2022-10-12

Published: 2022-10-12

Words that I added to Anki on 2022-10-12.

The contents were automatically generated except notes part.

word list

• tril
• magnate
• soporific
• caricature
• accost
• cutpurse
• univerbation
• atone
• nonce
• polysemous

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tril

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• trillion

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magnate

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• Latin magnās (magnate) < magnus (great)
• cf. magnet, etc.

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soporific

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• Latin sopor (sleep) < PIE *swep- (to sleep) > Latin somnus (sleep) > English insomnia

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caricature

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• Italian caricatura (caricature) < caricàre (to emphasize) < Latin carricō (I load)

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accost

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• Latin ac- (ad-) + costa (rib)
• cf. coast

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cutpurse

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• “a pickpocket” < “one who steals by the method of cutting purses, a common practice when men wore their purses at their girdles”

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univerbation

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atone

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• < at one

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nonce

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polysemous

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• Latin polysēmus (having many senses) < Ancient Greek σῆμα (sign, mark)
• cf. semantic