2022-12-11
Published: 2022-12-11Words 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