Befana

From Vulgar Latin or Late Latin *epiphanĭa for Latin epiphanīa, from Ancient Greek ἐπιφάνεια (epipháneia, “manifestation, striking appearance”). Doublet of Epifania.

uder

(folklore) a folkloric figure resembling an ugly but kind old witch who gives treats or presents to children in the night before Epiphany


cancrine

en-adj

cancrine (comparative more cancrine, superlative most cancrine)

more cancrine (comparative)
most cancrine (superlative)

From Latin cancer (“crab”) + -īnus, as if from *cancrīnus. The poetry sense comes from the fact that most species of crab can walk sideways, either left or right.

[…] the prodigious variety of ſo many kinds of verſe, Leonine, Alexandrine, Acroſtic, Chronologic, Hieroglyphic, Cancrine, Croſs-formed, Labyrinthic, Pyramidal, and a thouſand other follies […]

1772, José Francisco de Isla, translated by Thomas Nugent, The History of the Famous Preacher Friar Gerund de Campazas: Otherwise Gerund Zotes, volume I, London: T. Davies, page 233:

A marble bénitier, vessel for holy water, is surrounded with what Alvarez has denominated a recurrent, or Cancrine verse, which forms the same words beginning at each end: ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑΤΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ.

1814, “A Short Sketch of a Short Trip to Paris”, in Abraham John Valpy, editor, The Pamphleteer, volume III, number VI, page 532:

(poetry) Palindromic; reading the same forwards or backwards.


spiritus lenis

Learned borrowing from Latin spīritus lēnis.

lbor

smooth breathing
smooth breathing#English

(orthography) Synonym of smooth breathing


spiritus asper

From Latin spīritus asper (literally “rough breath”).

bor

The spiritus asper mark looks like an opening single quote, as in the word εὑρίσκω (heurískõ), the word εὕρηκα (heúrēka), or the word ἕξις (héxis, "habit").

h, as an aspirate, is very frequent in Chinese ; it is generally a stronger aspirate than in English : in the dialects of the south it is often changed into f, in the north into s, or sh. To mark an aspirate after a consonant, we use the Greek spiritus asper in preference to h.

1836 May, “System of Orthography for Chinese words”, in The Chinese Repository, volume V, number I, page 27:

(orthography) A diacritic mark ( ʻ ) in Ancient Greek used to indicate aspiration of an initial vowel or rho; also used for a similar sound in the Wade–Giles system of romanization for Mandarin Chinese.

examples from the Wade–Giles romanization system


metrum

id-noun

mètrum (first-person possessive metrumku, second-person possessive metrummu, third-person possessive metrumnya)

mètrum (canonical)
metrumku (first-person possessive)
metrummu (possessive second-person)
metrumnya (possessive third-person)

Learned borrowing from Latin metrum (“measure”) via Dutch metrum, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”). Doublet of meter.


metrum

head

metrum n (definite singular metrumet or metret, indefinite plural metrumer or metra, definite plural metruma or metrumene or metraene)

metrumet (definite singular)
metret (definite singular)
metrumer (indefinite plural)
metra (indefinite plural)
metruma (definite plural)
metrumene (definite plural)
metraene (definite plural)

From Latin metrum, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”). Doublet of meter.


metrum

metrumet (definite singular)
metrum (indefinite plural)
metruma (definite plural)


metrum

metrum (nominative singular)
metra (nominative plural)
metrum (genitive singular)
metrów (genitive plural)
metrum (dative singular)
metrom (dative plural)
metrum (accusative singular)
metra (accusative plural)
metrum (instrumental singular)
metrami (instrumental plural)
metrum (locative singular)
metrach (locative plural)
metrum (singular vocative)
metra (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin metrum. Doublet of metr.

(poetry) metre (rhythm or measure in verse)


skimmer

Kondric stood beside the skimmer for a moment, looking back at his warriors. They shouted and banged their swords on their shields. He raised his hand in farewell, and followed Violet into the cabin.

2015, Aurora Springer, Grand Master's Pawn:

They said no one landed on other planets. They said there was no such thing as a skimmer. Rocky hadn't believed them. They didn't know everything. He wished they could see the skimmer.

2000, Carlie Simonsen, Rocky to the Rescue, page 2:

(science fiction) A small, fast-moving spacecraft.


金星人

цзиньсинжэнь

/t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ɕiŋ⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/

/kɐm⁵⁵ sɪŋ⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/

/t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ɕiŋ⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/

/kɐm⁵⁵ sɪŋ⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/

(science fiction) Venusian (inhabitant of Venus)


金星人

金星人 (canonical)
kinseijin (romanization)

[kʲĩɰ̃se̞ːʑĩɴ]

金星 (Kinsei, “Venus”) + 人 (-jin, “human”)

suf

(science fiction) a Venusian (inhabitant of Venus)


火星人

ㄏㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥ ㄖㄣˊ

/xu̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕiŋ⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/

/fɔː³⁵ sɪŋ⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/

/xu̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕiŋ⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/

/fɔː³⁵ sɪŋ⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 火(か)星(せい)人(じん) (kaseijin).

(science fiction) Martian (inhabitant of Mars)


火星人

[ka̠se̞ːʑĩɴ]

(science fiction) a Martian (inhabitant of Mars)


天の川

ja-pos

天(あま)の川(がわ) • (Amanogawa) ^(←あまのがは (Amanogafa)?)

天の川 (canonical)
Amanogawa (romanization)
Amanogafa (romanization)
あまのがは (hiragana historical)

From 天 (ama, “heaven”) + の (no, possessive/attributive particle) + 川 (kawa, “river”).

af

(folklore) the Milky Way (where Orihime could meet Hikoboshi on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month)


esper

From ESP + -er from ESP (“extrasensory perception”).

I don't know why anybody would be spying on me, either, but—I'm neither a Lensman nor an esper, but I'd swear that somebody's peeking over my shoulder half the time.

1942 June 5, Edward Elmer Smith, “Storm Cloud on Deka”, in Astonishing Stories, volume 3, number 4:

But Espers can’t pick up any EK brain pattern farther than the horizon. It’s direct wave transmission. Even large objects cannot be penetrated. A building, say, or a—

1950 August 5, Alfred Bester, “The Devil's Invention”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 45, number 6, page 139:

extrasensory perception
extrasensory perception

(chiefly science fiction) A person who has extrasensory perception.


planeteer

Blend of planet + volunteer or planet + -eer.

(science fiction, rare) Someone who makes interplanetary journeys.


terraform

en-verb

terraform (third-person singular simple present terraforms, present participle terraforming, simple past and past participle terraformed)

terraforms (present singular third-person)
terraforming (participle present)
terraformed (participle past)
terraformed (past)

/ˈtɛɹəfɔː(ɹ)m/

From Terra (“planet Earth”) + -form (“having the form of”). Coined by American science fiction author Jack Williamson in 1942 as part of his novella Collision Orbit.

coin

He had been the original claimant of Obania, forty years ago; and Drake was the young spatial engineer he employed to terraform the little rock, only two kilometers through—by sinking a shaft to its heart for the paragravity installation, generating oxygen and water from mineral oxides, releasing absorptive gases to trap the feeble heat of the far-off Sun.

1942 July, Jack Williamson, “Collision Orbit”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 29, number 5, page 82:

(chiefly science fiction) To transform the atmosphere (or biosphere) of another planet into one having the characteristics of Earth.

maankaltaistaa

transform into one having the characteristics of Earth


run in

en-adj

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

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

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

One of the best headings for saving space is the heading that is run in.

1956, Daniel Melcher, Nancy Larrick, Printing and Promotion Handbook:

Third subheadings begin paragraphs (are indented and run in).

1976, American Institute of Physics, Editorial Handbook, page 17:

You can select how far you want subentries indented, how many lines between each entry and alphabetical block, and whether you want the final index indented (each sub- and sub-subheading indented under its parent) or run in (subheadings in paragraph form under the main heading).

1985 April 16, Charles Anderson, “The Ins and Outs of Indexing”, in PC Mag, volume 4, number 8, page 322:

Heading levels 3 through 7 are run in headings — the text that follows the heading appears on the same line as the heading.

1987, Rachel Morgan, Henry McGilton, Introducing UNIX System V, page 333:

Secondary headings are flush left, in regular type, and capitalized headline style. Tertiary headings are run in at the beginning of a paragraph, in bold type, capitalized sentence style, and followed by a period.

2019, Editorial staff, “Guide to Authors”, in Nagoya Journal of Medical Science, archived from the original on 2021-12-23:

participial adjective
participial adjective

Alternative form of run-in (adj) (styled open when in predicative position)

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


gomme

→ Vietnamese: gôm

Borrowed from Late Latin gumma, from Latin cummi, gummi, from Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi), from Egyptian qmy (“anointing oil”), qmyt (“acanthus resin, gum”).


rondeau

From Middle French rondeau, from Old French rondel. Doublet of rondo.

Though we have the English rondels of Occleve and a set of rondeaus in the Rolliad (written by Dr. Lawrence, the friend of Burke, according to Mr. Edmund Gosse, who has given us an admirable essay upon exotic forms of verse), […].

1914, Theodore Watts-Dunton, Poetry and The Renascence of Wonder, page 198:

First of all, the two rondeaux appear in the 1538 version of the previously published Adoleseenee Clementine at the end of the section of poems of the same genre.

1991, Doranne Fenoaltea, David Lee Rubin, The Ladder of High Designs, page 50:

(poetry) A fixed form of verse based on two rhyme sounds and consisting usually of 13 lines in three stanzas with the opening words of the first line of the first stanza used as an independent refrain after the second and third stanzas.


rondeau

From Old French rondel, diminutive of ront.


deflector

The blasters are those beams of ravening destruction which take care of recalcitrant meteorites in a spaceship's course when the deflectors can't handle them.

1945 May 5, Murray Leinster, “First Contact”, in Astounding Stories, volume 35, number 3:

Deflectors say there's something there, sensors say there isn't. Density negative. Radiation negative. Energy negative.

1966 September 22, Samuel A. Peeples, Where No Man Has Gone Before (Star Trek), episode 3, spoken by Spock (Leonard Nimoy):

PICARD: If the Romulans have returned to this sector we should know about that. Mister Worf, any further activity?
WORF: Negative, sir.
PICARD: Slow to half impulse.
LAFORGE: Going to one half impulse. ... Now entering quadrant nine-zero-seven, mark three.
PICARD: Shields and deflectors up. Go to Yellow Alert.

1988 March 21, Heart of Glory (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (Science Fiction), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC:

(science fiction) A force field; an invisible barrier used as a protective shield.


spin-off

carveout

partial spin-off in a corporate reorganization

tie-in

work of fiction based on an original media property

"Frasier" was a spin-off from the sitcom "Cheers".

The Harry Potter spin-off prequel series Fantastic Beasts has been “parked” by Warner Bros, according to its director David Yates.

2023 October 27, “Fantastic Beasts: JK Rowling franchise has been ‘parked’, director says”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(fiction) A fictional work where the protagonist was introduced in a preceding work or at least shares the same setting, often in a different aspect.


spin-off

Unadapted borrowing from English spin-off


pantser

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

From the expression fly by the seat of one's pants.

Coordinate term: plotter

(slang, writing) An author who writes their story without a plan or an outline.


楷書

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (楷書):
* → Japanese: 楷書(かいしょ) (kaisho)
* → Korean: 해서(楷書) (haeseo)
* → Vietnamese: khải thư (楷書)

/kʰaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂu⁵⁵/

/kʰaːi̯³⁵ syː⁵⁵/

/kʰai⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡sɯ³³/

/kʰai⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ su⁴⁴/

/kʰai⁴⁴⁵⁻³³ su³³/

/kʰai⁵³⁻⁴⁴ su⁴⁴/

/kʰai⁵³⁻⁴⁴ si⁴⁴/

/kʰaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂu⁵⁵/

/kʰaːi̯³⁵ syː⁵⁵/

/kʰai⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡sɯ³³/

/kʰai⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ su⁴⁴/

/kʰai⁴⁴⁵⁻³³ su³³/

/kʰai⁵³⁻⁴⁴ su⁴⁴/

/kʰai⁵³⁻⁴⁴ si⁴⁴/

(Chinese calligraphy) regular script (the newest style of Chinese calligraphy, the most common in modern writings and publications)


tetralogia

pl-noun

tetralogia f (related adjective tetralogiczny)

tetralogiczny (adjective)
tetralogia (nominative singular)
tetralogie (nominative plural)
tetralogii (genitive singular)
tetralogii (genitive plural)
tetralogij (archaic genitive plural)
tetralogii (dative singular)
tetralogiom (dative plural)
tetralogię (accusative singular)
tetralogie (accusative plural)
tetralogią (instrumental singular)
tetralogiami (instrumental plural)
tetralogii (locative singular)
tetralogiach (locative plural)
tetralogio (singular vocative)
tetralogie (plural vocative)

(film, literature, music, painting, theater) tetralogy (set of four works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as four individual works)


butterfly effect

en-noun

butterfly effect (plural butterfly effects)

A Sound of Thunder
Chaos: Making a New Science
Edward Lorenz
Lorenz attractor
Ray Bradbury
butterfly effect

Coined by American author and historian of science James Gleick in 1987 in his book Chaos: Making a New Science, whose first chapter bears the title “The Butterfly Effect”, and in which he discusses “the paradox of the butterfly’s wings” potentially making the difference whether a hurricane will or will not arise somewhere else later. Meteorologist Edward Lorenz, the founder of modern chaos theory, had in 1972, at a scientific meeting, presented a paper entitled “Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings set off a tornado in Texas?” without using the specific term butterfly effect. Lorenz also notes that representations of the strange attractor now known as the “Lorenz attractor” resemble a butterfly, as well as that correspondents have drawn his attention to Ray Bradbury’s short science fiction story “A Sound of Thunder”, in which a time traveler’s crushing a butterfly in the Late Cretaceous changes the outcome of a present-day presidential election. But the metaphorical butterfly was actually introduced in the title of the 1972 presentation by meteorologist Philip Merilees, who was not familiar with Bradbury’s story.

coinage

Example of butterfly effect: stepping on a bug 4,000 years ago causes a different person to win the presidential election today.

(by extension, science fiction) The notion that small changes in the past via time travel can cause disproportionately large and unforeseeable consequences in the present.


encomium

/ɛŋˈkəʊ.mɪ.əm/

From Latin encōmium (“praise, eulogy”), from Ancient Greek ἐγκώμιον (enkṓmion, “laudatory ode, praise”), from ἐγκώμιος (enkṓmios, “of or pertaining to the victor”), from κῶμος (kômos, “festival, revel, ode”).

der

(literature) A genre of literature that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue.


促音

(Japanese orthography) the small kana っ/ッ used to spell a moraic obstruent


aperte

la-adv

apertē (comparative apertius, superlative apertissimē)

apertē (canonical)
apertius (comparative)
apertissimē (superlative)

From apertus (“open, uncovered; frank, candid”) + -ē (“-ly”, adverbial suffix).

af

(writing) plainly, clearly, freely, without reserve


imaginist

One evening, with no boisterous or bibulous Imaginists about her and no sign of any other callers, she suggested to the secretary of the school that they ought to play with the ouija board.

1929, Irma Duncan, Allan Ross Macdougall, chapter 16, in Isadora Duncan’s Russian Days and Her Last Years in France, London: Victor Gollancz, page 133:

[…] during the years of the civil war, scarcely any works of pure literature were printed at all. Poetry was recited orally: futurists and their close literary allies, the imaginists, organized poetry soirées, open to the public, in Moscow cafés.

1938, N. de Basily, Russia under Soviet Rule: Twenty Years of Bolshevik Experiment, London: George Allen & Unwin, Chapter 8, p. 427, note 3:

During the worst days of Bolshevík tyranny, when book publishing had become impossible, the imaginists were a living reminder of undying freedom; they were the only independent group that were not afraid to make themselves noticed by the authorities, and they were wonderfully skilled in getting their slender little collections and manifestoes printed by fair means or foul.

1949, D. S. Mirsky, A History of Russian Literature, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, Book Two, Chapter 6, pp. 494-5:

(literature) One of the Russian poets belonging to the imaginism movement.


foreshadowing

en-noun

foreshadowing (usually uncountable, plural foreshadowings)

The roses blooming before Rose herself bloomed was excellent foreshadowing.

As an experienced editor I disapprove of backflashes, foreshadowings and tricksy devices […]

2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

(literature, usually uncountable) A literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story.


sausage factory

sausage factory (plural sausage factories)

In the sense of a gathering without women, sausage is a euphemism for penis. In other figurative senses, it is an example of a food that may be made from distasteful ingredients.

(literature) An unappealing process to generate something familiar.


sloka meter

(poetry, Hinduism) A Sanskrit meter consisting of two lines of sixteen syllables each.


Pinkerton syndrome

John Pinkerton
Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Named after Scottish antiquarian, author and historian John Pinkerton (1758–1826), coined by J. Derrick McClure: see 1985 quotation.

[page 57] The language of writers who are safely dead, and can be studied without fear of their exerting a subversive influence, bears the respectable label 'old Scots dialect'; the same tongue spoken by the living compatriots of these writers is 'bad grammar'. […] This attitude is of course not new; though perhaps seldom expressed so blatantly. I call it the Pinkerton syndrome, after one of the many memorable figures in out national gallimaufray of scholarly eccentrics. John Pinkerton (1758–1826), poet, critic, historian, dramatist and Celtophobe, in 1786 produced a book, entitled Ancient Scotish Poems, never before in print: […] [H]e wrote: "none can more sincerely wish a total extinction of the Scotish colloquial dialect than I do, for there are few modern Scoticisms which are not barbarisms ... Yet, I believe, no man of either kingdom would wish an extinction of the Scotish dialect in poetry." […] [page 58] This is the Pinkerton syndrome: the practice of paying lip-service, and sometimes much more than this, to the Scottish culture of the past while denigrating the Scots language of the present. And it is still prevalent today.

1985, J. Derrick McClure, “The Pinkerton Syndrome”, in Chapman: Scotland's Quality Literary Magazine, Edinburgh: Chapman Magazine and Publications, OCLC 55590049, pages 2–8; reprinted in Scots and Its Literature (Varieties of English around the World, General Series; 14), Amsterdam; Philadelphia, Pa., John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1996, ISBN 978-90-272-4872-5, pages 57–58

James Beattie personifies the Pinkerton syndrome perfectly, for, while publishing lists of Scotticisms to be avoided, he still found time to write the occasional verse in Scots himself.

1986, Billy Kay, Scots: The Mither Tongue, Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, →ISBN:

(literature, Scotland) Having esteem for older Scottish literature but not the modern Scottish tongue.


ammus

ammus (nominative singular)
ammus (dual nominative)
aimse (nominative plural)
ammus (singular vocative)
ammus (dual vocative)
amsiu (plural vocative)
ammus (accusative singular)
ammus (accusative dual)
amsiu (accusative plural)
aimseo (genitive singular)
aimsea (genitive singular)
aimseo (dual genitive)
aimsea (dual genitive)
aimse (genitive plural)
ammus (dative singular)
aimsib (dative dual)
aimsib (dative plural)
ammus (mutation mutation-radical)
n-ammus (mutation)

Irish: amas

From a byform *admessus, a derivative of Proto-Celtic *messus, the ancestor of mess (“judgement”). Equivalent henceforth to ad- + mess. The syncope of the front vowel in the second syllable triggered the palatalization of the ms cluster in the oblique stems, with u-infection obscuring the original front vowel in the rest of the declension.


spidery

en-adj

spidery (comparative more spidery, superlative most spidery)

more spidery (comparative)
most spidery (superlative)

(writing, figurative) Cramped or illegible; especially when spiky.


laho

Borrowed from Sanskrit राहु (rāhu, “Rāhu”). Compare Kapampangan lau and Indonesian rahu.

bor+

(folklore, obsolete) eclipse monster that devours the moon


апостроф

ru-noun+

апо́строф or апостро́ф • (apóstrof or apostróf) m inan (genitive апо́строфа or апостро́фа, nominative plural апо́строфы or апостро́фы, genitive plural апо́строфов or апостро́фов)

апо́строф (canonical)
апостро́ф (canonical)
apóstrof (romanization)
apostróf (romanization)
апо́строфа (genitive)
апостро́фа (genitive)
апо́строфы (nominative plural)
апостро́фы (nominative plural)
апо́строфов (genitive plural)
апостро́фов (genitive plural)
апо́строф (nominative singular)
апостро́ф (nominative singular)
апо́строфы (nominative plural)
апостро́фы (nominative plural)
апо́строфа (genitive singular)
апостро́фа (genitive singular)
апо́строфов (genitive plural)
апостро́фов (genitive plural)
апо́строфу (dative singular)
апостро́фу (dative singular)
апо́строфам (dative plural)
апостро́фам (dative plural)
апо́строф (accusative singular)
апостро́ф (accusative singular)
апо́строфы (accusative plural)
апостро́фы (accusative plural)
апо́строфом (instrumental singular)
апостро́фом (instrumental singular)
апо́строфами (instrumental plural)
апостро́фами (instrumental plural)
апо́строфе (prepositional singular)
апостро́фе (prepositional singular)
апо́строфах (plural prepositional)
апостро́фах (plural prepositional)

→ Azerbaijani: apostrof

Ru-апо́строф.ogg

Borrowed from French apostrophe, which in turn is borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπόστροφος.

(orthography) apostrophe (the character ’)


anfangi

anfangi (nominative singular)
anfangit (nominative plural)
anfangi (accusative nominative singular)
anfangit (accusative nominative plural)
anfangin (accusative genitive singular)
anfangit (accusative genitive plural)
anfangin (genitive singular)
anfangien (genitive plural)
anfangia (partitive singular)
anfangeja (partitive plural)
anfangissa (inessive singular)
anfangeissa (inessive plural)
anfangista (elative singular)
anfangeista (elative plural)
anfangiin (illative singular)
anfangeihin (illative plural)
anfangilla (adessive singular)
anfangeilla (adessive plural)
anfangilta (ablative singular)
anfangeilta (ablative plural)
anfangille (allative singular)
anfangeille (allative plural)
anfangina (essive singular)
anfangeina (essive plural)
anfangiksi (singular translative)
anfangeiksi (plural translative)
anfangitta (abessive singular)
anfangeitta (abessive plural)
anfangein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
anfangini (nominative singular)
anfangini (nominative plural)
anfangini (accusative nominative singular)
anfangini (accusative nominative plural)
anfangini (accusative genitive singular)
anfangini (accusative genitive plural)
anfangini (genitive singular)
anfangieni (genitive plural)
anfangiani (partitive singular)
anfangejani (partitive plural)
anfangissani (inessive singular)
anfangeissani (inessive plural)
anfangistani (elative singular)
anfangeistani (elative plural)
anfangiini (illative singular)
anfangeihini (illative plural)
anfangillani (adessive singular)
anfangeillani (adessive plural)
anfangiltani (ablative singular)
anfangeiltani (ablative plural)
anfangilleni (allative singular)
anfangeilleni (allative plural)
anfanginani (essive singular)
anfangeinani (essive plural)
anfangikseni (singular translative)
anfangeikseni (plural translative)
anfangittani (abessive singular)
anfangeittani (abessive plural)
anfangeineni (comitative plural)
anfangisi (nominative singular)
anfangisi (nominative plural)
anfangisi (accusative nominative singular)
anfangisi (accusative nominative plural)
anfangisi (accusative genitive singular)
anfangisi (accusative genitive plural)
anfangisi (genitive singular)
anfangiesi (genitive plural)
anfangiasi (partitive singular)
anfangejasi (partitive plural)
anfangissasi (inessive singular)
anfangeissasi (inessive plural)
anfangistasi (elative singular)
anfangeistasi (elative plural)
anfangiisi (illative singular)
anfangeihisi (illative plural)
anfangillasi (adessive singular)
anfangeillasi (adessive plural)
anfangiltasi (ablative singular)
anfangeiltasi (ablative plural)
anfangillesi (allative singular)
anfangeillesi (allative plural)
anfanginasi (essive singular)
anfangeinasi (essive plural)
anfangiksesi (singular translative)
anfangeiksesi (plural translative)
anfangittasi (abessive singular)
anfangeittasi (abessive plural)
anfangeinesi (comitative plural)
anfangimme (nominative singular)
anfangimme (nominative plural)
anfangimme (accusative nominative singular)
anfangimme (accusative nominative plural)
anfangimme (accusative genitive singular)
anfangimme (accusative genitive plural)
anfangimme (genitive singular)
anfangiemme (genitive plural)
anfangiamme (partitive singular)
anfangejamme (partitive plural)
anfangissamme (inessive singular)
anfangeissamme (inessive plural)
anfangistamme (elative singular)
anfangeistamme (elative plural)
anfangiimme (illative singular)
anfangeihimme (illative plural)
anfangillamme (adessive singular)
anfangeillamme (adessive plural)
anfangiltamme (ablative singular)
anfangeiltamme (ablative plural)
anfangillemme (allative singular)
anfangeillemme (allative plural)
anfanginamme (essive singular)
anfangeinamme (essive plural)
anfangiksemme (singular translative)
anfangeiksemme (plural translative)
anfangittamme (abessive singular)
anfangeittamme (abessive plural)
anfangeinemme (comitative plural)
anfanginne (nominative singular)
anfanginne (nominative plural)
anfanginne (accusative nominative singular)
anfanginne (accusative nominative plural)
anfanginne (accusative genitive singular)
anfanginne (accusative genitive plural)
anfanginne (genitive singular)
anfangienne (genitive plural)
anfangianne (partitive singular)
anfangejanne (partitive plural)
anfangissanne (inessive singular)
anfangeissanne (inessive plural)
anfangistanne (elative singular)
anfangeistanne (elative plural)
anfangiinne (illative singular)
anfangeihinne (illative plural)
anfangillanne (adessive singular)
anfangeillanne (adessive plural)
anfangiltanne (ablative singular)
anfangeiltanne (ablative plural)
anfangillenne (allative singular)
anfangeillenne (allative plural)
anfanginanne (essive singular)
anfangeinanne (essive plural)
anfangiksenne (singular translative)
anfangeiksenne (plural translative)
anfangittanne (abessive singular)
anfangeittanne (abessive plural)
anfangeinenne (comitative plural)
anfanginsa (nominative singular)
anfanginsa (nominative plural)
anfanginsa (accusative nominative singular)
anfanginsa (accusative nominative plural)
anfanginsa (accusative genitive singular)
anfanginsa (accusative genitive plural)
anfanginsa (genitive singular)
anfangiensa (genitive plural)
anfangiaan (partitive singular)
anfangiansa (partitive singular)
anfangejaan (partitive plural)
anfangejansa (partitive plural)
anfangissaan (inessive singular)
anfangissansa (inessive singular)
anfangeissaan (inessive plural)
anfangeissansa (inessive plural)
anfangistaan (elative singular)
anfangistansa (elative singular)
anfangeistaan (elative plural)
anfangeistansa (elative plural)
anfangiinsa (illative singular)
anfangeihinsa (illative plural)
anfangillaan (adessive singular)
anfangillansa (adessive singular)
anfangeillaan (adessive plural)
anfangeillansa (adessive plural)
anfangiltaan (ablative singular)
anfangiltansa (ablative singular)
anfangeiltaan (ablative plural)
anfangeiltansa (ablative plural)
anfangilleen (allative singular)
anfangillensa (allative singular)
anfangeilleen (allative plural)
anfangeillensa (allative plural)
anfanginaan (essive singular)
anfanginansa (essive singular)
anfangeinaan (essive plural)
anfangeinansa (essive plural)
anfangikseen (singular translative)
anfangiksensa (singular translative)
anfangeikseen (plural translative)
anfangeiksensa (plural translative)
anfangittaan (abessive singular)
anfangittansa (abessive singular)
anfangeittaan (abessive plural)
anfangeittansa (abessive plural)
anfangeineen (comitative plural)
anfangeinensa (comitative plural)

[ˈɑ̝ɱfɑ̝ŋːi]

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


apostrof

az-noun

apostrof (definite accusative apostrofu, plural apostroflar)

apostrofu (accusative definite)
apostroflar (plural)
apostrof (nominative singular)
apostroflar (nominative plural)
apostrofu (accusative definite singular)
apostrofları (accusative definite plural)
apostrofa (dative singular)
apostroflara (dative plural)
apostrofda (locative singular)
apostroflarda (locative plural)
apostrofdan (ablative singular)
apostroflardan (ablative plural)
apostrofun (definite genitive singular)
apostrofların (definite genitive plural)
apostrofum (first-person nominative possessed-single possessive singular)
apostroflarım (first-person nominative possessed-many possessive singular)
apostrofun (nominative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
apostrofların (nominative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
apostrofu (nominative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
apostrofları (nominative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
apostrofumuz (first-person nominative plural possessed-single possessive)
apostroflarımız (first-person nominative plural possessed-many possessive)
apostrofunuz (nominative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
apostroflarınız (nominative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
apostrofu (nominative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
apostrofları (nominative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
apostrofları (nominative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
apostrofumu (accusative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
apostroflarımı (accusative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
apostrofunu (accusative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
apostroflarını (accusative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
apostrofunu (accusative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
apostroflarını (accusative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
apostrofumuzu (accusative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
apostroflarımızı (accusative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
apostrofunuzu (accusative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
apostroflarınızı (accusative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
apostrofunu (accusative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
apostroflarını (accusative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
apostroflarını (accusative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
apostrofuma (dative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
apostroflarıma (dative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
apostrofuna (dative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
apostroflarına (dative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
apostrofuna (dative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
apostroflarına (dative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
apostrofumuza (dative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
apostroflarımıza (dative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
apostrofunuza (dative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
apostroflarınıza (dative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
apostrofuna (dative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
apostroflarına (dative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
apostroflarına (dative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
apostrofumda (first-person locative possessed-single possessive singular)
apostroflarımda (first-person locative possessed-many possessive singular)
apostrofunda (locative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
apostroflarında (locative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
apostrofunda (locative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
apostroflarında (locative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
apostrofumuzda (first-person locative plural possessed-single possessive)
apostroflarımızda (first-person locative plural possessed-many possessive)
apostrofunuzda (locative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
apostroflarınızda (locative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
apostrofunda (locative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
apostroflarında (locative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
apostroflarında (locative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
apostrofumdan (ablative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
apostroflarımdan (ablative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
apostrofundan (ablative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
apostroflarından (ablative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
apostrofundan (ablative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
apostroflarından (ablative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
apostrofumuzdan (ablative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
apostroflarımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
apostrofunuzdan (ablative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
apostroflarınızdan (ablative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
apostrofundan (ablative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
apostroflarından (ablative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
apostroflarından (ablative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
apostrofumun (first-person genitive possessed-single possessive singular)
apostroflarımın (first-person genitive possessed-many possessive singular)
apostrofunun (genitive possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
apostroflarının (genitive possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
apostrofunun (genitive possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
apostroflarının (genitive possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
apostrofumuzun (first-person genitive plural possessed-single possessive)
apostroflarımızın (first-person genitive plural possessed-many possessive)
apostrofunuzun (genitive plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
apostroflarınızın (genitive plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
apostrofunun (genitive plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
apostroflarının (genitive plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
apostroflarının (genitive plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

From Russian апостроф (apostrof), from French apostrophe, from Latin apostrophus, ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀπόστροφος (apóstrophos, “accent of elision”).


apostrof

apostrof (nominative singular)
apostrofy (nominative plural)
apostrofu (genitive singular)
apostrofów (genitive plural)
apostrofowi (dative singular)
apostrofom (dative plural)
apostrof (accusative singular)
apostrofy (accusative plural)
apostrofem (instrumental singular)
apostrofami (instrumental plural)
apostrofie (locative singular)
apostrofach (locative plural)
apostrofie (singular vocative)
apostrofy (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin apostrophus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστροφος (apóstrophos). Doublet of apostrofa.

lbor

(orthography) apostrophe (the text character ’)


apostrof

apostrofu (accusative definite)
apostroflar (plural)
apostrof (nominative singular)
apostroflar (nominative plural)
apostrofu (accusative definite singular)
apostrofları (accusative definite plural)
apostrofa (dative singular)
apostroflara (dative plural)
apostrofta (locative singular)
apostroflarda (locative plural)
apostroftan (ablative singular)
apostroflardan (ablative plural)
apostrofun (genitive singular)
apostrofların (genitive plural)

From French apostrophe, from Latin apostrophus.


topic sentence

(authorship) A sentence at the beginning of a paragraph indicating the general matter to be discussed later in that paragraph.


мара

bg-noun

ма́ра • (mára) f

ма́ра (canonical)
mára (romanization)
ма́ра (indefinite singular)
ма́рата (definite singular)

Deverbal from ма́ря (márja, “to worry, to stress over”), related to мор (mor, “plague”), умо́ра (umóra, “fatigue”).

deverbal

Мара Лишанка

(folklore) ritual commemorating Death and Mortality


magnà

magnà (infinitive)
magnànd (gerund)
magnàndo (gerund)
magnàa (participle past)
avè (auxiliary)
màgni (first-person indicative present singular)
màgnet (indicative present second-person singular)
màgna (indicative present singular third-person)
màgnom (first-person indicative plural present)
màgnov (indicative plural present second-person)
magnee (indicative plural present second-person)
màgnen (indicative plural present third-person)
magnàvi (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
magnàvet (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
magnàva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
magnàvom (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
magnàvov (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
magnàven (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
magnaróo (first-person future indicative singular)
magnaré (future indicative second-person singular)
magnarét (future indicative second-person singular)
magnarà (future indicative singular third-person)
magnarèmm (first-person future indicative plural)
magnarii (future indicative plural second-person)
magnarànn (future indicative plural third-person)
magnarìa (conditional first-person present singular)
magnarìss (conditional first-person present singular)
magnarìssi (conditional first-person present singular)
magnarìet (conditional present second-person singular)
magnarìsset (conditional present second-person singular)
magnarìa (conditional present singular third-person)
magnarìss (conditional present singular third-person)
magnarìom (conditional first-person plural present)
magnarìssom (conditional first-person plural present)
magnarìov (conditional plural present second-person)
magnarìssov (conditional plural present second-person)
magnarìen (conditional plural present third-person)
magnarìssen (conditional plural present third-person)
màgni (first-person present singular subjunctive)
màgnet (present second-person singular subjunctive)
màgna (present singular subjunctive third-person)
màgnom (first-person plural present subjunctive)
màgnov (plural present second-person subjunctive)
magnii (plural present second-person subjunctive)
màgnen (plural present subjunctive third-person)
magnàssi (first-person past singular subjunctive)
magnàsset (past second-person singular subjunctive)
magnàss (past singular subjunctive third-person)
magnàssom (first-person past plural subjunctive)
magnàssov (past plural second-person subjunctive)
magnàssen (past plural subjunctive third-person)
màgna (imperative second-person singular)
màgna (imperative singular third-person)
magnèmm (first-person imperative plural)
magnee (imperative plural second-person)
màgnen (imperative plural third-person)

(Classical Milanese orthography) Alternative spelling of manjar


magnà

(Classical Milanese orthography, usually uncountable) Alternative spelling of manjar


mindwipe

en-verb

mindwipe (third-person singular simple present mindwipes, present participle mindwiping, simple past and past participle mindwiped)

mindwipes (present singular third-person)
mindwiping (participle present)
mindwiped (participle past)
mindwiped (past)

Whether they were mindwiped upon their return to base, or simply terminated like useless equipment, Deutsch never knew.

2001, Jeffrey A Carver, James A Carver, Eternity's End:

In Adventures of Superman #636, Superman told Wonder Woman and Batman about how the League had mindwiped Dr. Light...

2006, Jeffery Klaehn, Inside the World of Comic Books:

(transitive, science fiction) To erase the memories and personality, while still leaving an intact, living brain and body. This is frequently portrayed as a form of capital punishment, which leaves a viable body into which a different personality or mind can be uploaded.


mindwipe

The mindwipe of Magneto is a necessary action and it is also a wrong one, but it appears to be the only way to save the human population from extinction.

2009, Andrew Terjesen, “Dirty Hands and Dirty Minds: The Ethics of Mind Reading and Mindwriting”, in X-Men and Philosophy:

(science fiction) The act of mindwiping.


beam up

beam up (third-person singular simple present beams up, present participle beaming up, simple past and past participle beamed up)

beams up (present singular third-person)
beaming up (participle present)
beamed up (participle past)
beamed up (past)

(science fiction, transitive) To teleport (someone or something) using a (fictional) device, especially from the surface of a planet to an orbiting starship.

(science fiction, intransitive) To be teleported, or to teleport oneself, in this manner.


sestina

From Italian sestina. Doublet of sextain.

Although the sestina is of medieval French origin, attributed to Arnaut Daniel in the late twelfth century and used by other Gallic poets and by Italians including Petrarch and Dante (from whom it received its Italian name), […]

2002, Annie Finch, Kathrine Varnes, An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 290:

Would he let others toil to support him while he languished all afternoon over his sestinas?

(poetry) A highly structured poem consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet or envoy, for a total of thirty-nine lines.


sestina

sestina (nominative singular)
sestiny (nominative plural)
sestiny (genitive singular)
sestin (genitive plural)
sestině (dative singular)
sestinám (dative plural)
sestinu (accusative singular)
sestiny (accusative plural)
sestino (singular vocative)
sestiny (plural vocative)
sestině (locative singular)
sestinách (locative plural)
sestinou (instrumental singular)
sestinami (instrumental plural)


sestina

→ English: sestina

(poetry) a six-line stanza, sestet, sestina, sextain


procedural

/pɹəˈsiːd͡ʒ(ə)ɹəl/

It is only fitting that the investigation of place-based police procedurals begins in America, where the police procedural was invented and turned into a literary art form.

2000, Gary Hausladen, Places for Dead Bodies, page 35:

David Fincher’s horribly addictive samurai procedural, adapted by Andrew Kevin Walker from the graphic novel by Alexis Nolent, stars Michael Fassbender as the un-named titular hitman[…]

2023 September 3, Peter Bradshaw, “The Killer review – terrific David Fincher thriller about a philosophising hitman”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(literature, film) A type of literature, film, or television program involving a sequence of technical detail.


communicator

‘Observation Officer of the Z12Q, attention!’ snapped from the tight-beam headquarters communicator. ‘Cut off those spy rays and report yourself under arrest for treason!’

1934 August 5, Edward Elmer Smith, “Skylark of Valeron”, in Astounding Stories, volume 13, number 6:

Captain, if the Iotians, who are very bright an imitative people, should take that communicator apart...

1968 January 12, David P. Harmon, Gene L. Coon, A Piece of the Action (Star Trek), season 2, episode 17, spoken by Spock (Leonard Nimoy):

(science fiction) A usually portable communications device.


force field

(science fiction) An invisible barrier used as a protective shield.


transversion

en-noun

transversion (countable and uncountable, plural transversions)

(literature) The changing from prose into verse, or verse into prose.


akuutti

fi-adj

akuutti (comparative akuutimpi, superlative akuutein)

akuutimpi (comparative)
akuutein (superlative)
akuutti (nominative singular)
akuutit (nominative plural)
akuutti (accusative nominative singular)
akuutit (accusative nominative plural)
akuutin (accusative genitive singular)
akuutit (accusative genitive plural)
akuutin (genitive singular)
akuuttien (genitive plural)
akuuttia (partitive singular)
akuutteja (partitive plural)
akuutissa (inessive singular)
akuuteissa (inessive plural)
akuutista (elative singular)
akuuteista (elative plural)
akuuttiin (illative singular)
akuutteihin (illative plural)
akuutilla (adessive singular)
akuuteilla (adessive plural)
akuutilta (ablative singular)
akuuteilta (ablative plural)
akuutille (allative singular)
akuuteille (allative plural)
akuuttina (essive singular)
akuutteina (essive plural)
akuutiksi (singular translative)
akuuteiksi (plural translative)
akuutitta (abessive singular)
akuuteitta (abessive plural)
akuutein (instructive plural)
akuutteine (comitative plural)
akuuttini (nominative singular)
akuuttini (nominative plural)
akuuttini (accusative nominative singular)
akuuttini (accusative nominative plural)
akuuttini (accusative genitive singular)
akuuttini (accusative genitive plural)
akuuttini (genitive singular)
akuuttieni (genitive plural)
akuuttiani (partitive singular)
akuuttejani (partitive plural)
akuutissani (inessive singular)
akuuteissani (inessive plural)
akuutistani (elative singular)
akuuteistani (elative plural)
akuuttiini (illative singular)
akuutteihini (illative plural)
akuutillani (adessive singular)
akuuteillani (adessive plural)
akuutiltani (ablative singular)
akuuteiltani (ablative plural)
akuutilleni (allative singular)
akuuteilleni (allative plural)
akuuttinani (essive singular)
akuutteinani (essive plural)
akuutikseni (singular translative)
akuuteikseni (plural translative)
akuutittani (abessive singular)
akuuteittani (abessive plural)
akuutteineni (comitative plural)
akuuttisi (nominative singular)
akuuttisi (nominative plural)
akuuttisi (accusative nominative singular)
akuuttisi (accusative nominative plural)
akuuttisi (accusative genitive singular)
akuuttisi (accusative genitive plural)
akuuttisi (genitive singular)
akuuttiesi (genitive plural)
akuuttiasi (partitive singular)
akuuttejasi (partitive plural)
akuutissasi (inessive singular)
akuuteissasi (inessive plural)
akuutistasi (elative singular)
akuuteistasi (elative plural)
akuuttiisi (illative singular)
akuutteihisi (illative plural)
akuutillasi (adessive singular)
akuuteillasi (adessive plural)
akuutiltasi (ablative singular)
akuuteiltasi (ablative plural)
akuutillesi (allative singular)
akuuteillesi (allative plural)
akuuttinasi (essive singular)
akuutteinasi (essive plural)
akuutiksesi (singular translative)
akuuteiksesi (plural translative)
akuutittasi (abessive singular)
akuuteittasi (abessive plural)
akuutteinesi (comitative plural)
akuuttimme (nominative singular)
akuuttimme (nominative plural)
akuuttimme (accusative nominative singular)
akuuttimme (accusative nominative plural)
akuuttimme (accusative genitive singular)
akuuttimme (accusative genitive plural)
akuuttimme (genitive singular)
akuuttiemme (genitive plural)
akuuttiamme (partitive singular)
akuuttejamme (partitive plural)
akuutissamme (inessive singular)
akuuteissamme (inessive plural)
akuutistamme (elative singular)
akuuteistamme (elative plural)
akuuttiimme (illative singular)
akuutteihimme (illative plural)
akuutillamme (adessive singular)
akuuteillamme (adessive plural)
akuutiltamme (ablative singular)
akuuteiltamme (ablative plural)
akuutillemme (allative singular)
akuuteillemme (allative plural)
akuuttinamme (essive singular)
akuutteinamme (essive plural)
akuutiksemme (singular translative)
akuuteiksemme (plural translative)
akuutittamme (abessive singular)
akuuteittamme (abessive plural)
akuutteinemme (comitative plural)
akuuttinne (nominative singular)
akuuttinne (nominative plural)
akuuttinne (accusative nominative singular)
akuuttinne (accusative nominative plural)
akuuttinne (accusative genitive singular)
akuuttinne (accusative genitive plural)
akuuttinne (genitive singular)
akuuttienne (genitive plural)
akuuttianne (partitive singular)
akuuttejanne (partitive plural)
akuutissanne (inessive singular)
akuuteissanne (inessive plural)
akuutistanne (elative singular)
akuuteistanne (elative plural)
akuuttiinne (illative singular)
akuutteihinne (illative plural)
akuutillanne (adessive singular)
akuuteillanne (adessive plural)
akuutiltanne (ablative singular)
akuuteiltanne (ablative plural)
akuutillenne (allative singular)
akuuteillenne (allative plural)
akuuttinanne (essive singular)
akuutteinanne (essive plural)
akuutiksenne (singular translative)
akuuteiksenne (plural translative)
akuutittanne (abessive singular)
akuuteittanne (abessive plural)
akuutteinenne (comitative plural)
akuuttinsa (nominative singular)
akuuttinsa (nominative plural)
akuuttinsa (accusative nominative singular)
akuuttinsa (accusative nominative plural)
akuuttinsa (accusative genitive singular)
akuuttinsa (accusative genitive plural)
akuuttinsa (genitive singular)
akuuttiensa (genitive plural)
akuuttiaan (partitive singular)
akuuttiansa (partitive singular)
akuuttejaan (partitive plural)
akuuttejansa (partitive plural)
akuutissaan (inessive singular)
akuutissansa (inessive singular)
akuuteissaan (inessive plural)
akuuteissansa (inessive plural)
akuutistaan (elative singular)
akuutistansa (elative singular)
akuuteistaan (elative plural)
akuuteistansa (elative plural)
akuuttiinsa (illative singular)
akuutteihinsa (illative plural)
akuutillaan (adessive singular)
akuutillansa (adessive singular)
akuuteillaan (adessive plural)
akuuteillansa (adessive plural)
akuutiltaan (ablative singular)
akuutiltansa (ablative singular)
akuuteiltaan (ablative plural)
akuuteiltansa (ablative plural)
akuutilleen (allative singular)
akuutillensa (allative singular)
akuuteilleen (allative plural)
akuuteillensa (allative plural)
akuuttinaan (essive singular)
akuuttinansa (essive singular)
akuutteinaan (essive plural)
akuutteinansa (essive plural)
akuutikseen (singular translative)
akuutiksensa (singular translative)
akuuteikseen (plural translative)
akuuteiksensa (plural translative)
akuutittaan (abessive singular)
akuutittansa (abessive singular)
akuuteittaan (abessive plural)
akuuteittansa (abessive plural)
akuutteineen (comitative plural)
akuutteinensa (comitative plural)

[ˈɑ̝kuːt̪ːi]

Internationalism (see English acute), ultimately from Latin acūta.


akuutti

akuutti (nominative singular)
akuutit (nominative plural)
akuutti (accusative nominative singular)
akuutit (accusative nominative plural)
akuutin (accusative genitive singular)
akuutit (accusative genitive plural)
akuutin (genitive singular)
akuuttien (genitive plural)
akuuttia (partitive singular)
akuutteja (partitive plural)
akuutissa (inessive singular)
akuuteissa (inessive plural)
akuutista (elative singular)
akuuteista (elative plural)
akuuttiin (illative singular)
akuutteihin (illative plural)
akuutilla (adessive singular)
akuuteilla (adessive plural)
akuutilta (ablative singular)
akuuteilta (ablative plural)
akuutille (allative singular)
akuuteille (allative plural)
akuuttina (essive singular)
akuutteina (essive plural)
akuutiksi (singular translative)
akuuteiksi (plural translative)
akuutitta (abessive singular)
akuuteitta (abessive plural)
akuutein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
akuuttini (nominative singular)
akuuttini (nominative plural)
akuuttini (accusative nominative singular)
akuuttini (accusative nominative plural)
akuuttini (accusative genitive singular)
akuuttini (accusative genitive plural)
akuuttini (genitive singular)
akuuttieni (genitive plural)
akuuttiani (partitive singular)
akuuttejani (partitive plural)
akuutissani (inessive singular)
akuuteissani (inessive plural)
akuutistani (elative singular)
akuuteistani (elative plural)
akuuttiini (illative singular)
akuutteihini (illative plural)
akuutillani (adessive singular)
akuuteillani (adessive plural)
akuutiltani (ablative singular)
akuuteiltani (ablative plural)
akuutilleni (allative singular)
akuuteilleni (allative plural)
akuuttinani (essive singular)
akuutteinani (essive plural)
akuutikseni (singular translative)
akuuteikseni (plural translative)
akuutittani (abessive singular)
akuuteittani (abessive plural)
akuutteineni (comitative plural)
akuuttisi (nominative singular)
akuuttisi (nominative plural)
akuuttisi (accusative nominative singular)
akuuttisi (accusative nominative plural)
akuuttisi (accusative genitive singular)
akuuttisi (accusative genitive plural)
akuuttisi (genitive singular)
akuuttiesi (genitive plural)
akuuttiasi (partitive singular)
akuuttejasi (partitive plural)
akuutissasi (inessive singular)
akuuteissasi (inessive plural)
akuutistasi (elative singular)
akuuteistasi (elative plural)
akuuttiisi (illative singular)
akuutteihisi (illative plural)
akuutillasi (adessive singular)
akuuteillasi (adessive plural)
akuutiltasi (ablative singular)
akuuteiltasi (ablative plural)
akuutillesi (allative singular)
akuuteillesi (allative plural)
akuuttinasi (essive singular)
akuutteinasi (essive plural)
akuutiksesi (singular translative)
akuuteiksesi (plural translative)
akuutittasi (abessive singular)
akuuteittasi (abessive plural)
akuutteinesi (comitative plural)
akuuttimme (nominative singular)
akuuttimme (nominative plural)
akuuttimme (accusative nominative singular)
akuuttimme (accusative nominative plural)
akuuttimme (accusative genitive singular)
akuuttimme (accusative genitive plural)
akuuttimme (genitive singular)
akuuttiemme (genitive plural)
akuuttiamme (partitive singular)
akuuttejamme (partitive plural)
akuutissamme (inessive singular)
akuuteissamme (inessive plural)
akuutistamme (elative singular)
akuuteistamme (elative plural)
akuuttiimme (illative singular)
akuutteihimme (illative plural)
akuutillamme (adessive singular)
akuuteillamme (adessive plural)
akuutiltamme (ablative singular)
akuuteiltamme (ablative plural)
akuutillemme (allative singular)
akuuteillemme (allative plural)
akuuttinamme (essive singular)
akuutteinamme (essive plural)
akuutiksemme (singular translative)
akuuteiksemme (plural translative)
akuutittamme (abessive singular)
akuuteittamme (abessive plural)
akuutteinemme (comitative plural)
akuuttinne (nominative singular)
akuuttinne (nominative plural)
akuuttinne (accusative nominative singular)
akuuttinne (accusative nominative plural)
akuuttinne (accusative genitive singular)
akuuttinne (accusative genitive plural)
akuuttinne (genitive singular)
akuuttienne (genitive plural)
akuuttianne (partitive singular)
akuuttejanne (partitive plural)
akuutissanne (inessive singular)
akuuteissanne (inessive plural)
akuutistanne (elative singular)
akuuteistanne (elative plural)
akuuttiinne (illative singular)
akuutteihinne (illative plural)
akuutillanne (adessive singular)
akuuteillanne (adessive plural)
akuutiltanne (ablative singular)
akuuteiltanne (ablative plural)
akuutillenne (allative singular)
akuuteillenne (allative plural)
akuuttinanne (essive singular)
akuutteinanne (essive plural)
akuutiksenne (singular translative)
akuuteiksenne (plural translative)
akuutittanne (abessive singular)
akuuteittanne (abessive plural)
akuutteinenne (comitative plural)
akuuttinsa (nominative singular)
akuuttinsa (nominative plural)
akuuttinsa (accusative nominative singular)
akuuttinsa (accusative nominative plural)
akuuttinsa (accusative genitive singular)
akuuttinsa (accusative genitive plural)
akuuttinsa (genitive singular)
akuuttiensa (genitive plural)
akuuttiaan (partitive singular)
akuuttiansa (partitive singular)
akuuttejaan (partitive plural)
akuuttejansa (partitive plural)
akuutissaan (inessive singular)
akuutissansa (inessive singular)
akuuteissaan (inessive plural)
akuuteissansa (inessive plural)
akuutistaan (elative singular)
akuutistansa (elative singular)
akuuteistaan (elative plural)
akuuteistansa (elative plural)
akuuttiinsa (illative singular)
akuutteihinsa (illative plural)
akuutillaan (adessive singular)
akuutillansa (adessive singular)
akuuteillaan (adessive plural)
akuuteillansa (adessive plural)
akuutiltaan (ablative singular)
akuutiltansa (ablative singular)
akuuteiltaan (ablative plural)
akuuteiltansa (ablative plural)
akuutilleen (allative singular)
akuutillensa (allative singular)
akuuteilleen (allative plural)
akuuteillensa (allative plural)
akuuttinaan (essive singular)
akuuttinansa (essive singular)
akuutteinaan (essive plural)
akuutteinansa (essive plural)
akuutikseen (singular translative)
akuutiksensa (singular translative)
akuuteikseen (plural translative)
akuuteiksensa (plural translative)
akuutittaan (abessive singular)
akuutittansa (abessive singular)
akuuteittaan (abessive plural)
akuuteittansa (abessive plural)
akuutteineen (comitative plural)
akuutteinensa (comitative plural)

[ˈɑ̝kuːt̪ːi]


näck

Han kastade näck.

(folklore) dropping a larger stone into water without a splash, so as to make a muffled sound and thereby scare away the Neck


Näcken

From Old Norse nykr, from Proto-Germanic *nikwiz-, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *nigʷ-.

(folklore) Nix; a water creature in human form who, among other things, lures people to drown in his river by his wonderful violin playing


hivemind

Kevin Kelly (editor)
Out of Control (Kelly book)

From hive + mind, originally applied to beehives. As a metaphor for collective intelligence popularized in Out of Control (1992) by Kevin Kelly.

It traces the growth of homo gestalt with the uniting of six lovely outcasts of society who have psi powers and come together as a hive mind, thus creating a gestalt super-being.

2005, Michael Ashley, Transformations: The History of the Science Fiction Magazine 1950 to 1970, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, page 133:

Though now extinct, the rachni once threatened every species in Citadel space. Over 2000 years ago, explorers foolishly opened a mass relay to a previously-unknown system and encountered something never seen before or since: a species of spacefaring insects guided by a hive-mind intelligence.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Rachni Codex entry:

We have the villainous Borg of Star Trek: a hive mind of individuals robbed of their individuality, communicating with each other not by touch or even speech but by omnipresent computer networks.

2011 February 15, Michael Chorost, “‘World Wide Mind’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(science fiction) A collection of minds somehow linked or unified, possibly as if by telepathy.


zoomorphism

(art, literature) The use of animal figures in art and design or of animal symbols in literature.

zoomorfizm

the use of animal figures in art and design or of animal symbols in literature


time tunnel

(science fiction) A passageway enabling time travel.


cultism

en-noun

cultism (countable and uncountable, plural cultisms)


miniaturize

en-verb

miniaturize (third-person singular simple present miniaturizes, present participle miniaturizing, simple past and past participle miniaturized)

miniaturizes (present singular third-person)
miniaturizing (participle present)
miniaturized (participle past)
miniaturized (past)

(science fiction) To physically shrink in size, i.e. through the use of a shrink ray.


bokal

(orthography) a letter representing the sound of vowel


yrkja

yrkjer (present)
yrkte (past)
yrkt (participle past)
yrkjast (infinitive passive)
yrkjande (participle present)
yrk (imperative)

From Old Norse yrkja, from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥ǵyéti of the root *werǵ-. In an ablaut relationship with verk (from Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom (“work”)).


vísa

head

vísa f (genitive singular vísu, nominative plural vísur)

vísu (genitive singular)
vísur (nominative plural)
vísa (indefinite nominative singular)
vísan (definite nominative singular)
vísur (indefinite nominative plural)
vísurnar (definite nominative plural)
vísu (accusative indefinite singular)
vísuna (accusative definite singular)
vísur (accusative indefinite plural)
vísurnar (accusative definite plural)
vísu (dative indefinite singular)
vísunni (dative definite singular)
vísum (dative indefinite plural)
vísunum (dative definite plural)
vísu (genitive indefinite singular)
vísunnar (definite genitive singular)
vísna (genitive indefinite plural)
vísnanna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse vísa, cognate with Swedish visa.


skald

skald (nominative singular)
skaldowie (nominative plural)
skalda (genitive singular)
skaldów (genitive plural)
skaldowi (dative singular)
skaldom (dative plural)
skalda (accusative singular)
skaldów (accusative plural)
skaldem (instrumental singular)
skaldami (instrumental plural)
skaldzie (locative singular)
skaldach (locative plural)
skaldzie (singular vocative)
skaldowie (plural vocative)

(historical, poetry) skald (Nordic poet)


hyperdrive

The ship's hyperdrive had failed, leaving them stranded years from any repair base.

(science fiction) A spaceship engine that allows faster-than-light travel by entering hyperspace.


BEM

Incidentally, Mr. Bergey, the BEM's on your latest smear have extremely jovial expressions on their pans to be as tough a bunch of eggs as Friend made them out.

1940 November, Parmer Farrell, “The Reader Speaks”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 18, number 2, page 120:

This is my first time in active BEM service. They've never let me near the Bugs before.

1997, Lawrence Miles, Alien Bodies, →ISBN, page 89:

(science fiction, fandom slang, often derogatory) A stock character in science fiction; a grotesque creature, often an extraterrestrial, that menaces the protagonists.


chunking

en-noun

chunking (countable and uncountable, plural chunkings)

(writing) A method of presenting information which splits concepts into small pieces or "chunks" of information to make reading and understanding faster and easier, using such methods as bulleted lists, short subheadings, or short sentences with one or two ideas per sentence.


ithyphallic

en-adj

ithyphallic (comparative more ithyphallic, superlative most ithyphallic)

more ithyphallic (comparative)
most ithyphallic (superlative)

/ˌɪθɪˈfælɪk/

/ˌɪθɪˈfælɪk/

Borrowed from Late Latin ithyphallicus, from Ancient Greek ἰθυφαλλικός (ithuphallikós), from ῑ̓θῠ́φαλλος (īthúphallos, “phallus carried in festivals of Bacchus; ode sung in honour of the phallus; dance accompanying such an ode; dancer performing such a dance”) + -ῐκός (-ikós, suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). ῑ̓θῠ́φαλλος is derived from ἰθῠ́ς (ithús) (variant of εὐθῠ́ς (euthús, “straight”)) + φαλλός (phallós, “penis; image of a penis, phallus”). The English word can be analysed as ithyphallus + -ic.
As regards the noun, compare Latin ithyphallicum (“poem with the same metre as the hymns to Priapus”).

refn

From the collection of the Museum of London in London, England, UK.

cog

(poetry) Pertaining to a metrical combination of two trochees followed by one spondee.


skál

head

skál f (genitive singular skálar, nominative plural skálar)

skálar (genitive singular)
skálar (nominative plural)
skál (indefinite nominative singular)
skálin (definite nominative singular)
skálar (indefinite nominative plural)
skálarnar (definite nominative plural)
skál (accusative indefinite singular)
skálina (accusative definite singular)
skálar (accusative indefinite plural)
skálarnar (accusative definite plural)
skál (dative indefinite singular)
skálinni (dative definite singular)
skálum (dative indefinite plural)
skálunum (dative definite plural)
skálar (genitive indefinite singular)
skálarinnar (definite genitive singular)
skála (genitive indefinite plural)
skálanna (definite genitive plural)
skál (indefinite nominative singular)
skálin (definite nominative singular)
skálir (indefinite nominative plural)
skálirnar (definite nominative plural)
skál (accusative indefinite singular)
skálina (accusative definite singular)
skálir (accusative indefinite plural)
skálirnar (accusative definite plural)
skál (dative indefinite singular)
skálinni (dative definite singular)
skálum (dative indefinite plural)
skálunum (dative definite plural)
skálar (genitive indefinite singular)
skálarinnar (definite genitive singular)
skála (genitive indefinite plural)
skálanna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse skál, from Proto-Germanic *skēlō.


viðgera

viðgera (third person singular past indicative viðgjørdi, third person plural past indicative viðgjørt, supine viðgjørt)

viðgjørdi (indicative past singular third-person)
viðgjørt (indicative past plural third-person)
viðgjørt (supine)
viðgera (infinitive)
viðgjørt (supine)
viðgerandi (participle)
viðgjørdur (participle)
viðgeri (first-person present singular)
viðgjørdi (first-person past singular)
viðgert (present second-person singular)
viðgjørdi (past second-person singular)
viðger (present singular third-person)
viðgjørdi (past singular third-person)
viðgera (plural present)
viðgjørdu (past plural)
viðger! (imperative present singular)
viðgerið! (imperative plural present)


týðari

fo-noun

týðari m (genitive singular týðara, plural týðarar)

týðara (genitive singular)
týðarar (plural)
týðari (indefinite nominative singular)
týðarin (definite nominative singular)
týðarar (indefinite nominative plural)
týðararnir (definite nominative plural)
týðara (accusative indefinite singular)
týðaran (accusative definite singular)
týðarar (accusative indefinite plural)
týðararnar (accusative definite plural)
týðara (dative indefinite singular)
týðaranum (dative definite singular)
týðarum (dative indefinite plural)
týðarunum (dative definite plural)
týðara (genitive indefinite singular)
týðarans (definite genitive singular)
týðara (genitive indefinite plural)
týðaranna (definite genitive plural)

/ˈtʰʊiːjaɹɪ/


ormur

ormur m (genitive singular orms, plural ormar)

orms (genitive singular)
ormar (plural)
ormur (indefinite nominative singular)
ormurin (definite nominative singular)
ormar (indefinite nominative plural)
ormarnir (definite nominative plural)
orm (accusative indefinite singular)
ormin (accusative definite singular)
ormar (accusative indefinite plural)
ormarnar (accusative definite plural)
ormi (dative indefinite singular)
orminum (dative definite singular)
ormum (dative indefinite plural)
ormunum (dative definite plural)
orms (genitive indefinite singular)
ormsins (definite genitive singular)
orma (genitive indefinite plural)
ormanna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse ormr, from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis.


ormur

head

ormur m (genitive singular orms, nominative plural ormar)

orms (genitive singular)
ormar (nominative plural)
ormur (indefinite nominative singular)
ormurinn (definite nominative singular)
ormar (indefinite nominative plural)
ormarnir (definite nominative plural)
orm (accusative indefinite singular)
orminn (accusative definite singular)
orma (accusative indefinite plural)
ormana (accusative definite plural)
ormi (dative indefinite singular)
orminum (dative definite singular)
ormum (dative indefinite plural)
ormunum (dative definite plural)
orms (genitive indefinite singular)
ormsins (definite genitive singular)
orma (genitive indefinite plural)
ormanna (definite genitive plural)


memorate

From Latin memorātus, past participle of memorāre (“to bring to remembrance, mention, recount”), from memor (“remembering”); see memory.

An undemonstrable legend is no legend at all. One must postulate that every fabulate is based on a memorate.

1974, Linda Dégh, Andrew Vázsonyi, “The memorate and the proto-memorate”, in The Journal of American Folklore, volume 87, →DOI, page 232:

(folklore) an oral narrative from memory relating a personal experience, especially the precursor of a legend.


Morlock

Author's coinage; possibly influenced by Morlach or Moloch.

Coordinate term: Eloi

(literature) A member of a troglodyte cannibalistic race described in H. G. Wells' novel The Time Machine (1895).


κλείς

grc-noun

κλείς • (kleís) f (genitive κλειδός); third declension

kleís (romanization)
κλειδός (genitive)
ἡ κλείς (nominative singular)
τὼ κλεῖδε (dual nominative)
αἱ κλεῖδες (nominative plural)
κλεῖς (nominative plural)
τῆς κλειδός (genitive singular)
τοῖν κλειδοῖν (dual genitive)
τῶν κλειδῶν (genitive plural)
τῇ κλειδῐ́ (dative singular)
τοῖν κλειδοῖν (dative dual)
ταῖς κλεισῐ́ (dative plural)
κλεισῐ́ν (dative plural)
taîs kleisí (dative plural)
taîs kleisín (dative plural)
τὴν κλεῖδᾰ (accusative singular)
κλεῖν (accusative singular)
τὼ κλεῖδε (accusative dual)
τᾱ̀ς κλεῖδᾰς (accusative plural)
κλεῖς (accusative plural)
κλείς (singular vocative)
κλεῖδε (dual vocative)
κλεῖδες (plural vocative)
κλεῖς (plural vocative)

grc-decl

κλεῖδᾰ/κλεῖν

κλεῖδες/κλεῖς

κλεῖδᾰς/κλεῖς

→ Aghwan: 𐕄𐔼𐔾𐕜 (ḳilṭ)

desctree

→ Aramaic: קלידא
Classical Syriac: ܩܠܝܕܐ (qəlīḏāʾ)
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אַקְלִידָא (ʾaqlīḏāʾ)
→ Arabic: إِقْلِيد (ʔiqlīd)
→ Hebrew: קְלִיד (qəlîḏ)

→ English: cleido-

⇒ New Latin: sternocleidomastoīdēs, sternocleidomastoīdeus

→ English: sternocleidomastoid, sternocleidomastoideus

→ Old Georgian: კლიტჱ (ḳliṭē)

Georgian: კლიტე (ḳliṭe), კილტე (ḳilṭe) — Adjara, Guria, Fereydan
→ Bats: კლიტ (ḳliṭ)

→ Persian: کلید (kelid)
→ Azerbaijani: kilid
→ Kazakh: кілт (kılt)
→ Northern Kurdish: kilîd
→ Ottoman Turkish: كلید (kilid), كلیت (kilit)
Turkish: kilit
→ Uzbek: kalit

From Proto-Hellenic *klāwī́ds, from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u- (“nail, pin, hook - instruments, of old use for locking doors”). Cognate with Latin clāvus (“nail, pin”), Old Church Slavonic ключь (ključĭ, “key”).


skaldsøga

fo-noun

skaldsøga f (genitive singular skaldsøgu, plural skaldsøgur)

skaldsøgu (genitive singular)
skaldsøgur (plural)
skaldsøga (indefinite nominative singular)
skaldsøgan (definite nominative singular)
skaldsøgur (indefinite nominative plural)
skaldsøgurnar (definite nominative plural)
skaldsøgu (accusative indefinite singular)
skaldsøguna (accusative definite singular)
skaldsøgur (accusative indefinite plural)
skaldsøgurnar (accusative definite plural)
skaldsøgu (dative indefinite singular)
skaldsøguni (dative definite singular)
skaldsøgum (dative indefinite plural)
skaldsøgunum (dative definite plural)
skaldsøgu (genitive indefinite singular)
skaldsøgunnar (definite genitive singular)
skaldsøga (genitive indefinite plural)
skaldsøganna (definite genitive plural)


soucouyant

1986, Kenneth Ramchand, “Wayne Vincent Brown”, in Daryl Cumber Dance (ed.), Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 90,
We can notice, for example, that “Vampire” combines the folkloric soucouyant (blood-sucking old woman in the shape of a ball of fire), a science fiction creature (“clammy, from its bed of hairs / And thirsty” [p. 24]), the moon again (Brown’s poems are obsessed by the moon); …

2002, David E. Jones, Evil in Our Midst: A Chilling Glimpse of the World's Most Feared and Frightening Demons, Square One Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 133,
The Soucouyant is an evil fire, a kind of witch, that robes itself entirely in the skin of an old woman to hide its true identity from neighbors.

“The soucouyant is an old woman that sheds her skin,” Beth said. “She flies out of her house and looks for human blood. When she finds it, she changes into an animal of some kind and sucks the blood away.”

2003, Ken Douglas, Jack Stewart, Diamond Sky, Bootleg Press, →ISBN, page 110:

(Caribbean, folklore) A night witch who sucks people's blood, sheds her skin, and can transform into a fireball and fly.


katabasis

en-noun

katabasis (countable and uncountable, plural katabases)

From Ancient Greek κατάβασις (katábasis), from verb καταβαίνω (katabaínō, from κατά (katá, “downwards”) + βαίνω (baínō, “go”)).

af

The ancient Greeks and the peoples of remote antiquity already knew of journeys of the soul, but these were often journeys to the infernal regions, descents into hell, catabases, with obstacles, such as encounters with various monsters, menaces of all sorts, the crossing of the bridge of the dead or the passage of mysterious rivers on foot or on horseback.

1923, Georges Berguer, translated by E. S. Brooks and Van Wyck Brooks, Some aspects of the life of Jesus from the psychological and psycho-analytic point of view, page 58:

The logic of the underworld is most on show in the Phaedra and the Hercules [of Seneca], which feature the returns of Theseus and Hercules from their katabases.

2009, James Ker, The Deaths of Seneca, page 136:

Willy, the concentration camp survivor who has experienced more evil than any other character, places no value on catabasis. When asked (in connection with Aeneid VI) 'Do you think everyone ought to descend to the underworld?', he replies briskly, 'Certainly not! It's very dark and stuffy and one is more likely to feel frightened than to learn anything.[…]'

2010, P. Martin, Anne Rowe, Iris Murdoch: A Literary Life, page 84:

Therefore, Erling Holtsmark's point that literary-mythic katabasis captures “the imagined physical orientation of the other world relative to this one” (25), is superseded in a post-mythic, ostensibly secular worldview by a journey that takes place within an underworld that is an exteriorized 'projection' of a protagonist's putative interior world, the domain especially of the unconscious, memory and dream.

2013, Russell J.A. Kilbourn, “Introduction”, in Cinema, Memory, Modernity:The Representation of Memory from the Art Film to Transnational Cinema, page 31:

(mythology, literature) A mytheme or trope in which the hero embarks on a journey to the underworld.


katabasis

Unadapted borrowing from Ancient Greek κατάβασις (katábasis).

ubor

(literature, mythology) katabasis (mytheme or trope in which the hero embarks on a journey to the underworld)


دامن

Turkish: damen

Borrowed from Persian دامن (dâman, “skirt”).

bor+

(calligraphy) the tail of a letter of the alphabet


replicator

Why, this planet was still centuries away from developing such necessities as personal replicators or portable nano-intelligences...

2001, Greg Cox, The Eugenics Wars Vol I: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh (Star Trek), Star Trek, →ISBN, page 76:

either there is not such thing as a concept known as 'spacecraft' (inwhich case, any talk of spacecraft, warp drives, inertial dampers, replicators, and the like would be pointless), or indeed there is.

2001, Judith Barad, Ed Robertson, The Ethics of Star Trek, Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 74:

The scanner here on Earth will destroy my brain and body, while recording the exact states of all of my cells. It will the transmit this information by radio. Travelling at the speed of light, the message will take three minutes to reach the Replicator on Mars. This will then create, out of new matter, a brain and body exactly like mine. It will be in this body that I shall wake up.

2007, Douglas Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop, Basic Books, →ISBN, pages 301–302:

(science fiction) A technological device that replicates physical objects.


vers de societe

(poetry) A type of light poetry suited to the amusement of polite upper-class society.


villanelle

From the French villanelle, from Italian villanella, from villano (“peasant”), from Latin vīllānus (“farmhand”), from vīlla (“estate”). The origin references the pastoral themes originally associated with this form.

By definition the villanelle is restrictive, because it demands nineteen lines on two rhymes in six stanzas, the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the concluding quatrain.

1966, Louise Baughan Murdy, Sound and sense in Dylan Thomas's poetry (Studies in English Literature), The Hague: Mouton & Co, →ISBN, page 96:

(poetry) A type of poem, consisting of five tercets and one quatrain, with only two rhymes.


villanelle

Borrowed from French, from Italian villanella.


triolet

Coordinate term: sestina

The triolet, like the sestina and several other forms of French-derived poetry, is a form of rhyming poetry that has lines that repeat.

2005, Connie Homan Weaver, Poetry a la Carte, Prufrock Press Inc., →ISBN, page 110:

(poetry) An eight-line poem whose rhyme scheme is ABaAabAB and whose lines are in iambic tetrameter.


triolet

triolet (nominative singular)
triolety (nominative plural)
trioletu (genitive singular)
trioletů (genitive plural)
trioletu (dative singular)
trioletům (dative plural)
triolet (accusative singular)
triolety (accusative plural)
triolete (singular vocative)
triolety (plural vocative)
trioletu (locative singular)
trioletech (locative plural)
trioletem (instrumental singular)
triolety (instrumental plural)


triolet

nl-noun

triolet m or f or n (plural trioletten, diminutive trioletje n)

trioletten (plural)
trioletje (diminutive neuter)


triolet

triolet (nominative singular)
triolety (nominative plural)
trioletu (genitive singular)
trioletów (genitive plural)
trioletowi (dative singular)
trioletom (dative plural)
triolet (accusative singular)
triolety (accusative plural)
trioletem (instrumental singular)
trioletami (instrumental plural)
triolecie (locative singular)
trioletach (locative plural)
triolecie (singular vocative)
triolety (plural vocative)


triolet

triolete (plural)
triolet (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
un triolet (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
trioletul (accusative definite nominative singular)
triolete (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
niște triolete (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
trioletele (accusative definite nominative plural)
triolet (dative genitive indefinite singular)
unui triolet (dative genitive indefinite singular)
trioletului (dative definite genitive singular)
triolete (dative genitive indefinite plural)
unor triolete (dative genitive indefinite plural)
trioletelor (dative definite genitive plural)
trioletule (singular vocative)
trioletelor (plural vocative)


triolet

triolet (nominative singular)
triolety (nominative plural)
trioletu (genitive singular)
trioletov (genitive plural)
trioletu (dative singular)
trioletom (dative plural)
triolet (accusative singular)
triolety (accusative plural)
triolete (locative singular)
trioletoch (locative plural)
trioletom (instrumental singular)
trioletmi (instrumental plural)


ergodic

en-adj

ergodic (comparative more ergodic, superlative most ergodic)

more ergodic (comparative)
most ergodic (superlative)

International Scientific Vocabulary ergo- + -ode (+ -ic). The etymological origin is disputed: ἔργον (érgon) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”) versus ἔργον (érgon) + εἶδος (eîdos, “image”).

Therefore this chapter moves into two directions, cybertextually expanding (and reorganizing) the field of architextuality, and specifying the ergodic variety within it.

2012, Markku Eskelinen, Cybertext Poetics:

(literature, information science) Of or relating to a literary work that requires nontrivial effort on the reader's part to traverse.


epizod

epizodzik (diminutive)
epizod (nominative singular)
epizody (nominative plural)
epizodu (genitive singular)
epizodów (genitive plural)
epizodowi (dative singular)
epizodom (dative plural)
epizod (accusative singular)
epizody (accusative plural)
epizodem (instrumental singular)
epizodami (instrumental plural)
epizodzie (locative singular)
epizodach (locative plural)
epizodzie (singular vocative)
epizody (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French épisode, from Ancient Greek ἐπεισόδιον (epeisódion).

(art, colloquial, film, literature, theater) episode (instalment of a drama told in parts)


送り仮名

送り仮名 (canonical)
okurigana (romanization)

[o̞kɯ̟ɾʲiɡa̠na̠]

Compound of 送り (okuri, “sending”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 送る (okuru, “to send”), from the sense of sending something afterward or adding something on the end) + 仮名 (kana, “kana”, the Japanese syllabary characters). The kana changes to gana as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
First cited to a text from 1477.

compound

(orthography) okurigana (in the Japanese language, the kana which follow a stem written with kanji, which record how that stem is inflected, and guides recognition of the appropriate kun'yomi reading (word stem associated with the kanji); for example, く (ku) and かべる (kaberu) in 浮(う)く (uk-u, “to float”, intransitive) and 浮(う)かべる (uk-aberu, “to float”, transitive), or む (mu) and きる (kiru) in 生(う)む (umu, “to birth”) and 生(い)きる (ikiru, “to live”))


epitet

epitet (nominative singular)
epitety (nominative plural)
epitetu (genitive singular)
epitetów (genitive plural)
epitetowi (dative singular)
epitetom (dative plural)
epitet (accusative singular)
epitety (accusative plural)
epitetem (instrumental singular)
epitetami (instrumental plural)
epitecie (locative singular)
epitetach (locative plural)
epitecie (singular vocative)
epitety (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French épithète, from Middle French épithète, from Latin epitheton, from Ancient Greek ἐπίθετον (epítheton), the neuter of ἐπίθετος (epíthetos), from ἐπιτίθημι (epitíthēmi), from ἐπι- (epi-) + τίθημι (títhēmi).

(rhetoric, poetry) epithet (term used to characterize a person or thing)


波折

/pu̯ɔ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂɤ³⁵/

/pɔː⁵⁵ t͡siːt̚³/

/pʰo⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡siɛt̚³²/

/pʰɤ⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡siɛt̚³²/

/pʰo⁴⁴⁻²² t͡siɛt̚³²/

/po⁴⁴⁻²² t͡siɛt̚³²/

/pu̯ɔ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂɤ³⁵/

/pɔː⁵⁵ t͡siːt̚³/

/pʰo⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡siɛt̚³²/

/pʰɤ⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡siɛt̚³²/

/pʰo⁴⁴⁻²² t͡siɛt̚³²/

/po⁴⁴⁻²² t͡siɛt̚³²/


κένταυρος

head

κένταυρος • (kéntavros) m (plural κένταυροι)

kéntavros (romanization)
κένταυροι (plural)
κένταυρος (nominative singular)
κένταυροι (nominative plural)
κένταυρου (genitive singular)
κενταύρου (genitive singular)
κένταυρων (genitive plural)
κενταύρων (genitive plural)
κένταυρο (accusative singular)
κένταυρους (accusative plural)
κενταύρους (accusative plural)
κένταυρε (singular vocative)
κένταυροι (plural vocative)
Second forms are formal.

From Ancient Greek κένταυρος (kéntauros).

Ο Φιρένζε ήταν κένταυρος στη σειρά «Χάρι Πότερ».
O Firénze ítan kéntavros sti seirá «Chári Póter».
Firenze was a centaur in the Harry Potter series.

(Greek mythology, folklore) centaur (mythical beast that is half man, half horse)


lirika

Borrowed from Spanish lírica, feminine of lírico, from Latin lyricus, from Ancient Greek λυρικός (lurikós). Sense meaning "words to a song" is a semantic loan from English lyrics. Correct Spanish term would be letras de canciones. Doublet of liriks.


mulo

→ English: mulo

→ Limburgish: mol, moll

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit [Term?], from Ashokan Prakrit [Term?], from Sanskrit मृत (mṛta), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mr̥tás (“dead”), from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥tós (“dead”), from *mer- (“to die”).


makulatura

makulatura (nominative singular)
makulatury (nominative plural)
makulatury (genitive singular)
makulatur (genitive plural)
makulaturze (dative singular)
makulaturom (dative plural)
makulaturę (accusative singular)
makulatury (accusative plural)
makulaturą (instrumental singular)
makulaturami (instrumental plural)
makulaturze (locative singular)
makulaturach (locative plural)
makulaturo (singular vocative)
makulatury (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French maculature, from Latin maculāre, from macula.

(colloquial, literature) junk, trash (low-quality literature)


novum

en-noun

novum (countable and uncountable, plural novums or nova)

In his book Metamorphoses of Science Fiction (1979), Suvin introduced a number of ideas that remain central in sf criticism: cognitive estrangement, the novum and sf's genetic link with utopia.[…]Even more influential in sf theory than cognitive estrangement is Suvin's concept of the novum.[…]Suvin adopts the concept of the novum from the work of Ernst Bloch, for whom the term refers to those concrete innovations of lived history that awaken human collective consciousness out of a static present to awareness that history can be changed. The novum thus inspires hope for positive historical transformations.

2003, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., “7: Marxist theory and science fiction”, in Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn, editors, The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, Cambridge University Press, page 118:

It seems that this ‘point of difference’, the thing or things that differentiate the world portrayed in science fiction from the world we recognise around us, is the crucial separator between SF and other forms of imaginative or fantastic literature. The critic Darko Suvin has usefully coined the term ‘novum’, the Latin for ‘new’ or ‘new thing’, to refer to this ‘point of difference’ (the plural is ‘nova’). An SF text may be based on one novum, such as [...]. More usually it will be predicated on a number of interrelated nova, such as [...]. This ‘novum’ must not be supernatural but need not necessarily be a piece of technology.

2006, Adam Roberts, Science Fiction, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), pages 6–7:

cognitive estrangement
cognitive estrangement

(narratology, science fiction) An innovation which is fictional, but, following the logic of cognitive estrangement (characteristic of science fiction), is afforded plausibility by the assumption that the fictional setting is scientifically consistent.


emanata

Now that we have our characters, there's a lot more we can do with them to show what's going on inside them. Those of you who believe in mental telepathy should not be at all surprised at the things cartoonists have emanating from their characters.

1980, Mort Walker, The lexicon of comicana, Emanata, page 28:

Emanata can come from things as well as people to show what's going on.

1980, Mort Walker, The lexicon of comicana, Emanata, page 29:

(comics) Unrealistic pictorial elements emanating from a character, symbolizing something about that character, such as a sweatdrop for anxiety or a question mark for confusion, or emanating from an object, such as heat rays from the sun.


天狗

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (天狗):
* → Japanese: 天狗(てんぐ) (tengu)
* → Korean: 천구(天狗) (cheon'gu)
* → Vietnamese: thiên cẩu (天狗)

/tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ koʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/tʰiːn⁵⁵ kɐu̯³⁵/

/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kau⁵³/

/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kau⁵³/

/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kau⁵³/

/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kau⁴¹/

/tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ koʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/tʰiːn⁵⁵ kɐu̯³⁵/

/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kau⁵³/

/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kau⁵³/

/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kau⁵³/

/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kau⁴¹/

(Japanese mythology, Shinto, folklore) tengu


天狗

desc

→ Chinese: 天狗 (tiāngǒu) (reborrowed for the Japanese sense)

→ English: tengu

→ French: tengu

→ Korean: 텐구 (ten'gu)

→ Russian: тэ́нгу (tɛ́ngu)

Nihon Shoki
Shugendō
Tengu
Tiangou
ja:天狗

From Middle Chinese 天狗 (MC then kuwX, “heaven + dog”). First appears in the Nihon Shoki (720 CE).
The Chinese version of tengu (Tiangou) was originally more of a dog-like spirit or falling star. As the term and idea were imported into Japanese, the character became associated with 修験道 (“Shugendō, a kind of syncretism of Buddhist and native Japanese elements”), and the Japanese tengu changed to resemble either a long-nosed 山伏 (yamabushi, “mountain monk”, a practitioner of Shugendō) with bright-red skin, or a crow.

天狗蝙蝠: Murina hilgendorfi

天狗蝙蝠 てんぐこうもり

天狗星

a kind of shooting star, one that includes a loud sound and a bright light

a place on a tree where many small branch grow

a microbial infection of cherry and other trees that causes a cluster of many small branch and knot

1999 September 23, “カラス天(てん)狗(ぐ) [Crow Tengu]”, in Vol.5, Konami:

An omniscient tengu. They say it uses divine power.

様々なことを知っている天狗。神通力が使えるという。

Samazama na koto o shitte iru tengu. Jintsūriki ga tsukaeru to iu.

(Japanese mythology, Shinto, folklore) a tengu, a mythical Japanese creature, typically birdlike and having a long nose


ölçü

az-noun

ölçü (definite accusative ölçünü, plural ölçülər)

ölçünü (accusative definite)
ölçülər (plural)
ölçü (nominative singular)
ölçülər (nominative plural)
ölçünü (accusative definite singular)
ölçüləri (accusative definite plural)
ölçüyə (dative singular)
ölçülərə (dative plural)
ölçüdə (locative singular)
ölçülərdə (locative plural)
ölçüdən (ablative singular)
ölçülərdən (ablative plural)
ölçünün (definite genitive singular)
ölçülərin (definite genitive plural)
ölçüm (first-person nominative possessed-single possessive singular)
ölçülərim (first-person nominative possessed-many possessive singular)
ölçün (nominative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
ölçülərin (nominative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
ölçüsü (nominative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
ölçüləri (nominative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
ölçümüz (first-person nominative plural possessed-single possessive)
ölçülərimiz (first-person nominative plural possessed-many possessive)
ölçünüz (nominative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
ölçüləriniz (nominative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
ölçüsü (nominative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
ölçüləri (nominative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
ölçüləri (nominative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
ölçümü (accusative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
ölçülərimi (accusative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
ölçünü (accusative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
ölçülərini (accusative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
ölçüsünü (accusative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
ölçülərini (accusative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
ölçümüzü (accusative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
ölçülərimizi (accusative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
ölçünüzü (accusative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
ölçülərinizi (accusative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
ölçüsünü (accusative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
ölçülərini (accusative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
ölçülərini (accusative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
ölçümə (dative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
ölçülərimə (dative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
ölçünə (dative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
ölçülərinə (dative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
ölçüsünə (dative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
ölçülərinə (dative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
ölçümüzə (dative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
ölçülərimizə (dative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
ölçünüzə (dative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
ölçülərinizə (dative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
ölçüsünə (dative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
ölçülərinə (dative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
ölçülərinə (dative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
ölçümdə (first-person locative possessed-single possessive singular)
ölçülərimdə (first-person locative possessed-many possessive singular)
ölçündə (locative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
ölçülərində (locative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
ölçüsündə (locative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
ölçülərində (locative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
ölçümüzdə (first-person locative plural possessed-single possessive)
ölçülərimizdə (first-person locative plural possessed-many possessive)
ölçünüzdə (locative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
ölçülərinizdə (locative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
ölçüsündə (locative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
ölçülərində (locative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
ölçülərində (locative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
ölçümdən (ablative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
ölçülərimdən (ablative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
ölçündən (ablative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
ölçülərindən (ablative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
ölçüsündən (ablative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
ölçülərindən (ablative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
ölçümüzdən (ablative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
ölçülərimizdən (ablative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
ölçünüzdən (ablative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
ölçülərinizdən (ablative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
ölçüsündən (ablative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
ölçülərindən (ablative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
ölçülərindən (ablative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
ölçümün (first-person genitive possessed-single possessive singular)
ölçülərimin (first-person genitive possessed-many possessive singular)
ölçünün (genitive possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
ölçülərinin (genitive possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
ölçüsünün (genitive possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
ölçülərinin (genitive possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
ölçümüzün (first-person genitive plural possessed-single possessive)
ölçülərimizin (first-person genitive plural possessed-many possessive)
ölçünüzün (genitive plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
ölçülərinizin (genitive plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
ölçüsünün (genitive plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
ölçülərinin (genitive plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
ölçülərinin (genitive plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


撥音

[ha̠t͡sɨõ̞ɴ]

From 撥(はつ) (hatsu, “pick”) + 音(おん) (on, “sound”).

ja-compound

(Japanese orthography) the kana ん/ン (n) used to spell a moraic nasal


apostrofo

From Late Latin apostrophus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστροφος (apóstrophos, literally “turned backwards”), from ἀποστρέφω (apostréphō, literally “I turn away”).

der

L’I, quando è Consonante, […] conoscesi dal non potersi segnare coll’apostrofo la parola, che le sta avanti

1744, Jacopo Angelo Nelli, “Che cosa siano le Lettere, quante, e quali [What letters are, which ones, and how many]”, in Grammatica italiana: per uso de' giovanetti [Italian Grammar: for use by young people], Torino: Stamperia Reale, page 2:

When it is a consonant, the I is recognized by the inability of marking the word that follows with the apostrophe


folklor

id-noun

folklor (first-person possessive folklorku, second-person possessive folklormu, third-person possessive folklornya)

folklorku (first-person possessive)
folklormu (possessive second-person)
folklornya (possessive third-person)

Borrowed from Dutch folklore, from English folklore.

(literature) folklore: the tales, legends, superstitions and traditions of a particular ethnic population.


払う

ja-verb

払(はら)う • (harau) ^(←はらふ (farafu)?)transitive godan (stem 払(はら)い (harai), past 払(はら)った (haratta))

払う (canonical)
harau (romanization)
farafu (romanization)
払い (stem)
払った (past)
払わ
はらわ
harawa
払い
はらい
harai
払う
はらう
harau
払え
はらえ
harae
払われる (passive)
はらわれる (passive)
harawareru (passive)
払わせる (causative)
払わす (causative)
はらわせる (causative)
はらわす (causative)
harawaseru (causative)
harawasu (causative)
払える (potential)
はらえる (potential)
haraeru (potential)
払おう (volitional)
はらおう (volitional)
haraō (volitional)
払わない (negative)
はらわない (negative)
harawanai (negative)
払わず (continuative negative)
はらわず (continuative negative)
harawazu (continuative negative)
払います (formal)
はらいます (formal)
haraimasu (formal)
払った (perfective)
はらった (perfective)
haratta (perfective)
払って (conjunctive)
はらって (conjunctive)
haratte (conjunctive)
払えば (conditional hypothetical)
はらえば (conditional hypothetical)
haraeba (conditional hypothetical)
払は (irrealis stem)
はらは (irrealis stem)
farafa (irrealis)
払ひ (continuative stem)
はらひ (continuative stem)
farafi (continuative)
払ふ (stem terminative)
はらふ (stem terminative)
farafu (terminative)
払ふ (attributive stem)
はらふ (attributive stem)
farafu (attributive)
払へ (realis stem)
はらへ (realis stem)
farafe (realis)
払へ (imperative stem)
はらへ (imperative stem)
farafe (imperative)
払はず (negative)
はらはず (negative)
farafazu (negative)
払へど (contrastive)
はらへど (contrastive)
farafedo (contrastive)
払へば (causative)
はらへば (causative)
farafeba (causative)
払はば (conditional)
はらはば (conditional)
farafaba (conditional)
払ひき (past)
はらひき (past)
farafiki (past)
払ひけり (past)
はらひけり (past)
farafikeri (past)
払ひつ (perfect)
はらひつ (perfect)
farafitu (perfect)
払ひぬ (perfect)
はらひぬ (perfect)
farafinu (perfect)
払へり (continuative perfect)
払ひたり (continuative perfect)
はらへり (continuative perfect)
はらひたり (continuative perfect)
faraferi (continuative perfect)
farafitari (continuative perfect)
払はむ (volitional)
はらはむ (volitional)
farafamu (volitional)

Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
Nihon Shoki
man'yōgana

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE, with the phonetic man'yōgana spelling 波羅賦.

Coordinate term: 止める

(calligraphy) to write as a sweeping stroke to the bottom right (㇏)


Rowleian

en-adj

Rowleian (comparative more Rowleian, superlative most Rowleian)

more Rowleian (comparative)
most Rowleian (superlative)

The style of which is neither Rowleian nor Shakespearean but a particular blending of both.

1988, Ann Thompson, The Modern Language Review^(http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-7937(198810)83%3A4%3C945%3AWSA'BO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9), volume 83, number 4, page 945n:

Tim [Bloodhound] shows many signs of being a typical Rowleian clown; he is a fat clown, judging from his joke about breaking his girdle.

1991, Mark Dominik, “William Rowley”, in William Shakespeare and the Birth of Merlin, page 33:

(literature) Of or pertaining to the literary style and characters of plays by William Rowley (ca1585-1626), English playright.

Mr. Tyrwhitt's book on the Rowleian controversy, which is reckoned completely victorious, are all the novelties I have seen since I left town.

1782, Horace Walpole, The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford, page 319:

Chatterton... also imparted to Barrett two Rowleian poems, "The Parliament of Sprites," and "The Battle of Hastings" (in two quite different versions).

1898, Henry A. Beers, A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century:

Tyrwhitt pointed out that the Rowleian dialect was not English of the fifteenth century, nor of any century, but a grotesque jumble of archaic words of very different periods and dialects.

(literature) Of or pertaining to the work of (fictional) poet Thomas Rowley, a pseudonym of Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), English poet.


hipogrifo

(mythology, folklore, fantasy) hippogriff