yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
minuteness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English minute
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English minuteness
From minute + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: minutenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being minute.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Beedel picked up a loose sheet of paper and scored it heavily with a plan of the neighbourhood as he explained the position with some minuteness.
gloss: Something very tiny.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
usually
examples: Hitherto I have hoarded up mementoes and monuments of the past; been a worshiper of all heirlooms; a fond filer away of letters, locks of hair, bits of ribbon, flowers, and the thousand-and-one minutenesses which love and memory think they sanctify:—but it is forever over now!
Translations:
esca
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
ichthyology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
phytopathology
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Latin ēsca (“bait”).
Inflected forms:
form: escae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The fleshy growth from an anglerfish's head that acts as a lure for its prey.
pos: noun
gloss: A fungal disease afflicting grapes.
pos: noun
Translations:
Cotswold
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: Cotswolds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Cotswolds range of hills.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Bourton-on-the-Water is an attractive Cotswold village.
gloss: A style of traditional morris dancing originating from the Cotswolds area of England.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A sheep of a certain breed with long wool, formerly common in the English counties of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester.
pos: noun
Derived words: Cotswold morris dancing
Translations:
karateka
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 空手家 (karateka).
Inflected forms:
form: karateka
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: karatekas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A practitioner of karate.
pos: noun
examples: Another 60 karatekas will go head to head in kumite, three-minute sparring bouts in which athletes attempt to land a series of precise blows on their opponent’s body.
Translations:
six-figure
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
money
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Counted in the hundreds of thousands; 100,000 to 999,999.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Lion hunts are highly choreographed, rarefied affairs; you’re looking at $70,000 before you even load your rifle. Then there are the game fees for the bait you’ll need − a zebra, warthog and a kudu, say − and for the lion itself. All in, you’re looking at a six-figure outlay with no guarantee that you’ll come home with a lion skin for a rug. (Taxidermy not included.)
Translations:
manubrium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
entertainment
lifestyle
medicine
music
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Latin manubrium (“handle”).
Inflected forms:
form: manubria
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: manubriums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The broad, upper part of the sternum.
pos: noun
gloss: The tube extending from the central underside of a jellyfish and ending in a mouth.
pos: noun
gloss: A cell that projects inward from the centre of the shields in the globule of Chara.
pos: noun
gloss: A knob or handle that controls the stops of an organ.
pos: noun
Related words: manubriate
manubriated
Derived words: manubrial
Translations:
braincase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From brain + case.
Compound parts: brain
case
Inflected forms:
form: braincases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of neurocranium.
pos: noun
Translations:
horchata
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish horchata, ultimately from Vulgar Latin *hordeata (“(drink, food) made of barley”), from hordeum (“barley”), either via Catalan/Valencian orxata (possibly via a Mozarabic source), or via Italian orzata.
Doublet of orgeat (“almond syrup”) and orzo (“barley-shaped pasta”).
Inflected forms:
form: horchatas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sweet beverage variously made with rice, chufa or morro seeds (or, historically, barley), water, sugar, and cinnamon, and sometimes with milk.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Manufacturers from the villages surrounding the capital of the region came each day to the city of Valencia with carts pulled by donkeys to sell fresh horchata, tiger nuts and barley water.
Translations:
mauler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English maul
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 mauler
From maul + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: maulers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who mauls.
pos: noun
examples: Tristan Wirfs should help. His diverse athletic background — his past in wrestling, in particular — informed his approach to playing offensive tackle. An absolute mauler in the run game and a reliable pass-blocker, Wirfs played mostly right tackle at Iowa and ceded only 40 quarterback pressures on 1,138 pass-blocking snaps at Iowa, according to Pro Football Focus.
gloss: A person's hand.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
slang
examples: Nice couple, that; you'll have difficulty keeping your maulers off Titania. She's almost as beautiful as Hera.
Translations:
motormouth
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From motor + mouth, from the figurative notion that the mouth moves so much that it seems motorized.
Compound parts: motor
mouth
Inflected forms:
form: motormouths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: motor mouth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: motor-mouth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: motormouths
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: motormouthing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: motormouthed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: motormouthed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: motor mouth
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: motor-mouth
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who talks very quickly or incessantly; a chatty or loquacious person.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: He's such a motormouth that I can never get a word in.
Blimey, Brand is checking a word with me. This is nothing like the motor-mouth on the telly, laughing in the face of everything.
gloss: To talk very quickly or incessantly.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
Translations:
touchwood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Apparently from touch + wood, but perhaps the first element is derived from torch.
Compound parts: touch
wood
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Decayed wood used as tinder; punk.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
maritally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English marital
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English maritally
From marital + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Concerning marriage or a connubial relationship.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Pertaining to a husband.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
Translations:
markdown
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Deverbal from mark down. The computing sense is a pun on markup (language).
Inflected forms:
form: markdowns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A reduction in price in order to stimulate sales.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: special
Translations:
matriarchal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English matriarch
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English matriarchal
From matriarch + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more matriarchal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most matriarchal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: matriarchial
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Governed by (or as if by) a matriarch.
pos: adj
gloss: Governed by females, rather than by males.
pos: adj
Synonyms: matriarchial
matriarchic
Related words: mater
matriarch
matriarchate
matriarchy
matrist
matristic
matristically
matristics
Derived words: matriarchalism
matriarchally
Translations:
mayoralty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English mairaltee, from Middle French mairalté.
Inflected forms:
form: mayoralties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The office of a mayor, or the tenure during which a particular mayor holds office, where the time span may encompass one term or multiple terms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The results, coming after voters had rejected a similar effort by Mr. Chávez just 15 months ago, pointed to his resilience after a decade in power, as well as to the fragmentation of his opposition, which as recently as November had won key mayoralties and governorships.
During his mayoralty, Johnson oversaw the preparations and hosting of the 2012 Summer Olympics and oversaw the cycle hire scheme, both initiated by his predecessor Ken Livingstone.
Translations:
bryony
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English brionie, from Latin bryōnia (“bryony”), from Ancient Greek βρυωνία (bruōnía, “bryony”), from βρύω (brúō).
Inflected forms:
form: bryonies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: briony
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A perennial herb of the genus Bryonia, especially the common wild subspecies Bryonia cretica dioica (syn. Bryonia dioica).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: On a sudden a low breath / Of tender air made tremble in the hedge / The fragil bindweed-bells and briony rings; […]
I cycled the three miles each morning between hedges draped with spangled cobwebs and berried bryony.
Translations:
majorly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s
Proto-Indo-European *-yōs
Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂yōs
Proto-Italic *magjōs
Latin maiorder.
Middle English major
English major
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English majorly
From major + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: significantly; very, very much
pos: adv
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: Campus police break up parties routinely, but nobody really gets majorly busted.
The thing is I am majorly stressing because I have no prom date set up.
2004, John Ringo & Julie Cochrane, Cally's War, Baen Books
The Taco Hell was okay the last time I tried it, but that was a few months ago when I was majorly low on cash.
“Mimi, here’s the thing. When somebody in that crowd goes and does something majorly out of control like that, it’s only a matter of days before the rest of the girls in school make sure they've caught up. …”
gloss: mostly, primarily
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Significant contrasts can be drawn between the course of personality development in which children are majorly reared by grandparents who have …
This is due not solely, or even majorly, to the fact the above type of analysis concerns itself primarily with what will happen in the long run.
This chapter is majorly devoted to the primary immunodeficiencies that have been documented in domestic animals.
Alaska Airlines and United Airlines, both major US operators of the Boeing 737 Max 9, cancelled a combined 342 flights Monday as the grounding of the aircraft continues to majorly disrupt their schedules.
Synonyms: majorally
Related words: sergeant-majorly
Translations:
sergeant-majorly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sergeant major
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English sergeant-majorly
From sergeant major + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more sergeant-majorly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sergeant-majorly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In the manner of a sergeant major.
pos: adj
examples: Captain David Margesson who not withstanding his official description as War Minister, is usually the soul of gentle geniality, was almost sergeant-majorly in his treatment of the mildest question.
In Rural Rides, within a few pages, he manages to insult Scotsmen and the Cotswolds, but in a sergeant-majorly sort of way, […]
“Okay boys,” I said, in sergeant-majorly style, “there are just two rules that you need to know for this expedition.”
Translations:
dirt-poor
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: An inversion of the earlier poor as dirt (compare whip-smart or smart as a whip).
Inflected forms:
form: dirt poor
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a condition of extreme poverty.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
not-comparable
examples: In recent months, the dirt-poor peasants of Honduras have invaded farms and blockaded bridges to force the government to fulfill its promises.
A few years ago it was a dirt-poor outpost populated by rural migrants.
Translations:
polarizing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English polarize
English -ing
English polarizing
From polarize + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more polarizing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most polarizing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: polarising
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by strong, divided opinions among people; divisive.
pos: adj
examples: It is a polarizing novel, loved by some and hated by others.
Che Guevara remains a polarizing Marxist revolutionary, feted by some as a champion of the poor and reviled by others as a bloodthirsty monster.
Translations:
polarising
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more polarising
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most polarising
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: polarizing
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: That polarises.
pos: adj
Translations:
hydrogel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
Proto-Hellenic *údōr
Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔δρο- (hŭdro-)der.
English hydro-
English gel
English hydrogel
From hydro- + gel.
Inflected forms:
form: hydrogels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A colloid gel in which water is the continuous phase; they have a number of medical and industrial applications.
pos: noun
examples: The tough, bendable fabric combines hydrogels — such as those found in contact lenses or jello – with glass fibers. This particular combination maximizes its resilience, making the material 100 times tougher than hydrogels and 25 times tougher than glass fiber fabric, based on the amount of energy needed to destroy it. […] Gong believes the fiber-reinforced hydrogel could be used to create biomaterials, such as artificial organs and prostheses, able to endure everyday wear-and-tear.
Translations:
pulsing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pulsings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The emission of pulses.
pos: noun
gloss: The action of something that pulses.
pos: noun
examples: Used to mark out the stages of serial order, it seems to have been conceived primarily in terms of the periodicities or pulsings of the regular cycles of these series of change which we now term processes[…]
Derived words: afterpulsing
electropulsing
pulsingly
retropulsing
Translations:
nanogenerator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos)bor.
Latin nānusbor.
English nano-
English generator
English nanogenerator
From nano- + generator.
Inflected forms:
form: nanogenerators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any electrical generator whose scale is measured in nanometers; they typically create electricity from the random movements of their surroundings.
pos: noun
Translations:
implantable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English implant
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English implantable
From implant + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more implantable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most implantable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: implantables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being, or designed to be, implanted (within the body etc.)
pos: adj
examples: High intensity EMF can have adverse impacts on the operation of implantable medical devices (IMDs) such as pacemakers and defibrillators.
gloss: A device that can be implanted surgically.
pos: noun
examples: I've had the opportunity to work on mouthwashes and astringents, catheter antimicrobial treatments, and antimicrobial treatments of other implantables and insertables.
Translations:
measureless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English measure
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English measureless
From measure + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not measured because it is so large that it is difficult or impossible to do so.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea.
Translations:
mechanistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-der.?
Ancient Greek μηχᾰνή (mēkhănḗ)der.
New Latin mechanismuslbor.
English mechan(ism)
▲
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
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English -istic
English mechanistic
From mechan(ism) + -istic.
Inflected forms:
form: more mechanistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mechanistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the impersonal and automatic characteristics of a machine.
pos: adj
gloss: Predetermined by, or as if by, a mechanism.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a physical or biological cause.
pos: adj
examples: Such ateleological explanation is what is meant by mechanistic explanation in the broad sense.
Derived words: antimechanistic
biomechanistic
mechanistically
multimechanistic
neuromechanistic
nonmechanistic
pathomechanistic
unmechanistic
Translations:
meatpacking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d-der.
Proto-Germanic *matiz
Proto-West Germanic *mati
Old English mete
Middle English mete
English meat
English packing
English meatpacking
From meat + packing.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The slaughter and further processing of animals for meat.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
examples: The administration’s focus on meatpacking is reflective of a larger shift in thinking about the costs of monopoly power.
Translations:
mechanized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Inflected forms:
form: more mechanized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mechanized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mechanised
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Equipped with machinery.
pos: adj
gloss: Equipped with armoured motor vehicles; compare motorized (“equipped with unarmoured vehicles”).
pos: adj
Synonyms: armoured
armored
motorized rifle
motor-rifle
motor rifle
Derived words: antimechanized
mechanized cavalry
mechanized infantry
nonmechanized
semimechanized
unmechanized
Translations:
mercantilism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: economics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *merks
Latin merx
Latin mercor
Latin mercantem
Italian mercante
Latin -īlemder.
Italian -ile
Italian mercantilebor.
French mercantilebor.
English mercantile
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English mercantilism
From mercantile + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: mercantilisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The theory that a nation must always have a positive balance of trade, in the manner that a merchant would operate a shop. Typically this model presupposes protectionism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: The theory that holds that the prosperity of a nation depends upon its supply of capital, and that the global volume of trade is unchangeable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: mercantilist
mercantilistic
merchant
Derived words: neomercantilism
Translations:
medicament
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English medicament, either from Middle French médicament or its etymon, Latin medicāmentum.
Inflected forms:
form: medicaments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A medicine, medication or drug.
pos: noun
examples: 1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie, Book I, Chapter 23, “The forme of Poeticall lamentations,”
Therefore of death and burials, of th’aduersities by warres, and of true loue lost or ill bestowed, are th’onely sorrowes that the noble Poets sought by their arte to remoue or appease, not with any medicament of a contrary temper, as the Galenistes vse to cure [contraria contrarijs] but as the Paracelsians, who cure [similia similibus] making one dolour to expell another, and in this case, one short sorrowing the remedie of a long and grieuous sorrow.
Forasmuch as the soul is far more precious than the body, we do prohibit under the pain of anathema, that no physician for the health of the body, shall prescribe to a sick person any thing which may prove perilous to the soul. But when it happens that he is called to a sick person, he shall first of all effectually persuade them to send for the physicians of the soul; that after the sick person hath taken care for his spiritual medicament, he may with better effect proceed to the cure of his body.
The Saracens gave an entirely new face to pharmacy and chemistry. They introduced a great variety of salutary medicaments into Europe.
The musty smell of old thatch was mingled with the smell of Mrs Tulsi’s medicaments: bay rum, soft candles, Canadian Healing Oil, ammonia.
Many nostrums and traditional medicaments are mentioned throughout Greek literature as aphrodisiac stimulants.
Before any drug or medicament is loosed upon the public, it is essential for its toxicity to be tested. That testing involves animals, but not necessarily in the way that LD50 previously worked.
Translations:
medium-sized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a medium or intermediate size.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
upholding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: upholdings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is upheld.
pos: noun
examples: […] the considerable political controversy that has surrounded important historical instances of judicial invalidations and judicial upholdings of federal legislation […]
Translations:
roan
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French roan, probably from Spanish roano, from Old Spanish raudano, itself probably of Germanic origin (compare Gothic *𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (*raudan), accusative of 𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (rauþs, “red”). Compare rowan.
Inflected forms:
form: roans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in.
pos: adj
tags: especially
not-comparable
gloss: Made of roan (kind of leather).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: roan binding
gloss: An animal (such as a horse) that has a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in.
pos: noun
gloss: The color of such an animal.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.
pos: noun
examples: Roan, a kind of leather used for shoes, slippers, and common bookbinding; prepared from sheep skins by tanning with sumach.
Derived words: roan antelope
roaning
strawberry roan
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: skimmel
lang: Czech
word: tisák
lang: Estonian
word: kimmel
lang: Finnish
word: päistärikkö
lang: French
word: rouan
lang: Hungarian
word: deres
lang: Italian
word: roano
lang: Latvian
word: salnis
lang: Navajo
word: łį́į́łbáhí
lang: Spanish
word: roano
lang: Spanish
word: rosillo
lang: Spanish
word: sabino
agrimony
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English egremoyne, from a conflation of Old English agrimonia and Middle French agremoine (from Old French agremoine, variant of aegremone), both from Late Latin agrimōnia, metathesized from Latin argemōnia (“a kind of poppy”) (probably by association with ager, agri- (“field”)), from Ancient Greek ἀργεμώνη (argemṓnē, “Papaver argemone, prickly poppy”), probably from ἄργεμον (árgemon, “leucoma”), from ἀργός (argós, “white”).
Inflected forms:
form: agrimonies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several perennial herbaceous plants, of the genus Agrimonia, that have spikes of yellow flowers.
pos: noun
examples: I grant, my Pils are bitter, I, and costly; / But their effects are rare, Diuine, and holsome, […] / I grant, theres bitter Egrimony in vm, / And Antimony, I put mony in all still: / And it works preciously […]
So he put the four shoes in a graceful group on the turf and looked at them. And seeing them there among the grass and springing agrimony, it suddenly occurred to him that both pairs were exceedingly ugly to see.
Right in the middle of the remedies, along with other ministrations to the groin area, was listed the Viagra of the year 1000 - the yellow-flowered herb agrimony.
gloss: Any of several not closely related plants of a similar appearance.
pos: noun
Derived words: bastard agrimony
Translations:
immunosuppressive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: immunology
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-
Proto-Indo-European *moy-nósder.
Proto-Italic *moinos
Latin mūnus
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-
Latin -is
Latin in- -is
Latin immūnisder.
Middle French immunbor.
Middle English
English immune
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English immuno-
English suppress
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English suppressive
English immunosuppressive
From immuno- + suppressive.
Inflected forms:
form: more immunosuppressive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most immunosuppressive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: immunosuppressives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having the capability to suppress the immune system, capable of immunosuppression.
pos: adj
examples: It is predictable that some of these infections occur in individuals immunocompromised by malnutrition or underlying disease (notably cancer or AIDS) or by immunosuppressive therapy.
gloss: An agent which is capable of immunosuppression.
pos: noun
Translations:
undergrad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of undergraduate.
Inflected forms:
form: undergrads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An undergraduate.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Within a few days of our reading the report of the vandalish statue-burnings of the Oxford undergrads, we met with the announcement of a wholesale destruction of idols by the natives of Madagascar.
gloss: Undergraduate education; the status or period of being an undergraduate student.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: Because it was a French bank, that seemed like a nod to my passion for languages, which had been my major in undergrad.
I even created my own major in undergrad, a major I called “Writing for Sequential Art,” which was essentially scriptwriting for comics.
Translations:
immunosuppressant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-
Proto-Indo-European *moy-nósder.
Proto-Italic *moinos
Latin mūnus
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-
Latin -is
Latin in- -is
Latin immūnisder.
Middle French immunbor.
Middle English
English immune
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English immuno-
English suppressant
English immunosuppressant
From immuno- + suppressant.
Inflected forms:
form: more immunosuppressant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most immunosuppressant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: immunosuppressants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Capable of immunosuppression, immunosuppressive.
pos: adj
gloss: An immunosuppressive agent.
pos: noun
Translations:
minivan
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mini- + van. First widely used in the 1980s, when this class of vehicles became widely popular as an alternative to station wagons (estate cars). Attested earlier in technical usage, usually as mini-van.
Base: van
Affixes: mini-
Inflected forms:
form: minivans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: minivans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: minivanning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: minivanned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: minivanned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small van, especially (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) one primarily used for family transport.
pos: noun
gloss: To travel or transport in a small van.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Translations:
miscue
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
theater
Etymology: From mis- + cue.
Base: cue
Affixes: mis-
Inflected forms:
form: miscues
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: miscues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: miscuing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: miscueing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: miscued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: miscued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: In a cue sport, an error in hitting the ball with the cue.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of missing one's cue or of responding to a cue intended for another actor.
pos: noun
gloss: A miss of the object one intended to hit.
pos: noun
examples: Some comical defending involving two terrible clearances saw Kingson called on to block Welbeck's strike and then Evatt made amends for his shocking miscue by heading Bent's powerful follow-up over the bar.
All season, the Chiefs have struggled on offense, in particular in the pass catching department. On multiple occasions throughout the regular season, Mahomes was burned by mental miscues from his wide receivers which cost the Chiefs wins.
gloss: To give an incorrect cue.
pos: verb
gloss: to mishit, strike incorrectly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Fabregas was the guilty party when Chelsea had another escape soon after. Messi was the creator to set up Iniesta but when Cech could only push out his shot, the former Arsenal captain miscued his finish from eight yards.
Translations:
misdiagnosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-?
Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *missaz
Proto-Germanic *missa-
Proto-West Germanic *missa-
Old English mis-
Middle English mys-
English mis-
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δια- (dia-)
Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti
Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱétider.
Proto-Hellenic *gignṓskō
Ancient Greek γῐγνώσκω (gĭgnṓskō)
Ancient Greek δῐαγῐγνώσκω (dĭagĭgnṓskō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́γνωσῐς (dĭắgnōsĭs)der.
Latin diagnōsisder.
English diagnosis
English misdiagnosis
From mis- + diagnosis.
Inflected forms:
form: misdiagnoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An incorrect diagnosis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Some researchers have proposed that early social dysfunction in 22q11DS is associated with premorbidity to schizophrenia, and that these social impairments may result in a misdiagnosis of an ASD.
They have suffered from misdiagnoses, lapses in treatment, a lack of access to specialized food and physical therapy, displacement and the unrelenting stress of war.
Translations:
Gandhi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Gujarati ગાંધી (gāndhī, “grocer, merchant”), from Sanskrit गन्ध (gandha, “perfume”). Originally, a trader in perfume.
Inflected forms:
form: Gandhis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone living in accordance with the lifestyle or ethical principles of Mahatma Gandhi.
pos: noun
examples: Sulak is eminently qualified to be a Gandhi in terms of his ideas, but not his lifestyle.
Translations:
misdiagnose
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-?
Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *missaz
Proto-Germanic *missa-
Proto-West Germanic *missa-
Old English mis-
Middle English mys-
English mis-
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δια- (dia-)
Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti
Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱétider.
Proto-Hellenic *gignṓskō
Ancient Greek γῐγνώσκω (gĭgnṓskō)
Ancient Greek δῐαγῐγνώσκω (dĭagĭgnṓskō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́γνωσῐς (dĭắgnōsĭs)der.
Latin diagnōsisder.
English diagnosisbf.
English diagnose
English misdiagnose
From mis- + diagnose.
Inflected forms:
form: misdiagnoses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: misdiagnosing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: misdiagnosed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: misdiagnosed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To incorrectly diagnose.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Ulcerated BCC may mimic SCC, and Bowen's disease may be misdiagnosed for the superficial and morphoeic forms.
What would it cost you and the patient if you were to misdiagnose or miss something as a result of not giving the documentation process the attention it requires? What could happen if you misdocument a patient chart?
Big technology companies are still misdiagnosing why they have so many enemies.
I was alone when I read Ward’s piece, horizontal in bed after a long day, and it occurred to me that he might be misdiagnosing some of the reasons people appear to be spending more time alone, possibly underestimating the strength of virtual connections.
Translations:
modernistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English modern
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
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English -istic
English modernistic
From modern + -istic.
Inflected forms:
form: more modernistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most modernistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In modern style.
pos: adj
examples: The modernistic architecture was both ugly and unfunctional, in spite of its futuristic appearance.
The buildings now being demolished are said to date back to the opening of the Trent Valley line in 1846. They will be replaced by modernistic structures, including a fully mechanised booking office, which will be concentrated mainly on the Low Level down platforms, [...].
Translations:
freefalling
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Inflected forms:
form: more freefalling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most freefalling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: free-falling
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Undergoing freefall.
pos: adj
gloss: Undergoing a rapid, uncontrolled decline.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
figuratively
Translations:
hearthside
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hearth
Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *sīdaz
Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ
Old English sīde
Middle English side
English side
English -side
English hearthside
From hearth + -side.
Inflected forms:
form: hearthsides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The area around the fireplace in the living-room of a family house.
pos: noun
examples: “How much death must an old king have seen on the field of war, in the play of swords, without its grinning jaw coming over his own hearthside.”
Working women are stressing out their male partners by discussing business problems around the family hearthside.
gloss: Used to identify something as normally being in the area of the fireplace.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A hearthside rug.
gloss: Pertaining to an activity normal to the household, usually associated with the living-room, whether or not it has a real fireplace.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Every Wednesday we have a hearthside meeting of the family.
This is a good hearthside book.
Synonyms: fireside
Translations:
Renoir
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Renoirs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
pos: noun
Translations:
metallurgic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English metallurgy
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English metallurgic
From metallurgy + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Related to metallurgy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
minoxidil
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Egyptian jmnbor.
Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓́μμων (Ắmmōn)bor.
Latin Ammōn
Latin ammoniacusder.
English ammonia
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English amine
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English amino-
English (a)mino
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.?
Ancient Greek ὀξύς (oxús)
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Proto-Hellenic *génos
Ancient Greek γένος (génos)
French oxygène
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱéh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *akēō
Latin aceō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin acidusbor.
French acide
blend
French oxidebor.
English oxid(e)
English -dil
English minoxidil
From (a)mino + oxid(e) + -dil (“vasodilator”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A compound used orally as a vasodilator to treat hypertension and topically to reverse baldness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
mineralogist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mineral + -logist. Compare later mineralogy and French minéralogiste.
Base: mineral
Affixes: -logist
Inflected forms:
form: mineralogists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An expert in mineralogy.
pos: noun
Translations:
miscibility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English miscible
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English miscibility
From miscible + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: miscibilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being able to be mixed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The degree to which two things mix.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Oil and water have low miscibility.
Derived words: immiscibility
Translations:
bunton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: buntons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: buntin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A wooden cross-stay in a shaft; a support for shaft slides.
pos: noun
Translations:
wowzer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Derivative of wow.
Inflected forms:
form: wowzers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wowser
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Something of great interest or beauty.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
New-Zealand
slang
Translations:
mentalist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *men-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *mn̥tós
Proto-Italic *məntom
Latin mentum
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English mental
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 mentalist
From mental + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: more mentalist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mentalist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mentalists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to mentalism
pos: adj
gloss: A practitioner of mentalism.
pos: noun
gloss: An insane person.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: 1997, I'm Alan Partridge (TV series), To Kill a Mocking Alan
Jed Maxwell: See you next week then. We'll have that pint.
Alan Partridge: Yep.
Jed Maxwell: ...go and see my brother.
Alan Partridge: No way, you big spastic! You're a mentalist!
In front a staff sergeant with the new Royal Caledonians was gassing about Scullion and the regiment. 'And this major's a total fucking mentalist,' he said. 'What's mental about him?' asked the lance corporal beside him.
Derived words: mentalistic
Translations:
mentalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *men-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *mn̥tós
Proto-Italic *məntom
Latin mentum
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English mental
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English mentalism
From mental + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: mentalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The doctrine that physical reality exists only because of the mind's awareness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Activities such as mind-reading, especially by performers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Oppression on the basis of neurological type or perceived intelligence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The U.S. military's bombing of a Grenadan mental hospital struck me as significant in the type of target selected. […] Hearing accounts of this atrocity against Grenadan mental patients underscored for me the very real connections between imperialism, racism, and mentalism.
Derived words: antimentalism
Translations:
merchandiser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Anglo-Norman marchaundisebor.
Latin mercātus
Vulgar Latin *mercātāntem
Vulgar Latin *mercātāntem
Old French marcheant
Old French -ise
Old French marcheandisebor.
Middle English marchaundise
Proto-Indo-European *-o-
Proto-Indo-European *-nom
Proto-Indo-European *-onom
Proto-Germanic *-aną
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Old English -an
Middle English -en
Middle English marchaundisen
English merchandise
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 merchandiser
From merchandise + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: merchandisers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A trader, seller or merchant, especially in the retail trade.
pos: noun
gloss: An arcade machine which dispenses prizes to winners.
pos: noun
Translations:
Gog
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Welsh Gog.
Inflected forms:
form: Gogs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of North Walian: a person from North Wales.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
Translations:
metalworking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From metal + working.
Compound parts: metal
working
Inflected forms:
form: metalworkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The art and craft of shaping metal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: metalworking industry
Translations:
metalworker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From metal + worker.
Compound parts: metal
worker
Inflected forms:
form: metalworkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who shapes metal.
pos: noun
Translations:
metalwork
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek μέτᾰλλον (métăllon)der.
Latin metallum
Old French metalbor.
Middle English metal
English metal
English -work
English metalwork
From metal + -work.
Inflected forms:
form: metalworks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Objects made of metal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The local blacksmith made all the metalwork for this reconstructed old house.
Metalwork is either silver or gold anodised aluminium, the latter being used experimentally in one of the six schemes.
gloss: The act of shaping metal, metalworking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
metastatic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From French métastatique, from méta- + statique, as an adjective corresponding to métastase (“metastasis”), perhaps after Koine Greek μεταστατικός (metastatikós). By surface analysis, meta- + static.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to, or producing metastasis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Three children who are US citizens, including a 4-year-old receiving treatment for metastatic cancer, were taken to Honduras with their mothers, who were deported last week, according to the families’ attorneys and civil rights and immigration advocacy organizations.
Translations:
misquote
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-?
Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *missaz
Proto-Germanic *missa-
Proto-West Germanic *missa-
Old English mis-
Middle English mys-
English mis-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷó-
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *kʷótider.
Proto-Italic *kʷot
Latin quot
Latin quotus
Medieval Latin quotāreder.
Old French coterbor.
Middle English quoten
English quote
English misquote
From mis- + quote.
Inflected forms:
form: misquotes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: misquoting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: misquoted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: misquoted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: misquotes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To incorrectly recite or record a quotation.
pos: verb
examples: I'm so embarrassed, I misquoted Hamlet to a professor of Shakespeare.
The newspaper had to publish a correction after they misquoted the President.
Newly released audio disproves Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s claim on CNN that he was misquoted by The Atlantic about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
gloss: An incorrect recitation or recording of a quotation.
pos: noun
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