2022-08-03

Published: 2022-08-03

Words that I added to Anki on 2022-08-03.

The contents were automatically generated except notes part.

word list

• crimp
• prone
• clamber
• par
• brain fart
• eardrum
• give a whirl
• immaculate
• cufflink
• evac
• imagery
• expanse
• no-brainer
• take
• amperage
• grumpy
• mea culpa
• cascade
• okay
• ballpark

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crimp

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• Old English crump (crooked, bent)
• cf. crumple (frequentative of crump)

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prone

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• “lying face down”
• Latin prōnus (turned forward) <- prō (“forward”)
• antonym supine (from Latin supīnus (lying face upwards) <- the stem of super (above))

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clamber

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• appears to be a derivative of climb (frequentative?)

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par

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• Latin pār (equal)
• see also https://koki-yamaguchi.github.io/2021/11/17/par.html

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brain fart

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eardrum

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• ear + drum

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give a whirl

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immaculate

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• Latin im- + maculātus (stained) <- maculō (I stain)
• cf. maculate (stained)
• cf. macchiato

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cufflink

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• cuff + link

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evac

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• evacuation

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imagery

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• image + -ery

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expanse

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• Latin expānsus (expanded) <- expandō (I expand) <- ex- + pandō (I spread)
• pandiculate (from Latin pandiculor <- pandō)

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no-brainer

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take

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amperage

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• ampere + -age (suffix forming nouns of a unit of measure)

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grumpy

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• grump + -y

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mea culpa

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• Latin mea culpa (through my own fault) (ablative of meus (my) and culpa (fault))
• cf. culprit, culpable

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cascade

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• “to pass on information by giving it to just a few people, who then give it to more people; to be passed on in this way”
• Latin cadō (I fall)
• see also https://koki-yamaguchi.github.io/2022/01/06/cado.html

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okay

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• “to agree to something”

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ballpark

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• ball + park