yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
Samoan
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Samoa
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Samoan
From Samoa + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Samoans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from Samoa or of Samoan descent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The Samoan language.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Samoa, the Samoan people or the Samoan language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Singaporean
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Singapore (“island and city-state in Southeast Asia”) + -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives; and forming agent nouns).
Base: Singapore
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: more Singaporean
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Singaporean
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Singaporeans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or from Singapore, or its language or people.
pos: adj
examples: About mid-day, yesterday, intelligence was received [in?] Town that a Tiger had been kidnapped about three miles out in the Country, or jungle, […] No sooner had the news spread abroad than Offices and high stools were abandoned and such a furbishing up of rusty fire arms took place as had not been witnessed since the foundation of the City. Any one ignorant of the cause might have supposed from the long array of armed hack palankeen carriages that some unknown enemy had landed in the back settlements of Bukit Timah and that nothing but the flower of Singaporean chivalry could serve to stem the torrent of invasion.
In Singaporean gardens the rarest of moth orchids are planted in cocoanut-shells and hung from the verandahs, or placed on the mango or orange trees on the lawn, where they soon establish themselves. How many English orchid amateurs would wish for such a genial clime.
Below is an example of a typical Singaporean "bento", often wolfed down next to the computer. It's prepared from lots of lousy cooking oil, preserved vegetables, soggy low-quality rice and omelette with more air and oil than egg inside.
gloss: A person from Singapore, or descended from such a person.
pos: noun
examples: [T]he second place was warmly contested by a lad from Macao and a Singaporean, and after a separate examination in History, Astronomy and Geography, in which some very difficult questions were put by the examiners generally, assisted by Dr. [William] Montgomerie—it was decided in favour of the former.
A great deal has been done for Singapore by gangs of convicts from Bengal, Madras, and Bombay, who, under an experienced and able superintendent, have cut and made excellent roads, that now extend east, west, north, and south, for several miles. […] [T]hey [the roads] also add much to the enjoyment of the Singaporean, by enabling him to extend his ride or drive of an evening.
We beg to call the attention of the community to a most interesting book which is proposed to be published by Mr. J[ohn] Thomson, F.R.G.S., who is an old Singaporean and who will be known to many here by his account and photographs of the lost cities of Cambodia.
Many Singaporeans have fond memories of eating chilli crabs and cockles at its Upper East Coast Road premises, not far from the old Bedok Road, as recently as the early '80s.
I am a Singaporean, and I lived on the island for 20 years before coming to the United States for my college education.
Chili Crabs or Lobster: This is a popular dish amongst Singaporeans. It is also a common feature in the menus of famous seafood restaurants (along East Coast and Punggol).
Derived words: S'porean
Translations:
violinist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Medieval Latin *vitulader.
Old Occitan violabor.?
Italian viola
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnus
Italian -ino
Italian violinoder.
English violin
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English violinist
From violin + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: violinists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who plays the violin.
pos: noun
examples: And the cello concerto was strikingly different on Sunday: at Weill, the ensemble included two violinists and one violist, cellist, bassist and lutenist, but on Sunday four more violinists, a second violist and a harpsichordist were added to give the ripieno sections of the fast movements a heftier punch than the smaller group delivered.
Founded in 1975 and led by the violinist Richard Tognetti since 1989, the orchestra looks youthful and hip onstage, its players clad in varying shades of black semiformality.
Translations:
botanist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English botany
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English botanist
From botany + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: botanists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person engaged in botany, the scientific study of plants.
pos: noun
examples: It is probably the Livistona rotundifolia of botanists, and is the most complete and beautiful fan-leaf I have ever seen, serving admirably for folding into water-buckets and impromptu baskets, as well as for thatching and other purposes.
A German botanist gave 'Gandoge' as the locality of an American plant; a package sent by express to 'Sevaber' (an English name), and a letter posted to the town of 'Scur E Quss, Nu Yourck,' arrived safely; and I have seen a handboard directing the traveller to the English-named town of 'Bintgrof'.
It’s one of the world’s longest-running experiments, having already gone on for 142 years. And the botanists in East Lansing hope that it will last for at least another 80.
Translations:
pianist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From French pianiste, from Italian pianista. Analyzable as piano + -ist.
Base: piano
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: pianists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who plays the piano, particularly with skill or as part of an orchestra.
pos: noun
examples: By the time she became the world's greatest pianist, she had already practised for thousands of hours on her prized piano.
Table IV shows that the pianists were significantly better on both motor and perceptual timing than the nonpianists.
The pianist was Jason Moran, another Houstonian, for whom the past converges with the present: he sometimes likes to find an unobtrusive sequence inside an old standard and turn it into fresh headlines.
The Eric Revis Trio, featuring the pianist Kris Davis, the bassist Eric Revis and the drummer Gerald Cleaver performing at the Jazz Gallery.Credit...
gloss: A spy using radio or wireless telegraphy to keep in touch with headquarters during the Second World War.
pos: noun
Synonyms: pianofortist
pianoist
piano player
Related words: fortepianist
Derived words: nonpianist
Translations:
Tunisian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Tunis
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -iader.
English -ia
English Tunisia
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Tunisian
From Tunisia + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Tunisians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from Tunisia or of Tunisian descent.
pos: noun
examples: WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Tunisia, the Tunisian people or the Tunisian language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: On a recent afternoon in the Tunisian coastal city of Sfax, as shoppers hurried around a market buying food and drink for that evening’s iftar meal, a small group of men from sub-Saharan Africa gathered near a stall selling phone accessories.
Translations:
firefighter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: firefighting
government
Etymology: From fire + fighter. Created as a gender-neutral term for fireman and firewoman.
Compound parts: fire
fighter
Inflected forms:
form: firefighters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who has been trained to put out fires.
pos: noun
examples: A firefighter puts water on a burning tree as flames approach a containment line, while fighting the King fire near Fresh Pond, California. […] More than 4,000 firefighters have rushed to the scene from around the country deploying planes, helicopters and hundreds of thousands of gallons of water and fire retardant.
Translations:
Turkmen
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The current majority view for the etymology of the ethnonym Türkmen or Turcoman is that it comes from Türk and the Turkic emphasizing suffix -men, meaning "'most Turkish of the Turks' or 'pure-blooded Turks.'" A folk etymology, dating back to the Middle Ages and found in al-Biruni and Mahmud al-Kashgari, instead derives the suffix -men from the Persian suffix -mānind, with the resulting word meaning "like a Turk". While formerly the dominant etymology in modern scholarship, this mixed Turkic-Persian derivation is now viewed as incorrect.
Inflected forms:
form: Turkmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Turkmens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Turcoman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Turkoman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Turkman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Turkmán
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Türkman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Türkmen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: Turcoman
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Turkoman
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Turkman
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Turkmán
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Türkman
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Türkmen
pos: adj
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: A person from Turkmenistan or of Turkmen descent.
pos: noun
examples: The conquest took 16 years and ended in 1885 in a battle with the Afghans on the banks of the Murghab. During this period, the Turkmens offered the Russians stubborn resistance […]
Keimir-Ker, a Turkmen from the Tekke clan, led a rebellion against the Persians […]
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Turkmenistan, the Turkmen people or the Turkmen language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
hockey
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: 16th century, of unknown origin. Possibly related to hook due to the curvature of the stick, akin to hock (“hook”) + -ey, or from Middle French hoquet (“shepherd's staff, crook”), which resembles a hockey stick, via a diminutive form of Old French hoc from Middle Dutch hoec (“hook”), a cognate of Old English hōc.
Base: hock
Affixes: -ey
Inflected forms:
form: hawkey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: hockie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: hookey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: hookie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any of a family of sports in which hockey sticks are used to move a ball or puck into a goal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Field hockey, a team sport played on a pitch on solid ground where players have to hit a ball into a net using a hockey stick.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
uncountable
examples: He helped his team beat the opponent at hockey 11-9 in a high-scoring match.
gloss: Ice hockey, a game on ice in which two teams of six players skate and try to score by shooting a puck into the opposing team's net, using their sticks.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
uncountable
examples: US stadiums are packed in the winter to see ice hockey.
Canada’s men’s hockey team defeated the USA 3-2 in overtime Thursday to capture the inaugural 4 Nations Face-Off Championship as the NHL put on a show in the first edition of this midseason international tournament.
Synonyms: ice hockey
field hockey
shinny
shinny hockey
Derived words: air hockey
ball hockey
blind hockey
box hockey
cosom hockey
field hockey
floor hockey
foot hockey
grass hockey
hockey arena
hockey ass
hockey bag
hockey ball
hockey butt
hockey club
hockey cushion
hockey dad
hockey glove
hockey hair
hockeyist
hockey jacket
hockeyless
hockeylike
hockey mask
hockey mom
hockey mother
hockey net
hockey pants
hockey player
hockey puck
hockey rink
hockey skate
hockey sock
hockey socks
hockey stick
hockey stop
hockey tape
Hockeytown
horse hockey
ice hockey
ice sledge hockey
ice sled hockey
inline hockey
inline sledge hockey
inline sled hockey
knock hockey
mini hockey
nonhockey
para-hockey
parahockey
pick-up hockey
pickup hockey
pond hockey
power hockey
quad hockey
road hockey
roller hockey
roller sledge hockey
roller sled hockey
schlockey
shinny hockey
skater hockey
sledge hockey
sled hockey
stand-up hockey
street hockey
table hockey
tonsil hockey
underwater hockey
wheelchair hockey
Translations:
goalie
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
Etymology: Clipping of goalkeeper or goaltender + -ie.
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: goalies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: goalies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: goalieing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: goalied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: goalied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A goalkeeper or goaltender.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: To act as a goalie, to tend the goals, to mind the net.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
Translations:
Tajik
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Classical Persian تاجیک (tājīk, “non-Turk (of Central Asia)”) (akin to تازی (tāzī), تازیک (tāzīk)), (ultimately) from Middle Persian tʾcyk' (tāzīg, “Arab”), (ultimately) from Arabic طَيِّئ (ṭayyiʔ, “name of an Arab clan”). See Tayy.
Popular folk etymology traces the word to Tajik тоҷ (toj, “crown”) (see Arabic تَاج (tāj), from Persian تاج (tâj, “crown”)), but this is false.
Inflected forms:
form: Tajiks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Tadjik
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Tadzhik
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Taujik
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: Tadjik
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Tadzhik
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Taujik
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Persian-speaking people living mainly in Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan.
pos: noun
examples: “True that it would be preferable that you marry a local, a Tajik, but Rasheed is healthy, and interested in you.”
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Tajiks.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A yurt houses a Tajik family along the Karakal Lake.
gloss: Of or relating to Tajiki Persian.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Surinamese
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: from Suriname + -ese
Base: Suriname
Affixes: -ese
Inflected forms:
form: Surinamese
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from Suriname or of Surinamese descent.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Suriname, the Surinamese people or the Surinamese language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Panamanian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Panama + -ian, with euphonic -n-.
Base: Panama
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: Panamanians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from Panama or of Panamanian descent.
pos: noun
examples: Most Panamanians are adamant that the canal, completed in 1914, will not return to U.S. control.
gloss: A person from Panama City.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Panama or Panamanian people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Now when Ruthie says come see her / In her honky-tonk lagoon / Where I can watch her waltz for free / 'Neath her Panamanian moon
Translations:
Namibian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Namibia
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Namibian
From Namibia + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: more Namibian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Namibian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Namibians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Namibia, the Namibian people or the Namibian language.
pos: adj
gloss: A person from Namibia or of Namibian descent.
pos: noun
Translations:
Mozambican
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From New Latin Mozambica + -an (suffix forming adjectives).
Base: Mozambica
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: more Mozambican
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Mozambican
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Mosambican
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Mozambicans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Mosambican
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, belonging to, or relating to Mozambique or its people.
pos: adj
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Mozambique, or a descendant of such person.
pos: noun
Translations:
Ivorian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Ivory (Coast)
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Ivorian
From Ivory (Coast) + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: Ivorians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from Côte d'Ivoire or of Ivorian descent.
pos: noun
examples: Battling Bolton disputed the goal, claiming Drogba was offside, but the Ivorian appeared to have timed his angled run across the visitors back line to perfection to race onto a fine Michael Essien pass and ensure Chelsea moved back into fourth place in the Premier League.
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Côte d'Ivoire or the Ivorian people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Comorian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Comoros
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Comorian
From Comoros + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: Comorians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from Comoros or of Comorian descent.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to the Comoros, the Comorian people or the Comorian language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Eritrean
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Eritrea
English -an
English Eritrean
From Eritrea + -an (suffix forming adjectives).
Inflected forms:
form: more Eritrean
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Eritrean
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Eritreans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, belonging to, or relating to Eritrea or its people.
pos: adj
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Eritrea, or a descendant of such person.
pos: noun
Translations:
Greenlander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Greenland
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English Greenlander
From Greenland + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: Greenlanders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent.
pos: noun
examples: 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IV. "The Beach", page 54.
Were it not for this, we Europeans should have no wood to burn there, and the poor Greenlanders […] would, however, have no wood to roof their houses, to erect their tents, as also to build their boats, and to shaft their arrows.
In a recent poll conducted by the Universities of Greenland and Copenhagen, more than two-thirds of Greenlanders expressed a desire for their country to become independent, most of them within 20 years.
Translations:
Greenlandic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Greenland
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English Greenlandic
From Greenland + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Greenland, the Greenlandic people or the Greenlandic language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In 2014, the Greenlandic government — called the Naalakkersuisut — established a reconciliation commission to investigate the continuing consequences of colonialism. After three years, the commission concluded that a majority of the nearly 60,000 people living in Greenland, 88 percent of whom are Greenlandic Inuit, are still marked by the negative effects of the colonial period.
Translations:
triskaidekaphobia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English triskaideka-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰegʷ-
Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía)der.
Latin
New Latinbor.
English -phobia
English triskaidekaphobia
From triskaideka- (“thirteen”) + -phobia.
Inflected forms:
form: treiskaidekaphobia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: triskaidecaphobia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Fear or dislike of the number thirteen (13).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Yet, despite beliefs that triskaidekaphobia began long ago and has been passed down through the centuries, the earliest known reference to Friday the 13th as a dreaded day did not appear until 1913. It is merely a 20th century invention.
The great Austrian-American composer Arnold Schoenberg had such a severe case of triskaidekaphobia (the fear of the number 13), he omitted numbering the 13th measure in some of his later works, substituting it with the notation “12a.”
There’s even a name to describe the irrational dread of the date: paraskevidekatriaphobia — a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a fear of the number 13.
Translations:
Viennese
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Vienna
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor.
Late Latin -iscus
▲
Vulgar Latin -iscus
Latin -ēnsis
Old French -eisbor.
Middle English -eys
English -ese
English Viennese
From Vienna + -ese.
Inflected forms:
form: more Viennese
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Viennese
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Viennese
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Vienna (the capital of Austria).
pos: adj
gloss: An inhabitant or resident of Vienna.
pos: noun
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Viennese.
Translations:
Nepalese
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Nepal
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor.
Late Latin -iscus
▲
Vulgar Latin -iscus
Latin -ēnsis
Old French -eisbor.
Middle English -eys
English -ese
English Nepalese
From Nepal + -ese.
Inflected forms:
form: Nepalese
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Nepal, the Nepalese people or the Nepalese language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: All the towns have small teahouses where you can get tea, sometimes chapatis (a flat flour and water bread similar to tortillas), sometimes eggs, and dahl baat (rice, beans and curried vegetables, the standard Nepalese meal).
gloss: A person from Nepal or of Nepalese descent.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
Translations:
Togolese
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French togolais, equivalent to Togo + -ese. The -l-, also present in Congolese and its French etymon congolais, was added in French to break up the sequence of -o + -ais; it is not present in words formed from -o + -ese in English, e.g. Faroese or Chicagoese.
Base: Togo
Affixes: -ese
Inflected forms:
form: Togolese
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Togo or its people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A person from Togo or of Togolese descent.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: Grunitzky was educated locally and abroad (receiving one of the first scholarships ever granted to a Togolese), studying mathematics and obtaining an engineering degree (1937). Upon his return to Togo, Grunitzky joined the civil service[…]
Translations:
Tongan
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Tonga
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Tongan
From Tonga + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Tongans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Austronesian language of the Polynesian branch spoken in Tonga.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A person from Tonga or of Tongan descent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Tonga, the Tongan people or the Tongan language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Ghanaian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Ghana
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Ghanaian
From Ghana + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: Ghanaians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Ghana or the Ghanaian people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: She had a little southern accent that tinted her Ghanaian one.
gloss: A person from Ghana or of Ghanaian descent.
pos: noun
examples: The locals did this, waiting for tourists to disembark so that they could con them into paying for things Ghanaians knew were free.
Translations:
Icelander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Iceland + -er. Displaced older Middle English Iselandman (“Icelander”, literally “Iceland man, Iceland person”).
Base: Iceland
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: Icelanders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person of a North Germanic ethnic group native to Scandinavia, comprising the ethnic majority of Iceland.
pos: noun
Translations:
Jordanian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Jordan
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Jordanian
From Jordan + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: Jordanians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from Jordan or of Jordanian descent.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Jordan or the Jordanian people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Pertaining to the work of Camille Jordan.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Kuwaiti
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Kuwait
English -i
English Kuwaiti
From Kuwait + -i.
Inflected forms:
form: Kuwaitis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from Kuwait or of Kuwaiti descent.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Kuwait or the Kuwaiti people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Lao
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Lao ລາວ (lāo)bor.
English Lao
Borrowed from Lao ລາວ (lāo).
Inflected forms:
form: Laos
pos: noun
tags: Lao
plural
Senses:
gloss: A Tai ethnic group native to Southeast Asia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The official language of Laos that is closely related to Thai.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Laos, the Lao people or their Kra-Dai Lao language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A statement from the official Lao News Agency (KPL) Friday reported that “the consumption of tainted alcoholic beverages” was the suspected cause of the deaths.
Translations:
Telugu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Telugu తెలుగు (telugu)bor.
English Telugu
Borrowed from Telugu తెలుగు (telugu).
Inflected forms:
form: Telugus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Telugu
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Telegu
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Telugoo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Teloogoo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Telugu ethnic group.
pos: noun
Translations:
Malagasy
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Malagasy malagasy, connected to Mālāī-Jezīra, “island of Mālāī”. Compare English Madagascar, which by folk etymology comes from Marco Polo's misreading of Mogadishu whereas it should be Arabic جَزِيرَة المَالَائِيّ (jazīrat al-mālāʔiyy, “the Island of Mālāī”).
Inflected forms:
form: Malagasy
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Malagasies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from Madagascar or of Malagasy descent.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Madagascar.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Malagasy people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of, pertaining to or in the Malagasy language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: Wiktionary’s coverage of Malagasy terms
Derived words: Malagasy carnivoran
Malagasy civet
Malagasy mongoose
Malagasy mouse
Malagasy rat
Malagasy rodent
Malagasy warbler
Translations:
prescribe
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-?
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti
Proto-Italic *skreiβō
Latin scrībō
Latin praescrībōbor.
English prescribe
Borrowed from Latin praescrībere, from prae- (“before, in front”) and scrībere (“to write”).
Inflected forms:
form: prescribes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prescribing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prescribed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prescribed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: præscribe
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority).
pos: verb
examples: The doctor prescribed aspirin.
And most neurologists are in the habit of prescribing antispasticity drugs like tizanidine and baclofen, which are oral and inexpensive, but which cause drowsiness and weaken every muscle in the body, not just the target ones.
gloss: To specify by writing as a required procedure or ritual; to lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action.
pos: verb
examples: The property meets the criteria prescribed by the regulations.
Prescribe not us our duties.
VVhen Parents loves are order'd by a Son, / Let ſtreams preſcribe their fountains vvhere to run.
gloss: To develop or assert a right; to make a claim (by prescription).
pos: verb
examples: Most probable that one presentation and 40 years possession thereafter, is sufficient to prescribe a right of patronage.
[…] held, in a question with a party who had acquired right from the commissioners of the forfeited estates to the estate of the forfeited superior, as it stood in his person, that the crown charter of the vassal was a valid title on which to prescribe a right to the coal […]
Because of the juristic difficulties associated with the Donation of Constantine, the question of whether the papacy had in any case prescribed its jurisdiction in the patrimony had become a common topic amongst jurists […]
gloss: To become invalidated or unenforceable by prescription, to lapse
pos: verb
Antonyms: proscribe
Related words: prescription
prescriptionist
prescriptive
prescriptivism
prescriptivist
Derived words: coprescribe
deprescribe
misprescribe
nonprescribing
overprescribe
prescribable
prescribee
prescriber
represcribe
underprescribe
unprescribe
Translations:
proscribe
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English proscriben, from Latin prōscrībō (“to proclaim, forbid, banish”).
Inflected forms:
form: proscribes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: proscribing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: proscribed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: proscribed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To forbid or prohibit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The law proscribes driving a car while intoxicated.
gloss: To denounce.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The word ‘ain't’ is proscribed by many authorities.
If Joseph Willet, the denounced and proscribed of 'prentices, had happened to be at home when his father's courtly guest presented himself before the Maypole door— [...] he would have contrived, by hook or crook, to dive to the very bottom of Mr. Chester's mystery, and to come at his purpose with as much certainty as though he had been his confidential adviser.
gloss: To banish or exclude.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Many Roman citizens were proscribed for taking part in rebellions.
Antonyms: prescribe
Related words: proscription
proscriptive
proscriptivist
Derived words: deproscribe
proscribable
proscriber
Translations:
probity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French probité, from Latin probitās (“uprightness, honesty”), from probus (“good, excellent, honest”); see probe, prove.
Inflected forms:
form: probities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Integrity, especially of the quality of having strong moral principles; decency and honesty.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] they can but bend our hearts to the love of probity and true honour […]
[W]hen the interests or reputation of their own nation come into collision with those of another, they go to the opposite extreme, and forget their usual probity and candour, in the indulgence of spleen, and an illiberal spirit of ridicule.
Distilled to its essence, it is by no means clear that the ‘Cablegate’ disclosures were intended to support freedom of information, transparency, probity in government, or defence of the public interest.
The veterans add in their letter, which was partly coordinated by the campaign group Republic: “Officers of the British armed forces must adhere to the very highest standards of probity, honesty and honourable conduct. […]
Antonyms: badness
improbity
Translations:
wat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Thai วัด (wát).
Inflected forms:
form: wats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia, especially those in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia.
pos: noun
examples: There are two wats near this village.
Angkor Wat
Having at last got past the crowd of boats, we advanced rapidly for two hours more, when we stopped at a wat, in order to give the men a rest.
Aside from its religious function in the community, the wat also performs a large variety of social functions.
It would be a mistake, however, to emphasize the Hindu element in Cambodian Buddhism and Cambodian temples. At its greatest it is always a subordinate element and in most of the wats or temples it hardly appears at all, […]
It is often possible to discern the motivation or importance of a wat by examining its name
The ubosoth is in a small enclosure just before the main entrance to the wat, on the right, which has fine gilded doors. The wat has a small museum.
Translations:
parma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From parmigiana.
Inflected forms:
form: parmas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dish cooked in the parmigiana style.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: The local pub was offering a chicken parma and a pot of beer for $8.
Translations:
hamburger
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Shortening of Hamburger sandwich, Hamburger steak, etc., the first element borrowed from German Hamburger (“native of Hamburg”), equivalent to Hamburg + -er.
Base: Hamburg
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: hamburgers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hamburgering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hamburgered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hamburgered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hamburgher
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To badly injure or damage (a fleshy part of the body).
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: The men played baseball on coral diamonds that tore their shoes and clothes and hamburgered their hands.
And his tires triggered no Claymore mines or Bouncing Betties that might have hamburgered his vehicle with him in it.
My tears are like gagged pieces of ice cutting up my eyeballs and hamburgering my face.
It’s a trail that has taken more than its fair share of blood, my first flat tire, and hamburgered my entire forearm on a descent.
Ken broke three fingers and hamburgered his legs, but he still got to his feet, chased down his burro, and continued on to the finish line.
Why they didn’t both break their necks or get hamburgered by cloven hooves was a mystery.
Translations:
complaisant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French complaisant (“willing to please”), from complaire, from Latin complacēre (“please well”), from com- (“with”) + placeō (“please”).
Inflected forms:
form: more complaisant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most complaisant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Compliant.
pos: adj
gloss: Willing to do what pleases others; obliging; agreeable.
pos: adj
examples: Replay our conversation
You threw your accusations
I'm always so complaisant
I never change the station
gloss: Polite; showing respect.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: The People who had often heard of me, were very curious to croud about the Sedan, and the Girl was complaiſant enough to make the Bearers ſtop, and to take me in her Hand that I might be conveniently ſeen.
Related words: complaisance
Derived words: complaisantly
complaisantness
uncomplaisant
Translations:
Corinthian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From Latin Corinthius + -an. By surface analysis, Corinth + -ian. The senses related to opulence or debauchery derive from the reputation of ancient Corinth.
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: more Corinthian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Corinthian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Korinthian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Corinthians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Korinthian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Corinth.
pos: adj
gloss: Of the Corinthian order.
pos: adj
examples: The silver waters of the spring had long since disappeared, but there still were left a few of the Corinthian pillars, some stretched on the ground and overgrown with creeping-plants, while two or three yet remained erect, and showed how graceful the whole must have been.
The examples of the concave family in the Byzantine times are found principally either in large capitals founded on the Greek Corinthian, used chiefly for the nave pillars of churches, or in the small lateral shafts of the palaces.
gloss: Elaborate, ornate.
pos: adj
gloss: Debauched in character or practice; impure.
pos: adj
examples: all her young Corinthian laity
gloss: Being a sporting event (originally in horse racing and yachting) restricted to gentleman amateurs.
pos: adj
examples: Corinthian Stakes of 10 Guineas ... To be rode by Gentlemen.
It was a condition of the race, that the horses should be ridden by gentlemen ... [I]t was submitted, that if none were to be reputed in the rank of gentlemen, whose wives had not been visited by Lady Clanricarde, the notion of a Corinthian Race might as well be given up at once, within twenty miles all round Portumna castle. It would amount, in fact, to a disgentilizing of two or three counties.
[W]e have horse races ... whereat the aforesaid noble animals are ridden by gentlemen, and if I err not are named "Corinthian."
In Corinthian matches the yachts are steered and manned by gentlemen alone,
gloss: An inhabitant or a resident of Corinth, and its suburbs.
pos: noun
gloss: An inhabitant, a resident of; a thing that originates from Corinthia
pos: noun
gloss: An accomplished amateur athlete.
pos: noun
gloss: A sailboat owner who helms his or her own boat in competitive racing.
pos: noun
gloss: A worldly, fashionable person, accepted in society though possibly dissolute.
pos: noun
Translations:
arcadian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: literature
media
publishing
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos
Proto-Italic *arkuos
Latin arcus
Italian arcatabor.
French arcadeubor.
English arcade
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English arcadian
From arcade + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: more arcadian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most arcadian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to an arcade.
pos: adj
gloss: Furnished with arcades.
pos: adj
gloss: Ideally rustic or pastoral.
pos: adj
Derived words: arcadianism
Arcadianly
Translations:
Messenian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Messenia
English -an
English Messenian
From Messenia + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Messenians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Messenia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An inhabitant or resident of Messenia.
pos: noun
Translations:
Boeotian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Boeotia.
Inflected forms:
form: more Boeotian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Boeotian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Beotian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Bœotian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Boeotians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Beotian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Bœotian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to Boeotia.
pos: adj
tags: historical
examples: The only Boeotian troops that did continue to fight — the light infantry attached to the victorious cavalry — worked their way over to the Athenians on the right, where most of them were killed. The collapse of Boeotian morale at the death of Epaminondas and the abrupt cessation of fighting remain something of an enigma, especially since Pelopidas' men at Cynoscephalae fought even more vigorously to preserve the victory after he fell there.
gloss: Stupid, foolish, dull-witted.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: we will leave to thy sagacity to apply all this to the Boeotian writers, and to those authors who are their opposites.
Ransom reflected he might answer her that until five minutes ago he didn't know she existed; but he remembered that this was not the way in which a Southern gentleman spoke to ladies, and he contented himself with saying that he must condone his Bœotian ignorance […]
gloss: An inhabitant or a resident of Boeotia.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A dull or ignorant person.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Translations:
Euboean
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin Euboe(us) + -an or Euboea + -n.
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Eubœan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Euboeans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Eubœan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the island of Euboea.
pos: adj
gloss: An inhabitant of Euboea in central Greece.
pos: noun
Translations:
Cretan
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Crete
English -an
English Cretan
From Crete + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Cretian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Cretans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Cretian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Crete or its inhabitants.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An inhabitant or a resident of Crete.
pos: noun
Translations:
Magnesian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Magnesia
English -an
English Magnesian
From Magnesia + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Magnesians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An inhabitant or a resident of Magnesia.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or relating to Magnesia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Macedonian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English Macedonyen, partly from Macedonia and partly from Latin Macedonius, + -an; equivalent to Macedonia + -an.
Base: Macedonia
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Makedonian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Macedonians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Makedonian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Macedonia or its people or language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Actually, this ethnic situation—a “macédoine” of peoples—was complicated even more from the 1860s on when some of the Slavs in Macedonia who had always called themselves Bulgarians (and were considered so by most foreign experts) began developing a Macedonian national consciousness.
gloss: A person from Macedonia (in any sense).
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A South Slavic language, the standard language of the Republic of North Macedonia.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The tongue of the Ancient Macedonians, spoken in Macedon during the 1st millennium BC. (see Ancient Macedonian)
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: The Greek dialect in Macedonia, region of Greece.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
typeface
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: media
printing
publishing
typography
Etymology: From type + face.
Compound parts: type
face
Inflected forms:
form: typefaces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: type face
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: type-face
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The particular design of some type, font, or a font family.
pos: noun
examples: (Technically Aptos and Calibri are typefaces, while a “font” refers to a particular face or size, like italics or boldface. But in practice, “font” is often used as a synonym for “typeface,” including by Microsoft employees interviewed for this article.)
gloss: The surface of type which inked, or the impression it makes.
pos: noun
Translations:
font
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
broadcasting
media
television
Etymology: From Old English font, an early borrowing from Latin fōns, fontis (“fountain”).
Inflected forms:
form: fonts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fonts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fonting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fonted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fonted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: fount
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
pos: noun
examples: She dipped her fingers in the font and crossed herself.
Blessed be God, that, at the font, /⁠ My sponsors bound me to the call / Of Christ in England to confront / The world, the flesh, the fiend and all.
In the Apostolic Age, as in Jewish times (John, iii, 23), baptism was administered without special fonts, at the seaside or in streams or pools of water (Acts, viii, 38); […]
gloss: A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.
pos: noun
gloss: To overlay (text) on the picture.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: When figures or quotes are thought helpful to understanding a spot, they're "fonted" over the cover picture.
[…] character generator instead of an easel card to create letters on camera or telephone numbers that can run across the TV screen. The process is called fonting.
Related words: aspergillum
holy-water sprinkle
Derived words: fontal
fontlet
fontless
font name
Translations: