2022-12-11

Words that I added to Anki on 2022-12-11.

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beatitude

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  • Latin beātitūdo (blessedness) < beātus (blessed) + Latin -tūdo (suffix forming abstract nouns, chiefly from adjectives)
  • cf. Latin altitūdo (height) (< altus (high))
  • cf. beatific (< + Latin -ficus (making))

goggle

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  • perhaps a frequentative of an onomatopoeic *gog, expressive of oscillating movement

tux

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  • short for tuxedo < the name of Tuxedo Park, New York, where the jacket was first introduced at the country club in 1886

fatigues

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  • fatigues (a loose, brownish-green uniform worn by soldiers), short for fatigue-dress or fatigue-uniform, which was worn by a soldier on fatigue-duty, the extra-professional duties of a soldier, sometimes allotted to him as punishment for misdemeanour

crow

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  • “to utter the loud cry of a cock”

sleepful

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tachometer

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  • Greek τάχος (speed) + -μέτρον
  • cf. thermometer, barometer, odometer, etc.

wham

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  • echoic

spoof

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  • < Spoof, name of a game involving trickery and nonsense invented by Arthur Roberts

algebraic

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  • algebra + -ic and Middle French algébraïque