2022-05-21

Published: 2022-05-21

Words that I added to Anki on 2022-05-21.

The contents were automatically generated except notes part.

word list

• carnage
• proposition
• machismo
• horde
• placenta
• convex
• dimple
• wilderness
• visceral
• cross-hatching

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carnage

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• Latin carō (flesh) + -age (suffix that forms nouns that have a collective meaning)
• “carcasses collectively”, hence “the slaughter of a great number, esp. of men”
• see also https://koki-yamaguchi.github.io/2021/10/29/carnation.html

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proposition

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• According to the Cambridge Dictionary, it is defined specifically: “to ask someone who you are not in a relationship with if they would like to have sex with you”

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machismo

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• Spanish macho (male, strong) (whence English macho, Japanese マッチョ, etc.) + -ismo (variant of -ism)

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horde

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• Ottoman Turkish ordu (royal camp)
• cf. English Urdu

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placenta

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• Latin Latin placenta (a kind of flat cake), Ancient Greek πλάξ (pláx, “flat plate”)
• plural placentas, placentae
• cognate with English flat via PIE *pleh₂-

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convex

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• Latin convexus (vaulted) apparently an old past participle (= convectus) of convehĕre (to carry or bring together), because in forming an arch the extremities of the surface are brought together
• cf. concave

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dimple

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• a diminutive of dint (a hollow in a surface) or dialectal dump (a deep hole)

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wilderness

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• obsolete wildern (wild) + -ness <- wild deer (deer in a wild state)

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visceral

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• cf. Latin vīscus (English viscus) (any internal organ of the body), whose plural is viscera (in both English & Latin)
• same Latin conjugation with genus and genera

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cross-hatching

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notes

• also crosshatching
• cross- + hatch (to shade with closely drawn parallel lines)