2022-11-23
Published: 2022-11-23Words that I added to Anki on 2022-11-23.
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word list
clairvoyant
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- French clairvoyant (clear-sighted) < clair (clear) + voyant, present participle of voir (to see)
Red
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- “communist, socialist”, originally with reference to red as the colour of blood and hence of bloodshed and violence
novocaine
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- Latin novus (new) + -caine (forming nouns denoting drugs)
fluoride
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- fluor- (in fluorine) + -ide
pact
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- Latin pactum (agreement) < pacīscor (I agree)
semaphore
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- French sémaphore < Ancient Greek σῆμα (sign) + -ϕόρος (English suffix -phore, forming nouns with the sense “someone or something that bears, carries, wears, or transmits what is denoted by the first element”) < PIE *bher- (to carry)
- cf. semantic, metaphor, chromatophore, etc.
repeal
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- Latin repellō (I repel)
- cf. repel
uncowed
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- cow (to depress with fear)
bravado
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- plural bravadoes, bravados
- Spanish bravada and French bravade < Italian bravata (bragging) < bravare (to brag, boast), < bravo (brave, fine)
Bible Belt
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