2022-12-03

Published: 2022-12-03

Words that I added to Anki on 2022-12-03.

The contents were automatically generated except notes part.

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• superintendent
• repose
• spite
• snowdrift
• infanticide
• leetspeak
• bastion
• quadruped
• pullet
• coccidiosis

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superintendent

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• Latin superintendens (bishop, presiding minister) < super- + intendō (I stretch out)

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repose

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spite

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• the spelling spight, on the analogy of native words in -ight, was common from c1575 to 1700

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snowdrift

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infanticide

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• Latin īnfāns + -cīda (-cide)

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leetspeak

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• also leet
• < leet (skilled at computer programming or hacking) < elite

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bastion

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• Italian bastia (small square fortress) < bastire (to build)

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quadruped

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• Latin quadru- (quadru-) + pēs (foot)

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pullet

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• French poulet < poule (hen) + -et (diminutive suffix) < PIE *pau- (few, little)
• cf. obsolete pull (a young bird), poultry
• cf. few, pauper, poor, pony, etc.

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coccidiosis

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• coccidium + -osis (forming nouns of condition, usually denoting a condition of disease, disorder, excess, or infection) < Greek κόκκος (grain)