted the word independently: compare Saterland Frisian Düüwel (“devil”), West Frisian duvel (“devil”), Dutch duivel, duvel (“devil”), German Low German Düvel (“devil”), German Teufel (“devil”), Bavarian Teifl (“devil”), Danish djævel (“devil”), Swedish djävul (“devil”) (older: djefvul, Old Swedish diævul, Old Norse djǫfull). Doublet of diable, diablo, and diabolus.

der

better the devil you know than the devil you don't know

better the devil you know than the one you don't know

devil is beating his wife and marrying his daughter

he who sups with the devil should have a long spoon

the devil we know is better than the devil we don't know

the devil you know is better than the devil you don't know

(folklore) A fictional image of a man, usually red or orange in skin color; with a set of horns on his head, a pointed goatee and a long tail and carrying a pitchfork; that represents evil and portrayed to children in an effort to discourage bad behavior.


stub

From Middle English stubbe (“tree stump”), from Old English stybb, stubb (“tree stump”), from Proto-West Germanic *stubb, from Proto-Germanic *stubbaz (compare Middle Dutch stubbe, Old Norse stubbr, Faroese stubbi (“stub”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew-; compare steep (“sharp slope”). Doublet of stob.
Sense extended in Middle English to similarly shaped objects. Verb sense “strike one’s toe” is recorded 1848; “extinguish a cigarette” 1927.

Coordinate term: substub

(typography, in tabular matter) A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).


media

Unadapted borrowing from English media, mass media.

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


fin

French language
fin
fin (disambiguation)

From French fin (“end”). Doublet of fine and finis.


v-chip

Stands for violence chip, coined and devised by Tim Collings, promoted by the William Jefferson Clinton Administration.

(television) Any censorship technology that allows parents to control the level of objectionable content that their children may see on television.


sub

* Shortened form of any of various words beginning with sub-.

(publishing, colloquial) Clipping of submission (of a work for publication).


hic

Onomatopoeia, from the sobbing sound. Compare hức (“sob; hic”).

(comics, Internet slang) dang; darn; aw man; man


super

For quotations using this term, see Citations:super.

Supers are superimposed words that run across the TV screen and provide information such as the names of interview subjects. The newsroom sends a printed list of these supers to Perry.

2009, James Robert Parish, Jim Henson, page 114:

(television) A superimposed caption or image.


super

en-verb

super (third-person singular simple present supers, present participle supering, simple past and past participle supered)

supers (present singular third-person)
supering (participle present)
supered (participle past)
supered (past)

Even running a supered "Re-enactment" caption for a few seconds is poor policy, he feels […]

1987, Television Quarterly, volumes 23-24:


tenere

it-verb

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

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

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

der

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


duplex

(typography) duplex matrix (matrix bearing two signs next to each other)


arse

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


anima

From Latin anima, from animus, from Proto-Italic *anamos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁mos, a nominal derivative of *h₂enh₁- (“breathe”). Doublet of alma.


fold

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

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

2007, Jennifer Niederst Robbins, Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 43:

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


antique

en-adj

antique (comparative antiquer, superlative antiquest)

antiquer (comparative)
antiquest (superlative)
antic (alternative obsolete)
anticke (alternative obsolete)
antiq. (alternative abbreviation)

Borrowed from French antique (“ancient, old”), from Latin antiquus (“former, earlier, ancient, old”), from ante (“before”); see ante-. Doublet of antic.

der

(typography) Designating a style of type.


antique

antiques (plural)
antic (alternative obsolete)
anticke (alternative obsolete)
antiq. (alternative abbreviation)

(typography) A style of type of thick and bold face in which all lines are of equal or nearly equal thickness.


камера

uk-noun

ка́мера • (kámera) f inan (genitive ка́мери, nominative plural ка́мери, genitive plural ка́мер, relational adjective ка́мерний)

ка́мера (canonical)
kámera (romanization)
ка́мери (genitive)
ка́мери (nominative plural)
ка́мер (genitive plural)
ка́мерний (adjective relational)
ка́мера (nominative singular)
ка́мери (nominative plural)
ка́мери (genitive singular)
ка́мер (genitive plural)
ка́мері (dative singular)
ка́мерам (dative plural)
ка́меру (accusative singular)
ка́мери (accusative plural)
ка́мерою (instrumental singular)
ка́мерами (instrumental plural)
ка́мері (locative singular)
ка́мерах (locative plural)
ка́меро (singular vocative)
ка́мери (plural vocative)


cámara

Inherited from Old Spanish camara, borrowed from Vulgar Latin camara, variant of Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “something with an arched cover, a vaulted chamber”). Doublet of cambra.

der

(cinematography) cameraman, camera operator (somebody who operates a movie camera or television camera)


bicameral

From bi- + Latin camera (“chamber”) + -al.

Aspect values on bicameral fonts are based on the size of the lowercase characters.

2001, Yves Savourel, XML Internationalization and Localization, page 80:

Bicameral (upper- and lowercase) unserifed roman fonts were apparently first cut in Leipzig in the 1820s.

2004, Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style, version 3.0, page 255:

2004, Parmenides, Peter Koch, et al., Carving the Elements: A Companion to the Fragments of Parmenides, page 91,
For more than a thousand years, classical Greek has been habitually written in a bicameral, polytonic alphabet (one with caps and lower case and a set of diacritics marking tone and aspiration).

(typography) Of a script or typeface: having two cases, upper case and lower case.

bikameraalinen

(typography, of a typeface or script) Having two cases: uppercase and lowercase


alba

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

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


alba

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

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

ref

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

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


bizarro

en-adj

bizarro (comparative more bizarro, superlative most bizarro)

more bizarro (comparative)
most bizarro (superlative)

Variant of bizarre, equivalent to bizarre + -o; see that entry for more information. In the sense of “logical inverse”, derived via the comic book character Bizarro, an inverted version of Superman from a planet where “good” means “bad” and so on, and further popularized by "The Bizarro Jerry", a 1996 episode of the sitcom Seinfeld.

An incredibly fucked-up parody of B-horror movies with a bizarro slant.

2010, Caris O'Malley, The Egg Said Nothing, Caris O'Malley, →ISBN, page 97:

(literature) Pertaining to bizarro fiction.


golem

nl-noun

golem m (plural golems, diminutive golempje n)

golems (plural)
golempje (diminutive neuter)

Ultimately from Hebrew גולם \ גֹּלֶם (gólem).

der

גולם \ גֹּלֶם

(folklore, fiction) a golem, a clay automaton


ghoul

Unadapted borrowing from English ghoul, from Persian غول (ġul).

(mythology, folklore) ghoul (a spirit said to feed on corpses)


גולם

he-noun

גולם / גֹּלֶם • (gólem) m (plural indefinite גְּלָמִים, plural construct גׇּלְמֵי־) [pattern: קֹטֶל]

גֹּלֶם (canonical)
gólem (romanization)
גְּלָמִים (indefinite plural)
גׇּלְמֵי־ (construct plural)

→ English: golem

→ Czech: golem

→ German: Golem

→ Spanish: gólem

→ Hungarian: gólem

→ Dutch: golem

→ Polish: golem

→ Russian: голем (golem)

→ Yiddish: גולם (goylem)

(mythology, Jewish folklore) a golem, a clay automaton


גולם

yi-noun

גולם • (goylem) m, plural גולמס (goylems) or גולמים (goylomem)

goylem (romanization)
goylems (romanization)
goylomem (romanization)

bor

גולם \ גֹּלֶם


boilerplate

en-noun

boilerplate (countable and uncountable, plural boilerplates)

The Star (1788)
boilerplate
boilerplate (spaceflight)

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

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

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


bowl

Bislama: bol

→ Esperanto: bovlo

desctree

→ French: bol
→ Catalan: bol
→ Greek: μπολ (bol)

→ German: Bowle, → Bowl

→ Hungarian: bólé

→ Ido: bolo

→ Irish: bolla

→ Japanese: ボール (bōru)

→ Latvian: bole (probably via German)

→ Korean: 볼 (bol)

→ Scottish Gaelic: bòl

→ Swedish: bål

From Middle English bolle, from Old English bolla, bolle (“bowl, cup, pot, beaker, measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *bollā, from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ (“ball, round vessel, bowl”).
Cognate with North Frisian bol (“bun, bread roll”), Middle Low German bolle, bole (“round object”), Dutch bol (“ball, sphere, scoop, dot”), German Bolle (“bulb”), Danish bolle (“bowl, bread roll”), Icelandic bolli (“cup”). Doublet of boule and pulla.

inh

(typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.


doceo

la-verb

doceō (present infinitive docēre, perfect active docuī, supine doctum); second conjugation

doceō (canonical)
docēre (infinitive present)
docuī (active perfect)
doctum (supine)
doceō (active first-person indicative present singular)
docēs (active indicative present second-person singular)
docet (active indicative present singular third-person)
docēmus (active first-person indicative plural present)
docētis (active indicative plural present second-person)
docent (active indicative plural present third-person)
docēbam (active first-person imperfect indicative singular)
docēbās (active imperfect indicative second-person singular)
docēbat (active imperfect indicative singular third-person)
docēbāmus (active first-person imperfect indicative plural)
docēbātis (active imperfect indicative plural second-person)
docēbant (active imperfect indicative plural third-person)
docēbō (active first-person future indicative singular)
docēbis (active future indicative second-person singular)
docēbit (active future indicative singular third-person)
docēbimus (active first-person future indicative plural)
docēbitis (active future indicative plural second-person)
docēbunt (active future indicative plural third-person)
docuī (active first-person indicative perfect singular)
docuistī (active indicative perfect second-person singular)
docuit (active indicative perfect singular third-person)
docuimus (active first-person indicative perfect plural)
docuistis (active indicative perfect plural second-person)
docuērunt (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
docuēre (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
docueram (active first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
docuerās (active indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
docuerat (active indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
docuerāmus (active first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
docuerātis (active indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
docuerant (active indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
docuerō (active first-person future indicative perfect singular)
docueris (active future indicative perfect second-person singular)
docuerit (active future indicative perfect singular third-person)
docuerimus (active first-person future indicative perfect plural)
docueritis (active future indicative perfect plural second-person)
docuerint (active future indicative perfect plural third-person)
doceor (first-person indicative passive present singular)
docēris (indicative passive present second-person singular)
docēre (indicative passive present second-person singular)
docētur (indicative passive present singular third-person)
docēmur (first-person indicative passive plural present)
docēminī (indicative passive plural present second-person)
docentur (indicative passive plural present third-person)
docēbar (first-person imperfect indicative passive singular)
docēbāris (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
docēbāre (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
docēbātur (imperfect indicative passive singular third-person)
docēbāmur (first-person imperfect indicative passive plural)
docēbāminī (imperfect indicative passive plural second-person)
docēbantur (imperfect indicative passive plural third-person)
docēbor (first-person future indicative passive singular)
docēberis (future indicative passive second-person singular)
docēbere (future indicative passive second-person singular)
docēbitur (future indicative passive singular third-person)
docēbimur (first-person future indicative passive plural)
docēbiminī (future indicative passive plural second-person)
docēbuntur (future indicative passive plural third-person)
doceam (active first-person present singular subjunctive)
doceās (active present second-person singular subjunctive)
doceat (active present singular subjunctive third-person)
doceāmus (active first-person plural present subjunctive)
doceātis (active plural present second-person subjunctive)
doceant (active plural present subjunctive third-person)
docērem (active first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
docērēs (active imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
docēret (active imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
docērēmus (active first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
docērētis (active imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
docērent (active imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
docuerim (active first-person perfect singular subjunctive)
docuerīs (active perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
docuerit (active perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
docuerīmus (active first-person perfect plural subjunctive)
docuerītis (active perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
docuerint (active perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
docuissem (active first-person pluperfect singular subjunctive)
docuissēs (active pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
docuisset (active pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
docuissēmus (active first-person pluperfect plural subjunctive)
docuissētis (active pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
docuissent (active pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
docear (first-person passive present singular subjunctive)
doceāris (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
doceāre (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
doceātur (passive present singular subjunctive third-person)
doceāmur (first-person passive plural present subjunctive)
doceāminī (passive plural present second-person subjunctive)
doceantur (passive plural present subjunctive third-person)
docērer (first-person imperfect passive singular subjunctive)
docērēris (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
docērēre (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
docērētur (imperfect passive singular subjunctive third-person)
docērēmur (first-person imperfect passive plural subjunctive)
docērēminī (imperfect passive plural second-person subjunctive)
docērentur (imperfect passive plural subjunctive third-person)
docē (active imperative present second-person singular)
docēte (active imperative plural present second-person)
docētō (active future imperative second-person singular)
docētō (active future imperative singular third-person)
docētōte (active future imperative plural second-person)
docentō (active future imperative plural third-person)
docēre (imperative passive present second-person singular)
docēminī (imperative passive plural present second-person)
docētor (future imperative passive second-person singular)
docētor (future imperative passive singular third-person)
docentor (future imperative passive plural third-person)
docēre (active infinitive present)
docērī (infinitive passive present)
docēns (active participle present)
doctūrum esse (active future infinitive)
doctum īrī (future infinitive passive)
doctūrus (active future participle)
docendus (future participle passive)
docuisse (active infinitive perfect)
doctum esse (infinitive passive perfect)
doctus (participle passive perfect)
doctum fore (future infinitive passive perfect)
doctūrum fuisse (active infinitive perfect potential)
docendī (genitive gerund noun-from-verb)
docendō (dative gerund noun-from-verb)
docendum (accusative gerund noun-from-verb)
docendō (ablative gerund noun-from-verb)
doctum (accusative noun-from-verb supine)
doctū (ablative noun-from-verb supine)

Old Occitan: dozer

Old French: duire, doire (homophone for duire 'lead' < dūcere)

French: duire (archaic or regional (Normandy))

→ Ido: docar

From Proto-Italic *dokeō, from earlier *dokejō, causative of Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to take”). Cognate with Ancient Greek δοκέω (dokéō, “I expect, suppose, seem”) and Ancient Greek δέχομαι (dékhomai, “I accept, receive”). The sense "rehearse, present on stage" is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek διδάσκω (didáskō).


para

para (nominative singular)
parat (nominative plural)
paran (genitive singular)
parroin (genitive plural)
parraa (partitive singular)
paroja (partitive plural)
parraa (illative singular)
parroi (illative plural)
paras (inessive singular)
parois (inessive plural)
parast (elative singular)
paroist (elative plural)
paralle (allative singular)
paroille (allative plural)
paral (adessive singular)
paroil (adessive plural)
paralt (ablative singular)
paroilt (ablative plural)
paraks (singular translative)
paroiks (plural translative)
paranna (essive singular)
parraan (essive singular)
paroinna (essive plural)
parroin (essive plural)
parant (exessive singular)
paroint (exessive plural)

(folklore) troll cat (being designed to bring milk to its creator)


web

From Middle English webbe, from Old English webb, from Proto-Germanic *wabją, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“weave”).

what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive

(lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.

[…] the first big move toward a contract for television performers was made Friday (20) when the webs agreed to pay them according to the length of the show. […] Altho the major TV webs — NBC and CBS — may fall in line soon, an agreement may possibly be held up by the opposition of DuMont […]

1950, Billboard, volume 62, number 43, page 9:

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.

(dated, US, radio, television) A major broadcasting network.


format

Via French format and German Format, from New Latin liber fōrmātus (“book fashioned”), from fōrmō (“I shape, fashion”).

The radio station changed the format of its evening program.

(radio) The type of programming that a radio station broadcasts; such as a certain genre of music, news, sports, talk, etc.


friar

friars (plural)
frier (alternative obsolete)
fryar (alternative obsolete)

PIE word
 *bʰréh₂tēr
From Middle English frere, from Old French frere, from Latin frāter (“brother”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr (“brother”). Doublet of bhai, brother, bru, frater, pal, and vai.

doublet

(printing, dated) A white or pale patch on a printed page caused by poor inking.


royal

royals (plural)
r. (alternative abbreviation)
roial (alternative obsolete)
roiall (alternative obsolete)
royall (alternative obsolete)
royaler (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English royal, from Old French roial (Modern French royal), from Latin rēgālis, from rēx (“king”). Doublet of regal (“befitting a king”), real (“unit of currency”), ariary, and riyal. Cognate with Spanish real. Displaced native Old English cynelīċ.

(paper, printing) A standard size of printing paper, measuring 25 by 20 inches.


rule

en-noun

rule (countable and uncountable, plural rules)

From Middle English reule, rewle, rule, borrowed from Old French riule, reule, from Latin regula (“straight stick, bar, ruler, pattern”), from regō (“to keep straight, direct, govern, rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root *h₃reǵ-; see regent. Doublet of rail, regal, regula, and rigol.

doublet

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(printing, dated) A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.


goof

Perhaps from dialectal English goff (“foolish clown”), from earlier goffe, in which case further etymology is uncertain.
Perhaps from Middle English goffen (“to speak in a frivolous manner”), possibly from Old English gaf, ġegaf (“base; wanton; lewd”, adjective), ġegaf (“buffoonery; scurrility”, noun), gaffetung, golfettung (“buffoonery; mockery”). Compare English dialectal gauffin (“lightheaded; foolish; giddy”), Scots gaff, gawf (“to talk loudly; babble”), Scots gaffaw (“a loud laugh”).
Alternatively, perhaps from Middle French goffe (“awkward; stupid”). Compare also Spanish gofo, Italian goffo.

inh

(US, cinematography, informal) An error made during production which finds its way into the final release.

coquille

an error made during production which finds its way into the final release


scanlation

en-noun

scanlation (countable and uncountable, plural scanlations)

scanlations (plural)
scanslation (alternative)

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(comics, chiefly manga) The process of scanning and translating foreign-language comics (especially Japanese manga or Korean manhwa) into the translator's language, for free distribution over the Internet.

(comics) A comic that has been scanned, translated, and with translation overlaid onto the original text to produce a second-language version of the comic; a scanlated comic.


retrograde

en-adj

retrograde (comparative more retrograde, superlative most retrograde)

more retrograde (comparative)
most retrograde (superlative)

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

cog

/ˈɹɛtɹə(ʊ)ɡɹeɪd/

/ˈɹɛtɹəˌɡɹeɪd/

retrògrad

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

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


portmanteau film

en-noun

portmanteau film (plural portmanteau films)

Allusion to the idea of a portmanteau in the linguistic sense.

We're so bombarded with images, it's a struggle to preserve our imaginations.' In response, he's turned to cinema, commissioning 11 film-makers to contribute to a portmanteau film, entitled '11'09"01' and composed of short films each running 11 minutes, nine seconds and one frame.

2002 December 11, Nick Bradshaw, “One day in September”, in Time Out, page 71:

(film, television) A film that combines two or more distinct stories, frequently connected by a single theme, premise, or author.


Frankenstein

en-proper noun

Frankenstein (countable and uncountable, plural Frankensteins)

From German Frankenstein, various places named for Franken (“Franks, Frankish”) + Stein (“stone”). The use of referencing mad scientists derives from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, where Victor Frankenstein assembles a man from pieces of various corpses and brings him to life with electricity. Use of the reference to the monster itself is an ellipsis of the earlier Frankenstein's monster, with the monster's usual modern appearance derived from Boris Karloff's performance in the 1931 film Frankenstein.

(fiction) Victor Frankenstein, a fictional character and the main protagonist and title character in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.

(fiction, sometimes proscribed) The unnamed monster created by Victor Frankenstein: a fictional character who first appeared in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus as the main antagonist.


metro

eo-head

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

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


metro

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

der

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


metro

→ Tagalog: metro


chaser

Inherited from Middle English chaser, chacer, chasour, borrowed from Old French chaceür, chaceor, from chacier (“to chase, hunt”); later senses from or influenced by chase (“pursue”) + -er. Doublet of chasseur.

преследва́ч

person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases

(fiction, Harry Potter) In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player responsible for passing the quaffle and scoring goals with it.


deus ex machina

Unadapted borrowing from Latin deus ex māchinā, itself a calque of Ancient Greek ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός (apò mēkhanês theós).

der

ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός

(Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, drama, historical, literary) deus ex machina (plot resolution in ancient tragedy involving the sudden and unexpected appearance of a deity)

(Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, drama, historical, literary) deus ex machina (deity in Greek and Roman drama who was brought in by stage machinery to intervene in a difficult situation)


gate

From Middle English gate, gat, ȝate, ȝeat, from Old English ġeat (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”).
See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt.

After all, not using film has advantages other than cost: the curse of getting a hair in the gate (the rectangular opening at the front of a camera) is gone; the problem of getting dirt on the film swept away.

2023 March 16, John Boorman, “Today’s ‘films’ are nothing of the sort – so stop calling them that”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.


breve

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

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


breve

nl-noun

breve f (plural breves, diminutive brevetje n)

breves (plural)
brevetje (diminutive neuter)


breve

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

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


breve

(typography) breve (the diacritical mark ˘)


z-variant

z (axis) + variant; from the three dimensions visualized for the character space. The x-axis separates characters by semantics (function and meaning, e.g. A from B), the y-axis separates them by their general form (abstract shape, e.g. A from a), and the z-axis by their actual shape (minor details such as typeface, e.g. a from a).

(typography, Unicode) A shape variant of a Han character, encoded for historical reasons.


fine

(typography) thin space, non-breakable space


Sapphic

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

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


Sapphic

Sapphics (plural)
Sapphick (alternative)

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

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

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

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

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

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


pick

From Middle English piken, picken, pikken, from Old English *piccian, *pīcian (attested in pīcung (“a pricking”)), and pīcan, pȳcan (“to pick, prick, pluck”), both from Proto-West Germanic *pikkōn, from Proto-Germanic *pikkōną (“to pick, peck, prick, knock”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bu- (“to make a dull, hollow sound”). Doublet of pitch and peck.
Cognate with Dutch pikken (“to pick”), German picken (“to pick, peck”), Old Norse pikka, pjakka (whence Icelandic pikka (“to pick, prick”), Swedish picka (“to pick, peck”)).

inh

If it be in the smallest degree gritty, it clogs the form, and consequently produces a thick and imperfect impression; no pains should, therefore, be spared to render it perfectly smooth; it may then be made to work as clear and free from picks

c. 1866, Thomas MacKellar, The American Printer:

(printing, dated) A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and causing a spot on a printed sheet.


letteral

From letter + -al. The Lojban sense was coined by James Cooke Brown by analogy with numeral.

In order to avoid the character of being slovenly, always read the lines as composed. This should be done as soon as they are finished and before spacing out; in time the habit will become so fixed, that in spacing out, or even in composing the line, the eye will wander over the words, and detect any letterals.

1898, Charles Thomas Jacobi, Printing: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Typography as Applied More Particularly to the Printing of Books, pages 57–58:

LITERALS type characters: to read proof for literals is to read letter for letter, watching for proper spelling, punctuation, etc., as well as for typos: formerly spelled letterals.

[1971, Ruth Kimball Kent, The Language of Journalism: A Glossary of Print-communications Terms, page 82:

(printing) Obsolete form of literal (“a misprint that affects a letter”).


justification

en-noun

justification (countable and uncountable, plural justifications)

/ˌd͡ʒʌstɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

From Middle English justificacioun, justification, from Middle French justification, from Late Latin iustificationem, justificationem < iustificatio, from iustifico, from Latin iustus.

der

(typography, uncountable) The alignment of text to the left margin (left justification), the right margin (right justification), or both margins (full justification).


block

→ Dutch: block

→ German: Block

→ Irish: bloc

→ Manx: block

→ Maori: poraka

→ Norwegian: blokk

→ Polish: blok

desctree

→ Russian: блок (blok)
→ Armenian: բլոկ (blok)
→ Yakut: блок (blok)

→ Spanish: block

→ Vietnamese: lốc

From Middle English blok (“log, stump, solid piece”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok (“treetrunk”), from Old Dutch *blok (“log”), from Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“thick plank, beam, pile, prop”). Cognate with Old Frisian blok, Old Saxon blok, Old High German bloh, bloc (“block”), Old English bolca (“gangway of a ship, plank”), Old Norse bǫlkr (“divider, partition”). More at balk. See also bloc, bulk.

طَابُوقَة

substantial often approximately cuboid piece

թաղամաս

group of buildings demarcated by streets

A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.

(printing, dated) A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.

pölkky

printing: piece of hardwood on which a plate is mounted


kine

(television) Clipping of kinescope (“type of recording”).


hardcore

en-adj

hardcore (comparative more hardcore, superlative most hardcore)

more hardcore (comparative)
most hardcore (superlative)
hard-core (alternative)

From hard + core: hard to the core; 1936 (n.); 1951 (adj.)

(pornography) Depicting penetration and abnormal sexual activity.

হার্ডকোর পর্নোগ্রাফি

of or pertaining to pornography that depicts penetration


furniture

en-noun

furniture (usually uncountable, plural furnitures)

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

uder

(printing, historical) The pieces of wood or metal put around pages of type to make proper margins and fill the spaces between the pages and the chase.

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

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

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


chiocciola

From a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *clociola, diminutive of *clocea, from metathesis of Latin cochlea (“snail”), borrowed from Ancient Greek κοχλίας (kokhlías), cognate with κόχλος (kókhlos, “shellfish”).

(typography, computing) the “@” symbol, commercial at, at sign


beo

beo (comparative)
beocha (comparative)
beo (masculine nominative singular)
bheo (feminine nominative singular)
beo (nominative plural)
bheo (nominative plural)
bheo (masculine singular vocative)
bheo (feminine singular vocative)
beo (plural vocative)
bheo (genitive masculine singular)
beo (feminine genitive singular)
beo (genitive plural)
beo (dative masculine singular)
bheo (dative masculine singular)
bheo (dative feminine singular)
beo (dative plural)
bheo (dative plural)
níos beo (comparative)
is beo (superlative)

From Old Irish béo (“alive”), from Proto-Celtic *biwos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”), from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”). Compare Welsh byw.


breakdown

en-noun

breakdown (countable and uncountable, plural breakdowns)

breakdowns (plural)
break-down (alternative)

sınma

failure, particularly one which is mechanical in nature

(uncountable) Separation of a thing into components; decomposition, fragmentation; (countable) an instance of this.

(film, television, countable) A detailed description of a forthcoming project or screenplay which identifies all the required elements, such as the cast, costumes, equipment, props, and special effects.


time travel

(chiefly science fiction) Travel to the past or to the future, typically by means of a time machine or a wormhole.

пътуване във времето

hypothetical or fictional travel to the past or future


loa

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

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


time machine

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Coined by British science fiction author H. G. Wells in 1895 in his novel The Time Machine.

coinage

If I had a time machine / And if life was a movie scene / I'd rewind, and I'd tell me / "Ru-u-u-u-u-u-u-un"

2014, Ingrid Michaelson, Trent Dabbs, busbee, “Time Machine”, in Lights Out, performed by Ingrid Michaelson:

(chiefly science fiction) A hypothetical device used to travel into the past or the future.


mythos

en-noun

mythos (countable and uncountable, plural mythoi or mythoses)

Borrowed from Late Latin mȳthos (“myth”), from Ancient Greek μῦθος (mûthos, “report, tale, story”). Doublet of myth.
The plural form mythoi is from Ancient Greek μῦθοι (mûthoi), and the form mythoses from mythos + -es.

der

To get most benefit from the four mythoi, one must avoid making two errors. First, a work embodying the comic mythos may be called comic but should not be confused with comedy since the latter term has too many meanings that are exclusively dramatic. The same stricture applies to tragedy and the tragic mythos. The second error is to assume that a work embodying the ironic mythos is an anti-romance.

1984, Kathryn Hume, “Fantasy as a Function of Form”, in Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature, New York, N.Y.: Methuen, →ISBN; republished Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2014, →ISBN, part III (The Functions of Fantasy: why Use Fantasy?), page 151:

In addition to mythoi drawn from myths and fairy tales, romances also employ mythoi derived from chivalric romances.

2011, Laura Vivanco, “Mythoi”, in John Lennard, editor, For Love and Money: The Literary Art of the Harlequin Mills & Boon Romance (Genre Fiction Monographs), Penrith, Cumbria: Humanities-Ebooks, →ISBN, page 76:

(literature) A recurring theme; a motif.


diaeresis

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

/daɪˈɛɹɪsɪs/

/daɪˈɪəɹɪsɪs/

/daɪˈɪəɹɪsɪs/

/daɪˈɛɹəsɪs/

/daɪˈɪəɹɪsiːz/

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

diërese

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

deelteken

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


tesseract

tesseracts (plural)
tessaract (alternative)

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From tessara- (“four-”) + Ancient Greek ἀκτίς (aktís, “ray”).

af

"I shall just sit down for a moment and pop on my boots and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract."

1962, Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time, published 2019, unnumbered page:

(science fiction) Any of various fictional mechanisms that explain extradimensional, superluminal, or time travel outside the geometry of the physical universe.


tren

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

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


odor

odorok (plural)
odrok (plural)
odor (nominative singular)
odrok (nominative plural)
odrot (accusative singular)
odrokat (accusative plural)
odornak (dative singular)
odroknak (dative plural)
odorral (instrumental singular)
odrokkal (instrumental plural)
odorért (causal-final singular)
odrokért (causal-final plural)
odorrá (singular translative)
odrokká (plural translative)
odorig (singular terminative)
odrokig (plural terminative)
odorként (essive-formal singular)
odrokként (essive-formal plural)
odorban (inessive singular)
odrokban (inessive plural)
odron (singular superessive)
odrokon (plural superessive)
odornál (adessive singular)
odroknál (adessive plural)
odorba (illative singular)
odrokba (illative plural)
odorra (singular sublative)
odrokra (plural sublative)
odorhoz (allative singular)
odrokhoz (allative plural)
odorból (elative singular)
odrokból (elative plural)
odorról (delative singular)
odrokról (delative plural)
odortól (ablative singular)
odroktól (ablative plural)
odoré (singular)
odroké (plural)
odoréi (singular)
odrokéi (plural)
odrom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
odraim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
odrod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
odraid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
odra (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
odrai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
odrunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
odraink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
odrotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
odraitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
odruk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
odraik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
odor (nominative singular)
odorok (nominative plural)
odort (accusative singular)
odorokat (accusative plural)
odornak (dative singular)
odoroknak (dative plural)
odorral (instrumental singular)
odorokkal (instrumental plural)
odorért (causal-final singular)
odorokért (causal-final plural)
odorrá (singular translative)
odorokká (plural translative)
odorig (singular terminative)
odorokig (plural terminative)
odorként (essive-formal singular)
odorokként (essive-formal plural)
odorban (inessive singular)
odorokban (inessive plural)
odoron (singular superessive)
odorokon (plural superessive)
odornál (adessive singular)
odoroknál (adessive plural)
odorba (illative singular)
odorokba (illative plural)
odorra (singular sublative)
odorokra (plural sublative)
odorhoz (allative singular)
odorokhoz (allative plural)
odorból (elative singular)
odorokból (elative plural)
odorról (delative singular)
odorokról (delative plural)
odortól (ablative singular)
odoroktól (ablative plural)
odoré (singular)
odoroké (plural)
odoréi (singular)
odorokéi (plural)
odorom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
odoraim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
odorod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
odoraid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
odora (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
odorai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
odorunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
odoraink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
odorotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
odoraitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
odoruk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
odoraik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

(printing) matrix (the cavity or mold in which anything is formed)


fade

From Middle English fade, vad, vade (“faded, pale, withered, weak”), from Middle Dutch vade (“weak, faint, limp”), from Old French fade (“weak, witless”), of obscure origin. Probably from Vulgar Latin *fatidus, from Latin fatuus (“insipid”).

(music, cinematography) A gradual decrease in the brightness of a shot or the volume of sound or music (as a means of cutting to a new scene or starting a new song).


page

→ Hindi: पेज (pej)

→ Japanese: ページ (pēji)

→ Korean: 페이지 (peiji)

Borrowed from Middle French [Term?], from Latin pāgina, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. Doublet of pagina.

(typography) The type set up for printing a page.


patch

From Middle English patche, of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of earlier Middle English placche (“patch, spot, piece of cloth”), from Old English *plæċċ, *pleċċ (“a spot, mark, patch”), from Proto-West Germanic *plakkju, from Proto-Germanic *plakjō (“spot, stain”). For the loss of l compare pat from Middle English platten. Germanic cognates would then include Middle English plecke, dialectal English pleck (“plot of ground, patch”), West Frisian plak (“place, spot”), Low German Plakk, Plakke (“spot, piece, patch”), Dutch plek (“spot, place, stain, patch”), Dutch plak (“piece, slab”), Swedish plagg (“garment”), Faroese plagg (“cloth, rag”).
Or, possibly a variant of Old French pieche, dialectal variant of piece (“piece”). Compare also Old Occitan petaç (“patch”).

tilkku

small piece of material used to clean a gun barrel

flejtuch

piece of greased cloth used to fit a rifle ball to the bore

(printing, historical) An overlay used to obtain a stronger impression.


phase

en-verb

phase (third-person singular simple present phases, present participle phasing, simple past and past participle phased)

phases (present singular third-person)
phasing (participle present)
phased (participle past)
phased (past)

From New Latin phasis, from Ancient Greek φάσις (phásis, “an appearance”), from φάω (pháō, “to shine”); compare phantasm and see face.


noir

en-adj

noir (comparative more noir, superlative most noir)

more noir (comparative)
most noir (superlative)

Shortened from film noir, and from French noir. Doublet of negro.

As a neo-Sherlock Holmes, however, Mulder is also a very noir version of the classic detective (just as Scully is a very noir Watson).

2008, Jerold J. Abrams, Elizabeth Cooke, “Detection and the Logic of Abduction in The X-Files”, in The Philosophy of TV Noir, →ISBN, page 182:

(film, television) Of or pertaining to film noir, or the atmosphere associated with that genre


noir

en-noun

noir (countable and uncountable, plural noirs)

(film and television, uncountable) Film noir.

Several noirs, including “Raw Deal,” have been set here.

2007 January 29, Wendell Jamieson, “Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt, Nights Are Noir in Fog City”, in New York Times:

(film and television, countable) A production in the style of film noir.


avail

avail (countable and uncountable, plural avails)

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

The salesperson at an affiliate TV station might prepare an avail which offers two weeks of spots in early and late news[…].

1994, Barry L. Sherman, Telecommunications Management: Broadcasting/cable and the New Technologies, →ISBN, page 353:

At an avail, the ad server plays out the MPEG-2 audio/video elementary streams.

2004, Walter S. Ciciora et al., Modern Cable Television Technology: Video, Voice, and Data Communications, →ISBN, page 123:

(television, advertising) An advertising slot or package.

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

(US, politics, journalism) A press avail.

(British, acting) Non-binding notice of availability for work.


peu

Inherited from Old Catalan peu, from Latin pedem.
Cognate with Occitan pè; French pied; Asturian and Spanish pie; and Galician and Portuguese pé.

peu de pàgina

(design, typography) footer, the bottom of a page or design


mag

mag (nominative singular)
magowie (nominative plural)
magi (derogatory nominative plural)
maga (genitive singular)
magów (genitive plural)
magowi (dative singular)
magom (dative plural)
maga (accusative singular)
magów (accusative plural)
magiem (instrumental singular)
magami (instrumental plural)
magu (locative singular)
magach (locative plural)
magu (singular vocative)
magowie (plural vocative)
magi (derogatory plural vocative)

(folklore, fantasy) magician, wizard, sorcerer, conjurer, mage, magus (person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic)


stunner

March holstered his pistol, reached into his coat, and drew out his own neural stunner, shifting the weapon to his right hand.

2018, Jonathan Moeller, Silent Order: Omnibus One:

(science fiction) A pistol firing a beam capable of stunning an enemy.


tabloid

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

tiivistetty muoto

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

تابلويد

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

小报 (xiǎobào, literally “small newspaper”)

(Canada, US, printing) A paper size 11 × 17 inches (279 × 432 millimetres) in dimensions.


tabloid

en-verb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

siirtää tabloidikokoon

to convert (a newspaper) into a tabloid format


vara

lad-noun

vara f (Hebrew spelling ב׳ארה, plural varas)

Inherited from Old Spanish vara, from Latin vāra (“fork”). Cognate with Catalan, Galician, and Portuguese vara.

(diminutive form, typography) The rafe lines in the shape of crossbars that can be used in Ladino orthography as diacritics on Hebrew script to alter the sound of letters to create new letters; a breve diacritic (˘) is placed on top of letters to form fricative consonant sounds, such as changing פ (/p/) into פﬞ (/f/); usually referred to by the diminutive varika (“little crossbar”).


Oktave

de-noun

Oktave f (genitive Oktave, plural Oktaven)

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

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


skeleton

skeletons (plural)
skeleta (plural)
sceleton (alternative)

From New Latin sceleton, from Ancient Greek σκελετόν (skeletón), the neuter of σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up, withered, dried body, parched, mummy”), from σκέλλω (skéllō, “dry, dry up, make dry, parch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, wither”); compare Ancient Greek σκληρός (sklērós, “hard”).

der

(printing) A very thin form of light-faced type.


pes

la-noun

pēs m (genitive pedis); third declension

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

Balkan Romance:

⇒ Aromanian: pezã

Romanian: piez ⇒ piază

Dalmatian:

pi

Italo-Romance

Corsican: pede

Gallurese: pedi

Italian: piede

→ Esperanto: piedo

→ Ladino: piede (regional)

Neapolitan: pede

Sassarese: pedi

Sicilian: pedi, peri

Rhaeto-Romance:

Friulian: pît

Romansch: pe

Padanian:

Istriot: peîe, pèie

Gallo-Italic:

Ligurian: pê

Piedmontese: pe

Romagnol: pè, pid (Rimini, San Marino)

Venetan: piè

Northern Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: pièd

Norman: pid, pyid

desctree

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

Southern Gallo-Romance:

Catalan: peu

Old Occitan: pe
Occitan: pè

Ibero-Romance:

Asturian: pie

Extremaduran: pie

Leonese: pía

Mirandese: pie

Old Navarro-Aragonese: pie, pied

Aragonese: piet

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

Old Spanish: pie
Ladino: pye
Spanish: pie

Sardinian:

Campidanese: pei

Logudorese: pe

Nuorese: pede

Derived forms:

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pedicāre

Catalan: petjar

Borrowings:

→ English: pes

→ Ido: pedo

→ Interlingua: pede

→⇒ German: stante pede

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

vāde, liber, verbīsque meīs loca grāta salūtā:

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

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


spaghetti

en-noun

spaghetti (usually uncountable, plural spaghettis)

The noun is borrowed from Italian spaghetti, the plural of spaghetto (“dish of spaghetti; (rare) strand of spaghetti”), from spago (“cord, string, twine; thread”) + -etto (diminutive suffix). Spago is derived from Latin spagus (“twine”), probably from Ancient Greek σφάκος (sphákos, “apple sage (Salvia pomifera)”), probably from Pre-Greek.
The verb is derived from the noun.

مَعْكَرُونَة

type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings

spagetti

something physically resembling spaghetti (sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled

spaghetti western
spaghetti western#English

(by extension, countable) Denoting Italianness.

(film) Ellipsis of spaghetti western (“a motion picture depicting a story of cowboys and desperadoes set in the American Old West, but produced by an Italian-based company and filmed in Europe, notably in Italy”).


metaverse

From meta- + (uni)verse. Analyzable as meta- + -verse. In the sci-fi sense coined by American science fiction writer Neal Stephenson in 1992.

coin

It is closer, in other words, to another science fiction vision, the “metaverse” Neal Stephenson envisioned in his 1992 Snow Crash. That particular moniker has not caught on, but many of Stephenson's ideas about what the on-line world can look like are driving a new generation of entrepreneurs to try to match it.

1997 July 7, Zina Moukheiber, “The geeks have inherited the earth”, in Forbes, →ISSN, pages 354–356:

But now, with 350 million players who are used to hanging out in a vibrant, ridiculous online world filled with dancing bananas and cartoon skirmishes, Party Royale could be the experience that finally realises the idea of a playful, mass participation online metaverse.

2020 May 15, Keith Stuart, “Fortnite Party Royale is the most fun you can have in the metaverse”, in The Guardian:

Video games like Roblox and Fortnite and Animal Crossing: New Horizons, in which players can build their own worlds, have metaverse tendencies, as does most social media. If you own a non-fungible token or even just some crypto, you’re part of the metaversal experience. Virtual and augmented reality are, at a minimum, metaverse adjacent.

2021 July 10, John Herrman, Kellen Browning, “Are We in the Metaverse Yet?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

In the world of Snow Crash, the metaverse is not viewed as particularly cool—it is necessary, because the real world has become so unbearable.

2021 July 30, Brian Merchant, “The Metaverse Has Always Been a Dystopian Idea”, in VICE:

The metaverse is the convergence of two ideas that have been around for many years: virtual reality and a digital second life.

2022 January 18, Brian X. Chen, “What’s All the Hype About the Metaverse?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(science fiction, Internet, computing) A hypothetical future (counterpart or continuation of the) Internet, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual space.


rest

en-noun

rest (countable and uncountable, plural rests)

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

rest

stick used to support the cue in snooker

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


Old English

Wiktionary’s coverage of Old English terms

(typography, historical) The form of black letter used by 16th-century English printers.


bulldog

→ French: bouledogue

→ German: Bulldogge

→ Portuguese: buldogue

From bull + dog, in reference to bullbaiting.

The bulldog's just gone to press.


crab

en-verb

crab (third-person singular simple present crabs, present participle crabbing, simple past and past participle crabbed)

crabs (present singular third-person)
crabbing (participle present)
crabbed (participle past)
crabbed (past)

From Middle English crabbe, from Old English crabba (“crab; crayfish; cancer”), from Proto-West Germanic *krabbō, from Proto-Germanic *krabbô, from *krabbōną (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *grobʰeh₂yéti (“scratch, claw at”), a metathesised o-grade of *gerbʰ-. More at carve.
Cognates
See also Dutch krab, Low German Krabb, Danish krabbe, Swedish krabba.
Further cognates with frequentative-infix are Saterland Frisian krabbelje (“to creep, crawl”), Dutch krabbelen (“to scratch”) and German krabbeln (“to crawl”). Possibly related to English creep and Swedish krypa (“to creep, crawl”) etc.

cog

If panning is not easy to make seem natural, crabbing the camera is even less like any action we perform with our eyes in the real world. There are a few circumstances in which we walk sideways: […]

1997, Paul Kriwaczek, Documentary for the Small Screen, page 109:

(transitive, film, television) To move (a camera) sideways.


義訓

/i⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕyn⁵¹/

/jiː²² fɐn³³/

/i⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕyn⁵¹/

/jiː²² fɐn³³/

(literature) annotation of an ancient word with its meaning


chase

Perhaps from French châsse (“case”, “reliquary”), from Old French chasse, from Latin capsa. Doublet of case, cash, and chasse.

The die-maker should work upon the surface of an imposing table. First, he places on the table the chase in which the die is to be locked up. Second, he fills in the chase with regular printer’s wood furniture, leaving space in the center for the die, and placing locking quoins near the top of the chase and on the right-hand side of the chase. Third, the cutting and creasing rules are set in the open space in the center of the chase, filling in with metal or wood furniture.

1920, Robert F. Salade, chapter IX, in How Paper Boxes are Made:

(printing) A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making.