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User talk:Fonzy~enwiktionary

Word length is fairly meaningless in Chinese. Each character represents a whole word. I suppose that stroke count is as close as you can come to the concept of length, and that requires understanding how a Chinese dictionary works. It requires a separate stroke count for each "radical" and for the additional stroke that goes into making a compound character.

The separate list may be what is required. It presents an interesting challenge for how to index Chinese characters in a latin context for people who haven't got a clue about how to read Chinese. Fluent Chinese readers may not be the ones to accomplish this, because they are too familiar with their own language to be able to ask the right questions. Eclecticology 04:44 Dec 18, 2002 (UTC)

Ok i will do it by strokes, thankyou very intresting btw. -fonzy

Since you've started making entries in Georgian, do you think you could add in transliterations? Eclecticology

Hi Fonzy. Not that I care too much, but I thought a "(" was always preceded by a space in English (as in most languages). I have never seen it otherwise. Are you sure it's like this? D.D. 22:08 Feb 26, 2003 (UTC)

I have no idea :-s. I jsut did that as that what I did for soem langauges in Eagle -fonzy

My wife who worked in the publishing business for years says so. Might be something we should look up. :-) D.D. 22:15 Feb 26, 2003 (UTC)

When I first saw that you had a message on my user page, I expected criticism because I had removed the word of the week from the main page. I don't really mind it being there as long as those who want it maintain it. I've had concerns about the quantity of text on the main page, but haven't figured out what I would want to do about it.

Your proposal certainly looks nice, and even I have to admit that despite my reservations about translations it does seem to have attracted some interest. There is nevertheless a lot of duplication of material. The thesaurus section does not seem to add a lot of new material, which makes me question the usefulness of having this as separate pages at all. Eclecticology 22:03 Apr 1, 2003 (UTC)

Well the point of it, is too devide things up, more. instead of squezing everything on, one page. -fonzy

You manged to fix one of my screw ups before, maybe you can do it again. I've been moving the various all capital interlingua index articles to a more appropriate place. I was moving DYNAMIC - DYSPEPTICO}} to [[ Wiktionary:Interlingua_index_(dynamic_-_dyspeptico)), and managed to make it disappear. I inadvertently left a blank space at the beginning of the title.  Putting a redirect to the corrected title (with no space at the extra parenthesis at the end removed) hasn't helped.  The article doesn't seem to be there.  However, if I search under the word "DYNAMIC" (in block capitals) it shows up in the list, but the link does not give me what it's supposed to be.  Could you please have a look at this.  If you can't do anything about it, I'll try weeping on Brion's shoulder. Eclecticology 09:07 Apr 26, 2003 (UTC)

well acordng to recent changes you created the pafe DYNAMIC - DYSPEPTICO. There was never anything in it anyway, thats all i can say, I looked to restore things, but there was nothing to retore expect one redirect page that you created to do with the pages you mentioned. -fonzy

I wish life could be so simple!!! I didn't create it, and if things had gone on normally I would have ended up deleting it like all other pages of this type. Recent changes puts an "N" marker when a page is moved. Presumably because it involves creating a new page with a different title. The page history shows that the page was moved to a title that begins with a blank space.

I normally set my search preferences to show 5 lines per hit (setting it higher seems to have no effect). My search results for "DYNAMIC" show an article with 1146 bytes at Interlingua_index_(dynamic_-_dyspeptico)) rather than at Wiktionary:Interlingua_index_(dynamic_-_dyspeptico)), and it shows an extract of the text that should be there containing "DYNAMIC". Clicking on the link merely give me a page that includes my later attempt to redirect this to where it should be! Eclecticology 23:28 Apr 26, 2003 (UTC)

I dont know what happened then :-s, Wiktionary is still in a mess at the moment and its hard to find things as it is. - fonzy

 * I've just tried to put the content from database dump. Hope I'm doing it right. Petruk 19:27, 17 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hello! I think that  should be inserted to http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Googlesearch so that 50 search matches could be displayed at one time. Greetings --Dubaduba 20:26, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

re Admin status

 * This is notice that your admin status is in the process of being removed because you have not edited in more than a year. Please notify me on my talk page if you have any comments about this.  Since no wrongdoing is involved there should be no problem in reacquiring your status on request once you have again shown signs of being an active participant. Eclecticology 02:28, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)

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User:Eclecticology

Number 7

I live in the Vancouver, BC, Canada area, and enjoy learning about all sorts of new things. Words are only one of my many fascinations.

I believe that Wiktionary provides some amazing challenges for doing dictionaries differently, and I'm thrilled to have jumped in on the project´s first day.

Things that I've worked on

 * 1) How Chinese characters can best be represented in a Latin context;
 * 2) Tracking, integrating and adapting the Webster 1913 material to suit our purposes;
 * 3) Developing consistent formats for our articles;
 * 4) Putting the titles of various attempts at interlanguage indexing into a common format;
 * 5) Adding strange words and their etymologies as I find them.

Things that I avoid working on

 * 1) Pronunciations, except where it's necessary to distinguish two meanings of the same word...but I do prefer IPA over SAMPA.
 * 2) Translations; there are plenty of others who are happy to do that.

User:Eclecticology/Sandbox User:Eclecticology/Vision old vision page

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Appendix:Lojban/bongu

Root

 * 1) bone;  is a/the bone/ivory [body-part], performing function  in body of x3; [metaphor: calcium]
 * 2) le bongu  - bone
 * 3) le se bongu  - function of bone
 * 4) le te bongu  - body with bone

title: Appendix:Lojban/bongu


text: hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

title: hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia


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lente

Noun

 * 1) An intermediate-acting form of insulin, between isophane and ultralente.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * , the season between winter and summer

Etymology
From, , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) spring: the season between winter and summer
 * 2)  year of age
 * 1)  year of age

Etymology 1
, alteration of, itself an alteration of Classical.

Noun

 * 1)  nit

Etymology
, in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens".

Noun

 * 1) lens

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) slowly

Noun

 * 1) lens

Adjective

 * 1) slow

Etymology 1
Inflected form of.

Etymology 2
First attested 17th century. , in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens".

Noun

 * 1) lens

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) slowly

Noun

 * 1) riband
 * 2) band
 * 3) fillet
 * 4) ribbon
 * 5) sweatband
 * 6) tape

Noun

 * 1) glasses, lenses

Etymology
Borrowed from, in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens".

Noun

 * 1)  lens object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it
 * 2)  lens transparent crystalline structure in the eye
 * 3) lens device which focuses or defocuses electron beams
 * 4)  lens a way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something
 * 5)  a fossil or deposit between two strata
 * 1)  a fossil or deposit between two strata

Derived terms

 * lente de conta(c)to

Noun

 * 1) teacher, professor

Etymology
, in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens". Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) lens
 * 2)  glasses,  spectacles,  eyeglass

Usage notes

 * Lente can be either masculine or feminine in its singular form, but is always masculine when used in the plural to refer to eyeglasses.

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1) lens
 * 2) magnifying glass
 * 3) flashlight
 * 1) flashlight

title: lente


text:
zomer

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) summer

title: zomer


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herfst

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from. The original meaning was “harvest time”, as is seen in.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬; further with Latin, Greek.

Noun

 * 1) autumn, fall

title: herfst


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winter

Etymology
From, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons, typically regarded as being from December to February in continental regions of the Northern Hemisphere or the months of June, July, and August in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the time when the sun is lowest in the sky, resulting in short days, and the time of year with the lowest atmospheric temperatures for the region.
 * 2) * 1785,, “Tirocinium: or, A Review of Schools." in The Poems of William Cowper, Vol. II., The Press of C. Whittingham (1822), page 174:
 * There shall he learn, ere sixteen winters old, That [...]
 * 1)  The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.
 * 2)  Someone with dark skin, eyes and hair, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
 * 3)  An appliance to be fixed on the front of a grate, to keep a kettle warm, etc.
 * 4)  The rainy season.
 * 5) * 1584, Barret, in Hakl. ii. 413
 * Note that the Citie of Goa is the principall place of all the Oriental India, and the winter thus beginneth the 15 of May, with very great raine.
 * 1) * 1610, Finch, in Purchas, i. 423
 * The Winter heere beginneth about the first of Iune and dureth till the twentieth of September, but not with continuall raines as at Goa, but for some sixe or seuen dayes every change and full, with much wind, thunder and raine.
 * 1) * 1678, Fryer, 410
 * In Winter (when they rarely stir) they have a Mumjama, or Wax Cloth to throw over it
 * 1) * 1770,—Raynal, tr. 1777, i. 34
 * The mere breadth of these mountains divides summer from winter, that is to say, the season of fine weather from the rainy all that is meant by winter in India is the time of the year when the clouds  are driven violently by the winds against the mountains,
 * 1) * 1610, Finch, in Purchas, i. 423
 * The Winter heere beginneth about the first of Iune and dureth till the twentieth of September, but not with continuall raines as at Goa, but for some sixe or seuen dayes every change and full, with much wind, thunder and raine.
 * 1) * 1678, Fryer, 410
 * In Winter (when they rarely stir) they have a Mumjama, or Wax Cloth to throw over it
 * 1) * 1770,—Raynal, tr. 1777, i. 34
 * The mere breadth of these mountains divides summer from winter, that is to say, the season of fine weather from the rainy all that is meant by winter in India is the time of the year when the clouds  are driven violently by the winds against the mountains,

Verb

 * 1)  To spend the winter (in a particular place).
 * 2)  To store something (for instance animals) somewhere over winter to protect it from cold.
 * 1)  To store something (for instance animals) somewhere over winter to protect it from cold.
 * 1)  To store something (for instance animals) somewhere over winter to protect it from cold.

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Etymology
From, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  winter

Etymology
From, from , from.

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) winter

Etymology
From, from , from.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) winter

Etymology
From earlier *wintr < *wintru, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) year
 * 2) * The Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn
 * "ang"
 * "ang"

- Ic ðē secge lxxx wintra of ðām trēowcynne ðe is nemned Sem.

Etymology
From, from , from.

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  winter

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mouse potato

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  A person who spends excessive amounts of time using a computer.

Translations

 * German: PC-Hocker, PC-Narr
 * Spanish:

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User talk:Youssefsan

Hi Wikipedian,

I would like to include a multilingual dictionary of economics. I'd like to include a lot of words concerning economics.

The pages will at the beggining mostly contain only the English word and a translation to French and Spanish.

Does anybody have objections ?

Regards

Youssefsan

 * Words about economics are as much a part of the language as words about any other topic. There's no reason for anybody to object to your proposal.

 * As a matter of practical usage, you probably did not put your question in the right place. Putting it where you did risked that nobody would have seen it.  The most usual thing that goes onto user talk pages is answers and comments that people want to say to you.  There are three routes for asking questions:

 * 1) On a general discussion page when you want to ask something of the whole community,
 * 2) On a subject talk page when you want to ask about a particular article, and
 * 3) On a personal talk page when you want to ask something of a particular person.
 * Welcome and Happy contributing! Eclecticology 21:05 Dec 18, 2002 (UTC)

I just saw your contribution at LPD. Shouldn't this be at LDP? Eclecticology 20:53 Jan 2, 2003 (UTC)
 * Yes off course. I made a mix between the French and English name. I should be more carefull - Youssefsan

Hello Youssefsan, may I draw your attention to a minor, but not unimportant matter in a dictionary. Whenever you use a colon, you tend to leave a space between the previous word and the colon. Although this is correct in French, it is not in English. There should be no space between that word and the colon. (You have done it a few times in Wikipedia too, where I corrected it.) Thanks! D.D. 14:41 Feb 17, 2003 (UTC)

Hello Youssefsan. Nice of you to greet me as I am lonely in real life (no biggie, I have a few friends that get me by). I've been writing to Wikipedia for a couple of days and I'm already totally addicted (I use a different user name there).

I think that the technological infrastructure for wikipedia is just great, but I feel that Wiktionary requires more advanced software and more clearly defined syntax for articles in order to avoid unnecessary manual editing to achieve what the goal is, a multilingual dictionary and thesaurus in all languages. I'll try to make some notes on my page to outline what I have in mind. I'd really appreciate if you'd check them out sometime and discuss before I post them to the Beer_parlour

BTW: I'm also really interested in economics, since there are people dying of hunger, just because they don't have the financial resources to purchase nutrition and logistics for the nutrition. It's a shame.

Juho 19:57 Feb 21, 2003 (UTC)

Hi Youssef, I just added a bunch of word from the field of economics to By_topic. Let's get to work!

- Juho 17:17 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)

Hi Youssef. You're not doing a very complete job on some words that you've added. win and drink are also nouns besides verbs. No biggie though... we need more advanced software before this Wiktionary-editing stuff adds up to more then a way to pass time. --Juho 19:01 Mar 3, 2003 (UTC)

If you have some free time, please go check out this "little" project I've started http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/wiki.phtml. It's running Wikipedia software. The aim is to give consumers more power in market economy to quell rampant capitalism that is ruining this planet and making people miserable. --Juho 15:04 Mar 15, 2003 (UTC)

Hello again Youssef. I changed my nick from Juho to Juxo so I can use it more widely, since it is not taken in most internet sites. Been busy with Consumerium. I come here just to "relax". It's nice to do accomplish something that is atomic (eg. a translation)

I noticed that you write French instead of French, which is not a good practice since then when we get more advanced wiki software it'll be easier to determine articles already translated to some language. Even one can look at "what links here" on the French page to do the inverse (see what is already "done").

I hope to collaborate with you on the economics words. Nice to be back Juxo 11:08 Jun 28, 2003 (UTC)

Youssef, you may be interested to note that there is now a definition of successism in Wiktionary. I am curious where you found it, in the first place. It's certainly not very common! Maybe you could add a quotation or improve the definition. --Dvortygirl 09:08, 31 Oct 2003 (UTC)

avatar
I spotted your question at Talk:avatar but thought it would be more likely you would spot the answer here. Avatar is not normally synonymous with smiley, it sounds like the context you are asking about might be forums on the internet or other similar things, the avatar in this case would be the image that the user has next to their name, as opposed to the signature image which would be below each post. A smiley is of course the little inline emoticon that people enjoy including :) - TheDaveRoss 00:35, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:word

Definition not strictly accurate
This definiton isn't strictly accurate, as I could say a word to someone else and both of us would know it was a word, without either of us having to write it down. --Imran 00:24 Dec 19, 2002 (UTC)

Hebrew translation
The Hebrew translation has a yod in the pointed spelling but not in the pointed spelling. Are we getting our Biblical and matres lectionis spellings mixed up here or what? — Hippietrail 03:51, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Proto-Germanic *wurða-
Allegedly, this is also the etymon of wyrd and weird, which are not yet said to be cognate with word. Please make clear what's wrong here. --KYPark 05:21, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I missed the minor difference:
 * Proto-Germanic *wurða-, whence English word, Frisian wurd, German Wort, etc.
 * Proto-Germanic *wurþa-, whence Old English wyrd, English weird, etc.
 * Yet the two Proto-Germanic may be cognate. Words are to call goods, while weirds or soothsayers are to call gods to make wyrd, weird, or ill fortune well. Fortune-telling is just a beginning, not an end. Thus, fate as a sense of either wyrd or weird only sounds passive and marginal. --KYPark 03:55, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

wordform vs. word-form
What is more correct word? -- AKA MBG 10:52, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

 * word form. —Stephen 11:00, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

 * Thank you. My article will be perfect :) -- AKA MBG 14:48, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

vocabulary vs. vocable
Sure "vocabulary" is a synonym of "word" as 'distinct unit of language'? A mass noun referring to a collection of items is not usually a synonym of the noun for an individual item. Maybe "vocable" was meant instead? I've just made that change, but I'm not a native speaker, so perhaps one should check it.--77.209.42.188 15:05, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

 * I agree with your logic, your supposition and your change (and I am a native speaker!) Thanks. -- Bricaniwi 21:13, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Interjection an abbr of "My word!"
Surely the much older and still-used meaning/origin of "Word!" as an interjection is as an abbreviation of "My word!"? I would have thought it was such an obvious one, but as it's not mentioned in the article maybe there has already been some discussion and decision to exclude it? If not can someone add it please, with references (I'm sure there are many!) Thanks, -- Bricaniwi 21:28, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

word
Rfv-sense: Spoken-word poetry accompanied by one or two musical instruments and performed as a unit. I'd like to know more about this from citations and/or usage examples. DCDuring TALK 21:23, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

from the entry:
 * 1)  Spoken-word poetry accompanied by one or two musical instruments and performed as a unit.

word
Rfd-redundant: "A distinct unit of language which is approved by some authority." The previous sense is "A distinct unit of language (sounds in speech or written letters) with a particular meaning, composed of one or more morphemes, and also of one or more phonemes that determine its sound pattern." Do we really need both of these senses? They seem to be simply different ideas of what the same word is. I don't think the dispute over whether something becomes part of a language due to usage or due to being approved by an authority should split the senses. --Yair rand (talk) 22:24, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

 * I assume this sense is to cover alot of people who say "irregardless", "alot" or "ain't" ain't words, irregardless of how common they are. Keep. — lexicógrafo | háblame — 22:34, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Not sure, I'd spotted this before and didn't rfd it myself. I don't see how this is better covered by usage notes. The fact is there is no strict definition of what a word is. We have our CFI of what we accept, which isn't the same as Oxford, Merriam-Webster, Larousse (etc.). I'm not sure what the second definition achieves. Mglovesfun (talk) 22:51, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
 * There is no strict definition of what anything is, and we don't split senses wherever the dispute over what falls into the class is relatively clear. --Yair rand (talk) 22:55, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I think you've undermimed your own argument a bit there. If that's the case, why bother having more than one definition for any word? Mglovesfun (talk) 23:00, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Nobody thinks that "mouse" the input device is part of the same class as "mouse" the rodent. There isn't a dispute over what a mouse is, with one side saying that something must be an input device to be a real mouse and that the animals aren't "real" mice. They are completely separate elements of the language. We wouldn't split the input device sense just because some people think that mice must have a certain amount of buttons to actually be mice. Dispute over what can be described with a certain word is irrelevant. --Yair rand (talk) 23:16, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The two citations for the second sense don't comport with the first sense. That seems to me to make a prima faQcie case to keep the sense. DCDuring TALK 00:02, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

 * Keep. Despite what Yair rand says, this isn't a matter of a "dispute" about what the word means; it means both. I think a statement like "His e-mail was 232 words long — and 17 of them weren't real words. That's one non-word in every 14 words" is perfectly coherent. Incidentally, so is a statement like "There were two mice in her room. The one in the cage on the floor was a lot fuzzier, and more adorable, than the one attached to her computer", which (for the nonce) treats the two senses of as though they were one. —Ruakh TALK 01:58, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Your example doesn't exactly match up to the definitions of word given. "His e-mail was 232 words long — and 17 of them weren't real words." has the last use of "word" refer to whether it is part of a/the language ("a unit of language"). Whether the speaker thinks that something becomes part of the language via being approved by an authority or by being commonly used is not relevant. I'm not sure the first use fits into to either definition. Perhaps the entry should have one definition as "a unit of language" and a separate definition refer to something formed by a series of letters/sounds without break. --Yair rand (talk) 02:19, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
 * That's a matter for RFC, not for RFD. It's not clear what "approved by some authority" means; it's quite likely that, like most prescriptivists, the statement's utterer is accidentally setting himself up as an authority, as an arbiter of wordness. (He thinks there's some external, objective measure. He is mistaken.) The senses are separate and shouldn't be merged, but the definitions could definitely be improved. —Ruakh TALK 02:59, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
 * This cannot be a valid definition of "word". We have about 400 languages in Wiktionary. I bet at least 200 of them have no authority to determine which combinations of sounds are "words" in that language. Ergo, according to the definition these languages have no words at all! If anything, this is a definition of the term "correct word" or "standard language word", and as such, it does not belong in the entry for "word". Delete --Hekaheka 19:45, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
 * It definitely belongs in the entry for "word" if that's how word is being used.

 * I've been umming and ahing about this one for about a week, but I think I'm leaning to delete. Much as I love Ruakh's admirable and ingenious example sentence, I think it hinges on the fact that the second "word" is qualified by . When someone says "that's not a word", they mean exactly "that's not a distinct unit of language"; in other words, in my view, the term always conveys a judgment about assumed place in some authoritative or personal lexicon and I think it would be OTT to start distinguishing between them. (Note that a separate meaning of is "string of characters separated by a space", which has certain technical uses, and a distinction could be engineered between that and the use we've been discussing; but I don't think that is what's at issue here.) < class="latinx" >Ƿidsiþ 12:15, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Leaning more towards delete, per Ƿidsiþ. Mglovesfun (talk) 13:06, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
 * That doesn't make sense to me. Someone who says that '"ain't" is not a word' is not saying that it's not a distinct unit of language; they know that "ain't" is a common collection of sounds with a normal meaning. They're saying that "ain't" is not valid within the constraints of their lingual rules. The prescriptive view means something completely different from the descriptive view. (I'd also argue that (a) just because a phrase is only really usable with one sense of a word doesn't mean that's not a distinct sense, and (b) "X!'vtltb is not a word; it's a unpronounceable random collection of letters! Call them the Vbrskn; at least that has vowels." implies no standard lexicon.--Prosfilaes 02:06, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I see where you're coming from, but I think that both people use word to mean "distinct basic meaningful unit of language"; different people have different ideas of what those units are, whether based on authority or just their own opinions, but we can't write a separate description for all of them. < class="latinx" >Ƿidsiþ 09:20, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

 * keep; as per my comments above--Prosfilaes 02:06, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

kept -- Prince Kassad 07:19, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

RFV discussion: August 2014–January 2015
RFV-sense: "Different symbols, written or spoken, arranged together in a unique sequence that approximates a thought in a person's mind." As written, this would seem to include even a (multi-term) sequence of symbols like "this does not make sense", which approximates the thought I had when I read the sense. Such a sense is not present in other dictionaries I checked. It needs to be shown to be both attested and distinct from (=a better definition for any citations that support it than) the other senses in the entry, particularly sense 1, sense 1.2, and senses 4–8. - -sche (discuss) 04:53, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I'd have thought best case scenario the wording is poor. Spoken words aren't made up of symbols! Not all words are made of a unique sequence of symbols (centre/center for example). Renard Migrant (talk) 11:06, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
 * But the intent of the definition clearly seems to be that word and concept are synonymous or identical. DCDuring TALK 13:00, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

 * RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 16:55, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Help required
Does word and syllable means same? Ishanbull (talk) 01:14, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

 * No, word and syllable are different. For instance, syllabification is a word, and it contains 6 syllables: syl-lab-i-fi-ca-tion. —Stephen (Talk) 01:40, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

word in Chinese
'word' means '我的' in Chinese internet slang. To not add a section about the Chinese usage of 'word' is a bad sign for the future of wiktionary. I will unwatch the page- don't want to get involved in an edit war. I will make no more edits here.--Geographyinitiative (talk) 19:48, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * There is actually a pretty straightforward process for resolving this type of dispute. The criteria for inclusion policy explains what evidence needs to exist in order for a term or sense to be included, just find some evidence of usage and the entry can stay. No need for an edit war, or any acrimony at all. - TheDaveRoss  20:16, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

See Word (computing) for a full explanation.
Which link purportedly offers an explanation? --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:06, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

 * ✅ Equinox ◑ 21:37, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

uncountable use
Mader got word that the department would --Backinstadiums (talk) 19:28, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

 * ✅ Equinox ◑ 20:33, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

three words
three words means I love you --Backinstadiums (talk) 11:31, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

three words
I love you Backinstadiums (talk) 18:21, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

title: Talk:word


text:
Talk:hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

Spelling (untitled)
Are you sure of the spelling? A long word is "sesquipedalian", with only one "P". -PierreAbbat

-most likely, i will try to find out.

-fonzy

Yes i think it is as hippopotomonstrosesquipedalianism has only 1p in sesquipedalianism -fonzy

 * *cough* *cough* It would just be vindictive of me to point out that you wouldn't have the spelling problem if you had quotes, so I'll just sit here quietly and hand these over(while looking smug :),

 * 2002 - anon, The Scotsman (April 9, 2002) page 13.
 * However, we assume that despite the best endeavours of science, some phobias will always remain. These include paraskavedekatriaphobia, or fear of Friday the 13th. And hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, which is fear of long words.

 * 2002 - Chris Lloyd in The Northern Echo (December 14, 2002) page 10.
 * Those who find this column troubling are suffering from hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - the fear of long words. Or, more likely, rupophobia - a fear of rubbish.

 * --Imran 10:51 Dec 19, 2002 (UTC)

Ok I'll move it back again -fonzy

Spelling
[found this page from rfd] I was going to add this under the etymology section, but I didn't know how well it would be appreciated (what's en's policy on recommending spellings?  because a note like this would not be out of place on la):

 * The most well-formed spelling of this word according to its etymology would be hippopotamomonstrosesquipedaliphobia (or -alophobia, following the base word sesquipedalophobia), but it is never so spelled.

The reason, of course, is because of all those "irregular"s in the etymology, when the word should be straightforwardly put together from hippopotamo- + monstro- + sesqui- + pedali- + phobia. If someone more familiar with en: article format wants to add it, they can feel free. —Muke Tever 06:19, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

so does this mean the people who have hippopotamostrosesquippdaliaphobia are afraid of the name? Who was the idiot who came up with that word? I'm starting to think that some people are too lazy to make meaningful words.

 * The standard spelling of the root word from which this is derived is "hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian". Looking at this derivative on Google:

 * among various others giving zero hits. The only thing this seems to prove is that 97% of the world can't spell.  From an etymological standpoint, the double 'p' for a start is well and truly wrong. -- Smjg 10:56, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Look you here dictionary.com has it as hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. that is with two "p"s in squippedia. thank you

 * Look you here dictionary.com is not an authoritative source. -- Smjg 00:19, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Translations
Anyone can confirm the German translation? Sofar the corresponding page (Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobie) has been deleted a bunch of times... (nonsens text) \Mike 22:13, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Does this belong in wiktionary?
As the wikipedia article points out, this is something of a non-word.

"Note that in real Greek, Hippo-pot- might mean a "flying horse" or a "drinking horse" (depending on the exact spelling), but could never mean anything like "big". This coinage contains so many errors and solecisms from the point of view of Greek and Latin morphology, that it is doubtful whether it would convey much meaning to a classicist who did not already know what it was supposed to mean. The word is a tongue-in-cheek coinage; the joke is that anyone with a fear of big words would also be afraid of the name for that fear."

Though I'm no expert in etymology, I would suspect that a more appropriate word would be "megalogophobia" or something to that effect. But looking past that, I have yet to see any evidence that the fear of long words even exists. Anyone can cobble together a series of Greek and Latin roots to create a superficially reasonable phobia (say... "liporhinophobia" for fear of big noses) but that doesn't make it a legitimate word deserving of a dictionary entry.

 * Well, the problem with your first argument (on etymology) is that poor etymological formation does not keep a word from existing (we say cerium, not cererium, even though Klaproth tried to fix it), and neither does good etymological formation entail a word's existence (as you already mention).  The problem with your second argument (whether the fear exists) is that the existence of a word does not depend on the existence of its referent (we have words like time machine, golem, and phlogiston), just as existence of a referent does not entail the existence of a word (there are many things we don't have words for).  WT:CFI is the policy that describes what are valid words for the purpose of this dictionary. —Muke Tever 22:32, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Humor category
Do we have a good category ("Wiktionary humor"?) for this to go into? --Connel MacKenzie 23:23, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Used, but rarely. Mentioned often.
This is another in the class of words like bogotify that lots of people have seen mentioned and can define with confidence, but hardly anyone uses. For example, all 7 b.g.c hits are mentions. However, it is possible to glean actual uses. I found a couple with "from hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia" and "of hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia", both of them combined with -"fear of" and -phobia. Even then you have to sort through the chaff, but every once and a while someone uses it to mean fear of long words without going on to explain what it means.

My favorite so far, capitalization and punctuation asid, is "Believed to have been artificially developed somewhere inside the Camelopardis constellation textbooks are known to cause very serious symptoms ranging from abdominal cramps to Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia." . -dmh 05:45, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

mah..seems quite clear
hmmm....it seems to me like someone once came up with the word as some sort of casual joke, but wrote it as hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. since im pretty certain (from browsing around) that its also sesquipedalophobia and not sesquippedaliophobia im certain hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is not a word. even if because of this joke going around people start spelling sesquippedaliophobia as well by now. also i see no reason to keep the page, as sesquipedalophobia should cover it. --wikipedia:user:lygophile also i found this written somewhere in spanish:

The words they owe own one etymology proveniente at all his parts of one very language, the Latin or the Greek usually , but not both , and her word hipopotomonstruo sesquipedaliofobia , presentable parts with descent Latin person and with descent Greek "hipopoto" proviene of the Greek , "monstro" of the Latin "sesquipedalio" of the Latin and "phobia" of the Greek , as a result you're not correct her formulation of this word , albeit often hay words which unfulfilled her ruler , for instance at Mexico itself she uses as gentilicio for both inhabiting of Aguascalientes hidrocálido...

its obviously just words thrown together. --lygophile

A great deal of words are made up of several words. In fact...all phobias are made up of other words.

Also it is worth me telling you that, regardless of whether this word was made up as a tongue in cheek joke, it IS a word. -- Mark

What a joke!
How ridiculous does an entry have to be before someone will pull it off this site? And the sad thing about it is that people will use this word unquestioningly (as a quiz question in my case) because of its presence here. As another joke word to complement "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", fair enough (with due warnings for the gullible) but, as previously pointed out, if such a condition really existed, the term megalogophobia would be more accurate, if less entertaining.

Actually this is a real word. So....when and where? On the couch or on the bed?

You're the joke!
Those trying to use etymology as the basis for spelling are the ones who don't get the joke. Or worse, are the butt of the joke. Words don't form via etymology. The etymology is merely the study of the origin. In reality, however the word enters the language and comes to be used is the true measure of its spelling.

By the way, pure supposition, but the "misspelling" of the ocmponent word may be intentional, as it causes the word to also form a fragment, "quipped," which is definitely within the spirit of the formation of the word.

What's the word for fear of ironic absurdity? Dovid (talk) 19:31, 26 February 2012 (UTC)


text:
été

Etymology 1
, from, ultimately from.

Noun

 * 1) summer

Etymology 2
, past participle of (which was conflated with  in Old French); from, past participle of. Compare also the noun.

title: été


text:
bone

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬,, , , , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Related also to 🇨🇬 (whence 🇨🇬,, , , 🇨🇬, ), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. See,.

Noun

 * 1)  A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
 * 2)  Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
 * 3) A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
 * 4) A bonefish.
 * 5) One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
 * 6) One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
 * 7) Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
 * 8)  The framework of anything.
 * 9) An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
 * 10)  A dollar.
 * 11)  The wishbone formation.
 * 12)  An erect penis; a boner.
 * 13)  A domino or dice.
 * 14)  A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
 * 15)  A reward.
 * 1)  An erect penis; a boner.
 * 2)  A domino or dice.
 * 3)  A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
 * 4)  A reward.
 * 1)  A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
 * 2)  A reward.
 * 1)  A reward.
 * 1)  A reward.

Hypernyms

 * skeleton

Adjective

 * 1) Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

Verb

 * 1) To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
 * 2) To fertilize with bone.
 * 3) To put whalebone into.
 * 4)  To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
 * 5)  To have sexual intercourse (with).
 * Related terms: ,
 * 1)  To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
 * 2)  To study.
 * 3) To polish boots to a shiny finish.
 * 4) To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
 * 1)  To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
 * 2)  To have sexual intercourse (with).
 * Related terms: ,
 * 1)  To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
 * 2)  To study.
 * 3) To polish boots to a shiny finish.
 * 4) To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
 * 1)  To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
 * 2)  To study.
 * 3) To polish boots to a shiny finish.
 * 4) To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
 * 1)  To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
 * 2)  To study.
 * 3) To polish boots to a shiny finish.
 * 4) To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
 * 1) To polish boots to a shiny finish.
 * 2) To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
 * 1) To polish boots to a shiny finish.
 * 2) To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
 * 1) To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: обезкостявам
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 起骨
 * Mandarin: 去骨, 剔骨
 * Finnish: poistaa luut
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Latin: exossō
 * Macedonian: вади коски
 * Maori: kōhurehure, kokoki, mākiri, kōhaha
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: снима́ть мясо с костей
 * Slovak: odkostiť
 * Spanish:, quitar las espinas
 * Swedish: bena ur
 * Turkish: kılçık temizlemek
 * Vietnamese: gỡ xương
 * Zazaki: zela weçinen

 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, , , ,
 * German:, , , ,
 * Hebrew: זיין,
 * Italian:, ,
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Slovak: pichať
 * Spanish: con,   con,   con, ,  a
 * Turkish:

 * French:
 * Korean:
 * Spanish: quemarse las pestañas

Etymology 2

 * probably related in some way to Etymology 1, above.

Verb

 * 1)  To apprehend, steal.

Etymology 3
Borrowed from, from.

Verb

 * 1)  To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

Etymology 1
From and, from , from.

Verb

 * 1) to polish

Etymology 2
Derived from the noun, from.

Verb

 * 1) to enter
 * 2) to charge

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) well

Interjection

 * 1) good, OK, all right, very well

Alternative forms

 * bune

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Adjective

 * 1) four

Etymology
From,.

Adverb

 * 1) well
 * 2) * 2008, Margrit Kennedy, Pekunio sen interesti ed inflaciono, tr. by Alfred Neussner of Interest and Inflation Free Money, page 50:
 * "io"

- To pruvas maxim bone nia bonstando, se ica sumo distributesus nur proxime pro-porcionale.

Noun

 * 1) sand

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) bean

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  bathing cap, swim cap, swimming cap.

title: bone


text: punkin

title: punkin


text:
servant

Etymology
From, from , from the present participle of the verb. . Morphologically. Displaced native.

Noun

 * 1) One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.
 * 2) One who serves another, providing help in some manner.
 * 3)  A person who dedicates themselves to God.
 * 4)  A professed lover.
 * 5) A person of low condition or spirit.
 * 1)  A person who dedicates themselves to God.
 * 2)  A professed lover.
 * 3) A person of low condition or spirit.

Translations

 * Aghwan: 𐔱𐔰𐕅𐔱𐔰𐕍𐔰𐔾
 * Albanian: ,
 * Amharic: ሎሌ
 * Arabic: خَادِم, خَادِمَة, خَدَم
 * Egyptian Arabic: خدام, خدامة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Aromanian: dul, huzmichear, shcljau
 * Azerbaijani:, ,
 * Bashkir: хеҙмәтсе
 * Belarusian: слуга́, служа́нка, прыслу́жнік, прыслу́жніца, слу́жка
 * Bengali: নোকর,
 * Bole: buda
 * Breton: servijour, servijourez
 * Bulgarian:, , прислу́жница, , служи́телка
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Cimbrian: diinar, diinaren
 * Coptic: ⲃⲱⲕ
 * Czech:, služebný,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , huishoudhulp, , , ,
 * Egyptian: ,
 * Erzya: вардо, варданка
 * Estonian: teenija, sulane
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Friulian: sierf, famei, servidôr
 * Galician:, criado
 * Georgian: მსახური
 * German:, , , , , , Bediener, ; ,
 * Gothic: 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐍃, 𐌸𐌹𐍅𐌹, 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌱𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: θεράπων, θεράπαινα
 * Hausa:
 * Hebrew:
 * Higaonon: kabulig
 * Hindi:, , , , , मुलाज़िम
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: seirbhíseach, searbhónta
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese: réwang, réncang
 * Kazakh: даяшы, малай, қызметші
 * Khmer: អ្នកបំរើ,, ,
 * Korean:, ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz:, ,
 * Lao: ຂະຍົມ,, ບ່າວ
 * Latin: minister, ministra, famulus, famula
 * Latvian: kalps, kalpone, sulains
 * Lithuanian: tarnas
 * Macedonian: слу́га, слу́жител, служи́телка
 * Malay:, khadam
 * Maltese: qaddej, seftur
 * Maore Comorian: mutru wa hazi
 * Maori: hāwini, tūmau
 * Middle English: serjaunt, servaunt
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠵᠠᠷᠤᠴᠠ
 * Navajo: naalʼaʼí
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: слоуга, слоужитель
 * Old Czech: sluha
 * Old East Slavic: слуга
 * Old English: þeġn
 * Ottoman Turkish: اوشاق, خدمتجی
 * Pali: sevaka
 * Pashto: خدمتګار, ,
 * Persian:, ,
 * Plautdietsch: Deena
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: searbhanta, seirbhiseach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: слу́га, слу̀жа̄вка, слу̏шкиња
 * Roman:, ,
 * Sicilian: ,
 * Slovak: sluha, slúžka
 * Slovene:, služabnica, sluga, služkinja
 * Spanish:, , , ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik:, пешхизмат, чокар,
 * Tarifit: tayya
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:, , ภัจ, , , ,
 * Tibetan: བྲན་གཡོག
 * Tigrinya: ከዳሚ
 * Tocharian B: mañiye, mañiya
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: gullukçy, hyzmatkär, gul, çory
 * Ukrainian: слуга́, служни́ця
 * Urdu: نوکر, چاکر, نوکرانی, خادم, ملازم
 * Uyghur: خىزمەتچى, مالاي
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Venetian: servidór, famegio, besariòl
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Yiddish: דינסט, קנעכט, באַדינער, באַדינערטע

 * Bactrian: βανδαγο
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌱𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὑπηρέτης
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: seirbhíseach, searbhónta
 * Latin: minister
 * Maori: wheteke
 * Middle English: servaunt
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: searbhanta, seirbhiseach
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:, بەردەست, خزمەتکار
 * Macedonian:, , , ,
 * Maltese: ,
 * Old English: (1)
 * Romanian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:
 * Tagalog:
 * Telugu:
 * Urdu:

Verb

 * 1)  To subject.

Etymology
From, from , a substantivized present participle of. Cf. also Latin, and French.

Noun

 * 1) a washbasin
 * 2) a sink

Noun

 * 1) a washbasin
 * 2) a sink

Adjective

 * 1) that serves; that fulfils a role

Noun

 * 1)  one who serves

title: servant


text:
马

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/马

Glyph origin
Simplified from 馬, following the cursive script form:

title: 马


text:
robot

Etymology 1
From, from a West Slavonic language, ultimately related to Etymology 2, below.

Noun

 * 1)  A system of serfdom used in Central Europe, under which a tenant's rent was paid in forced labour.

Etymology 2
Borrowed from, from. Coined in the 1920 science-fiction play  by after having been suggested to him by his brother, and taken into English without change.

Noun

 * 1)  An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal.
 * 2) A machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks by physically moving, especially one which can be programmed.
 * 3)  A person who does not seem to have any emotions or individuality.
 * 4)  A traffic light (from earlier ).
 * 5)  A theodolite which follows the movements of a prism and can be used by a one-man crew.
 * 6)  A style of dance popular in disco in which the dancer imitates the stiff movements of a stereotypical android robot.
 * 1)  A person who does not seem to have any emotions or individuality.
 * 2)  A traffic light (from earlier ).
 * 3)  A theodolite which follows the movements of a prism and can be used by a one-man crew.
 * 4)  A style of dance popular in disco in which the dancer imitates the stiff movements of a stereotypical android robot.
 * 1)  A traffic light (from earlier ).
 * 2)  A theodolite which follows the movements of a prism and can be used by a one-man crew.
 * 3)  A style of dance popular in disco in which the dancer imitates the stiff movements of a stereotypical android robot.
 * 1)  A style of dance popular in disco in which the dancer imitates the stiff movements of a stereotypical android robot.

Etymology 3
Referencing the origin of the name of the imageboard  (created in 2008), so-called because it implements the  algorithm by  to prevent the reposting of content.

Possibly overlapping with the sense of, alluding to , due to the prevalence of personal stories describing awkward or embarrassing situations on the board.

Noun

 * 1)  A habitual poster on the  board on ; a member of the /r9k/ community.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) robot
 * 2) traffic light
 * 3) * 1997, Riana Scheepers, Dogters van Afrika. Verhale oor Suid-Afrikaanse Vroue, Tafelberg (publ.).
 * "af"

- As die robotte na groen oorslaan, brul hulle en storm vorentoe.

Etymology
Ultimately from.

Noun

 * 1) robot

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From, from , from. Coined in the 1921 science-fiction play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by after having been suggested to him by his brother.

Noun

 * 1) a machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks by physically moving, especially one which can be programmed
 * 2) an intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal
 * 3)  a person who does not seem to have any emotions
 * 4) a style of dance popular in disco whereby the dancer impersonates the movement of a robot

Etymology
From. , it first appeared in the 1921 science-fiction play  by his brother.

Etymology
Ultimately from.

Etymology
Borrowed, likely from, from. The plural is likely influenced by English or French.

Noun

 * 1) robot

Etymology
From.

Etymology 1
From, , from.

Noun

 * 1)  socage, forced labour
 * 2)  hard work, drudgery

Etymology 2
From, from. Coined in the 1921 science-fiction play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by.

Noun

 * 1) robot

Declension
Same as above.

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1)  bot
 * 1)  bot

Noun

 * 1)  illegal taxi

Verb

 * 1) to notch
 * 2) to jag
 * 3) to make an incision (on)

Etymology
.

Noun

 * a

Etymology
.

Noun

 * a

Etymology
.

Etymology
, from.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) robot

Etymology
, from.

Etymology
. via the play. Attested in Swedish since 1921.

In weaponry sense attested since 1944.

Noun

 * a
 * 1)  a missile

Etymology
, from, from.

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1) robot

Etymology
, from.

Usage notes
The plural form is preferred for humanoid robots or androids whereas the plural form  designates machines.

title: robot


text:
English

Etymology
From, , , from , from , a Germanic tribe ; equivalent to. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (older ), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (whence 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, all ultimately derived from (compare 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to England.
 * 2) English-language; of or pertaining to the language, descended from Anglo-Saxon, which developed in England.
 * 3) Of or pertaining to the people of England (to Englishmen and Englishwomen).
 * 4) Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure.
 * 5)  Non-Amish, so named for speaking English rather than a variety of German.
 * 6)  Denoting a vertical orientation of the barn doors.
 * 1) Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure.
 * 2)  Non-Amish, so named for speaking English rather than a variety of German.
 * 3)  Denoting a vertical orientation of the barn doors.
 * 1)  Non-Amish, so named for speaking English rather than a variety of German.
 * 2)  Denoting a vertical orientation of the barn doors.

Hyponyms

 * Anglish

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 英国人的
 * Esperanto:,  virangla,  anglina
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish:
 * Korean: 영국인(英國人)-의, 영국(英國)사람-의
 * Latvian:, anglisks
 * Lithuanian: angliškas
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: engelsk
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Tamil: ஆங்கிலேயர்
 * Volapük: Linglänanik,  hi-Linglänanik,  ji-Linglänanik

 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * Hebrew: שייך למערכת המידות האנגלית
 * Hindi: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ئنگلیزی
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Sindhi:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

 * Breton: ; related to the language:
 * Swahili:
 * Tamil: not the language

Noun

 * 1)  The people of England, Englishmen and Englishwomen.
 * 2) * 1979,, Bees in Some Bonnets, p. 175:
 * Cricket—a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.
 * 1)  The non-Amish, people outside the Amish faith and community.
 * 2)  Facility with the English language, ability to employ English correctly and idiomatically.
 * 3)  A particular instance of the English language, including
 * 4) The English term or expression for some thing or idea.
 * 5) The English text or phrasing of some spoken or written communication.
 * 6) A clear and readily understandable expression of some idea in English.
 * , the class dedicated to improving primary and secondary school students' mastery of English and the material taught in such classes.
 * 1)   A size of type between pica (12 point) and great primer (18 point), standardized as 14-point.
 * 1) A clear and readily understandable expression of some idea in English.
 * , the class dedicated to improving primary and secondary school students' mastery of English and the material taught in such classes.
 * 1)   A size of type between pica (12 point) and great primer (18 point), standardized as 14-point.
 * , the class dedicated to improving primary and secondary school students' mastery of English and the material taught in such classes.
 * 1)   A size of type between pica (12 point) and great primer (18 point), standardized as 14-point.
 * 1)   A size of type between pica (12 point) and great primer (18 point), standardized as 14-point.
 * 1)   A size of type between pica (12 point) and great primer (18 point), standardized as 14-point.
 * 1)   A size of type between pica (12 point) and great primer (18 point), standardized as 14-point.

Usage notes
The use of the plural form Englishes occurred in early modern English but is only seldomly and exceptionally encountered in contemporary English. As with other collective demonyms, English is preceded by the definite article or some other determiner when referring to the people of England collectively.

Synonyms

 * Mittel, Augustin
 * Mittel, Augustin

Coordinate terms

 * draw, follow

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 英文, 英語
 * Hakka: 英文, 英語
 * Hokkien: ,
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Finnish: englannin taito
 * French:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Swedish:

 * Finnish:
 * Motu: Nao Gado

 * Armenian:
 * Finnish:, englannin kieli
 * Swedish:

 * Dutch: grote Augustijn, dubbel kolonel
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: mittel
 * Italian: silvio
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

 * Alemannic German:
 * Aragonese:
 * Aramaic:
 * Buginese:
 * Emilian:
 * Inuktitut:
 * Maori:
 * Marathi:
 * Somali:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Walloon:

Proper noun

 * 1)  The language originating in England but now spoken in all parts of the British Isles, the Commonwealth of Nations, North America, and other parts of the world.
 * 2) A variety, dialect, or idiolect of spoken and or written English.
 * 3) English language, literature, composition as a subject of study
 * 4)  originally denoting a non-Celtic or non-Danish person in Britain.
 * 1) A variety, dialect, or idiolect of spoken and or written English.
 * 2) English language, literature, composition as a subject of study
 * 3)  originally denoting a non-Celtic or non-Danish person in Britain.
 * 1)  originally denoting a non-Celtic or non-Danish person in Britain.

Usage notes

 * As with the names of almost all languages, English, when it means "the English language", does not usually require an article. Hence: "Say it in plain English!"

Meronyms
See also Thesaurus:English language

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Indonesian: inggristis
 * West Frisian:

 * Armenian: Ինգլիշ
 * Marathi: इंग्लिश
 * Russian: И́нглиш

Verb

 * 1)   To translate, adapt or render into English.
 * , page 214 (2001 reprint):
 * severe prohibuit viris suis tum misceri feminas in consuetis suis menstruis, etc. I spare to English this which I have said.
 * 1) * 2011, Colin Cheney, 'Where Should I Start with Tomas Tranströmer?':
 * Here, the poems are Englished by twelve different translators
 * Here, the poems are Englished by twelve different translators

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today

Etymology
From, , , from , , equivalent to. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬,.

Adverb

 * 1) On the current day or date.
 * 2) In the current era; nowadays; these days.
 * 3)  The day of a recurring cycle or event which is currently happening.
 * 1) In the current era; nowadays; these days.
 * 2)  The day of a recurring cycle or event which is currently happening.
 * 1)  The day of a recurring cycle or event which is currently happening.
 * 1)  The day of a recurring cycle or event which is currently happening.

Noun

 * 1) A current day or date.
 * The youth of today have never known what life is like without a cell phone.
 * 1)  From approximately 6am to 6pm on the current day.
 * 2) The present time period; nowadays.
 * 1)  From approximately 6am to 6pm on the current day.
 * 2) The present time period; nowadays.
 * 1) The present time period; nowadays.

Usage notes
Todays is a mostly literary plural. It refers to days that we experience, have experienced or will experience as "today". More colloquial are and.

Translations

 * Sinhalese:

Adjective

 * 1)  Current; up to date.

Etymology
From, equivalent to.

Adverb

 * 1) On the current day.
 * 2) On this date in past years.
 * 3)  The current day.

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y

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-fifth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol

 * 1)  Symbol for the prefix yocto-.
 * 2)  a : the German ü-sound.
 * 3)  the English y-sound, IPA.
 * 4)  -coloring, a  on- or off-glide (diphthong), or a weak, fleeting, epenthetic or echo.
 * 5)  palatalization, equivalent to IPA.
 * 6) Denoting an item that is twenty-fifth in a list.

Etymology 2
Abbreviations.

 * 1)  the sound sequence /ɔɪ̯/.
 * 2)  the suffix  or -rry.
 * 1)  the suffix  or -rry.

Noun

 * , usually followed by an age appropriate for the content so marked.
 * Y7
 * , usually followed by an age appropriate for the content so marked.
 * Y7

Etymology
From, from.

Conjunction

 * 1) and

Etymology
From, from.

Conjunction

 * 1) and

Pronoun

 * 1) Pronoun for the third-person singular indirect object.

Usage notes

 * Usually seen as

Usage notes

 * Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

Etymology 1
From, from and ; compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 and.

Etymology 2
From, plural of , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬

Pronoun

 * 1)   third person plural pronoun

Etymology 3
From (compare 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬), from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬).

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-fifth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

Usage notes
In certain dialects the letter is pronounced similar to IPA: /ji:/. In these dialects, they will actually write "y" such as in "jy" (IPA: /ji:/) instead of modern standard Dutch (IPA: /jɛɪ/).

Etymology
In particular, the use of for  follows the Swedish orthography, which in turn follows Latin.

Etymology
.

Pronoun

 * 1) it

Etymology 1
From, referring to the letter upsilon (Υ), originally borrowed from the Greek alphabet, as opposed to "Latin i" (I).

Letter

 * 1) a letter in the French alphabet, after x and before z

Etymology 2
10th century; from, from (ultimately from ), with meaning influenced by , itself from. Derivation from the latter poses difficulty from a phonetic standpoint. Compare 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) there (at a place)
 * 2) there, thither (to there)
 * 3) With verbs: see Appendix:French verbs followed by à for verbs which use this structure.
 * 4)  With adjectives. Only used with a handful of adjectives (the most common combination being, which is a special case), mainly in legal terminology.
 * 1) With verbs: see Appendix:French verbs followed by à for verbs which use this structure.
 * 2)  With adjectives. Only used with a handful of adjectives (the most common combination being, which is a special case), mainly in legal terminology.
 * 1) With verbs: see Appendix:French verbs followed by à for verbs which use this structure.
 * 2)  With adjectives. Only used with a handful of adjectives (the most common combination being, which is a special case), mainly in legal terminology.

Etymology 3
Eye dialect spelling or contraction of and.

Pronoun

 * 1)  he:
 * 2)  they:
 * 3)  they:

Noun

 * 1) water

Etymology
Contraction of.

Usage notes
As shown in the alphabet below, this letter normally occurs in Hungarian words only as part of four digraphs:, , , and (with their long counterparts: ). Aside from them, the terms containing defined in an extensive Hungarian monolingual dictionary are, , ,  /  / , , , , /, //, , , , , , ,  /, , , , , , , , , , , ,  and the letter itself. Additionally, a newer and more comprehensive but as yet incomplete dictionary contains, , , and. (The forms, , , , , , and are also mentioned as alternative forms in the former volume, but their current standard spelling is , , , , , , and .)

Proper names written with include the country names, , , and  and the capital names , , and. Other names deriving from Latin alphabets are also retained (such as English etc., German, French , and Polish ). Otherwise, this letter is usually transcribed in country and city names, for example, , , and.

Usage notes

 * The letter Y is not considered part of the Italian alphabet. It is found mainly in loanwords.

Etymology
From and.

Conjunction

 * 1) and

Particle

 * 1) no

Conjunction

 * 1) and

Pronoun

 * 1) they, them personal pronoun

Noun

 * 1) water

Adverb

 * 1) there (in a given place)

Usage notes
The letter $⟨y⟩$ is used for the phoneme, but also for before a front vowel, where that is pronounced.

Usage notes

 * Perhaps the most troublesome sound in Norwegian. Even some native speakers tend to merge it into.

Etymology 1
From, from. Akin to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  yew

Etymology 2
From, influenced by.

Verb

 * 1) to crawl

Etymology 1
, from. .

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) water
 * 2) liquid
 * 3) humidity
 * °N, °W
 * 1) juice,
 * 2) broth
 * °N, °W
 * 1) juice,
 * 2) broth

Adjective

 * 1) humid

Etymology 2
, from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) river

Etymology
From and  and.

Conjunction

 * 1) and

Pronunciation
Letter name:

Letter name:

Phoneme:

Adverb

 * 1) really, truly

Usage notes
Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

Pronunciation

 * in the conjunction (see below) and in word-final diphthongs (e.g., ); otherwise.

Etymology 2
or, from.

Conjunction

 * 1) and
 * 2) * 1605, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote de la Mancha1, Chapter I:
 * "es"

- Es, pues, de saber que este sobredicho hidalgo, los ratos que estaba ocioso —que eran los más del año—, se daba a leer libros de caballerías, con tanta afición y gusto, que olvidó casi de todo punto el ejercicio de la caza y aun la administración de su hacienda; y llegó a tanto su curiosidad y desatino en esto, que vendió muchas hanegas de tierra de sembradura para comprar libros de caballerías en que leer, y, así, llevó a su casa todos cuantos pudo haber dellos.

 * 1)  and
 * 2)  plus, and
 * 3)  well
 * 4)  what about, how about, where is/are the
 * 1)  well
 * 2)  what about, how about, where is/are the
 * 1)  what about, how about, where is/are the

Usage notes

 * Before words that begin with the sound, the form  is used instead.

Etymology 1
. Each pronunciation has a different source:
 * Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by.
 * Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character.
 * Abecedario pronunciation is from.

Etymology 2
.

Conjunction

 * 1)  and

Verb

 * 1) to imitate, to mimic

Preposition

 * 1) along
 * 2) according to
 * 1) according to
 * 1) according to

Etymology 1
.

Pronoun

 * 1)  he, him
 * 1)  he, him
 * 1)  he, him

Etymology 2
.

Adverb

 * 1)   (like)

Etymology 3
.

Noun

 * 1)  medicine; physician

Letter

 * 1)  It is preceded by .

Mutation

 * y cannot be mutated but, being a vowel, does take, for example with the word :

Derived terms

 * Digraph sequences:

Etymology 2
From, , from , ultimately from.

Article

 * 1) the

Etymology 3
Merger of two formerly distinct particles, and.
 * (1) from earlier, from , from (compare 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬), from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬).
 * (2) from earlier, from , from , from (compare 🇨🇬, ); akin to 🇨🇬, dialectal 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

Particle

 * 1)  that
 * 2)  which, whom
 * 1)  which, whom
 * 1)  which, whom

Usage notes

 * y is almost always omitted in colloquial speech.
 * y is used to mean 'that' (i.e. mark a subordinate clause) when the subordinate clause begins with an affirmative form of  not in the present tense, or another affirmative verb in any tense apart from the preterite.

Usage notes
After a consonant, the letter indicates palatalization, except that expected *ty and *nty are spelled $⟨ch⟩$ and $⟨nj⟩$.

Derived terms

 * The digraph $⟨yw⟩$ is used after a consonant m mb p for in labio-palatalized $⟨myw mbyw pyw⟩$.
 * Palatalized $⟨dny, dmy, dpy, dy, kpy, ky, ly, mby, mty, my, ndy, nmy, ny, py, tpy, vy⟩$.

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bpd

Noun

 * 1)   barrels per day

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crude oil

Noun

 * 1) Unrefined oil; as it is found underground, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: суров петрол
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ruwe olie,
 * Esperanto: nafto
 * Finnish:
 * French: pétrole brut
 * Georgian: ნედლი ნავთობი, გაუწმენდავი ნავთობი, დაუმუშავებელი ნავთობი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: hráolía
 * Indonesian: minyak mentah
 * Irish: amhola
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: су́рова на́фта, непрочи́стена на́фта
 * Maori: hinu urutapu
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: råolje
 * Nynorsk: råolje
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: petróleo bruto, petróleo cru,
 * Romanian: țiței neprelucrat
 * Russian:, неочищенная нефть
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: mafuta ghafi
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: krudo
 * Telugu: ముడి చమురు
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: сира нафта, неочищена нафта
 * West Frisian: ierdoalje

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Talk:lente

This article raises some interesting questions about how we define our borders between the Wiktionaries in different languages.

"Lente" is not used in contemporary English. (I believe it was used in older forms of English, but I don't think it would be helpful to go there at this time.)

We do need to maintain some perspective on the fact that this is the English Wiktionary. If, for example, we start including what the Spanish translation is for a Dutch word the articles could quickly get out of hand when you contemplate the number of possible language pair. If you admit L languages, then the number of language pairs will be L*(L-1)/2; a mere 10 languages implies 45 possible language pairs, 90 if you consider that translation go in two directions.

I would propose then that the translation section be limited to foreign translations of English words. We already have the English translation of foreign words in an earlier part of the article. The Spanish/Dutch pairs would properly appear on the Spanish and Dutch Wiktionaries. Eclecticology 21:15 Dec 19, 2002 (UTC)

Shouldn't this be a disambiguation page? The subjects of Wiktionary articles are all words in all languages so just because words in different languages share the same spelling doesn't mean that they are the same. They are different words and therefore need their own pages. IMO the syntax should be Lente (es) with Lente having a list of all the words. --Maveric149
 * Eventually this could be a possibility. In this still young project, however, it seems more important to preserve the big picture.  Wiktionarians have an ambitious project here, but a lot of the details still need to be worked out.  We are still only discovering the problems. Eclecticology 02:03 Dec 29, 2002 (UTC)

 * I guess using hr rule lines will work just as well so long as the other language Wiktionarys do the same. Otherwise magic interlanguage linking will be a total mess. --mav

 * The lines do seem to be doing a nice job. The interlanguage links may need to be more tightly controlled than in Wikipedia for the very reason that you mention. Eclecticology

FWIW, lente is a class of insulin (insulins are rated by their length of duration of action, ranking (from shortest-acting to longest-acting) regular, NPH, lente, ultralente. Of course this may be a "jargon" use that may not effect your layout here. -- Someone else 07:37 Feb 20, 2003 (UTC)
 * By all means go ahead and put that in, and right at the top since it is an English usage. I haven't been familiar with this usage, but it appears to be derived from either from the French usage or a common origin. Eclecticology 17:48 Feb 20, 2003 (UTC)

Hmm.. having second thoughts as it seems this is one of those "started as a trademark" words. Would this be appropriate?:

English

Adjective

1.	'len-te /len-tay: one of the four principal formulation of the hormone insulin, with an intermediate duration of action. It consists of a mixture of 3 parts semilente insulin with 7 parts ultralente insulin, begins acting 1-2 hours after injection, with a peak activity of 6-12 hours following injection, and has a duration of action of 18-24 hours. "Lente" is a registered trademark of Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals, but has become a part of common modern parlance.

Translation

-- Someone else 23:01 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)

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ორშაბათი

Noun

 * 1) Monday

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Wiktionary:Tea room

__NEWSECTIONLINK__ Wiktionary > Discussion rooms > Tea room

 * WT:TR redirects here. For guidelines on translations, see Translations

A place to ask for help on finding quotations, etymologies, or other information about particular words. The Tea room is named to accompany the Beer parlour.

For questions about the general Wiktionary policies, use the Beer parlour; for technical questions, use the Grease pit. For questions about specific content, you're in the right place.

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the

Pronunciation

The word the is commonly pronounced whenever it is pronounced as a distinct word, e.g.: The word is generally pronounced indistinctly as or merely  in other situations, such as when attached to a word beginning with a consonant sound.
 * When it is used for emphasis (This is where the hospital for open-heart surgery is).
 * When the speaker pauses between the and the next word.
 * In many but not all dialects, when the next word begins with a vowel sound (compare with  vs. ).

The typographical pronunciation ("Ye Old...") is a deliberately archaic retronym from, which is a variant spelling of þe, from Old English þē pronounced thē,   (using y in place of the thorn (þ). It is not actually a separate pronunciation in Middle English. The actual morpheme  in Middle English represents ȝe-, a variant spelling of the prefix y- attached to verbs and used to denote a verbal past participle.

Etymology 1
From, from , a late variant of , the s- (which occurred in the masculine and feminine nominative singular only) having been replaced by the þ- from the oblique stem.

Originally neutral nominative, in Middle English it superseded all previous Old English nominative forms ; is from, from , ultimately from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 within Germanic and with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 among other Indo-European languages.

Article

 * I’m reading the book Mary reviewed. (Compare I’m reading a book Mary reviewed.)
 * You live on Main Street, don't you? You know, you should tell the mayor the street needs cleaning.
 * The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
 * The street that runs all the way through my hometown.
 * No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
 * God save the Queen!
 * No one in the whole country had seen it before.
 * I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
 * Take me to the airport/station/hospital/office/park/match/meeting.
 * A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
 * How's the wife? (= "How is your wife?")
 * square the circle; feel the pinch; beat around the bush; throw the baby out with the bathwater
 * That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
 * That was the juiciest apple pie ever.
 * May the better man win.
 * The downy woodpecker can be found in the same environments as the hairy woodpecker.
 * The Bushes have held political office for several decades and the Kennedys longer.
 * That apple pie was the best.
 * Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
 * One doesn't choose the color of one's chess pieces, the white are assigned to the player who moves first.
 * the Chinese
 * the Irish
 * square the circle; feel the pinch; beat around the bush; throw the baby out with the bathwater
 * That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
 * That was the juiciest apple pie ever.
 * May the better man win.
 * The downy woodpecker can be found in the same environments as the hairy woodpecker.
 * The Bushes have held political office for several decades and the Kennedys longer.
 * That apple pie was the best.
 * Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
 * One doesn't choose the color of one's chess pieces, the white are assigned to the player who moves first.
 * the Chinese
 * the Irish
 * The downy woodpecker can be found in the same environments as the hairy woodpecker.
 * The Bushes have held political office for several decades and the Kennedys longer.
 * That apple pie was the best.
 * Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
 * One doesn't choose the color of one's chess pieces, the white are assigned to the player who moves first.
 * the Chinese
 * the Irish
 * Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
 * One doesn't choose the color of one's chess pieces, the white are assigned to the player who moves first.
 * the Chinese
 * the Irish
 * the Irish

Usage notes
The word the precedes proper nouns in a number of cases, although most proper nouns use no article. There are always exceptions. See also Appendix:English proper nouns for more information. As a general rule, country names are not preceded by the. There are a few exceptions, most of which are pluralised: Names of countries containing specifications like kingdom, republic etc are used with the: Some place names use a definite article: Musical bands with a plural name are generally used with the: University names beginning with the word "University", and some other university names, are used with the:
 * Countries
 * the Netherlands (or The Netherlands)
 * the Bahamas (or The Bahamas)
 * the Maldives (or The Maldives)
 * the Seychelles (or The Seychelles; also used without the article)
 * the Philippines
 * the Solomon Islands, the Faroe Islands, etc
 * the Gambia (or The Gambia)
 * the Sudan (or The Sudan)
 * the Ukraine (or The Ukraine; article dropped since 1991)
 * the Yemen (or The Yemen)
 * the Lebanon (or The Lebanon)
 * the United States of America
 * the United Kingdom
 * the United Arab Emirates
 * the Czech Republic
 * the Swiss Confederation
 * the Kingdom of Denmark
 * the Republic of Austria
 * the Sultanate of Oman
 * the European Union
 * Place names
 * All oceans (the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean)
 * All seas (the Red Sea, the Bering Sea, the Caribbean Sea), and straits (the Strait of Magellan, the Bering Strait, the Bosphorus)
 * All rivers (the Amazon, the Nile, the Mississippi, the Seine, the Yangtze), canals (the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal) and deltas (the Nile Delta, the Orinoco Delta, the Colorado River Delta)
 * All art galleries (the Tate, the Louvre, The Smithsonian American Art Museum), all museums with the word museum in the name (the Museum of Natural History, the British Museum)
 * Most English-language newspapers (The New York Times, The Guardian, The Chronicle, The Wall Street Journal)
 * All North American railroads, even when not referred to by their full names or only by nicknames (the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Reading (Reading Railroad), the Frisco (St. Louis–San Francisco Railway))
 * Some towns (the Bronx, The Hague, The Valley, The Farrington, The Quarter, The Plains, The Dalles, The Villages, The Woodlands, The Pas, the Vatican, The Hyde, the West End, the East End, or the City of ...)
 * Bands
 * Universities
 * Universities
 * Universities
 * the University of North Carolina
 * the Ohio State University

When used before an adjective which is not followed by a noun, it may refer to a group of people for which the adjective is appropriate:
 * the Scottish = Scots
 * the rich = rich people

Alternative forms

 * ye, ye , yͤ
 * ẏe, ẏe
 * ye, ye , yͤ
 * ẏe, ẏe
 * ye, ye , yͤ
 * ẏe, ẏe

Derived terms

 * all the time
 * Jack the Ripper
 * Proverbs using the (article)
 * Idioms using the (article)
 * Proverbs using the (article)
 * Idioms using the (article)
 * Proverbs using the (article)
 * Idioms using the (article)
 * Idioms using the (article)

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: -a, -i,  -u
 * Amharic: (-u, -w) (masculine) (-wa, -itwa, -ätwa) (feminine)
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: ال,
 * Aragonese: lo
 * Aramaic: ־א, ־י, ־תא
 * Armenian: -ը, -ն
 * Aromanian: -lu
 * Asturian:
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian:
 * Belizean Creole: di
 * Bengali: suffixes based on number, formality and animacy
 * Bikol Central:
 * Breton:,  ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:,  ,  , , ,  ,  , ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Chuukese: ewe, we
 * Coptic:
 * Bohairic: ⲡⲓ-
 * Sahidic: ⲡ-
 * Cornish: an
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: el
 * Danish: or ,  or  , -ene or -ne ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Archaic Egyptian, Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian: not used
 * Late Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: -in;  tann,
 * Finnish:
 * Colloquial Finnish :
 * French:, , , (before a vowel or a mute h)
 * Friulian: il
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * Old Georgian: იგი
 * German:, ,
 * Alemannic German: de
 * Central Franconian: dä
 * Silesian: dr
 * Gothic: 𐍃𐌰
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὁ
 * Epic: not used, ὁ (rare)
 * Modern:
 * Guerrero Amuzgo: i', eⁿ'
 * Hajong: -ৰৗ
 * Hawaiian: ka, ke ; nā
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: -inn,
 * Ido: ,
 * Igbo:
 * Ilocano:
 * dagiti,
 * ti,
 * iti,
 * kadagiti,
 * da,
 * ni,
 * kada
 * ken ni,
 * Indonesian:, , , ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish:, na
 * Old Irish: in, a
 * Istriot: el
 * Italian:, , , , ,
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Jarawa: ɖi
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Ladin: l
 * Ladino: איל
 * Lao:
 * Latin:
 * Medieval Latin:, ly
 * Vulgar Latin: ,
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German:
 * Macedonian: see Appendix:Macedonian articles
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: il-
 * Maori: ,
 * Marshallese: eo, ro, ko
 * Middle English: þe, the
 * Mirandese: l
 * Mòcheno: der, de, s, de
 * Mongolian:
 * Norman: l'
 * Northern Kankanay:
 * din,
 * si,
 * san,
 * nan,
 * isdin,
 * ken
 * issan,
 * isnan,
 * is,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, , , ,
 * Nynorsk:, den, -et, -en, -a
 * Occitan:,  ,  , ,  , ,  ,
 * Old Dutch: thie
 * Old English:
 * Old Saxon: thē
 * Persian: ; for definite direct object
 * Pipil: ne
 * Pitcairn-Norfolk: t'
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Rapa Nui: te
 * Romani: o, i, e
 * Romanian: -ul, -a, ,
 * Romansch: il
 * Russian:
 * Samoan: le
 * Sardinian: su, sa
 * Scots: the
 * Scottish Gaelic: an
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Sicilian:
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, , , ,
 * Swahili: ya
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:
 * Tok Pisin: dispela
 * Tongan: te
 * Turkish:
 * Tuvaluan: te
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:
 * Venetian:
 * Veps:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:,  ,
 * Võro:
 * Votic:
 * Walloon: ,
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: דער, די, דאָס, די
 * Zazaki:, ,
 * Volapük:,  ,
 * Võro:
 * Votic:
 * Walloon: ,
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: דער, די, דאָס, די
 * Zazaki:, ,

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: -ов
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,

 * Afrikaans:
 * German:
 * Japanese:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Tok Pisin: dispela

 * Afrikaans:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish:

 * Afrikaans:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: -те
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:

 * Afrikaans:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Ladin: l
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Venetian:

 * Afrikaans:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, though something + というもの is often used.
 * Macedonian: -от
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:

Etymology 2
From, , , from , probably a neuter instrumental form ("by that, thereby")—alongside the more common and —of the demonstrative pronoun  ("that"). Compare 🇨🇬 ("the, the more"), 🇨🇬 ("the, all the more"), 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 ("because"), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adverb

 * The hotter the better. comma usually omitted in such very short expressions
 * The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
 * The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.
 * It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
 * It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
 * It was a difficult time, and I’m {none - not any} the wiser for it.
 * I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.
 * 1)  Beyond all others.
 * We went the furthest under her leadership.
 * They trusted him the most.
 * We went the furthest under her leadership.
 * They trusted him the most.

Usage notes
This is called the "comparative correlative", but it is also known as the "correlative construction", the "conditional comparative", or the "the...the construction".

Translations

 * Afrikaans: hoe + comp., hoe + comp.
 * Arabic: كُلَّمَا كَانَ... كَانَ ... (example: كلما كان أرخص كان أفضل (kúllama kāna ʾárḵaṣ kāna ʾáfḍal ‘the cheaper the better’) *(used with a verb in the past tense, "kāna" or others)
 * Catalan: com + comp., comp.
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 越……越…… (example: 越 热 越 好 yuè rè yuè hǎo "the hotter the better"), 愈……愈……
 * Cimbrian: bo + comp., bo + comp.
 * Czech: čím + comp., tím + comp.
 * Dutch: hoe + comp., hoe + comp.
 * Esperanto: ju + comp., des + comp.
 * Finnish: mitä + comp., sitä + comp., mitä + comp., sen + comp.
 * French: comp., comp.; colloquial or regional usage, not Standard French: le + comp., le + comp.
 * German: je + comp., desto + comp.; je + comp., umso + comp.; je + comp., je + comp.
 * Hungarian: minél + comp., annál + comp.
 * Icelandic: því + comp., því + comp.
 * Irish: dá + abstract noun, (is ea) is + comp.
 * Japanese: (conditional -reba + dictionary form + hodo + adjective 2) adj.1 + れば + adj.1 程 + adj.2 (example: 暑ければ暑い程良い atsukereba atsui hodo ii "the hotter the better")
 * Korean: -을수록
 * Latin: quō + comp., eō comp.
 * Malay: semakin..., semakin...; lagi..., lagi...
 * Norwegian: jo + comp., desto + comp., jo + comp., jo + comp., dess + comp., dess + comp.
 * Nynorsk: di + comp., di + comp.
 * Old English: þȳ + comp., þȳ + comp.
 * Persian: + comp.
 * Polish: im + comp., tym + comp.
 * Portuguese: quanto + comp., comp. (ex: quanto mais quente, melhor "the hotter the better")
 * Russian: чем + comp., тем + comp.
 * Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian: comp. + a + comp.
 * Spanish: cuanto + comp., comp., entre + comp., comp.
 * Swedish: ju + comp., desto + comp.
 * Thai: + comp.
 * Turkish: ne kadar + comp., o kadar + comp.

 * Finnish:  ,
 * German:
 * Portuguese: No word accompanies the comparative in this usage.

 * Slovene:

Preposition

 * 1) For each; per.

Noun

 * 1) A topology name.

Etymology
From.

Article

 * 1) the

Usage notes
While it is likely that Crimean Gothic retained grammatical gender, de Busbecq's letter does not mention which articles are used with which words, making it impossible to reconstruct their gender.

Pronoun

 * 1) I first person singular pronoun

Pronoun

 * 1) you (thou)

Noun

 * 1) tea

Article

 * 1) * 14th c., . General Prologue: 1-2.
 * "enm"
 * "enm"

- Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote

Noun

 * 1) ear

Particle

 * 1) that, who, which

Etymology 1
From. The original s- was replaced by th- by analogy with the other forms, but still preserved in the variant.

Determiner

 * 1) that, that one
 * them uuīha uuīsa lēstean: To obey that holy wise.

Etymology 2
From, from ,.

Particle

 * 1) that, who, which

Postposition

 * to
 * 1) for
 * at

Etymology
From.

Determiner

 * 1)  definite article

Usage notes

 * The definite article is used a lot more frequently idiomatically in Scots than in English.

Etymology
, which sounds similar to 🇨🇬.

Conjunction

 * neki kreten the ih drka emotivno
 * some jerk to fuck with them emotionally
 * the ovo okačim na fb wall, garant ne bih opstala od borKINJa za ženska prava
 * if I posted this on my FB wall, I surely wouldn't survive the women rights fighters
 * if I posted this on my FB wall, I surely wouldn't survive the women rights fighters

Etymology
Cognates include 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) belt

Noun

 * 1)  (tea)

Etymology 1
.

Noun

 * 1) a kind of silk gauze

Adjective

 * 1) having a strong and fragrant smell or flavor, usually overlaps with what described as "minty" or "citrusy" in English

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User:Arvindn

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text:
absent

Etymology 1
From, from , from , and their source, , present participle of , from +.

Adjective

 * 1)  Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present; missing.
 * 2)  Not existing; lacking.
 * 3)  Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied.
 * 1)  Not existing; lacking.
 * 2)  Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied.
 * 1)  Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: afwesig
 * American Sign Language: 1@NearFinger-Open8@Center-PalmDown Contact 1@NearFinger-Open8@Center-PalmDown
 * Arabic: غَائِب
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: ausente
 * Belarusian: адсу́тны, адсу́тнічаць
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: nepřítomný
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Estonian: puuduv
 * Finnish:, poissa (oleva)
 * French:
 * Galician: ausente
 * Georgian: არდამსწრე, არმყოფი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: οἰχόμενος
 * Hindi:, ग़ैरहाज़िर
 * Hungarian: távol lévő
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: отсутен
 * Malay:
 * Rumi:
 * Maltese:
 * Maori: ngaro, kaitu, tamō, matangaro
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: fraværende
 * Nynorsk: fråverande
 * Old English: æfweard
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, neprezent
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:, неприсутан,
 * Slovak: neprítomný
 * Slovene: odsoten
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:, huwat
 * Ukrainian: відсу́тній
 * Urdu: غیر حاضر, غائب
 * Vietnamese:

 * Afrikaans: afwesig
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:, , niet meer voorhanden,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: hiányzó
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: fraværende, ikke-eksisterende
 * Nynorsk: fråverande
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, , neexistent
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

 * Armenian: անջատված
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:, , , elders met zijn gedachten
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: geistig
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Latin: amens
 * Maori: muhukai
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: fraværende
 * Nynorsk: fråverande
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: lơ đãng

 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua:

Noun

 * 1)  Something absent, especially absent people collectively; those who were or are not there.
 * 2) * 1772,, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 30 May:
 * The Applause he met with exceeds all belief of the Absent.
 * 1)  An absentee; a person who is not there.
 * 1)  An absentee; a person who is not there.

Preposition

 * 1) In the absence of; without; except.

Translations

 * Dutch:, , , in afwezigheid van
 * Finnish: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, unntatt
 * Portuguese: na ausência de

Etymology 2
From, from , from.

Verb

 * 1)  To keep (oneself) away.
 * 2)  To keep (someone) away.
 * 3)  Stay away; withdraw.
 * 4)  Leave.
 * 1)  To keep (someone) away.
 * 2)  Stay away; withdraw.
 * 3)  Leave.
 * 1)  Stay away; withdraw.
 * 2)  Leave.
 * 1)  Leave.

Translations

 * Ancient Greek: ἅπειμι
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch: wegblijven van, zich absenteren, niet opdagen
 * Esperanto: foresti
 * Finnish: olla poissa
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ido:
 * Latin:
 * Maori: takē
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: absentere
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: ch'usay
 * Spanish:

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * French:
 * Malay:

Etymology
..

Etymology
.

Etymology
. Compare the popular form.

Adjective

 * 1) absent-minded
 * 1) absent-minded

Noun

 * 1) absentee; missing person

Adjective

 * 1) absent, not present
 * 2) absent-minded

Etymology
From, relatinized on the model of its ancestor, , present active participle of.

Etymology
..

Noun

 * 1)  absence
 * 2)  absentee
 * 1)  absence
 * 2)  absentee

Etymology
,.

Etymology
, from, from , from , from. .

title: absent


text:
absentaneous

Etymology
From. See.

Adjective

 * 1)  Pertaining to absence.

title: absentaneous


text:
absentation

Etymology
From, from. Equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1) The act of absenting oneself.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: aanwezigheidsverzuim

title: absentation


text:
absentee

Noun

 * 1) A person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc.
 * 2)  A landholder who lives in another district or country than the one in which his estate is situated.
 * 3) One that is nonexistent or lacking.
 * 4) A voter that is not present at the time of voting; absentee voter.
 * 1) A voter that is not present at the time of voting; absentee voter.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Gallurese: assenti
 * German: Abwesender, Abwesende
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Maori: kaitakē
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian:
 * Campidanese Sardinian: ausente, stesiau
 * Logudorese Sardinian: ausente
 * Sassarese: assenti
 * Spanish:

 * Portuguese: absentista

 * Finnish:

Adjective

 * 1)  Pertaining to someone who is absent, for example does not live in the relevant local area, sometimes implying that they are difficult to contact, unresponsive, avoiding their responsibilities, etc.

Translations

 * Finnish:

title: absentee


text:
absenteeism

Noun

 * 1) The state of being absent, especially frequently or without good reason; the practice of an absentee.
 * 2) The practice of absenting oneself from the country or district where one's estate is situated.
 * 1) The practice of absenting oneself from the country or district where one's estate is situated.

Translations

 * Albanian: absenteizëm
 * Dutch:, (arbeids)verzuim, (school)verzuim
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Irish: neamhláithreacht
 * Maori: takētanga
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:

title: absenteeism


text:
absenter

Noun

 * 1) One who stays away; one who absents herself or himself.
 * 2) * 1966,, : A Page of History, Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, Chapter 1, p.4,
 * It was little to be wondered at, from this account that the country-folk refused to go to the parish church, and chose rather to listen to outed ministers in the fields. But this was not to be allowed, and their persecutors at last fell on the method of calling a roll of the parishioners’ names every Sabbath, and marking a fine of twenty shillings Scots to the name of each absenter.
 * It was little to be wondered at, from this account that the country-folk refused to go to the parish church, and chose rather to listen to outed ministers in the fields. But this was not to be allowed, and their persecutors at last fell on the method of calling a roll of the parishioners’ names every Sabbath, and marking a fine of twenty shillings Scots to the name of each absenter.

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to leave; to absent oneself

title: absenter


text:
absently

Adverb

 * 1) In an absent-minded or abstracted manner.
 * 2) * 1891,, , Phase the Fourth, Chapter 34,
 * his wife, flinging a shawl round her, had come to the outer room and was listening to the man's narrative, her eyes resting absently on the luggage and the drops of rain glistening upon it.
 * his wife, flinging a shawl round her, had come to the outer room and was listening to the man's narrative, her eyes resting absently on the luggage and the drops of rain glistening upon it.

title: absently


text:
absentment

Noun

 * : The state of being absent; withdrawal

title: absentment


text:
absent-minded

Adjective

 * 1) Absent in mind; often preoccupied; forgetful or careless due to distraction; easily distracted.
 * It took the absent-minded man twenty minutes to find his glasses on top of his head.
 * It took the absent-minded man twenty minutes to find his glasses on top of his head.

Translations

 * Acehnese: tahe
 * Belarusian: рассе́яны
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 鬆散
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: åndsfraværende, distræt
 * Dutch:, , elders met zijn gedachten, er niet bij
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: distraído,, apirolado
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew: מפוזר
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: dearmadach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Macedonian: расеан
 * Maori: hinengaro makere, wareware, pakihaha
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, åndsfraværende
 * Nynorsk: distré, åndsfråverande
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: rasejan, расејан,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tagulimot
 * Turkish: ,

title: absent-minded


text:
absentness

Noun

 * 1) The quality of being absent-minded.

title: absentness


text:
absey-book

Noun

 * 1)  An ABC book; a primer.

title: absey-book


text: absinth

title: absinth


text:
absinthate

Noun

 * 1)  A combination of absinthic acid with a base or positive radical.

title: absinthate


text:
absinthial

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to wormwood; absinthian.

Translations

 * Polish:

title: absinthial


text:
absinthian

Alternative forms

 * absinthean

Adjective

 * 1) Of the nature of wormwood.
 * 2) Of or pertaining to absinthe.
 * 3) * (?), quoted in the Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry (1990 and 1995):
 * [...] in the dazed course of an absinthian stupor, [...]
 * 1) * (?), quoted in the Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry (1990 and 1995):
 * [...] in the dazed course of an absinthian stupor, [...]
 * 1) * (?), quoted in the Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry (1990 and 1995):
 * [...] in the dazed course of an absinthian stupor, [...]

Translations

 * Finnish: absinttinen
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

title: absinthian


text:
absinthiate

Etymology

 * compare.

Verb

 * 1) To impregnate with wormwood.

title: absinthiate


text:
absinthiated

Adjective

 * 1) Impregnated with wormwood.
 * absinthiated wine

Translations

 * Interlingua: absinthiate
 * Portuguese:

title: absinthiated


text:
absinthic

Adjective

 * 1)  Relating to the common wormwood or to an acid obtained from it.

Translations

 * Interlingua: absinthic
 * Portuguese:

title: absinthic


text:
absinthin

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)   The principal compound found in wormwood, having a bitter taste: C15H20O4

Translations

 * Dutch: absintine
 * Finnish: absintiini
 * Interlingua: absinthina
 * Polish: absyntyna
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: absintina

title: absinthin


text:
absinthism

Noun

 * 1) The condition of being poisoned by the excessive use of absinthe.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Portuguese: absintismo

title: absinthism


text:
absinthium

Etymology
From, from , from. .

Noun

 * 1)  , an intensely bitter herb used in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic.
 * 2) The dried leaves and flowering tops of the wormwood plant.
 * 3) absinthe oil

Translations

 * Finnish: kuivattu koiruoho

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) wormwood
 * 2) an infusion of wormwood sometimes masked with honey due to its bitter taste
 * 3)  something which is bitter but wholesome

Descendants

 * Dalmatian:
 * Italo-Romance:
 * Padanian:
 * Southern Gallo-Romance:
 * Ribagorçan:, ,
 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Southern Gallo-Romance:
 * Ribagorçan:, ,
 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Ribagorçan:, ,
 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Ibero-Romance:

 * Borrowings

title: absinthium


text:
absis

Noun

 * 1) apse

Etymology
, from, perfect passive participle of.

Noun

 * 1)  abscissa
 * 2) the first of the two terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of fixed rectilinear coordinate (Cartesian coordinate) axes
 * 3) the horizontal line representing an axis of a Cartesian coordinate system, on which the abscissa (sense above) is shown

title: absis