2022-04-30

Published: 2022-04-30

Words that I added to Anki on 2022-04-30.

The contents were automatically generated except notes part.

word list

• riff
• werewolf
• geriatric
• trope
• bourbon
• ontology
• rigging
• procession
• shimmer
• tambourine

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riff

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notes

• often with on
• probably shortened from refrain (a repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end of each verse)

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werewolf

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notes

• were + wolf
• From Old English wer or Middle English were, meaning “a man”
• Cognate with Latin vir (a man) (cf. virility, virtue, etc.)

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geriatric

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• γῆρας (gêras, “old age”) + -iatric (ἰᾱτρικός (iātrikós, “medical”))
• cf. pediatric

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trope

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bourbon

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ontology

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• Ancient Greek ὤν (ṓn, “a being”)
• cf. ontogeny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontogeny
• Japanese 存在論

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rigging

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• rig
• Japanese 索具

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procession

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• cf. proceed

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shimmer

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tambourine

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notes

• according to the OED:

  French tambourin, diminutive of tambour, but used not in the sense of that word, but in that of French tambour de basque