OpenLLM-France/wikimedia huggingface dataset:
# 句子
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): jùzi
    (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩˋ ˙ㄗ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): geoi$^3$ zi$^2$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: jùzi
*** Zhuyin: ㄐㄩˋ ˙ㄗ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jyùzi̊h
*** Wade–Giles: chü$^4$-tzŭ$^5$
*** Yale: jyù-dz
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiuh.tzy
*** Palladius: цзюйцзы (czjujczy)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕy⁵¹ d͡z̥z̩¹/
*** Homophones: [Show/Hide]$^{edit}$句子 鋸子 / 锯子
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: geoi$^3$ zi$^2$
*** Yale: geui jí
*** Cantonese Pinyin: goey$^3$ dzi$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: gêu$^3$ ji$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /kɵy̯³³ t͡siː³⁵/
*** Homophones: $^{edit}$句子 鋸子 / 锯子

### Noun

句子
* sentence; phrase (Classifier: 個／个 m)
    以it開頭的句子／以it开头的句子 ― yǐ it kāitóu de jùzi ― sentence beginning with "it"

#### Synonyms

* 句 (jù)
* 語句／语句 (yǔjù)
# felett
## Hungarian
### Alternative forms

* fölött

### Etymology

Lexicalization of the noun föl (the upper part of something) +‎ -ett (locative suffix).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfɛlɛtː]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: fe‧lett
* Rhymes: -ɛtː

### Postposition

felett
* above

#### Derived terms

* felette
* feletti
* afelett
* efelett
* módfelett
* szerfelett

#### Related terms

* felé
* felül
* fölé
* fölül

### See also

* Appendix:Hungarian postpositions
$^1$ This group of adverbs is often understood for humans when in an emphatic position. In an unstressed position, they may also imply objects, always depending on context. $^2$ Adverbs ending in -á/-é may coincide with postpositions.

### References

* ↑ fölött in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

### Further reading

* felett in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
# bookception
## English
### Alternative forms

* book-ception

### Etymology

From book +‎ -ception.

### Noun

bookception (plural bookceptions)
* (slang) A work of fiction (especially a novel) featuring a frame story or metanarrative structure.
** 2012 September 13, Nathan Fisher, “Lazy writing leads to forgettable 'Words'”, in The Pioneer, Whitman College, page 4:“The Words” offers too many “stories,” and this “bookception” fails to offer a seamless serious drama.
** 2012 September 20, Rob Marvin, “Unimaginative plot wastes talented cast on dull, plodding story”, in The Daily Orange, Syracuse University, page 15:This wishy-washy literary thriller is masquerading as a “book-ception” of sorts, with incessant narration and a heavy-handed score just as cliched as its plot.
** 2016 August 1, Katie Ward Beim-Eche, “'Outrun the Moon' features a stellar YA heroine set in historic Chinatown”, in Christian Science Monitor:After I finished “Outrun the Moon,” it took me two weeks to realize the extent of Lee’s book-ception. In a twist on par with Möbius or Escher, “The Book for Business-Minded Women” describes not only Mrs. Lowry’s book, but Lee’s as well.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bookception.
# glucagon
## English
### Etymology

From gluco- +‎ Ancient Greek ἄγων (ágōn), present participle of ἄγω (ágō, “push forward, put in motion; stir up; excite, urge”).
Alternatively, possibly gluco- +‎ -a- +‎ -gon.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɡluːkəɡən/, /ˈɡluːkəɡɒn/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈɡlukəˌɡɑn/

### Noun

glucagon (plural glucagons)
* (biochemistry) A peptide hormone, produced by the pancreas, that opposes the action of insulin by stimulating the production of sugar [from 1923]

#### Derived terms

* antiglucagon
* enteroglucagon
* glucagonemia
* glucagonlike
* glucagonoma
* glucagonotropic
* -glutide
* preproglucagon
* proglucagon

#### Translations
### References

* 1 2 Etymonline
* 1 2 “glucagon”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* glucagom, glucagão

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English glucagon.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ɡlu.kaˈɡõ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɡlu.kɐˈɡõ/ [ɡlu.kɐˈɣõ]
* Rhymes: -õ
* Hyphenation: glu‧ca‧gon

### Noun

glucagon m (plural glucagons)
* glucagon
    Synonym: (rare) glucagina

### References

* “glucagon”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2025
* “glucagon”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
* “glucagon”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* "Glucagom e glucagon" in Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa.
# oyggjaflokkarnar
## Faroese
### Noun

oyggjaflokkarnar
* accusative plural definite of oyggjaflokkur
# steikje ta
## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* steike ta

### Etymology

Probably a mix between faen steikje (often shortened to steikje, also used as adverb) and faen ta.

### Interjection

steikje ta
* wow, damn
    Synonyms: jaggu, jøss

### See also

* fy faen
# jatt
## English
### Noun

jatt (plural jatts)
* Alternative form of jatty

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

jatt
* imperative of jatte
# desiderate
## English
### Etymology

From Latin, from the participle stem of the verb dēsīderāre (“to desire”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɪˈsɪdəɹeɪt/
* This entry needs an audio pronunciation. If you are a native speaker with a microphone, please record this word. The recorded pronunciation will appear here when it's ready.

### Verb

desiderate (third-person singular simple present desiderates, present participle desiderating, simple past and past participle desiderated)
* (transitive) To miss; to feel the absence of; to long for.
** 1879, William Hurrell Mallock, Is Life Worth Living?:Between our human nature and the nature they desiderate there is a deep and fordless river, over which they can throw no bridge, and all their talk supposes that we shall be able to fly or wade across it […]
** 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:it put him in thought of that missing link of creation’s chain desiderated by the late ingenious Mr Darwin.

#### Translations
### Adjective

desiderate (comparative more desiderate, superlative most desiderate)
* desired, wished or longed for
** 1916, Lord Dunsany, “A Tale of London”, in Tales of Wonder:O Friend of God, know then that London is the desiderate town even of all Earth's cities.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /de.zi.deˈra.te/, (traditional) /de.si.deˈra.te/
* Rhymes: -ate
* Hyphenation: de‧si‧de‧rà‧te

### Etymology 1
#### Participle

desiderate f pl
* feminine plural of desiderato

#### Adjective

desiderate f pl
* feminine plural of desiderato

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

desiderate
* inflection of desiderare:
** second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person plural imperative

### References

* ↑ desidero in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* diseredate

## Latin
### Verb

dēsīderāte
* second-person plural present active imperative of dēsīderō

### Participle

dēsīderāte
* vocative masculine singular of dēsīderātus

### References

* "desiderate", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
# Harilla
## Albanian
### Proper noun

Harilla m
* a male given name
# קבוצות
## Hebrew
### Noun

קְבוּצוֹת • (k'vutsót) m
* plural indefinite form of קְבוּצָה (k'vutsá)‎
# ჩრდილო-დასავლეთი
## Georgian
### Alternative forms

* ჩრდილოეთ-დასავლეთი (črdiloet-dasavleti)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [t͡ʃʰɾdiɫodasavletʰi]
* Hyphenation: ჩრდი‧ლო-და‧სავ‧ლე‧თი

### Noun

ჩრდილო-დასავლეთი • (črdilo-dasavleti) (uncountable)
* northwest

#### Declension

Notes: archaic plurals might not exist.

#### Coordinate terms

compass points:
| ჩრდილო-დასავლეთი (črdilo-dasavleti) | ჩრდილოეთი (črdiloeti) | ჩრდილო-აღმოსავლეთი (črdilo-aɣmosavleti) |
| დასავლეთი (dasavleti) | | აღმოსავლეთი (aɣmosavleti) |
| სამხრეთ-დასავლეთი (samxret-dasavleti) | სამხრეთი (samxreti) | სამხრეთ-აღმოსავლეთი (samxret-aɣmosavleti) |
# caochail
## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From one of many various forms of Middle Irish clóemchloid (“to change, die”), from Old Irish con·imchloí (“to change”). Cognate with Irish claochlaigh (“to change for the worse”) and Manx caghlaa (“to change”).

### Verb

caochail (past chaochail, future caochailidh, verbal noun caochladh, past participle caochailte)
* change, vary
* (euphemistic, Harris, Skye, Raasay) die, pass away (of people)
    Synonyms: bàsaich, eug, siubhail
# hemorrhoid
## English
### Alternative forms

* haemorrhoid (UK)
* hæmorrhoid (UK, obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English emerowdes, emeroides, emeroydez, from Old French emorroides, from Latin haemorrhoidae, from Ancient Greek αἱμορροΐς (haimorrhoḯs), a feminine adjective from αἱμόρροος (haimórrhoos, “flowing with blood”), from αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) and the root of ῥέω (rhéō, “flow”). Doublet of emerod.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhɛməɹɔɪd/, /ˈhɛmɹɔɪd/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

hemorrhoid (plural hemorrhoids)
* (pathology, often in the plural) An engorged, dilated and easily broken varicosity in the perianal area, often accompanied by intense itching and throbbing pain: piles.

#### Derived terms

* external hemorrhoid
* hemorrhoidal
* hemorrhoidectomy
* internal hemorrhoid

#### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “hemorrhoids”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
* ↑ “hemorrhoid”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
# ちんちん
## Japanese
### Alternative forms

* (penis):
** おちんちん (o-chinchin)
** (Internet slang, humorous) てぃんてぃん (tintin), おてぃんてぃん (o-tintin)

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) ちんちん [chíꜜǹchìǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
* IPA: [t͡ɕĩɲ̟t͡ɕĩɴ]

### Noun

ちんちん or チンチン • (chinchin)
* (colloquial) jingle, tinkle, chink
* whistle (of a kettle)
* sit up; beg (dog trick)
    犬(いぬ)がちんちんする
       inu ga chinchin suru
       the dog begs/sits up
* (informal, childish) penis, pee-pee, wee-wee
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:陰茎

#### Descendants

* → Chinese: 金金
# előtt
## Hungarian
### Etymology

From the noun elő (“the front part of something”) +‎ -tt (locative suffix).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɛløːtː]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: előtt
* Rhymes: -øːtː

### Postposition

előtt
* in front of, ahead of, before (in space)
    Antonyms: mögött, után
* before, prior to (in time)
    Antonym: után

#### Derived terms

* előtte
* előtti
* azelőtt
* délelőtt
* ezelőtt
* mielőtt
* mindenekelőtt
* tavalyelőtt
* tegnapelőtt

#### Related terms

* elé
* elől

### See also

* Appendix:Hungarian postpositions
* Postpositions with personal suffixes

### See also

$^1$ This group of adverbs is often understood for humans when in an emphatic position. In an unstressed position, they may also imply objects, always depending on context. $^2$ Adverbs ending in -á/-é may coincide with postpositions.

### References

* ↑ előtt in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

### Further reading

* előtt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* előtt in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).
# ჩრდილოეთი
## Georgian
### Etymology

From ჩრდილო (črdilo, “shadow”) +‎ -ეთი (-eti, “land of”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /t͡ʃrdiloetʰi/, [tʂtʰiloɛtʰi]
* Hyphenation: ჩრდი‧ლო‧ე‧თი
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

ჩრდილოეთი • (črdiloeti) (uncountable)
* north

#### Declension

Notes: archaic plurals might not exist.

#### Coordinate terms

compass points:
| ჩრდილო-დასავლეთი (črdilo-dasavleti) | ჩრდილოეთი (črdiloeti) | ჩრდილო-აღმოსავლეთი (črdilo-aɣmosavleti) |
| დასავლეთი (dasavleti) | | აღმოსავლეთი (aɣmosavleti) |
| სამხრეთ-დასავლეთი (samxret-dasavleti) | სამხრეთი (samxreti) | სამხრეთ-აღმოსავლეთი (samxret-aɣmosavleti) |

### References

* ↑ Shosted, Ryan, Chikovani, Vakhtang (2006) “Standard Georgian”, in Journal of the International Phonetic Association: Illustrations of the IPA, pages 255-264: “The phonetic transcription gives some indication of a few processes: deletion and/or vocalization of nasals, e.g. /ʃɛtanxmdnɛn/ ‘they agreed’ -> [ʃɛtʰaũɣmdɛn], and deletion of rhotics, e.g. /tʃɾdilɔɛtis/ ‘north.GEN’ -> [tʂtʰiloɛtʰis].”
# alternatywką
## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /al.tɛr.naˈtɘf.kɔw̃/
* Rhymes: -ɘfkɔw̃
* Syllabification: al‧ter‧na‧tyw‧ką

### Noun

alternatywką
* instrumental singular of alternatywka
# Budeasa Mică
## Romanian
### Etymology

From Budeasa + mic.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Budeasa Mică f
* A village in Budeasa, Argeș County, Romania
# אוטו
## Hebrew
### Etymology

Internationalism. Compare French auto, German Auto, Yiddish אויטאָ (oyto), etc.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

אוֹטוֹ • (óto) m (plural indefinite אוֹטוֹאִים)
* (colloquial) car

#### Synonyms

* מְכוֹנִית f (m'khonít)

#### Related terms

* אוטובוס (ótobus)
# pipigain
## Tagalog
### Etymology

From piga +‎ -in with initial reduplication.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˌpipiɡaˈʔin/ [ˌpiː.pɪ.ɣɐˈʔin̪]
* Rhymes: -in
* Syllabification: pi‧pi‧ga‧in

### Verb

pípigaín (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜉᜒᜄᜁᜈ᜔)
* contemplative aspect of pigain

### Anagrams

* pinipiga
# Bolingbroke
## English
### Etymology

From Old English Bolin (“River Bollin”) + brōc (“stream”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbʊlɪŋbɹʊk/, /ˈbɒlɪŋbɹəʊk/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈbʊlɪŋbɹʊk/, /ˈbɒlɪŋbɹoʊk/

### Proper noun

Bolingbroke
* A surname.
* A civil parish in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England, which includes Old Bolingbroke.
* A community in Tay Valley township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
* An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Monroe County, Georgia, United States.
* An English earldom.

#### Derived terms

* New Bolingbroke
* Old Bolingbroke

### References

* ↑ Parish map (Lincolnshire)
# 今日は
## Japanese

* This entry is part of the phrasebook project, which presents criteria for inclusion based on utility, simplicity and commonness.
Kanji in this term :
| 今 | 日 |
| こん Grade: 2 | にち Grade: 1 |
| goon ||

### Etymology

From 今(こん)日(にち) (konnichi, “this day, today”) + は (wa, topic particle); shortened from expressions like the following:
* 今(こん)日(にち)は御(ご)機(き)嫌(げん)いかがですか
    konnichi wa go-kigen ikaga desu ka
    How are you doing today?
* 今(こん)日(にち)は良(よ)い天(てん)気(き)ですね
    konnichi wa yoi tenki desu ne
    It's fine weather today, isn't it?

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) こんにちは [kòńníchí wáꜜ] (Odaka – [5])
* IPA: [kõ̞ɲ̟ːit͡ɕi β̞a̠]
* Audio:(file)

### Interjection

今(こん)日(にち)は • (konnichiwa)
* good day, good afternoon: a Japanese greeting used in the daytime

#### Usage notes

Usually written こんにちは (konnichiwa).

#### Coordinate terms

* おはようございます (ohayō gozaimasu): good morning
* 今(こん)晩(ばん)は (konbanwa): good evening
* お休(やす)みなさい (oyasumi nasai): good night (said when parting company)

#### Descendants

* → English: konnichiwa, konnichi wa

### References

* ↑ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
* 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
# ჩრდილოეთი კავკასია
## Georgian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [t͡ʃʰɾdiɫoetʰi kʼafkʼasia]
* Hyphenation: ჩრდი‧ლო‧ე‧თი კავ‧კა‧სია

### Proper noun

ჩრდილოეთი კავკასია • (črdiloeti ḳavḳasia)
* North Caucasus
    Synonym: იმიერკავკასია (imierḳavḳasia)

#### Declension

Notes: archaic plurals might not exist.

#### See also

* ამიერკავკასია (amierḳavḳasia)
* სამხრეთი კავკასია (samxreti ḳavḳasia)
# cooling tower
## English
### Noun

cooling tower (plural cooling towers)
* A large device, in the form of a tower-shaped building, in which warm water is cooled by evaporation caused by circulating currents of air
** 1993, “Last Exit to Springfield”, in The Simpsons, season 4, episode 17 (song), spoken by Lisa Simpson (Yeardley Smith):So we'll march day and night By the big cooling tower They have the plant But we have the power

#### Translations
### Further reading

* cooling tower on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
# Bunea Mică
## Romanian
### Etymology

From Bunea + mic (“small”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Bunea Mică f
* A village in Făget, Timiș County, Romania
# autorizujú
## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈautɔrizujuː]

### Verb

autorizujú
* third-person plural present/future indicative of autorizovať
# ouroboros
## English
### Alternative forms

* uroboros

### Etymology

From Ancient Greek οὐροβόρος (ourobóros, “tail-devouring”, a compound of οὐρά (ourá, “tail”) +‎ -βόρος (-bóros, “-devouring”, which is derived from the verb βιβρώσκω (bibrṓskō, “to eat up”))).

### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA or enPR then please add some! Particularly: “Wikipedia states different primary pronunciations, and the pronunciation seems to be different for UK vs US too.”
* IPA: /uːˈrɒbəˌrɒs/, /ˌuːrəˈbɒrəs/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* enPR: o͞o-rŏbʹə-rŏs, o͞o-rə-bŏrʹ-əs

### Noun

ouroboros (plural ouroboroi or ouroboroses)
* (mythology) A serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail, a representation of the continuous cycle of life and death.
** 1968 [1951], R. F. C. Hull, transl., Aion […] (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung), 2nd edition, volume 9.2, Princeton University Press, translation of original by C. G. Jung, →ISBN, page 264:The alchemists were fond of picturing their opus as a circulatory process, as a circular distillation or as the uroboros, the snake biting its own tail, and they made innumerable pictures of this process.
** 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 41:Khepera eating his own seed is a model of Romantic creativity, where the self is isolated and sexually dual. Khepera bent over himself is a uroboros, the serpent eating its own tail, a magic circle of regeneration and rebirth. The uroboros is the prehistoric track of natural cycle, from which Judaism and Hellenism make a conceptual break.
** 2004, Adrian Bejan et al., Porous and Complex Flow Structures in Modern Technologies, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 121:One myth speaks of Ouroboros, a serpent-like creature that survived and regenerated itself by eating only its own tail. By neither taking from nor adding to its environment, this creature was said to be completely environmentally benign and self-sufficient.
** 2013, Jackie DiSalvo, G. A. Rosso, Christopher Z. Hobson eds., Blake, Politics, and History, Routledge, →ISBN:First, the snake has not caught its tail—the ouroboros figure is uncompleted. Blake executed fully formed ouroboros figures for the verso of this Night Thoughts page and for a later passage (6:690-92), and was familiar with numerous full ouroboros figures from contemporary and earlier sources […]
* (by extension) Anything of a circular or recursive nature.
** 2019 March 6, Soraya Roberts, “Reality Bites Captured Gen X With Perfect Irony”, in The Atlantic‎:Like an ouroboros, the story created and informed by the writer’s own experience suddenly flipped back on itself, Childress’s life now reflecting the story rather than the other way around.
** 2021, Kate Crawford, chapter 4, in Atlas of AI […] , →ISBN:The result is a statistical ouroboros: a self-reinforcing discrimination machine that amplifies social inequalities under the guise of technical neutrality.

#### Translations
### See also

* autocannibalism

### Further reading

* ouroboros on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
# facetious
## English
### Etymology

From French facétieux, from Latin facētia (“jest, wit, humor”), from facētus (“witty, jocose, facetious”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fəˈsiːʃəs/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːʃəs
* Hyphenation: fa‧ce‧tious

### Adjective

facetious (comparative more facetious, superlative most facetious)
* Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant.
    Robbie's joke about Heather's appearance was just him being facetious.
** 1951 October, “Notes and News: The Harmonium at Troutbeck”, in Railway Magazine, page 709:Troutbeck is a tiny village midway between Penrith and Keswick in a very sparsely populated part of Cumberland, and it used to be said by facetious travellers that the reason why it ever had a station at all was to give the engine a rest after it had struggled up the long and trying incline from Threlkeld.
** 2017 October 2, Jess Cartner-Morle, “Stella McCartney lays waste to disposable fashion in Paris”, in the Guardian‎:Glamour for its own sake is not something I have ever been particularly interested in,” Stella McCartney said backstage after her catwalk show. Which could sound like a facetious statement from a fashion designer who was, at that moment, standing among the marble-slabbed floors, elaborately frescoed ceilings and giant chandeliers of the Palais Garnier opera house, where the show was staged.
* Pleasantly humorous; jocular.
* (Of an idea or statement) humorously silly or counterproductive for the purpose of sarcastically advocating the opposite.

#### Synonyms

* See also Thesaurus:witty

#### Derived terms

* facetiously
* facetiousness
* nonfacetious
* semifacetious
* unfacetious

#### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

### Further reading

* “facetious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “facetious”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “facetious”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
# cing
## Albanian
### Etymology

Nasal variation of cek. Compare Ancient Greek θιγγάνω (thingánō).

### Verb

cing (aorist cinga, participle cingur)
* to touch

#### Conjugation

* Show compound tenses:

### Noun

cing m (plural cinga, definite cingu, definite plural cingat)
* faint noise

#### See also

* cekë
* cingëroj

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kʲiŋʲɡʲ/

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

·cing
* third-person singular present indicative conjunct of cingid

#### Verb

cing
* second-person singular imperative of cingid

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *kengets.

#### Noun

cing m (genitive cinged)
* warrior, champion
** c. 808, Félire Oengusso, Feb. 14; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:Hi rroí Ualentini, Marcellus ro·ringed; i flaith Chríst, ro·clandad ochtmoga cáin cinged.In the field of Valentinus, Marcellus was mangled; in the kingdom of Christ, eighty fair champions have been planted.

##### Inflection

* $^H$ = triggers aspiration
* $^L$ = triggers lenition
* $^N$ = triggers nasalization

##### Descendants

* Middle Irish: cing

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kenget-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 200

### Further reading

* (warrior): Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cing”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Romanian
### Verb

cing
* inflection of cinge:
** first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** third-person plural present indicative