synaesthesia

en-noun

synaesthesia (countable and uncountable, plural synaesthesiae or synaesthesias)

synaesthesiae (plural)
synaesthesias (plural)

/ˌsɪn.ɪsˈθiː.ʒə/

From Ancient Greek σύν (sún, “with”) + αἴσθησις (aísthēsis, “sensation”), modelled after anaesthesia. It is analysable as syn- + -aesthesia.

Linking moods with colours is one example of synaesthesia. […] As a tool for improving writing, the idea of synaesthesia is versatile and innovative. Why use only visual references to describe visual impressions? Why just describe sounds using sound-related words? Play with cross-matching the senses.

2006, Stephen Bowkett, “Descriptive Writing”, in Boys and Writing (Pocket PAL), London: Network Continuum Education, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 38:

[I]t may be stated that the concept of synaesthesia is instrumental for understanding music videos, since videos are based on the soundtrack's visual associations. Yet to discuss associations here may cause some problems. […] [Nicholas Cook] seems to be relying on a rather normative conception of synaesthesia, which for its part supports the idea of absolute, nonrepresentational music. The implication of his discussion is that the "true" forms of music–image synaesthesia come only in the forms of perception of color or light when hearing a certain musical sound.

2007, Antti-Ville Kärjä, “Visions of a Sound Nation: Finnish Music Videos and Secured Otherness”, in Roger Beebe, Jason Middleton, editors, Medium Cool: Music Videos from Soundies to Cellphones, Durham, N.C., London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 181:

(art, literature) A literary or artistic device whereby one kind of sensation is described in the terms of another.


steampunk

steampunk (nominative singular)
steampunku (genitive singular)
steampunkowi (dative singular)
steampunk (accusative singular)
steampunkiem (instrumental singular)
steampunku (locative singular)
steampunku (singular vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English steampunk.

ubor

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


realia

realia (nominative plural)
realiów (genitive plural)
realiom (dative plural)
realia (accusative plural)
realiami (instrumental plural)
realiach (locative plural)
realia (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin realia, neuter plural of realis (“real”).

lbor

(literature, film) backstory, background


sequential art

(art, comics) A form of art where the content is presented in a series of artistic items positioned in a specific order to convey its message or effect, such as a comic strip.


monologue

dialogue

antonym(s) of “a monopolizing utterance”

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

der

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


tinta

→ Tagalog: tinta

→ Tataltepec Chatino: tintya

→ Yogad: tinta

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


shape-shifter

(fantasy, mythology, science fiction) Alternative form of shapeshifter


hard-boiled

en-adj

hard-boiled (comparative more hard-boiled, superlative most hard-boiled)

more hard-boiled (comparative)
most hard-boiled (superlative)

(literature, especially detective fiction) Written in a laconic, dispassionate, often ironic style for a realistic, unsentimental effect.


formalism

en-noun

formalism (countable and uncountable, plural formalisms)

/ˈfɔɹml̩ˌɪzm̩/

(literature) An approach to interpretation and/or evaluation focused on the (usually linguistic) structure of a literary work rather than on the contexts of its origin or reception.

形式主義

literature: structural approach to interpretation


elemental

(alchemy, folklore, mythology) elemental


shoot 'em up

My wife won't watch this movie; it's a shoot ’em up.

The arcaders have it easy. All they need to do is drop a quarter into a machine to find out how good the latest shoot 'em up game really is. But for the home computer owner, it's another story.

1983 August, Popular Mechanics, volume 160, number 2, page 88:

An unmissable shoot 'em up.

1989, Duncan Macdonald, R-Type (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 37, January 1989

(idiomatic, film, television, literature, video games) A piece of media which depicts considerable gunplay.


uke

From Japanese 受け (uke), derived from the verb 受ける (ukeru, “to receive, to get”).

Yaoi uke in fanfics often bear the brunt of stereotypical "negative female characteristics" such as passivity, helplessness, and masochism.

2008, Tan Bee Kee, “Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-language Yaoi Fanfiction”, in Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, editors, Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 142:

You'd rather have Sebas be an uke?

2010, Pentabu, My Girlfriend’s a Geek, volume 1, Yen Press, published 2012isbn=9780316221801:

Shizuku is so, so, so cute! I love him as an uke so much I can't stand it!

2010, Kyoka Wakatsuki, “Afterword”, in The Selfish Demon King, Digital Manga Publishing, →ISBN:

(Japanese fiction, fandom slang) A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom.


exposition

exposition (countable and uncountable, plural expositions)

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

This essay has too much exposition in it.

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

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

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

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

বয়ান

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


comm

My comm was set on silent mode—nothing in or out except emergency transmissions.

2018, Joseph Kainz, Sector 12 and the Art of Burning, page ix:


speech bubble

(comics) A rounded outline, containing words, representing speech in a comic.

shtëllungë ligjërimi

rounded outline representing speech in a cartoon


run-in

en-adj

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

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

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

participial adjective
participial adjective

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


Bruno

en-proper noun

Bruno (countable and uncountable, plural Brunos or Brunoes)

From Italian, German etc continental European Bruno, name of medieval Italian and German saints and royalty, Latinized form of Old High German brūn (“brown”). The surname is mostly borrowed from Italian Bruno. Doublet of Brown.


changeling

/ˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒlɪŋ/

The noun is derived from change + -ling (suffix with the sense ‘immature; small’). Sense 6 (“idiot, simpleton”) is from the idea that foolish children had been left by magical creatures (sense 1).
The adjective is derived from the noun.

suffix

[S]he, as her attendant, hath / A louely boy ſtollen, from an Indian king: / She neuer had ſo ſweete a changeling.

[c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

Every Lover admires his miſtris, though ſhee be very deformed of her ſelfe, [...] her feet ſtinke, ſhee breed lice, a meere changeling, a very monſter, [...]: if he loue her once, he admires her for all this, he takes no notice of any ſuch errors, or imperfections of body or minde.

1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Symptomes or Signes of Love Melancholy, in Body, Minde, Good, Bad, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 2, member 3, subsection 1, page 515:

Juſt as a Changeling ſeems below the reſt / Of Men, or rather is a two-legg’d Beaſt, / So theſe Gigantick Souls amaz'd we find / As much above the reſt of human kind.

1709, Earl of Murlgrave [i.e., John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, formerly Earl of Mulgrave], An Essay on Poetry, London: […] H. Hills, […], →OCLC, page 15:

It was easy enough to see that the child was a changeling, for it wasn't like other children at all it screamed and cried, as if a knife stuck in it, and it wheezed and hit about with its arms like a huldre-cat, and was as ugly as sin.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 298:

His nurse had told him all about changelings, and how the little people would always try to steal a beautiful human child out of its cradle and put in its stead one of their own ailing, puking brats [...]

1961, Muriel Saint Clare Byrne, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country, 8th edition, London: Methuen & Co., →OCLC, page 285:

(European folklore, also figurative) In pre-modern European folklore: an infant of a magical creature that was secretly exchanged for a human infant. In British, Irish and Scandinavian mythology the exchanged infants were thought to be those of fairies, sprites or trolls; in other places, they were ascribed to demons, devils, or witches.

خائن

infant of a magical creature secretly exchanged for a human infant

(fantasy, science fiction) An organism which can change shape to mimic others; a shape-shifter.


in-line

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

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

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

(writing) Inserted in the flow of a text.


Rapunzel

[χa.pũˈzɛʊ̯]


anapest

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


tekst

pl-noun

tekst m inan (diminutive tekścik, related adjective tekstowy)

tekścik (diminutive)
tekstowy (adjective)
tekst (nominative singular)
teksty (nominative plural)
tekstu (genitive singular)
tekstów (genitive plural)
tekstowi (dative singular)
tekstom (dative plural)
tekst (accusative singular)
teksty (accusative plural)
tekstem (instrumental singular)
tekstami (instrumental plural)
tekście (locative singular)
tekstach (locative plural)
tekście (singular vocative)
teksty (plural vocative)

(literature) text (book, tome, or other set of writings)


sestet

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

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


gen

en-verb

gen (third-person singular simple present gens, present participle genning, simple past and past participle genned)

gens (present singular third-person)
genning (participle present)
genned (participle past)
genned (past)

Samples could be taken from the original, and plans could be made, but genning could not be initiated until death had occurred.

2008, Bart Dahmer, Primal Screams, →ISBN, page 36:

Her nurturer ears, genned to be hyper-sensitive, had to be hurting from the noise.

2011, Karen Sandler, Tankborn, →ISBN, page 28:

(science fiction) To genetically engineer.


tratado

Past participle of tratar, or a semi-learned borrowing from Latin tractātus, perfect passive participle of tractō (“to handle; to manage”).

(literature) treatise (systematic discourse on some subject)


longueur

Borrowed from French longueur (literally “length”).

bor+

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


chronoscope

/ˈkɹɒnəˌskəʊp/

(science fiction) A device able to directly view other times, past or future.


medida

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


tin can

For here am I sitting in a tin can // Far above the world // Planet Earth is blue // And there's nothing I can do

1969, David Bowie (lyrics and music), “Space Oddity”:

(science fiction) A metal spaceship or space station.


sirena

[sɪˈɾɛː.n̪ɐ]

Borrowed from Spanish sirena, from Late Latin Sirēna, from Latin Sīrēn, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn). The third sense is an extension of the original, further popularized by the rap song Sirena.

Ligaya Tiamson Rubin, may mga kuwento ang mga taga- Angono tungkol sa mga sirena na siyang nakikita sa isang malaking bato na umaawit at may mahabang gintong buhok. Kapag may dumarating na tao ay agad itong nawawala.

2005, Ligaya Tiamson- Rubin, (Es) kultura ng bayan: Kakambal ng ibang mga bayan:

Diego: 'Yun pong bahagi ng dagat ditong nilalabasan ng mga sirena. Galit daw po ang mga sirena sa mga tagarito. Ayon po kasi sa kuwentu-kuwento, noong unang panahon daw e pinakialaman ng mga mangingisda dito ang mga sirena ...

1993, Ricardo Lee, Salome: a Filipino filmscript, Univ of Wisconsin Center for:

Sa kaharian nila Amelita... Sa kaharian ng mga Sirena...Nakaramdam ako ng kasiyahan. Si Lagrimas... Sana ay masaya siya saan man siya naroon.... Katapusan Si Robinson Mago ay isang Electronics and Communication Engineer na ...

2014, Robin Mago, Amelita, Robinson Mago:

Natutuklasan nila sa mga libro ni Gaying na lahat ng mga taga-Angono ay nagiging bida, walang bandido, nagiging mga diwata, higante at mga sirena sa kanilang mahal na Angono. Nagkakaroon tuloy sila ng pakiramdam na sila man ay ...

2005, Ligaya Tiamson- Rubin, Angono, Rizal: Pagtatala ng gunita, panimulang dokumentasyon ng mga bayan sa Pilipinas, →ISBN:


phaser

* (science fiction): For the fictional weapon coined for Star Trek: originally a "ph(oton ma)ser," later changed canonically to a "phas(ed)-e(nergy) r(ectifier)" (of "nadions", not photons).
* (phase modulation): phase + -er

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

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

His oddly reserved nature stands out [...]. Whyte sets his phaser on stun, not kill.

A Bajoran rushed past with an armful of phaser rifles, another with a box of hand phasers.

1999, Dafydd ab Hugh, chapter 3, in Fallen Heroes [Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; 5], New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books:

Giolitti's Gold Key art is widely admired, [...] and this is a terrific opportunity to pick up a page—set your phasers on bid.

2004, Hertiage Signature Auction #811, page 185:

I said, "Set phasers on be-a-bastard."

Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction

Oxford University Press
w:Oxford University Press

(science fiction) Fictional energy weapon, with multiple settings for degree of intensity, from the television series Star Trek (1966–69).


phaser

en-verb

phaser (third-person singular simple present phasers, present participle phasering, simple past and past participle phasered)

phasers (present singular third-person)
phasering (participle present)
phasered (participle past)
phasered (past)

(science fiction, transitive) To shoot with a phaser weapon.


head

† (English symbol name dagger or obelus)

dagger (English name symbol)
obelus (English name symbol)

Derives from the obelus, ⟨⸓⟩. Originally shaped like a dagger, it is now sometimes identical in shape to a Latin cross.

crux desperationis
crux desperationis#Translingual

(textual criticism, palaeography) crux critica, crux desperationis, used around a corrupt part of a text


Nordic

From French nordique, from nord (“north”).

Called “Nordics,” the aliens are human-like in appearance, of average height, and often have long, flowing hair. Contactees are typically struck by the beauty of the Nordics, as was Howard Menger (1959): “She seemed to radiate and glow,” Menger explains,

2007, Erich Goode, D. Angus Vail, Extreme Deviance, Pine Forge Press, page 41:

But the third most common alien is called a Nordic, or humanoid.

2012, Kelly Milner Halls, Alien Investigation: Searching for the Truth about UFOs and Aliens, Millbrook Press, page 45:

Known as Nordics, these extraterrestrials are said to have blond hair, blue eyes, and pale skin and are anywhere from 6 to 8 feet (183cm to 244cm) tall.

2012, Patricia D. Netzley, Extraterrestrial Life: Alien Encounters, Reference Point Press, page 33

(ufology, science fiction) A race of extraterrestrials similar in appearance to Nordic humans.


acento

(orthography) accent (mark to indicate accent)


tono

(literature) tone (manner in which speech or writing is expressed)


esqueleto

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up, withered, dried body, parched, mummy”), from σκελλώ (skellṓ, “to dry, to dry up, to make dry, to parch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skele- (“to parch, to wither”).


kobold

en-noun

kobold (plural kobolds or (rare) kobolde)

a. 1867, George MacDonald, The Shadows, 2000 [1980], The Golden Key and Other Stories, page 96,
The king had seen all kinds of gnomes, goblins, and kobolds at his coronation; […] .

Among the nonhuman creatures that peopled rural Europe in the Middle Ages — the fairies, elves, dwarfs, trolls, and kobolds — there were beneficent female spirits who patronized those households that treated them well.

1977, James Buchanan Given, Society and Homicide in Thirteenth-Century England, published 2007, page 138:

In Germany also the kobolds are rather troublesome than otherwise, to the miners, taking pleasure in frustrating their objects, and rendering their toil unfruitful.

2011, William Wirt Sikes, Varla Ventura, The Occult Powers of Goats and Other Welsh Tales of Goblins, Fairies, Gnomes, and Elves, unnumbered page:

(German folklore) A mischievous elf or goblin, or one connected (and helpful) to a family or household.

There were also various trolls like great smiling badgers, brownies darting about laughing, dwarves with large gray heads, sensuous mermaids, stony kobolds, green gnomes, sirens and many elves, who were busy purifying the sacred hilltop in a mythological cooperation marvelous to the soul's perception.

2005, Scott Elliot Hicks, The Shattering Light of Stars, page 62:

(fantasy literature) One of a diminutive and usually malevolent race of beings, often with a reptilian or dog-like appearance.


kobold

kobold (nominative singular)
koboldy (nominative plural)
kobolda (genitive singular)
koboldów (genitive plural)
koboldowi (dative singular)
koboldom (dative plural)
kobolda (accusative singular)
koboldy (accusative plural)
koboldem (instrumental singular)
koboldami (instrumental plural)
koboldzie (locative singular)
koboldach (locative plural)
koboldzie (singular vocative)
koboldy (plural vocative)

(Germanic folklore) kobold (ambivalent, sometimes vindictive, spirit that is capable of materialising as an object or human, often a child)

(Germanic folklore) kobold (mischievous elf or goblin, or one connected (and helpful) to a family or household)


Dalek

Coined by Terry Nation in 1963 for his script of The Mutants (later retitled "The Daleks"), the second serial of the first season of Doctor Who. Accounts of how he devised the word vary. Within the Doctor Who universe, the word is supposed to be related to the name of the people from whom the Daleks evolved, either the Kaleds (as according to later serial Genesis of the Daleks) or the Dals (as in The Daleks), or to derive from a word meaning "gods" in their (fictional) language, in which the sacred "Book of Predictions" is written. According to the I, Davros audio fiction the book reads "...and on that day, men will become as gods", with the last word pronounced "Dal-eks".

'But Alydon,' I persisted, 'the Daleks aren't human beings. They're just evil, half creatures, half machines, determined to destroy you.'

1964, David Whitaker, Dr. Who and the Daleks, chapter 6 (based on the film script Dr. Who and the Daleks by Milton Subotsky, based itself on the tele-script The Mutants/The Daleks by Terry Nation)

[…] what kind of courage it must have taken for Hawkins, an actor renowned for the quality of his voice, to go back onto the set to deliver lines in that oesophageal monotone, what he called his "Dalek voice".

1987, Barry Norman, The Movie Greats, page 144:

This synthesizer is by far the best I have heard, because it varies the intonation, and does not speak like a Dalek.

p. 1996, Together with English Core, fourteenth edition (Rachna Sagar Pvt. Ltd., page 234

My voice still insisted on disappearing into my shoes every time it happened so that I sounded like a Dalek, but with a bit of experience behind me I felt marginally more confident.

2000, Rosie Parnell (Rosie White), The Crit: An Architecture Student's Handbook (co-written with Charles Doidge, Rachel Sara), page xii

One man was skiting around on a big, wheeled camera like a Dalek, dodging the scurrying assistants and clipboard-wielders, […]

2003, Siân Preece, “Country Cooking Countdown”, in Scottish Girls About Town, published 2004, page 19:

Then the Dalek turned and picked off the other passengers one by one. It screamed... 'Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!'

2006, Gareth Roberts, chapter 9, in I Am a Dalek:

Gordon Brown sounds like a Dalek with about three stock phrases... Remember, Daleks always want world domination but they always lose.

a. 2010, Peter Bazalgette, quoted in the Funniest Thing You Never Said: 2, page 333

And Peter was so focused too: like a Dalek in a track suit.

2011, Colin Neill, Turas: A Story of Strangers in a Strange Land, page 166:

(science fiction) A member of a species of extraterrestrial cyborg mutants who appear in the television programme Doctor Who and are known for travelling in metallic shells, having monotone, mechanically distorted voices, repeating a limited number of phrases, and their fanatical obsession with exterminating other, non-Dalek beings.


bande dessinée

fr-noun

bande dessinée f (plural bandes dessinées)


jette

jetten (definite singular)
jettar (indefinite plural)
jettane (definite plural)

From Danish jætte, from Old Norse jǫtunn, from Proto-Germanic *etunaz.


kokoro

/ˈkoʊkəˌɹoʊ/

Borrowed from Japanese 心(こころ) (kokoro, “heart, mind, spirit”).

Fame is for weenies. I'd rather be remembered for inventing a weird guitar effect or a recording technique than becoming famous by a song, unless the song is genuinely from my kokoro.

1992 December 7, Mike, “Re: When Things Go Wrong”, in bit.listserv.allmusic (Usenet), message-ID <ALLMUSIC%92120719125825@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU>:

(fandom slang, chiefly anime and manga) A heart.


superpower

en-noun

superpower (countable and uncountable, plural superpowers)

Administered in such a way, in that superpowers it assures.

1994, C. J. Lee, Caldwell Lee the Poet to Be: The Forthright Omnipotence Era, Dorrance Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 46:

This is his superpower, I think. The comic geek always has one, and Oliver's is a poker face that would leave even the Holy Trinity guessing what he's thinking.

2014, Christina Lauren, Dirty Rowdy Thing, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 258:

If I could have a superpower id^([sic]) want to be able to teleport. I hate walking and driving gives me headaches.

2021 December 6, Givinuplol, belugasareneat, “What superpower you would like?”, in reddit.com:

(countable, fiction) An extraordinary physical or mental ability, especially possessed by a superhero or supervillain.


juvenile

Borrowed from Latin iuvenīlis (“youthful; juvenile”), from iuvenis (“young; a youth”) + -īlis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a relationship or a pertaining to). Iuvenis is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁en- (“young”), from *h₂óyu (“long life; lifetime”) (from *h₂ey- (“age; life”)) + *h₁én (“in”).

Formerly a publisher of juveniles, out of the market till 1959, when it will enter adult fiction field.

1958, The Author and Journalist, volumes 42–43, Denver, Colo.: H. Ellithrope, →OCLC, page lxxxiv, column 1:

(literature) A publication for young adult readers.


webcomic

From Web + comic. The word is first attested 2000, but websites titled "WebComics" existed previously (as early as 1995).

Webcomics certainly have their selling points. They are harder to censor and generally free from editorial meddling[…]

2008, Danny Fingeroth, The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels, →ISBN, page 275:

Almost six years ago, Andrew Hussie began another one of a series of webcomics on his website, MS Paint Adventures. These early comics were experiments in fan-sourced storytelling: He’d create and monitor forums for character and story suggestions, then fold them into the story.

2015 February 24, Lilian Min, “How the Internet Invented a New Kind of Storytelling”, in The Atlantic:

(comics, Internet) An online comic, especially one first published on the Internet.


mannerism

mannerism (countable and uncountable, plural mannerisms)

From Italian manierismo, from maniera, coined by Luigi Lanzi at the end of the 18ᵗʰ century.

/ˈmænəˌɹɪzəm/

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

(art, literature) In literature, an ostentatious and unnatural style of the second half of the sixteenth century. In the contemporary criticism, described as a negation of the classicist equilibrium, pre-Baroque, and deforming expressiveness.

(art, literature) In fine art, a style that is inspired by previous models, aiming to reproduce subjects in an expressive language.


orientalism

orientalism (countable and uncountable, plural orientalisms)

From French orientalisme, from oriental (“eastern, Oriental”). Equivalent to Oriental + -ism.

(art, architecture, literature) The tendency to represent eastern subjects, to assume stylistical characteristics original of the East.

اِسْتِشْراق

the tendency to represent eastern subjects


spondee

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

der

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


hattur

head

hattur m (genitive singular hatts, nominative plural hattar)

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

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


bylgja

bylgja f (genitive singular bylgju, nominative plural bylgjur)

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

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


háttur

háttur m (genitive singular háttar, nominative plural hættir)

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

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


bioroid

(science fiction) A cybernetic or fully biological organism created by artificial means.

genetically engineered
genetic engineering

(science fiction) A genetically engineered humanoid-like organism created for the purpose of enslavement.


mál

non-decl-blank-full

mál

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

Icelandic: mál

Faroese: mál

Norwegian Bokmål: mål

Old Swedish: māl

Swedish: mål

Danish: mål

desc

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

Middle English: mal, male

English: mail

Scots: mail

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

bragarmál

contraction of unstressed words; poetic speech


ductus

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

bor

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

a subtle reduction of weight towards the middle of the stroke of the letter


conceited

en-adj

conceited (comparative more conceited or (informal) conceiteder, superlative most conceited or (informal) conceitedest)

more conceited (comparative)
conceiteder (comparative informal)
most conceited (superlative)
conceitedest (informal superlative)

Conceited wit showed its character towards the end of the fifteenth century in the work of poets who made it their aim to exercise their hearers' minds with cleaver plays of metaphor and ingenious reasoning.

2006, A. J. Smith, Metaphysical Wit, page 20:

(rhetoric, literature) Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.


polyphony

en-noun

polyphony (countable and uncountable, plural polyphonies)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πολυφωνία (poluphōnía); equivalent to poly- + -phony.

lbor

the polyphony of a biblical passage

(literature) The quality of a text of being able to be read in more than one way.


romans

romansik (diminutive)
romans (nominative singular)
romanse (nominative plural)
romansy (nominative plural)
romansu (genitive singular)
romansów (genitive plural)
romansowi (dative singular)
romansom (dative plural)
romans (accusative singular)
romanse (accusative plural)
romansy (accusative plural)
romansem (instrumental singular)
romansami (instrumental plural)
romansie (locative singular)
romansach (locative plural)
romansie (singular vocative)
romanse (plural vocative)
romansy (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French romance, from Spanish romance, itself probably a borrowing from either Old French romanz or Old Occitan romans, from Vulgar Latin rōmānicē, from Latin rōmānicus. Doublet of romansz.

(literature) romance novel (story or novel dealing with idealized love, usually with little artistic value)

(literature, historical) Ancient Greek novel, romaunt


mora

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

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

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

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


mora

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

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

ref

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

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


Ionian

* (Hellenic, Ionia, architecture): Ionia + -n
* (moon of Jupiter): Io + -n- + -ian

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Io, a moon of Jupiter


diacritical mark

en-noun

diacritical mark (plural diacritical marks)

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


acute accent

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

der

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


accent grave

nl-noun

accent grave n (plural accents graves or accent graves)

accents graves (plural)
accent graves (plural)

Unadapted borrowing from French accent grave.


accent grave

id-noun

accent grave (plural accent-accent grave, first-person possessive accent graveku, second-person possessive accent gravemu, third-person possessive accent gravenya)

accent-accent grave (plural)
accent grave ku (first-person possessive)
accent grave mu (possessive second-person)
accent grave nya (possessive third-person)

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


accent grave

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

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

1985, Gerd Brantenberg, Ved fergestedet, page 153:

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

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


Oompa Loompa

Apparently a fanciful formation in line with whimsical English words like fuzzy-wuzzy, Humpty Dumpty, etc. Perhaps reminiscent of "exotic" ethnonyms to Westerners; note Roald Dahl spent time in Tanganyika, East Africa, during his service in the Royal Air Force. Also compare oom-pah (“genre of German folk music”) (the Oompa Loompas dance to quirky, rhythmic songs).

Dr. Evil: Is he giving off too much of a creepy Umpa Lumpa vibe? / What’s wrong, Mini-Me?

1999 June, Mike Myers, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, New Line Cinema

Nobody, not even an Umpa Lumpa, had warned me what would happen to a blind guy who refuses to close his eyes.

2006, Ryan Knighton, Cockeyed, A Memoir, page 152:

It could be worse, but I've learned to become invisible to Machiavellian dilettantes, faux radical Satanistas, and bloodsucking Oompa-Loompas of the painfully ordinary variety.

2006, Adrian C. Louis, Logorrhea, Northwestern University Press,, →ISBN, page 44:

[Referring to the male member] It's not one of the Muppets or an Umpa Lumpa.

2006, Sherry Argov, Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart, page 89:

Don’t be afraid to write your name in the books and on the pans that were yours before you found yourself sharing a studio apartment that would normally not be big enough for an Oompa-Loompa.

2006, Anna Jane Grossman, Flint Wainess, It’s Not Me, It’s You: The Ultimate Breakup Book, page 129:

Nevertheless, some subtle market forces are at work which pressure the canny shopkeeper into giving up valuable shelf space to the contents of an Oompa Loompa’s cocktail cabinet.

2006, Simon Trewin and Michael Moran, The Encyclopaedia of Guilty Pleasures, John Murray, page unknown

For women with skin of color, it's so, so important to get the shade and tone right. If it's wrong, you can look incredibly ashy, or like an Oompa Loompa.

2006, Iman, The Beauty of Color: The Ultimate Beauty Guide for Skin of Color, page 34:

The men[…]have gone way overboard with the spray-on tan. They’re as orange as Oompa Loompas, and they stare at my boobs for a very long time before acknowledging me.

2007, Meta Smith, Queen of Miami, Hachette Digital, →ISBN:

I don't know who decided all porn actors must be the same shade of orange as Oompa Loompas.

2009, Reverend Jen, Live Nude Elf: The Sexperiments of Reverend Jen, Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, page 172:

Dahl insisted there was no racist intent behind the Oompa Loompas but also said he found himself sympathising with the NAACP.

2017 September 13, Haroon Siddique, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory hero 'was originally black'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(fiction) Any of the fictional pygmies who manufacture candy in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.


我們

/wɔ²¹⁴ mən⁴/

/wän²¹⁴ mə⁴/

/ŋo⁵³ mən²¹⁻⁵⁵/

/ŋɔː¹³ muːn²¹/

/ŋo²¹³⁻²¹ mɨn¹/

/ŋo⁴⁴⁻³⁵ mun¹¹/

/ŋo³³⁻²¹ muoŋ⁵³/

/ua⁵²⁻³⁵ muŋ⁵⁵/

/ŋu²² mən⁴⁴/

/ɦu²² mən⁴⁴/

/wɔ²¹⁴ mən⁴/

/wän²¹⁴ mə⁴/

/ŋo⁵³ mən²¹⁻⁵⁵/

/ŋɔː¹³ muːn²¹/

/ŋo²¹³⁻²¹ mɨn¹/

/ŋo⁴⁴⁻³⁵ mun¹¹/

/ŋo³³⁻²¹ muoŋ⁵³/

/ua⁵²⁻³⁵ muŋ⁵⁵/

/ŋu²² mən⁴⁴/

/ɦu²² mən⁴⁴/

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

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

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

我们认为“消”的需要义是自身引申出来的。

我們認為“消”的需要義是自身引申出來的。

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

筆者

used in both academic and general writings


género

(music, film, theater, television, literature) genre


куга

bg-noun

ку́га • (kúga) f

ку́га (canonical)
kúga (romanization)
ку́га (indefinite singular)
ку́ги (indefinite plural)
ку́гата (definite singular)
ку́гите (definite plural)

(dialectal, folklore) contagious disease, plague


dilithium

Fifty years later and it seems like we should—I don’t know if dilithium crystals are out there—but, you know, we should be getting some breakthroughs.

2016 October, Scott Dadich, quoting Barack Obama, “Barack Obama Talks AI, Robo Cars, and the Future of the World”, in Wired, →ISSN:

(science fiction) A fictional crystalline mineral in the Star Trek franchise, described as an essential component of anti-matter energy generation systems.


fin de siècle

fin de siècle (nominative singular)
fin de siècle'u (genitive singular)
fin de siècle'owi (dative singular)
fin de siècle (accusative singular)
fin de siècle'em (instrumental singular)
fin de siècle'u (locative singular)
fin de siècle'u (singular vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from French fin-de-siècle.

ubor

(art, historical, literature) fin de siècle (literary and artistic climate of modernism, world-weariness, and self-indulgence)


liten

head

liten (comparative mindre, superlative minst)

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

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

(writing, not comparable) small, lowercase


silver bullet

(literally, folklore) A bullet made of silver, usually with reference to the folkloric belief that such bullets are the only weapons which can kill a werewolf, vampire, or other monster.


doublet

From Middle English doublet, a borrowing from Old French doublet, from double, duble, doble + -et.

zeke

(historical in English) a man’s waistcoat

(literature) In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.

szövegismétlődés

literature: in textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event


Igor

From the hunchbacked lab assistant to Dr. Victor Frankenstein in the 1931 U.S. film Frankenstein of Universal Studios, which was named "Fritz", and the successor to Dr. Frankenstein found in the third and fourth films, named "Ygor"; which have been conflated in popular culture to become "Igor".

(fiction) A stock character, the lab assistant to a mad scientist, vampire, or miser frequently depicted as being deformed in some manner, physically and/or psychologically.


juvenilia

From Latin iuvenīlia, neuter plural of iuvenīlis (“of or pertaining to youth”).

...rhyme was not his [Milton's] talent; he had neither the ease of doing it, nor the graces of it: which is manifest in his "Juvenilia" or verses written in his youth, where his rhyme is always constrained and forced,...

1693, John Dryden, A Discourse on the Origin and Progress of Satire:

Lewis’s juvenilia is childlike, and the way it has been handled is childish.

1996, Kathryn Lindskoog, Light in the Shadowlands:

Though there is a large body of criticism on Brontë’s novels, there are very few interpretations of the juvenilia, […]

1997, Tomoko Kuribayashi with Julie Tharp edd., quoting Susan Anne Carlson, “Incest and Rage in Charlotte Brontë’s Novelettes,”, quoted in Creating Safe Space,:

The last line, adapted from Coleridge, reminds us that we are never such kleptomaniacs as in our juvenilia.

2003, James Fenton, The Strength of Poetry:

(chiefly literature) Works produced during an artist's or author's youth.


catalectic

From Latin catalecticus, from Ancient Greek καταληκτικός (katalēktikós, “leaving off, incomplete”) from κατά (katá, “down, wholly”) + ληκτικός (lēktikós, “causing to stop”).

uder

καταληκτικός

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


بحر

ar-noun

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

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

Gulf Arabic: بَحَر (bəḥər)

Maltese: baħar

Moroccan Arabic: بحر (bḥar)

→ Azerbaijani: bəhr

→ Bengali: বহর (bohor)

→ Lishana Deni: בחר (baḥḥaṛ)

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: بحر (baḥr)
Turkish: bahir

→ Punjabi:

Gurmukhi script: ਬਹਿਰ (bahir)

Shahmukhi script: بہر (bhr)

→ Swahili: bahari
→ Malagasy: bahary

→ Uzbek: bahr

→ Zaghawa: bahar

From Proto-West Semitic *baḥr- (“sea”), from the root ب ح ر (b-ḥ-r).


persoon

nl-noun

persoon m or f (plural personen, diminutive persoontje n)

personen (plural)
persoontje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: persoon

→ Indonesian: person

From Middle Dutch persone, ultimately from Latin persōna. Doublet with persona.

(fiction) person, character, personality


voet

voet m (plural voeten, diminutive voetje n)

voeten (plural)
voetje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: voet

Jersey Dutch: vût

desc

Negerhollands: voet, voeti, fut, futu, vut

→ Virgin Islands Creole: voet (dated)

Skepi Creole Dutch: fut

→? Sranan Tongo: futu

→? Aukan: futu

→ Saramaccan: fútu

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

Dit gedicht heeft een ritme van vier voeten per vers.

This poem has a rhythm of four feet per line.

Een jambische pentameter heeft vijf voeten per vers.
An iambic pentameter has five feet per line.

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


introverted

en-adj

introverted (comparative more introverted, superlative most introverted)

more introverted (comparative)
most introverted (superlative)

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

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

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


englyn

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


hiisi

hiisi (nominative singular)
hiidet (nominative plural)
hiisi (accusative nominative singular)
hiidet (accusative nominative plural)
hiiden (accusative genitive singular)
hiidet (accusative genitive plural)
hiiden (genitive singular)
hiisien (genitive plural)
hiitten (genitive plural rare)
hiittä (partitive singular)
hiisiä (partitive plural)
hiidessä (inessive singular)
hiisissä (inessive plural)
hiidestä (elative singular)
hiisistä (elative plural)
hiiteen (illative singular)
hiisiin (illative plural)
hiidellä (adessive singular)
hiisillä (adessive plural)
hiideltä (ablative singular)
hiisiltä (ablative plural)
hiidelle (allative singular)
hiisille (allative plural)
hiitenä (essive singular)
hiisinä (essive plural)
hiideksi (singular translative)
hiisiksi (plural translative)
hiidettä (abessive singular)
hiisittä (abessive plural)
hiisin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
hiiteni (nominative singular)
hiiteni (nominative plural)
hiiteni (accusative nominative singular)
hiiteni (accusative nominative plural)
hiiteni (accusative genitive singular)
hiiteni (accusative genitive plural)
hiiteni (genitive singular)
hiisieni (genitive plural)
hiitteni (genitive plural rare)
hiittäni (partitive singular)
hiisiäni (partitive plural)
hiidessäni (inessive singular)
hiisissäni (inessive plural)
hiidestäni (elative singular)
hiisistäni (elative plural)
hiiteeni (illative singular)
hiisiini (illative plural)
hiidelläni (adessive singular)
hiisilläni (adessive plural)
hiideltäni (ablative singular)
hiisiltäni (ablative plural)
hiidelleni (allative singular)
hiisilleni (allative plural)
hiitenäni (essive singular)
hiisinäni (essive plural)
hiidekseni (singular translative)
hiisikseni (plural translative)
hiidettäni (abessive singular)
hiisittäni (abessive plural)
hiisineni (comitative plural)
hiitesi (nominative singular)
hiitesi (nominative plural)
hiitesi (accusative nominative singular)
hiitesi (accusative nominative plural)
hiitesi (accusative genitive singular)
hiitesi (accusative genitive plural)
hiitesi (genitive singular)
hiisiesi (genitive plural)
hiittesi (genitive plural rare)
hiittäsi (partitive singular)
hiisiäsi (partitive plural)
hiidessäsi (inessive singular)
hiisissäsi (inessive plural)
hiidestäsi (elative singular)
hiisistäsi (elative plural)
hiiteesi (illative singular)
hiisiisi (illative plural)
hiidelläsi (adessive singular)
hiisilläsi (adessive plural)
hiideltäsi (ablative singular)
hiisiltäsi (ablative plural)
hiidellesi (allative singular)
hiisillesi (allative plural)
hiitenäsi (essive singular)
hiisinäsi (essive plural)
hiideksesi (singular translative)
hiisiksesi (plural translative)
hiidettäsi (abessive singular)
hiisittäsi (abessive plural)
hiisinesi (comitative plural)
hiitemme (nominative singular)
hiitemme (nominative plural)
hiitemme (accusative nominative singular)
hiitemme (accusative nominative plural)
hiitemme (accusative genitive singular)
hiitemme (accusative genitive plural)
hiitemme (genitive singular)
hiisiemme (genitive plural)
hiittemme (genitive plural rare)
hiittämme (partitive singular)
hiisiämme (partitive plural)
hiidessämme (inessive singular)
hiisissämme (inessive plural)
hiidestämme (elative singular)
hiisistämme (elative plural)
hiiteemme (illative singular)
hiisiimme (illative plural)
hiidellämme (adessive singular)
hiisillämme (adessive plural)
hiideltämme (ablative singular)
hiisiltämme (ablative plural)
hiidellemme (allative singular)
hiisillemme (allative plural)
hiitenämme (essive singular)
hiisinämme (essive plural)
hiideksemme (singular translative)
hiisiksemme (plural translative)
hiidettämme (abessive singular)
hiisittämme (abessive plural)
hiisinemme (comitative plural)
hiitenne (nominative singular)
hiitenne (nominative plural)
hiitenne (accusative nominative singular)
hiitenne (accusative nominative plural)
hiitenne (accusative genitive singular)
hiitenne (accusative genitive plural)
hiitenne (genitive singular)
hiisienne (genitive plural)
hiittenne (genitive plural rare)
hiittänne (partitive singular)
hiisiänne (partitive plural)
hiidessänne (inessive singular)
hiisissänne (inessive plural)
hiidestänne (elative singular)
hiisistänne (elative plural)
hiiteenne (illative singular)
hiisiinne (illative plural)
hiidellänne (adessive singular)
hiisillänne (adessive plural)
hiideltänne (ablative singular)
hiisiltänne (ablative plural)
hiidellenne (allative singular)
hiisillenne (allative plural)
hiitenänne (essive singular)
hiisinänne (essive plural)
hiideksenne (singular translative)
hiisiksenne (plural translative)
hiidettänne (abessive singular)
hiisittänne (abessive plural)
hiisinenne (comitative plural)
hiitensä (nominative singular)
hiitensä (nominative plural)
hiitensä (accusative nominative singular)
hiitensä (accusative nominative plural)
hiitensä (accusative genitive singular)
hiitensä (accusative genitive plural)
hiitensä (genitive singular)
hiisiensä (genitive plural)
hiittensä (genitive plural rare)
hiittään (partitive singular)
hiittänsä (partitive singular)
hiisiään (partitive plural)
hiisiänsä (partitive plural)
hiidessään (inessive singular)
hiidessänsä (inessive singular)
hiisissään (inessive plural)
hiisissänsä (inessive plural)
hiidestään (elative singular)
hiidestänsä (elative singular)
hiisistään (elative plural)
hiisistänsä (elative plural)
hiiteensä (illative singular)
hiisiinsä (illative plural)
hiidellään (adessive singular)
hiidellänsä (adessive singular)
hiisillään (adessive plural)
hiisillänsä (adessive plural)
hiideltään (ablative singular)
hiideltänsä (ablative singular)
hiisiltään (ablative plural)
hiisiltänsä (ablative plural)
hiidelleen (allative singular)
hiidellensä (allative singular)
hiisilleen (allative plural)
hiisillensä (allative plural)
hiitenään (essive singular)
hiitenänsä (essive singular)
hiisinään (essive plural)
hiisinänsä (essive plural)
hiidekseen (singular translative)
hiideksensä (singular translative)
hiisikseen (plural translative)
hiisiksensä (plural translative)
hiidettään (abessive singular)
hiidettänsä (abessive singular)
hiisittään (abessive plural)
hiisittänsä (abessive plural)
hiisineen (comitative plural)
hiisinensä (comitative plural)

Varo, ettei kaivohiisi vie sinua! (parent to child)

Be careful that the well-demon doesn't get you!

(mythology, folklore) devil, demon (malicious creature)


hiisi

hiisi (nominative singular)
hiijet (nominative plural)
hiijen (genitive singular)
hiisiin (genitive plural)
hiisilöin (genitive plural)
hiittä (partitive singular)
hiisiä (partitive plural)
hiisilöjä (partitive plural)
hiitee (illative singular)
hiisii (illative plural)
hiisilöihe (illative plural)
hiijees (inessive singular)
hiisiis (inessive plural)
hiisilöis (inessive plural)
hiijest (elative singular)
hiisist (elative plural)
hiisilöist (elative plural)
hiijelle (allative singular)
hiisille (allative plural)
hiisilöille (allative plural)
hiijeel (adessive singular)
hiisiil (adessive plural)
hiisilöil (adessive plural)
hiijelt (ablative singular)
hiisilt (ablative plural)
hiisilöilt (ablative plural)
hiijeks (singular translative)
hiisiks (plural translative)
hiisilöiks (plural translative)
hiitennä (essive singular)
hiiteen (essive singular)
hiisinnä (essive plural)
hiisilöinnä (essive plural)
hiisiin (essive plural)
hiisilöin (essive plural)
hiitent (exessive singular)
hiisint (exessive plural)
hiisilöint (exessive plural)

From Proto-Finnic *hiici. Cognates include Finnish hiisi and Estonian hiis.


suspended animation

(science fiction) The deliberate slowing of the body's functions, sometimes by the use of cryonics, on long interstellar journeys.


kast

kastet (definite singular)
kast (indefinite plural)
kasta (definite plural)

From Old Norse kast.
(folklore): Compare Swedish offerkast.


μέτρον

grc-noun

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

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

Greek: μέτρο (métro)

→ English: metron

desctree

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

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


ψυχή

psychí (romanization)
ψυχές (plural)
ψυχή (nominative singular)
ψυχές (nominative plural)
ψυχής (genitive singular)
ψυχών (genitive plural)
ψυχή (accusative singular)
ψυχές (accusative plural)
ψυχή (singular vocative)
ψυχές (plural vocative)

άβυσσος η ψυχή του ανθρώπου

there's nowt so queer as folk; an abyss [is] the soul of man

Ο Θεός να αναπαύσει την ψυχή της.

Το σώμα είναι η κιβωτός της ψυχής.

η ψυχή της Ελλάδας

(religion, folklore, also figurative) soul, spirit (essence of a person (or place or thing figuratively) usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality)


παραβολή

head

παραβολή • (paravolí) f (plural παραβολές)

paravolí (romanization)
παραβολές (plural)
παραβολή (nominative singular)
παραβολές (nominative plural)
παραβολής (genitive singular)
παραβολών (genitive plural)
παραβολή (accusative singular)
παραβολές (accusative plural)
παραβολή (singular vocative)
παραβολές (plural vocative)

Inherited from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ).


ottava

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


time warp

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

But as the reports on the Bild investigation suggest, the company’s workplace culture may be stuck in a time warp.

2021 October 17, Ben Smith, “At Axel Springer, Politico’s New Owner, Allegations of Sex, Lies and a Secret Payment”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(science fiction) A hypothetical discontinuity in the flow of time that would uncausally move events from one time period to another.


time warp

en-verb

time warp (third-person singular simple present time warps, present participle time warping, simple past and past participle time warped)

time warps (present singular third-person)
time warping (participle present)
time warped (participle past)
time warped (past)

(science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To travel through time in such a manner.


orm

ormen (definite singular)
ormar (indefinite plural)
ormane (definite plural)

From Old Norse ormr, from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis. Akin to English worm.

(folklore) a mythical worm living in a human body parts, teeth or bones, causing various kinds of sickness

(folklore) any mythical dragon-like creature


orm

orm (indefinite nominative singular)
ormen (definite nominative singular)
ormar (indefinite nominative plural)
ormarna (definite nominative plural)
orms (genitive indefinite singular)
ormens (definite genitive singular)
ormars (genitive indefinite plural)
ormarnas (definite genitive plural)

From Old Swedish ormber (“snake, vermin, ringworm”), from Old Norse ormr, from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis, *wrmo- (“serpent, scorpion, maggot, worm”), maybe from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to turn”). Akin to English worm, wyrm. Doublet of vurm.


aoi

aoi (genitive singular)
aoi (indefinite nominative singular)
a aoi (indefinite singular vocative)
aoi (genitive indefinite singular)
aoi (dative indefinite singular)
an t-aoi (definite nominative singular)
an aoi (definite genitive singular)
leis an aoi (dative definite singular)
don aoi (dative definite singular)

From Old Irish aí (“poetic inspiration, metrical composition”).

inh

(literary, literature) a metrical composition


pyrokinesis

(parapsychology, fantasy, science fiction) The ability to set objects or people on fire or to supernaturally project fire from one's own being through the concentration of psychic power.

pyrokinesia

the ability to set objects or people on fire


wirehead

(science fiction) A person who has an electronic brain implant.


prosody

en-noun

prosody (countable and uncountable, plural prosodies)

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

der

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

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

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


llorona

rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines

(folklore) weeping woman (from the Latin American folkloric legend La Llorona)


punctum

la-noun

pūnctum n (genitive pūnctī); second declension

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

Asturian: puntu

Catalan: punt

Danish: punkt

→ Danish: punktum

→ Dutch: punt

→ English: punctum

Friulian: pont

Galician: punto

German: Punkt, → Punktum

→ Esperanto: punkto

→ Serbo-Croatian: punkt

→ Hungarian: pont

→ Romanian: pont

Irish: ponc

Italian: punto

→ English: punto

→ Middle Low German: punct

→ Danish: punkt

→ Old Norse: punktr

Norwegian Bokmål: punkt

Swedish: punktr

Norwegian Bokmål: punktum

Occitan: ponch

desctree

→ Old Czech: punkt (learned)
Czech: punkt

Old French: point

→ Middle English: point

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

Middle French: poinct

French: point

→ Danish: point

→ Dutch: punt

→ Norwegian Bokmål: poeng

→ Polish: pointa

→ Swedish: poäng

→ Turkish: puan

Norman: point

Portuguese: ponto

→ Polish: punkt (learned)

→ Romanian: punct

Russian: пункт (punkt)

Sicilian: puntu

Spanish: punto

→ Tagalog: punto

Swedish: punkt

Venetian: ponto

→ Welsh: pwnc

→ Welsh: pwyth

[ˈpʊŋkt̪ʊ̃ˑ]

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


bathos

en-noun

bathos (usually uncountable, plural bathoses)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βάθος (báthos, “depth”). Employed ironically following Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, lampooning various errors in contemporary writers.

bathos

unintentional failure at artistic effect

(literature, the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:

anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.

banality: unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic.

immaturity: lack of serious treatment of a topic.

While a plain and direct Road is pav'd to their ὐψος, or sublime; no Track has been yet chalk'd out to arrive at our βάθος, or profund.

(literature, the arts) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.


adaptation

adaptation (countable and uncountable, plural adaptations)

/ˌædæpˈteɪʃən/

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

der

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

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


runa

pl-noun

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

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

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


Vokal

de-noun

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

Vokales (genitive)
Vokals (genitive)
Vokale (plural)
Vokal (nominative singular)
Vokale (definite nominative plural)
Vokales (genitive singular)
Vokals (genitive singular)
Vokale (definite genitive plural)
Vokal (dative singular)
Vokale (dative singular)
Vokalen (dative definite plural)
Vokal (accusative singular)
Vokale (accusative definite plural)

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

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


草書

CJKV/code

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

/t͡sʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂu⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰou̯³⁵ syː⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰo⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡sɯ³³/

/t͡sʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ su⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ su⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ si⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰau⁴⁴⁵⁻³³ su³³/

/t͡sʰɔ³³ sz̩⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂu⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰou̯³⁵ syː⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰo⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡sɯ³³/

/t͡sʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ su⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ su⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ si⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰau⁴⁴⁵⁻³³ su³³/

/t͡sʰɔ³³ sz̩⁴⁴/

(calligraphy) a Chinese calligraphic style

cursive script
a Chinese calligraphic style


lolicon

en-noun

lolicon (usually uncountable, plural lolicons)

Borrowed from Japanese ロリコン (rorikon), clipping of ロリータ・コンプレックス (“Lolita complex”), from the Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita and English complex (not from English Lolita complex, which comes from the Japanese term). Lolita comes from Spanish Lolita, diminutive of Lola, from the given name Dolores. By surface analysis, loli + -con (“abnormal sexual attraction”).

clipping

ロリータ・コンプレックス

surf

Innocence’s story—about female sex androids that kill their owners—is possible only in a Lolicon country like Japan. The androids are modeled after little girls[.]

2004, Patrick Macias, Tomohiro Machiyama, Cruising The Anime City: An Otaku Guide to Neo Tokyo, Stone Bridge Press, page 48:

A Japanese term derived from the English phrase “Lolita complex,” lolicon describes a fascination with cartoons of very young-looking girls engaged in varying degrees of erotic behavior.

2014 October 15, Matt Alt, “Pharrell Williams’s Lolicon Video”, in The New Yorker:

(uncountable, anime and manga) Attraction (often erotic) to young or young-looking female characters.

I don't need to hear you are becoming a lolicon.

1993 October 29, "Eldrick Tobin, Master of Perversion" (username), "The Arc: Joyful Noise Omakefic Unit 01: Sentenced: A Fanboys! Crossover "jnomk01.txt" (1/1)", in alt.hentai.sailor-moon, Usenet

Ken's a lolicon (pedophile).

1998 March 9, Chadwick Ngan, “BLAND Manga Capsules 3/4/98”, in rec.arts.manga (Usenet):

Hey, don't take me for a lolicon: I'm not! It is just that I find that kind of anime... fun, refreshing.

2000 July 6, OLF, i.e. Olf Le Fol, “:: chokes :: :: passes out ::”, in alt.hentai.sailor-moon (Usenet):

I like lolis, I consider myself a lolicon, but I'm not attracted to real children. Your argument fails immediately there since most lolicons are not attracted to real children. Am I a pedophile?

2016 July 14, Aiko_Hiroshi, Kono Bijutsubu ni wa Mondai ga Aru! Episode 2 Discussion:

Let me say it again, lolicon and pedo are a different thing. japanese people are just saying it lolicon because in their mind, they already implanted the word of lolicon as pedo, but in anime community, pedo and lolicon are a different thing. why make it different ? so that we can see the difference from people who likes "fictional" little girl and from people who likes "real" little girl.

2016 July 15, YizelTro, Kono Bijutsubu ni wa Mondai ga Aru! Episode 2 Discussion:

(countable, anime and manga) An individual who is attracted to young or young-looking female characters.

If you are into bishojo, loli-con, or bishonen materials, be advised that customs *does* frown on what might be considered pornography.

1989 September 23, Mark Crispin, “bringing stuff into the US from Japan”, in soc.culture.japan (Usenet):

the whole gamut of lolicon and girls-with-guns genres

1993 March 27, Rafael Brown, “Anime Potrayal of Japanese Women”, in rec.arts.anime (Usenet):

Some critics of lolicon claim that those who enjoy it also necessarily enjoy real child porn […]

2006, Lawrence Eng, Otaku Engagements: subcultural appropriation of science and technology, page 168:

Bizarrely, viewing and collecting lolicon seems to have become a subcultural norm, especially in Japan, […]

2010, Sarah D. Goode, Understanding and Addressing Adult Sexual Attraction to Children: a Study of Paedophiles in Contemporary Society, page 29:

Most importantly, because German child pornography and child abuse laws forbid representation of children as sexual objects, there is a complete ban on shota or lolicon.

2010, Paul M. Malone, “From BRAVO to Animexx.de to Export”, in Boys’ Love Manga, page 33:

(uncountable, anime and manga) Erotic or suggestive artwork depicting young or young-looking girls.


neo

Ken Bulmer pointed out that the attitude of a fan who had read much sf is different from that of a neo who is reading sf for the first time.

1964 April 2, Bennett Ron, Skyrack, number 65:

This fabulous fannish cover illustrated the three stages of fandom: the neo, the trufan, and the BNF.

1976 August 25, Ian Maule, Checkpoint, number 72:

Edwina, and neofen of her generation (this is not a criticism - everyone starts out as a neo), being new to sffandom, and not a member of faandom, would not have noticed this.

1996 November 3, Richard J. Faulder, Gegenschein, number 80:

(dated, fandom slang, science fiction) Clipping of neofan.


episodic

en-adj

episodic (comparative more episodic, superlative most episodic)

more episodic (comparative)
most episodic (superlative)

[ˌɛp.ɪˈsɑ.ɾɪk]

From episode + -ic. Compare French épisodique.

I just read five attempts at episodic novels — has nobody heard of a plot anymore?

(literature) Consisting of a sequence of seemingly unconnected episodes.


clustering

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


battlecruiser

Blend of battleship + cruiser, from being a cruiser-like ship with battleship-like capabilities and possibly operating in the battleline.

(fiction) A warship of intermediate size and/or capability between a heavy cruiser and a (light) battleship.


teleplay

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


decima

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

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

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


envoy

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

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


flashback

→ German: Flashback

→ Spanish: flashback

→ Norwegian: flashback

→ Portuguese: flashback

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

salt enrere

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


jamb

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

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἴαμβος (íambos).


jamb

pl-noun

jamb m inan (related adjective jambiczny)

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

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


screenplay

Coordinate term: radioplay

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

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


νάνος

nános (romanization)
νάνοι (plural)
νάνος (nominative singular)
νάνοι (nominative plural)
νάνου (genitive singular)
νάνων (genitive plural)
νάνο (accusative singular)
νάνους (accusative plural)
νάνε (singular vocative)
νάνοι (plural vocative)

(mythology, folklore) dwarf (member of a race of beings, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking)


macaronic

en-adj

macaronic (comparative more macaronic, superlative most macaronic)

more macaronic (comparative)
most macaronic (superlative)

/ˌmækəˈɹɑnɪk/

From New Latin, 1517 coinage, macaronicus, from Italian (Neapolitan dialect) maccarone (“coarse dumpling”).

(literature) Written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages.


macaronic

/ˌmækəˈɹɑnɪk/

(literature) A work of macaronic character.


frigate

From French frégate, from Italian fregata.

Frigates are light escort and scouting vessels. They often have extensive GARDIAN systems to provide anti-fighter screening for capital ships, and carry a squad of marines for security and groundside duty. Unlike larger vessels, frigates are able to land on planets.

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

(fiction) A warship or space warship, inspired by one of the many historic varieties of frigate.


empathic

empathic (comparative more empathic, superlative most empathic)

more empathic (comparative)
most empathic (superlative)

(science fiction) Of, pertaining to, or being an empath: of or having the capability of sensing the emotions of others.


전

—전 (canonical)
-jeon (romanization)
傳 (hanja)

홍길동전 (洪吉童傳)

the hanja entry at 傳 for Sino-Korean compounds of 전


vampiro

es-noun

vampiro m (plural vampiros, feminine vampiresa, feminine plural vampiresas)

vampiros (plural)
vampiresa (feminine)
vampiresas (feminine plural)

Borrowed from French vampire or German Vampir, from Hungarian vámpír, ultimately from Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr.


baria

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


háček

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

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

cog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2002, Torbjörn Lundmark, Quirky QWERTY, page 34:

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

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

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

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

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

diacritical mark
diacritical mark#English

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

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

acute accent

diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts

comma

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

hook

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

tilde

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


ranger

/ˈɹeɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)/

(literature, roleplaying games) A warrior character, often with wilderness and stealth skill, who typically travels the countryside.


periplus

en-noun

periplus (plural peripluses or peripli or periploi)

peripluses (plural)
peripli (plural)
periploi (plural)

/ˈpɛɹɪˌplʌs/

From Latin periplūs (“account of a voyage”) and Ancient Greek περίπλους (períplous, “voyage, naval manouver, account of a voyage”), from περί (perí, “peri-: around”) + πλοῦς (ploûs, “voyage”), from πλεῖν (pleîn, “to swim”). Cf. French périple, Spanish periplo, & Italian periplo.

der

Then follows a Periplus of the Euxine-Sea, which bears the name of Arrian, and was undoubtedly written by him in the time of Adrian, as the inſcription ſhews.

1738, Pierre Bayle, John Peter Bernard, Thomas Birch, John Lockman [et al.], “Hudson (Dr. John)”, in A General Dictionary, Historical and Critical, volume VI, London: Printed by James Bettenham, for G. Strahan, J. Clarke [et al.], →OCLC, page 300, footnote B:

The Periplûs of the Erythrêan Sea is the title prefixed to a work which contains the beſt account of the commerce carried on from the Red Sea and the coaſt of Africa to the Eaſt Indies, during the time that Egypt was a province of the Roman Empire.

1800, William Vincent, The Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, volume I, London: Printed by Andrew Strahan, Printers Street; for Thomas Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies […], →OCLC, page 3:

Another great source of geographical information both for the ancients themselves and, so far as they still exist, for us also, are the Peripli (περίπλοι), that is, descriptions of the coasts of certain seas, in which the towns, ports, and promontories are enumerated, and often with their distances from one another. These peripli were drawn up for the guidance of sailors who had occasion to visit these seas for commercial and other purposes.

1859, Leonhard Schmitz, “Period of Historical Geography, from about B.C. 450, the Age of Herodotus, down to B.C. 276, or the Time of Eratosthenes”, in A Manual of Ancient Geography … With a Map Showing the Retreat of the 10,000 Greeks under Xenophon, Philadelphia, Pa.: Blanchard and Lea, →OCLC, page 25:

[…] the map of the world Ptolemy followed in his geography, finding the longitude that passed through the Gates of Herakles and the island of Rhodes, and placing north and south of it the world as recorded on the periploi of the Phoenician merchants.

1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!: Six Stories, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →ISBN:

A periplus of the Mediterranean: Greek sailing directions The following excerpt from one of the most complete periploi was attributed in the nineteenth century to the Greek merchant Scylax of Caryanda, known to have traded with settlements not only along the Red Sea but also on the shores of the Indian Ocean.

1978, “Periplus and Periegesis: Greek Maritime Writings”, in George Kish, editor, A Source Book in Geography (Source Books in the History of the Sciences), Cambridge, Mass., London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 24:

Listing cities along a coast, periploi gave details about sailing conditions, harbors, what the area imported or exported, what tariffs to expect, whether the people were friendly or not, and what noteworthy landmarks and marvels (mirabilia) one might expect to see. Hanno, whose periplus of Africa (circa 480 bce) was aborted when supplies ran out, described strange peoples and animals, including Trogodytes clad in animal skins and wild men, called "gorillas."

2016, Georgia Lynette Irby, “Greek and Roman Cartography”, in Georgia L. Irby, editor, A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome, volume II, Chichester, West Sussex, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 827:

(literature) An account of a voyage, particularly those of Hanno and Arrian, recording ports and coastal landmarks.


хаос

ru-noun+

ха́ос or хао́с • (xáos or xaós) m inan (genitive ха́оса or хао́са, nominative plural ха́осы or хао́сы, genitive plural ха́осов or хао́сов)

ха́ос (canonical)
хао́с (canonical)
xáos (romanization)
xaós (romanization)
ха́оса (genitive)
хао́са (genitive)
ха́осы (nominative plural)
хао́сы (nominative plural)
ха́осов (genitive plural)
хао́сов (genitive plural)
ха́ос (nominative singular)
хао́с (nominative singular)
ха́осы (nominative plural)
хао́сы (nominative plural)
ха́оса (genitive singular)
хао́са (genitive singular)
ха́осов (genitive plural)
хао́сов (genitive plural)
ха́осу (dative singular)
хао́су (dative singular)
ха́осам (dative plural)
хао́сам (dative plural)
ха́ос (accusative singular)
хао́с (accusative singular)
ха́осы (accusative plural)
хао́сы (accusative plural)
ха́осом (instrumental singular)
хао́сом (instrumental singular)
ха́осами (instrumental plural)
хао́сами (instrumental plural)
ха́осе (prepositional singular)
хао́се (prepositional singular)
ха́осах (plural prepositional)
хао́сах (plural prepositional)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “vast chasm, void”).

bor+

(fiction, usually capitalised) Chaos, demonic entities, their monsters, and armies from the Warhammer franchises by Games Workshop


Apollonian

From Latin Apollō (Apollōn-) + -ian and Apollonius/Apollonia + -an.

2008, C. G. Stevenson, The Apollonian Appearance: The Being from the Planet Apollo, →ISBN:

At first, when the Apollonians converged on her, Mary Theresa thought she had made a major mistake by going to the battle.

2013, Jim Henry, Universal Life Force Series Featuring Antiquity Calais Vol. 1-3, →ISBN:

The last person who tried this kind of appeal was actually the new vessel -- an Apollonian, one I knew briefly.

2013, James Bartholomeusz, The Grey Star, →ISBN, page 17:

(science fiction) A native of the planet Apollo.


rann

head

rann m (genitive singular rainn, nominative plural rainn)

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


rann

rann m (genitive singular rainn, plural rannan)

rainn (genitive singular)
rannan (plural)

às na ceithir ranna ruadha

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


realist

(art, literature) An adherent of the realism movement; an artist who seeks to portray real everyday life accurately.


Lunarian

From the stem of Latin lunaris (“of the moon, lunar”) + -ian.

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Earth's Moon (Luna): either an indigenous one or a human one.


Lunarian

(science fiction) Pertaining to the inhabitants of Luna (Lunarians).


Solarian

en-adj

Solarian (comparative more Solarian, superlative most Solarian)

more Solarian (comparative)
most Solarian (superlative)

(chiefly science fiction) Of or relating to the Sun.

He grinned at the profanity that came out of the communicator-speaker. Then—back at the irreverently nicknamed Galloping Cow which was the base ship of the Extra-Solarian Research Institute expedition to this star-cluster—McRae cut off.

1947 April, Murray Leinster, “Skit-Tree Planet”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 30, number 1, page 42:

(chiefly science fiction) Of or relating to the Solar System.

The Solarian one-man ships were even smaller than the Nigrian one-man ships, and some of these did a tremendous amount of damage.

1930 Fall, John Wood Campbell, “The Black Star Passes”, in Amazing Stories Quarterly, volume 3, number 4, page 521:

(chiefly science fiction) Of or relating to the inhabitants of the Solar system.


Solarian

It will be proved that a Solarian, supposing him to have a stature equal to our own, would do as much work as seven of our cultivators; and yet the Solarians are the happiest of beings; their lot is the highest degree of happiness to which we can aspire until the epoch when there shall exist stars of a more exalted rank, that are not yet to be found in our young universe.

1851, Charles Fourier, The Passions of the Human Soul, page 225:

"There has been another dive since our meeting, Jacob, and on that dive, we are told, only the first and more prosaic species of Solarian was observed. Not the second variety which has caused Dr. Kepler so much concern." Jacob was still confused by the hurried explanations Kepler had given of the two types of Sun-creatures so far observed.

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the Sun.

The small ships of the Nigrians were beginning to take a terrific toll in the thin ranks of the Solarians. The coming of the Rocket Squad had been welcomed indeed!

Is it true that all Terrans, and other Solarians are frightfully rich, and go simply everywhere, and do as they please, and that almost nobody works?

1956 August, Charles Stearns, “The Golden Ones”, in Science Fiction Quarterly, volume 4, number 4, page 30:

(chiefly science fiction) An inhabitant of any part of the solar system of the Sun.


Mercurian

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the planet Mercury.


spondaic

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

der

(poetry) Having or relating to spondees.


Mrs. Claus

A relatively new gala, the Celebrate Santa Convention boasts a sea of Santas, Mrs. Clauses, elves, and reindeers, […]

2011, Kristin Luna, Tennessee Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff, Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 167:

In normal years, he runs a roving school for Santas and Mmes. Claus and supplies a workforce of bearded men to malls and corporate events around the country. […] He led a neighborhood tree-lighting in a blue surgical mask with a Mrs. Claus friend near his apartment in Upper Manhattan, and a few buddies volunteered for a socially distanced Christmas parade.

2020 December 25, Emma Green, “The Christmas Crisis”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 2020-12-25:

“Why do I get the feeling that ‘we’ includes me?” I said warily. “Of course it includes you. You’re Mrs. Claus.” She reconsidered. “One of the Mrs. Clauses, at any rate. I signed you up for two shifts and some cookies. Surely that’s not too much to ask?”

2021, Liz Ireland, Mrs. Claus and the Halloween Homicide, Kensington Books, →ISBN:

In 1937, a Michigan school was established in Midland, and it has been training Santas and Mrs. Clauses for eighty-five years.

2022, Bill Loomis, Christmas in Detroit, Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, →ISBN, page 67:


robots

robots (nominative singular)
roboti (nominative plural)
robotu (accusative singular)
robotus (accusative plural)
robota (genitive singular)
robotu (genitive plural)
robotam (dative singular)
robotiem (dative plural)
robotu (instrumental singular)
robotiem (instrumental plural)
robotā (locative singular)
robotos (locative plural)
robot (singular vocative)
roboti (plural vocative)

From Czech robot, from robota (“drudgery, servitude”). Coined in the 1921 science-fiction play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek after having been suggested to him by his brother Josef http://ui.fpf.slu.cz/persons/Kelemen/articles/HorKelALIFEIXDef.pdf, and taken into other languages without change.

(science fiction) robot (intelligent machine designed to look like a human being)


couplet

From French couplet, from couple + -et. Doublet of cabaletta.

(literature) A pair of lines, typically with rhyming end words.

բեյթ

in poetry, a pair of lines with rhyming end words


couplet

→ Dutch: couplet

→ English: couplet

→ German: Couplet

→ Spanish: cuplé

→ Russian: купле́т (kuplét)


xenia

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

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ξενίᾱ (xeníā).

lbor

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


Plutonian

From Pluto (“dwarf planet in the Solar System”) + -n- + -ian (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘from, related to, or like’, or nouns meaning ‘one belonging to, relating to, or like’), probably influenced by Plutonian (“of or relating to Pluto, Greek and Roman god of the underworld”) (see etymology 1).

affix

The Plutonians, who are almost extinct, once held a superscience that they have largely lost. Early Plutonian visits to Earth survived in folk memory as the devil, since Plutonians are gigantic, with horns, hooves, and tail.

1998, Everett F[ranklin] Bleiler, Richard Bleiler, “[Story Descriptions.] 1423. THE EARTHMAN’S BURDEN. Astounding Stories, June 1931, Ill. Paul.”, in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years: A Complete Coverage of the Genre Magazines Amazing, Astounding, Wonder, and Others from 1926 through 1936, Kent, Oh., London: Kent State University Press, →ISBN, page 409, column 1:

(chiefly science fiction) An inhabitant of the dwarf planet Pluto.


parataxis

en-noun

parataxis (usually uncountable, plural parataxes)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek παράταξις (parátaxis, “placement side by side”), from παρα- (para-) + τάξις (táxis, “arrangement”); equivalent to para- + taxis.

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(literature) The juxtaposition of two images or fragments, usually starkly dissimilar, without a clear connection.


Verfremdungseffekt

Borrowed from German Verfremdungseffekt.

Brecht's famous ‘Verfremdungseffekte’^([sic]) or ‘alienation effect’, intended to counter the magical associations of stage illusion and the tendency for spellbound audiences to identify emotionally with characters on stage, both of which Brecht found abhorrent.

1997 May, Clive Barker, Simon Trussler, editors, New Theatre Quarterly, volume 13, number 50, page 114:

(theater, literature) Brecht's distancing effect.