2022-11-02

Published: 2022-11-02

Words that I added to Anki on 2022-11-02.

The contents were automatically generated except notes part.

word list

• fuchsia
• pedal-pushers
• Klaxon
• exterminate
• castrato
• riffraff
• rotund
• lacerate
• torpid
• concourse

---

fuchsia

definitions

Cambridge | Wiktionary | Weblio | OED | Images | Youglish

notes

• < German botanist Leonhard Fuchs

---

pedal-pushers

definitions

Cambridge | Wiktionary | Weblio | OED | Images | Youglish

notes

• pedal-pusher (a cyclist) > pedal-pusher ((in plural) short trousers worn by girls or women, reaching just below the knee (and suitable for wearing when cycling))

---

Klaxon

definitions

Cambridge | Wiktionary | Weblio | OED | Images | Youglish

notes

• name of the manufacturing company

---

exterminate

definitions

Cambridge | Wiktionary | Weblio | OED | Images | Youglish

notes

• Latin exterminō (I drive beyond the boundaries) < ex- (out) + terminus (boundary-line)

---

castrato

definitions

Cambridge | Wiktionary | Weblio | OED | Images | Youglish

notes

• plural castrati
• Italian past participle of castrare < Latin castrō (I castrate)

---

riffraff

definitions

Cambridge | Wiktionary | Weblio | OED | Images | Youglish

notes

• shortened from obsolete riff and raff (every single bit) or borrowing from French rifraf (every single one)

---

rotund

definitions

Cambridge | Wiktionary | Weblio | OED | Images | Youglish

notes

• Latin rotundus (round) < rotō (I turn)

---

lacerate

definitions

Cambridge | Wiktionary | Weblio | OED | Images | Youglish

notes

• Latin lacerō (I tear) < lacer (torn)

---

torpid

definitions

Cambridge | Wiktionary | Weblio | OED | Images | Youglish

notes

• Latin torpidus (torpid) < torpeō (I am numb)
• cf. torpor

---

concourse

definitions

Cambridge | Wiktionary | Weblio | OED | Images | Youglish

notes

• Latin concursum (running together) < concurrō (I run together) < con- + currō (I run)
• cf. concur