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Note about the organization of this page: No words are duplicated, so words I have seen while reading that are categorized "By Part of Speech" represent words that don't fit into existing categories, not an alternative organization of words in the other categories.

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Terms I've come across in everyday life

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General (mostly slang)
  • 📸 (photographer: used on social media to credit the name that follows with the photos included in the post)
  • change out (change clothing, especially into a more casual outfit)
  • Chinese asphalt (temporary asphalt, used to acover pothole-filled roads)
  • hamlet [Canadian legal definition] (an unincorporated community (of any size))
  • homecoming (synonym of "reunion" (planned event at which members of a dispersed group meet together))
  • logistics (broader sense; the general practicalities)
  • ponytail (hair elastic) (heard from at least six different people)
  • preserve (canned goods, like canned fruit, pickles, etc.)
  • retreat (the sort of retreat hosted by a corporation, a school board, etc. for the sake of business-related activity)
  • rip/RIP/rest in peace [slang] [abbreviated form pronounced /ɹɪp/]
  • second [pronounced /səˈkɑnd/] (to be transferred to another position/place of employment as a secondary position (while remaining in one's primary position))
  • ship [slang] (romantic relationship)
  • ship name [slang] (couple name; e.g. "Brangelina" for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie)
  • shook [adjective; slang; usually in "I'm (so) shook"] (marker of (often mock) shock)
  • swag [noun] (related to the "freebies, handouts for the sake of advertising a brand" sense, but applied to non-free items and apparel, like hoodies, t-shirts, cloth bags, water bottles, etc.)
  • The four humours as temperaments/personality types (see melancholic and choleric):
  • wheel [intransitive verb; slang] (to flirt; go after girls/guys)
  • wheels [noun; esp. in "he's/you've got wheels"] (the ability to easily "get" girls)
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French

Other

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Cemetery-related
  • doughnut (small round marker (not toroidal), typically concrete, used to mark small plots of land)
  • shutter (granite or marble slab that covers a crypt in a mausoleum)
  • Westminster [common noun] (mausoleum crypt that can hold two or more caskets, one above the other, bunk-bed style [presumably as in Westminster Abbey?])
Filipino 18th birthday tradition

These may not be inclusion-worthy

Terms (or senses of terms) I've come across while reading

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English or Translingual

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By Type

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Animals
Animals mentioned in ancient texts
  • Note: these are often borrowings from Latin or Greek, or literal translations. Many of Latin entries at the same spellings appear to similarly be transliterations of the words from Aristotle, and should probably be defined with the same degree of specificity as the Ancient Greek words they are derived from. If someone wants to attempt that project, they are more than welcome to it, since it is out of my pay grade.
  • acalaphae [plural form; in Aristotle] (sea-anemones)
  • acanthis [in Aristotle] (type of bird with dull plumage but a musical voice that lives on thistles that donkeys eat (presumably the acanthus); "at war" with the anthus and aegithus)
  • Achainae [in Aristotle; probably Translingual] (group of deer with a gall-like fluid in the tail)
  • acharnas [in Aristotle] (bass (fish))
  • acris [in Aristotle] (grasshopper)
  • aegithus [in Aristotle] (type of bird that nests in the furze-bush, has many chicks, and walks "with a limp" (see Ancient Greek αἴγῐθος (aígithos)))
  • aegocephalus [in Aristotle] (see aegocephalos; described as having no spleen, and a gall-bladder close to the liver and stomach)
  • aegolius, aegolius-owl [in Aristotle] (type of owl (see Aegolius))
  • aethyia [in Aristotle] (type of seabird/shorebird (see Aethia))
  • aetos [in Aristotle] (type of cartilaginous fish)
  • aithyid [in Aristotle] (type of bird; a "diver")
  • amia-tunny [in Aristotle] (fast-growing tunny)
  • angel-fish [in Aristotle] (type of live-bearing, cartilaginous fish that buries itself in the sand and lures in prey with filaments on its mouth; can change colour like the octopus)
  • anthrena, anthrenae, anthrene [in Aristotle] (type of wasp that lives in the ground, with a notably large "king")
  • anthus [in Aristotle] (type of bird; feeds on grubs or grass; has pretty plumage; lives by rivers or in marshes; mimics the whinnying of horses and flies toward horses to drive them off (see Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́νθος (ánthos)))
  • apus [in Aristotle] (bird (see Latin entry))
  • arctus [in Aristotle] (bear-crab)
  • ascalaphus [in Aristotle] (type of bird (see ἀσκάλαφος (askálaphos)))
  • asterias [in Aristotle] (type of hawk)
  • attelabus, attelabi [in Aristotle] (locust)
  • aulopius [in Aristotle] (type of shoal fish that spawns in summer; also called anthias)
  • auxid [in Aristotle] (scordyla; name or nickname for a (certain type of?) fast-growing fish)
  • baleros/balerus [in Aristotle; both spellings used in same work] (fish that spawns in the shallows)
  • barn-door cock [in Aristotle] (rooster; apparently also the chicken as a species)
  • barn-door hen [in Aristotle] (chicken/hen)
  • batrachus [in Aristotle] (fishing-frog (i.e. anglerfish))
  • batus [in Aristotle] (skate; said to breed with the rhina/angel-fish)
  • bear-crab [in Aristotle] (arctus; lays eggs at the same time as the crawfish)
  • belone [in Aristotle] (pipefish; breeds in winter)
  • black-cap [in Aristotle] (type of bird; feeds on grubs)
  • blue-bird [in Aristotle] (type of bird with large claws that climbs rock faces; steel blue in colour; long, slender beak; short legs (like those of the woodpecker); between the size of the owsel and the chaffinch; common in Nisyros)
  • blue-thrush [in Aristotle] (the laius; presumably the blue rock thrush (Monticola solitarius))
  • bos [in Aristotle] (type of cartilaginous fish)
  • bostrychus [in Aristotle] (type of insect with a glow-worm-like larval stage (see Bostrichus))
  • brenthus [in Aristotle] (type of sea bird that has a musical voice)
  • broaded-winged hawk [in Aristotle] (type of hawk; the half-buzzard)
  • bubalus [in Aristotle] (type of horned animal (see Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos)))
  • bud-bane [in Aristotle] (type of grub that lives in cabbage stalks; the orsodacna)
  • calaris [in Aristotle] (type of animal preyed on by the aegolius and other birds of prey)
  • callionymus [in Aristotle] (type of fish that lives near the shore (see Latin entry))
  • cantharis [in Aristotle (current entry is missing a proper sense; says word is the singular form of cantharides, but cantharides is not defined as a plural word)]
  • cantharus, cantharus-beetle [in Aristotle; discussed shortly before, but separately from, the cantharis] (scarab beetle)
  • capon-fish [in Aristotle]
  • Carabi [plural form; mentioned by Aristotle] (type of water animal (cf. Italian carabo))
  • carabus [in Aristotle] (stag beetle)
  • Carcini [plural form; mentioned by Aristotle] (type of water animal (cf. Italian carcino and carcinium below)
  • carcinium, carcinia [in Aristotle] (hermit crab)
  • carid [in Aristotle] (kind of crustacean (likely a prawn); contrasted with crabs, lobsters, and crawfish)
  • castor [in Aristotle] (type of water mammal; mentioned alongside beavers)
  • catarrhactes [in Aristotle] (type of sea bird; can dive and stay underwater for a considerable time)
  • celeus [in Aristotle] (the green woodpecker)
  • cephus, cepphus [in Aristotle; both spellings used in same work] (type of seabird/shorebird that snaps at foam and has good-smelling flesh (except for the hindquarters) (see Cepphus))
  • cerylus [in Aristotle] (type of kingfisher (see French céryle))
  • ceryx [in Aristotle] (type of pelagic testacean; breeds at the end of winter)
  • cestreus [in Aristotle] (grey mullet)
  • channa [in Aristotle] (type of carnivorous fish that is always pregnant when caught; identified with the Serranus)
  • charadrius [in Aristotle] (the stone curlew)
  • chelon [in Aristotle] (type of grey mullet; conceives in December and carries spawn for ~30 days (see Latin entry))
  • chromis [in Aristotle] (type of fish; see Latin entry)
  • chalcis [in Aristotle] (type of bird; likely a cuckoo, given the name of the fish)
  • chalcis [in Aristotle] (cuckoo-fish; non-carnivorous (see Latin entry))
  • chelon [in Aristotle] (type of grey mullet)
  • chloreus [in Aristotle] (said to be at enmity with the crested lark, woodpecker, and poecilis, because they devour each other's eggs; also kills turtle-doves)
  • chrysophrys [in Aristotle] (gilthead (Sparus aurata))
  • cicadelle [in Aristotle] (small cicada; tettigonium)
  • cicades [plural; in Lucretius] (cicadas?)
  • ci-cigna [in Aristotle; may be "cicigna" (occurred across line break)] (like a small lizard; same colour as the blind snake; also called "chalcis" or "zignis")
  • cinclus [in Aristotle] (type of shorebird; "may be described as" a wagtail (see Cinclus))
  • cinnamon-bird [in Aristotle]
  • circus [in Aristotle] (type of bird of prey; builds nests under roofs or in cliffs (see Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)))
  • citharus [in Aristotle] (type of fish with numerous caeca; maybe the flounder in genus Citharus?)
  • collyrion [in Aristotle] (the fieldfare)
  • coly-mackerel [in Aristotle] (type of fish that swims in shoals; related to the mackerel)
  • common pigeon [in Aristotle] (peristera; larger than a rock pigeon)
  • conchylia [pl. or collective; in Aristotle] (see Latin conchylium)
  • conops [in Aristotle] (type of insect, "engendered in the slime of vinegar")
  • coracine [in Aristotle] (crow-fish; type of small fish that breeds in weeds near the shore and isn't caught in winter (see Latin coracinus))
  • coracinus [in Aristotle] (coracine)
  • cordylus [in Aristotle] (water-newt)
  • crex [in Aristotle] (type of bird that injures the young of the eleus-owl, blackbird, and oriole (see Ancient Greek κρέξ (kréx)))
  • crow-fish [in Aristotle] (coracine)
  • cuckoo-fish [in Aristotle] (type of fish that makes a sound like a cuckoo)
  • cymindis [in Aristotle] (type of long, slender, black bird that lives in the mountains and is called the "dove-killer" and also the "chalcis")
  • Cynoroestes [in Aristotle] (dog flea)
  • cypselus [in Aristotle] (a type of "footless" bird apparently so similar to the swallow that the main difference is that the cypselus has feathers on its shank; perhaps a swallow (see Latin entry))
  • dascyllus [in Aristotle] (type of fish that feeds on "mud and offal")
  • dasypod [in Aristotle] (apparently a synonym of "hare" (but see Dasypodidae))
  • drepanis [in Aristotle] (bird (see Latin entry))
  • drummer-bird [in Aristotle] (type of bird that is killed by crows)
  • Echeneïs [in Aristotle] [alt spelling of Echeneis]
  • eleginus [in Aristotle] (type of fish that swims in shoals)
  • eleus, eleus-owl [in Aristotle] (type of owl, slightly larger than a chicken, whose young are injured by the crex)
  • elops [in Aristotle] (see Elops)
  • empis [in Aristotle] (type of insect)
  • encrasicholus [in Aristotle] (anchovy)
  • epilais [in Aristotle] (type of bird that feeds on grubs/worms)
  • erithacus [in Aristotle] (redbreast (see Erithacus))
  • erythrinus [in Aristotle] (type of deep-sea fish that is always pregnant when caught (see Latin erythinus))
  • etelis [in Aristotle] (type of fish)
  • fox-goose [in Herodotus] (bird native to Egypt)
  • francolin-partridge [in Aristotle] (the francolin)
  • galeos, galeodes [in Aristotle] (type of cartilaginous fish (see Latin entry))
  • glanis [in Aristotle] (sheat-fish (see Latin entry))
  • glaucus [in Aristotle] (type of fish; also called the grey-back (see Latin entry))
  • glottis [in Aristotle] (type of bird (see γλωσσῐ́ς (glōssís)))
  • grape-beetle [in Aristotle] (beetle the size of the sphondyle or knuckle-beetle)
  • greenpie [in Aristotle] (most likely the European green woodpecker (Picus viridis); compare French pivert)
  • grey-back [in Aristotle] (type of fish; also called the glaucus)
  • haemorrhoid [in Aristotle] (kind of shellfish? likened to the ceryx and nerites in behaviour and general anatomy)
  • hair-curl [in Aristotle] (literal translation of bostrychus (see above))
  • half-buzzard [in Aristotle] (type of hawk; the broaded-winged hawk)
  • harpe [in Aristotle] (type of sea bird (see Ancient Greek ἅρπη (hárpē)))
  • hemys, hemydes [in Aristotle] (freshwater turtle)
  • hepatus [in Aristotle] (type of fish with few caeca)
  • hippelaphus [in Aristotle] (animal with a mane on its withers, a beard by the larynx; male has gazelle-like horns, female does not)
  • hippurus [in Aristotle] (type of fish that grows rapidly to a great size (see Latin entry))
  • hobby-hawk [in Aristotle] (type of hawk)
  • holothuria [in Aristotle; collective noun] (presumably holothurids)
  • horned-beetle [in Aristotle] (type of beetle with antennae in front of its eyes)
  • horseman-ant [in Aristotle] (type of ant that is not found in Sicily (but is presumably found in Greece))
  • hybris [in Aristotle] (nocturnal bird of prey; perhaps the same as the eagle-owl)
  • hypera [in Aristotle] (insect with inchworm-like larval stage)
  • hypolais [in Aristotle] (one of the types of birds in whose nests cuckoos lay their eggs; nests on the ground)
  • Ictis [in Aristotle] (martin (the bird))
  • Illas [in Aristotle] (type of thrush smaller and with less variegated plumage than the mistle thrush and the song thrush)
  • knuckle-beetle [in Aristotle] (the sphondyle)
  • labrax [in Aristotle] (bass; fish that breeds twice a year)
  • laedus [in Aristotle] (type of bird that is "friends" with the green woodpecker)
  • laius [in Aristotle] (blue-thrush (see Ancient Greek λαιός (laiós)))
  • lamia, lamia-shark [in Aristotle] (type of cartilaginous fish (see Latin entry))
  • landrail [in Aristotle] (type of rail; mentioned alongside the corncrake)
  • larus [in Aristotle] (gull)
  • latax [in Aristotle] (beaver)
  • leekbane [in Aristotle] (a winged insect that consumes leeks; the prasocuris)
  • limnostrea, limnostreae [pl; in Aristotle] (lagoon oysters)
  • little dog-fish [in Aristotle]
  • localus [in Aristotle] (type of bird with caeca)
  • libyus [in Aristotle] (type of bird(?) that competes for resources with the green woodpecker)
  • maenis [in Aristotle] (type of fish that swims in shoals (see Ancient Greek μαίνη (maínē)))
  • malacostraca [in Aristotle] (see Malacostraca)
  • marinus [in Aristotle] (type of fish)
  • martichoras, martichore [in Aristotle] (manticore)
  • meadow spider [in Aristotle] (type of spider)
  • melanurus [in Aristotle] (type of fish that feeds on sea-weed (see Latin entry))
  • membras [in Aristotle] (type of fish or stage of a fish's life cycle that comes from the Phaleric fry and develops into the trichis)
  • merops [in Aristotle] (type of bird that burrows into the ground; found in Boeotia (see Merops))
  • merou [in Aristotle] (type of fish that lives near the shore (see French mérou))
  • midget-bird [in Aristotle] (type of bird that feeds on grubs/worms)
  • mormyrus [in Aristotle] (type of shoal fish)
  • mouse-whale [in Aristotle] (type of whale with baleen)
  • muraena [in Aristotle] (eel-like fish (see Latin entry))
  • myops [in Aristotle] (horsefly)
  • myxon [in Aristotle] (type of grey mullet; conceives in December and carries spawn for ~30 days)
  • narce [in Aristotle] (a torpedo (electric ray))
  • neritae [in Aristotle] (the nerites)
  • oenanthe [in Aristotle] (type of bird (see Oenanthe))
  • oenas [in Aristotle] (stock dove)
  • orcys [in Aristotle] (large tunny)
  • orphus [in Aristotle] (type of fish: "sea-perch" (see Latin entry, but Aristotle mentions the gilt-head separately, shortly afterwards))
  • orsodacna [in Aristotle] (bud-bane; a kind of grub that lives in cabbage stalks)
  • ostracoderm [in Aristotle] (testaceans; shellfish, including snails and oysters)
  • ourax [in Aristotle; Athenian word for "tetrix"] (type of bird; synonym of tetrix)
  • owsel, owzel [in Aristotle] (type of starling-sized bird, with two types: black (with a red beak and like the blue-thrush/laius but slightly larger; found "everywhere"; changes plumage to yellow seasonally, as well as its song) and white (same size as black))
  • owzel [in Aristotle] (type of wrasse; changes colours depending on the season (black in the spring, white thereafter))
  • ox-ray [in Aristotle] (type of ray)
  • pardalus [in Aristotle] (type of ashen-coloured bird that is always seen in flocks; "fleet of foot and strong of wing"; loud, high-pitched song; about the size of shrikes, orioles, etc.)
  • pardion [in Aristotle] (animal with a thin mane going from the head to the withers (hyena?))
  • parrot-wrasse [in Aristotle] (parrotfish/scarus)
  • pelamyd [in Aristotle] (young tunny (see Latin entry))
  • pelamys [in Aristotle] (young tunny (see Latin entry))
  • peleias [in Aristotle] (rock pigeon)
  • penduline titmouse [in Aristotle] (penduline tit)
  • penelops [in Aristotle] (type of water fowl (see Latin entry))
  • penia [in Aristotle] (insect with inchworm-like larval stage)
  • peraeas [in Aristotle] (type of fish, said to feed at a distance from the shore "on a mucous substance exuding from itself, and consequently is always in a starved condition")
  • percnopterus [in Aristotle] (type of bird of prey with a white head, short wings, long tail, resembling a vulture; lives in groves; clumsy; preys on carrion; called "mountain-stork" or "half-eagle" (see French percnoptère))
  • peristera [in Aristotle] (common pigeon)
  • phalangia [in Aristotle] (collective name for hairy spiders that spin webs and lay their eggs in a woven "basket")
  • phalangium spider [in Aristotle] (type of spider; see "phalangia" above))
  • phatta [in Aristotle] (ring dove; largest pigeon species known to Aristotle)
  • phene [in Aristotle] (lammergeier)
  • pholis [in Aristotle] (presumably a fish; emits a mucous secretion that envelops its body)
  • phoxinus [in Aristotle] (minnow (see Latin entry))
  • phycis [in Aristotle] (black goby)
  • pigeon-hawk [in Aristotle] (type of hawk)
  • pinna [in Aristotle] (shellfish with a rough, non-ribbed shell; lives in sandy or slimy places; has a symbiotic relationship with a small crustacean)
  • pinna-guard [in Aristotle] (small crustacean which has a symbiotic relationship with the pinna (apparently needed for the survival of the pinna))
  • piphinx [in Aristotle] (type of bird that is "friends" with the harpe and the kite)
  • pithecoid [noun; in Aristotle]
  • poecilis [in Aristotle] (said to be at enmity with the crested lark, woodpecker, and chloreus, because they devour each other's eggs)
  • pool-oyster [in Aristotle] (presumably the type of oyster found in tidal pools)
  • porphyrion (bird; found in Greece; likely the same as a porphyrio)
  • poynx [in Aristotle] (a type of bird mentioned alongside herons; prone to pecking out the eyes of its opponents, such as the harpy)
  • prasocuris [in Aristotle] (a winged insect: leekbane)
  • presbys [in Aristotle] (literally, "old man"; type of bird whose eggs are eaten by weasels and crows; possibly a wren (also called an "old man" elsewhere))
  • primas-tunny [in Aristotle] (type of fish that hides itself in the mud (apparently for hibernation) with only its eyes exposed)
  • psen [in Aristotle] (fig wasp)
  • psetta [in Aristotle] (type of fish that breeds once a year (see Latin entry))
  • pternis [in Aristotle] (type of hawk)
  • purple coot [in Aristotle; maybe SOP] (bird)
  • pyrallis [in Aristotle] (type of bird(?) that competes for resources with the turtle-dove)
  • rhina [in Aristotle] (also called "angel-fish", but listed as a cartilaginous fish (and see rhina and rhinobatus below))
  • rhine [in Aristotle] (apparently an angel-fish/rhina)
  • rhinobatus [in Aristotle] (cartilaginous fish said to be the offspring of a batus/skate and a rhina, with the front part of the batus and the hind parts of a rhina (see Rhinobatos))
  • river worm [in Aristotle] (larval form of the botfly)
  • robber-bee [in Aristotle]
  • ryades [in Aristotle] (shoal-fishes; breed in summer)
  • sanguinea [in Aristotle] (sanguineous animals)
  • saperdis [in Aristotle] (type of river fish that is good for eating during its breeding time)
  • sarginus [in Aristotle] (type of fish that swims in shoals)
  • sargue [in Aristotle] (type of fish that breeds in both spring and fall; conceives in December and carries spawn for 30 days; feeds on what the red mullet leaves behind after foraging)
  • satyrium [in Aristotle] (type of freshwater mammal)
  • saupe [in Aristotle] (type of non-carnivorous fish found in sea-estuaries, also called salpe by him; breeds in the fall and feeds on zostera)
  • scalidris [in Aristotle] (type of shorebird with ashen-grey, speckled plumage)
  • schoenilus [in Aristotle] (type of shorebird; "may be described as" a wagtail)
  • scolex [in Aristotle] ("type of scolex" = insect larva)
  • scordylae [pl.; in Aristotle] (fast-growing (young) fish)
  • scorpaena [in Aristotle] (type of fish (see Latin entry))
  • scorpis [in Aristotle] (type of fish that breeds in open sea)
  • sea-cuckoo [in Aristotle] (no doubt the same as "cuckoo fish" above; a piper (likely the common European gurnard; cf. sea robin))
  • sea-nettle [in Aristotle] (anemone)
  • sea-swallow [in Aristotle] (flying fish)
  • sedge-bird [in Aristotle] (type of bird that is "friends" with the lark)
  • Selachia [maybe Translingual?] (selachians collectively)
  • sepiae [pl. of "sepia"]
  • serranus [in Aristotle] (type of deep-sea fish (see Serranus))
  • shoal-fishes [in Aristotle; likely SOP] (group of fish; the ryades)
  • silphe [in Aristotle] (type of insect)
  • sitta [in Aristotle] (nuthatch)
  • smaris [in Aristotle] (type of wrasse; changes colours depending on the season (black in the spring, white thereafter) (see Ancient Greek σμᾰρίς (smarís)))
  • smyraena [in Aristotle] (muraena; fish that is "mottled and weakly"; contrasted with similar smyrus ("some" consider them to be male and female of the same species))
  • smyrus [in Aristotle] (type of fish with one uniform colour (like that of a pine tree) and teeth "inside and out" (see Latin entry))
  • smyxon [in Aristotle] (type of grey mullet)
  • snipe [in Aristotle] (apparently a type of insect)
  • soft-head [in Aristotle] (the shrike)
  • sparus [in Aristotle] (type of fish (see Latin entry))
  • sphondyle [in Aristotle] (type of insect/arthropod; also called the "knuckle-beetle" and the same size as the grape-beetle)
  • sphyraena [in Aristotle] (type of fish that swims in shoals (see Ancient Greek σφῡ́ραινᾰ (sphū́raina)))
  • starry dog-fish [in Aristotle]
  • synagris [in Aristotle] (type of fish with four pairs of gills and a gall-bladder near the gut)
  • synodon [in Aristotle] (type of carnivorous fish that swims in shoals, identified as Dentex (but see also synodont))
  • tenthredo, tenthredon [in Aristotle] (ground wasp; speckled and about as broad as a bee)
  • tethya [in Aristotle] (described as being a testacean entirely enveloped in shell, showing no flesh; mentioned both alongside ascidians and as synonymous with them (see Tethya))
  • tetrix [in Aristotle] (type of bird that builds its nests in low-lying shrubs; synonym of ourax)
  • tettigometra [in Aristotle] (nymph; likely specifically refers to tettigonium (cicada) nymphs)
  • tettigonium, tettigonia [in Aristotle] (type of small cicada; cicadelle (see Latin entry))
  • teuthus [in Aristotle] (type of squid, including or identical to Todarodes sagillatus; see citation at teuthis)
  • thos [in Aristotle] (civet)
  • thraupis [in Aristotle] (type of bird that feeds on thistles (see Thraupis))
  • thritta [in Aristotle] (apparently a type of fish)
  • thrush [in Aristotle] (type of wrasse; changes colours depending on the season (black in the spring, white thereafter))
  • tilon [in Aristotle] (type of fish that spawns near beaches)
  • trichia, trichiae [in Aristotle] (type of fish; perhaps the same as the trichias)
  • trichias [in Aristotle] (type of fish that breeds twice a year; develops from the trichis)
  • trichis [in Aristotle] (type of fish or stage of a fish's life cycle that comes from the membras and develops into the trichias)
  • trigle [in Aristotle] (type of fish; apparently the red mullet)
  • trochilus [in Herodotus and Aristotle] (Old World bird; identified with the sandpiper in a translation of Aristotle; cleans the teeth of the crocodile)
  • trygon [in Aristotle] (type of deep-sea cartilaginous fish (see Latin entry))
  • white gudgeon [in Aristotle; maybe SOP] (type of fish)
Cinnamons
  • areho [possibly just a transcription of Latin]
  • asypha [possibly just a transcription of Latin]
  • duaca [possibly just a transcription of Latin]
  • gizir [possibly just a transcription of Latin]
  • iriagia [possibly just a transcription of Latin]
  • moto [possibly just a transcription of Latin]
Diseases or Ailments (as described in ancient or archaic texts)
  • apthæ [in Hippocratic Corpus]
  • ascarides [in Hippocratic Corpus] (described in one place as being "purged away")
  • branchos [in Aristotle] (disease of pigs involving swelling around the windpipe and jaws, which can also attack the foot and ear, causes the neighbouring parts to rot, and finishes in the lungs (see Ancient Greek βρᾰ́γχος (bránkhos)))
  • causus [in Hippocratic Corpus] (ardent fever)
  • clerus [in Aristotle] (parasite; disease of a beehive in which small worms proliferate and a sort of cobweb grows over the hive; results in "lassitude on the part of the bees" and a bad odour)
  • craurus [in Aristotle] (two distinct diseases of pigs: one causing pain and heaviness in the head, the other causing diarrhea; also a disease of cattle that attacks the lungs)
  • crysipelas [in Hippocratic Corpus] (formed from "defluxions upon the throat)
  • disease of the stone [possibly a calque of Ancient Greek; in the context of diseases that are not externally obvious] (kidney stones?)
  • dry cholera [in Hippocratic Corpus] (symptoms include bloating, pain in the sides and loins, and constipation)
  • epinyctis [in Hippocratic Corpus] (skin disease)
  • hepialus [in Hippocratic Corpus] (intermittent fever common in warm climates)
  • herpes exedens [in Hippocratic Corpus]
  • heteroglaucia [in Aristotle] (a disease of the eye)
  • heteroglaucus [in Aristotle; adj.] (having heteroglaucia)
  • lichen alphos [in Hippocratic Corpus]
  • leucophlegmasiae [pl.; in Hippocratic Corpus] (see leucophlegmatic)
  • leucophlegmatia [in Hippocratic Corpus] (state of being leucophlegmatic)
  • nonan [in Hippocratic Corpus] (see quartan, septan, etc.}}
  • nymphia [in Aristotle] (disease of horses in which a horse stands still and droops its head when it hears flute music, and runs off at a gallop when mounted, displaying "great languor, and heavy breathing")
  • procidentia ani [in Hippocratic Corpus] (prolapse of the anus)
  • satyriasmus [in Hippocratic Corpus]
  • squama aeris [in Hippocratic Corpus; seen as squama æris]
Literary/Rhetorical Devices
  • paean (type of meter: either one long syllable followed by three short ones, or three short syllables followed by one long one)
  • parison (parisosis?)
  • paromoeosis (repetition of a word at the end of each section/line of a sentence)
Materials/Substances
  • cedar honey [in Hippocratic Corpus]
  • cyanus [mentioned multiple times in the Iliad] (material used in armour, a cup)
  • mitys [in Aristotle] (pungent, black substance spread by bees at the entrance of their hives; can be used as a salve for bruises and suppurating sores)
  • opsian (type of stone (mined(?) along the Eastern coast of Africa in the 1st century))
  • pale gold (some sort of gold alloy or type of impure gold)
  • pitch-wax [in Aristotle] (greasy substance past the entrance of a beehive)
  • phycus [in Aristotle] (substance of a pale yellow colour that is/was carried into the Hellespont by the Euxine; said to come from the phycus (plant))
  • spodos [in Hippocratic Corpus] ("Illyrian spodos" used in treatment of ulcers)
  • styrax (the gum of the tree)
  • sweet wine [in Aristotle's Meteorology] (non-intoxicating "wine"; contains fat)
Misc. Objects
Months in Ancient Greece (Attic unless otherwise indicated)
Plants
Plants mentioned in ancient texts
  • Note: these are often borrowings from Latin or Greek, or literal translations
  • aesculus [in Virgil's Georgics] (see Latin entry)
  • bryonia [in Hippocratic Corpus] (see Latin entry)
  • byblus [found in ancient Greece]
  • callyntrum [in Aristotle] (flowering plant; pollinated by bees)
  • cnecus [in Aristotle] (plant with a seed resembling a certain butterfly's egg (see cnecos))
  • cornel-tree [in Plutarch] (cornel)
  • crambe [in Aristotle] (see Latin entry)
  • dorycnium [in Dryden's translation of Plutarch's "Life of Demetrius"] (poisonous plant; see Latin dorycnion and it's Greek origin, δορύκνιον (dorúknion))
  • epipetrum [in Hippocratic Corpus] (leaves used in cataplasms for ulcers)
  • flos æris [in Hippocratic Corpus] (apparently a part of the tithymallus (see below))
  • grana gnidia [in Hippocratic Corpus] (medicinal; presumably just the seeds of a plant)
  • melilot-clover [in Aristotle] (melilot)
  • orchades [plural; in Rhoades' translation of Virgil: "Fat olives, orchades, and radii / And bitter-berried pausians"] (possibly a flower or a fruit)
  • panther's-bane [in Aristotle] (type of plant poisonous to panthers and lions)
  • pausian [in Rhoades' translation of Virgil: "Fat olives, orchades, and radii / And bitter-berried pausians"]
  • perl-spelt [in Hippocratic Corpus] (chondrus)
  • pine-fruit (pine cone? used medicinally)
  • phycus [in Aristotle] (type of flower from which rouge was made)
  • radii [plural; in Rhoades' translation of Virgil: "Fat olives, orchades, and radii / And bitter-berried pausians"]
  • raphanus [in Aristotle] (see Raphanus; also called "crambe or cabbage")
  • sacchari [possibly just a transcription from Latin] (type of "reed"; maybe sugarcane)
  • seseli shrub [in Aristotle] (see Ancient Greek σέσελῐς (séselis) and seseli)
  • strychnos [in Hippocratic Corpus] (see Latin entry)
  • summer wheat [in Hippocratic Corpus; maybe SOP]
  • sulphium [in Hippocratic Corpus] (likely Ferula)
  • tiphe [in Aristotle] (type of spelt fed to pigs)
  • tithymallus [in Hippocratic Corpus] (see Latin tithymalus)
  • zostera (type of sea-plant (see Italian entry and Zostera))

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Air Force (including words related to Airplanes)

[page numbers refer to cites that can be found in 1996, SR-71 Revealed: The Inside Story, by Richard H. Graham, Col. USAF (Ret), Zenith Press.]

Air Force Acronyms & Initialisms

[page numbers refer to cites that can be found in 1996, SR-71 Revealed: The Inside Story, by Richard H. Graham, Col. USAF (Ret), Zenith Press; terms may include espionage and reconnaissance acronyms]

  • ACC (Air Combat Command)
  • AD [p. 56] (aerodynamic disturbances)
  • ADI [p. 73, 85] (attitude director indicator)
  • ADP (advanced development projects)
  • ADS [p. 60, 61] (accessory drive system)
  • AFCS [p. 68] (automatic flight control system (autopilot))
  • AFLC [p. 92] (Air Force Logistics command)
  • AIC [p. 56, 58, 69] (air inlet computer)
  • AIM (air intercept missile)
  • AMS (Avionics Maintenance Squadron)
  • ANS [p. 65] (astro-inertial navigation system)
  • APW [p. 65] (automatic pitch warning)
  • ARCP (air refueling control point)
  • ARCT [p. 150] (air refueling control time)
  • BIT [p. 68] (built-in-test)
  • CAPRE [p. 82] (capability reconnaissance)
  • CG [p. 46] (centre of gravity)
  • CINCLANT [p. 195] (Commander In Chief Atlantic)
  • CINCSAC (Commander In Chief SAC)
  • CIP [p. 56] (compressor inlet pressure)
  • CIT [p. 56] (compressor inlet temperature)
  • CR [p. 186] (combat ready)
  • CSD [p. 63] (constant speed drive)
  • DAFICS [p. 68] (digital automatic flight and inlet control system)
  • DCI [p. 95] (director of central intelligence)
  • DEF [abbreviation; p. 74, 75] (pronounced /dɛf/) (defensive (systems (attitude)))
  • DIA (Director of Intelligence Agency [possibly a mistake for "Defense Intelligence Agency"?])
  • DPM (drips per minute)
  • DPR (duct pressure ratio)
  • DV [p. 93] (distinguished visitor)
  • EAR [p. 163] (end air refueling (point))
  • EGT [p. 94, 153] (exhaust gas temperature)
  • EIP [p. 84] (EMR Improvement Program)
  • EMR [p. 84] (electro-magnetic reconnaissance; electro-magnetic recorder)
  • ENP (engine nozzle position)
  • EOB [p. 83, 206] (electronic order of battle)
  • EPT (effective performance time)
  • FCF [p. 214] (functional check flight)
  • FCS [p. 79] (fire control system)
  • FRS [p. 85] (flight reference system)
  • FTD [p. 194] (Foreign Technology Division)
  • FYDP (Five Year Defense Plan (budget))
  • GCA (ground-controlled approach)
  • HSI [p. 73] (horizontal situation indicator)
  • IGV [p. 48] (inlet guide vane)
  • IP [p. 80] (initial point)
  • IP (instructor pilot)
  • IPD [p. 83] (inflight processor and display)
  • IPIR [p. 181] (initial photo interpretation report)
  • I & W [p. 96] (indications and warning)
  • JRC [p. 95] (Joint Reconnaissance Center)
  • KOOM (Kadena officers' open mess)
  • MPC [p. 181] (mobile processing center)
  • MRS [p. 74] (mission recorder (or recording) system)
  • NASP (National Aerospace Plane)
  • NWS [p. 91] (nose wheel steering)
  • OBC [p. 82] (optical bar camera)
  • OER (officer efficiency report)
  • OPSPLAN (operational plan)
  • PACAF [p. 193] (Pacific Air Force)
  • PARPRO [p. 95] (Peacetime Aerial Reconnaissance Program)
  • PEM [p. 191] (pronounced /pɪm/ or jokingly /pɪmp/) (program element monitor)
  • PR [p. 193, 199] (programs and resources)
  • PSD [p. 118, 140, 180] (Physiological Support Division)
  • PVD [p. 180, 184] (peripheral vision device)
  • RCD [p. 82] (recorder correlator display)
  • RCR (runway condition reading)
  • RD (rapid decompression)
  • RSO (Reconnaissance Systems Officer)
  • RW (Reconnaissance Wing)
  • SECDEF (alt. case form of SecDef)
  • SES [p. 57] (shock expulsion sensor)
  • SIF [p. 74] (selective identification feature)
  • SJA [p. 187] (staff judge advocate)
  • SRC [p. 96] (Strategic Reconnaissance Center)
  • SRS (Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron)
  • SRW (Strategic Reconnaissance Wing)
  • STAN/EVAL (standardization/evaluation)
  • TDI [p. 73] (triple display indicator)
  • TEOC [p. 82] (technical objective camera)
  • TR [p. 64] (transformer rectifier)
  • UCD (urine collection device)
  • VLO [p. 217] (very low observable)
Anatomy (as described in ancient/archaic texts)
  • back-stay [in Aristotle] (sinew in the back)
  • caput epididymis [in Aristotle] (head of the epididymis)
  • colenes [plural form; in Aristotle] ("limb bones", i.e. bones of the thigh and shin)
  • coronary vein
  • corpus epididymis [in Aristotle] (body of the epididymis)
  • cotyledon [in Aristotle] (body part in a crustacean; perhaps closer to the original Greek word)
  • echinus [in Aristotle] (the omasum: 3rd stomach in a ruminant)
  • enystrum [in Aristotle] (the abomasum: 4th stomach in a ruminant)
  • epitonos [in Aristotle] (sinew also called the "back-stay")
  • epomis [in Aristotle] (part of the neck near the back; the "shoulder point")
  • gastrocnemia [in Aristotle] (the calf)
  • gnomon [in Aristotle] (age-indicating teeth shed in the fourth year of a donkey's life)
  • hemiastragal [in Aristotle] (a sort of partial astragalus; found in the lynx)
  • hepatitis [in Aristotle; in "vein hepatitis"] (referring to a vein in the arm)
  • hucklebone [in Aristotle] (apparently a more general small, connecting bone)
  • hypoglutis [in Aristotle] (part of the groin outside of the thigh and buttocks)
  • hypozoma [in Aristotle] (organ for perceiving odours found in insects)
  • hypozoma [in Aristotle] (organ in various animals, including birds and cartilaginous fish; apparently part of the digestive system; mentioned as being near the uterus of non-viviparous animals (contrasted with animals with a "low" uterus))
  • insected [in Aristotle] (having insections in its body)
  • jejenum [in Galen] (part of the digestive tract)
  • keraia [in Aristotle; seen as plural "keraiae"] (part of the ankle, called "horns")
  • mamma [in Aristotle] (nipple, including that of a man)
  • mantle-sac [in Aristotle; of molluscs] (see mantle)
  • midriff [in Aristotle] (apparently the diaphragm (possibly just a bad translation))
  • mecon [in Aristotle] (coil-like organ in snails and shell-fish; also translated literally as "poppy")
  • mytis [in Aristotle] (organ in a mollusc)
  • os calcis [in Hippocratic Corpus; not italicized]
  • os femoris [in Hippocratic Corpus; not italicized]
  • os sacrum [in Hippocratic Corpus; not italicized]
  • os tibiæ [in Hippocratic Corpus; not italicized]
  • os uteri [in Aristotle; not italicized]
  • plectrum [in Aristotle] (bone in the ankle (possibly the part that sticks out?))
  • polydactylous [in Aristotle] (having multiple digits (examples of polydactylous animals include humans, dogs, and pigs))
  • poppy [in Aristotle] (see mecon)
  • poppy-juice [in Aristotle] (the fluid contained within/produced by the poppy/mecon)
  • sanguineous [in Aristotle] (of an animal; having blood)
  • sepidium [in Aristotle] (body of a young sepia)
  • sharded [in Aristotle; of an insect] (having shards over its wings)
  • spermatic vein [in Aristotle]
  • splenitis [in Aristotle; in "vein splenitis"] (referring to a vein in the arm)
  • thoric duct [in Aristotle] (apparently something like the vas deferens (carries sperm); found in sharks)
Ancient Greece
  • bule [in Aristotle] (mentioned alongside "council" as a democratic office of government)
  • canathrum [in Plutarch's Life of Agesilaus (see quote at tragelaphus)] (wooden chair or chariot in the shape of a griffin or tragelaphus on which children and young virgins were carried in processions in Sparta)
  • diakonia
  • episode [in Aristotle's Poetics] (the portion of a Tragedy that comes between two whole choral songs)
  • eutrapelia [could just be code-switching/transliteration of Ancient Greek]
  • gymnopædiæ (alternative form of Gymnopaedia)
  • hipparchus (hipparch)
  • iambi [pl.; in "the legislator should not allow youth to be spectators of iambi or of comedy [...]" with the implication that iambi are inappropriate for the young]
  • laurel-spray [SOP?]
  • lepidôtus [used in translation of Herodotus (not italicized); possibly just a transcription of another language]
  • medimns [plural of presumable "medimn", synonym of medimnus]
  • medimni [alt. plural of "medimnus"]
  • parode [in Aristotle's Poetics] (the whole first statement of the chorus in a Tragedy)
  • perioecus [in Aristotle; in "the Argives, after their army had been cut to pieces [...] were compelled to admit to citizenship some of their perioeci"]
  • phiditia [in Plutarch's "Life of Cleomenes" (Spartan context): "he reproved one of his friends for entertaining some strangers with nothing but barley bread and black broth, such diet as they usually had in their phiditia"]
  • philippic (coin minted under Philip of Macedon)
  • probuli [pl.; in Aristotle] (oligarchical institution: "body which convenes the supreme authority in the state")
  • prytanize [possible nonce word; used in Aristophanes]
  • rhetra [pl. (sing. rhetron?); used twice in Dryden's translation of Plutarch's "Life of Agis"] (some sort of legal proposal)
  • scytal (probably an alt. form of scytale)
  • tiring [in the Iliad] (part of a woman's headwear)
  • tripod [Ancient Greece] (some sort of tripod that goes over a fire, can hold water for boiling)
  • Troezen (Ancient Greek city--current definition is inadequate for most ancient uses)
Ancient World
  • aliptes (one who anoints the body with oil [see Latin entry])
  • arm-rod (part of a shield)
  • axis in peritrochio [in Hippocratic Corpus; mentioned alongside wedges and levers] (type of simple tool)
  • choragos [seen in Plotinus's "First Ennead" in a figurative sense: "this Being—the Choragos of all existence"] (chorus leader; alternative spelling of choragus)
  • cinnabar ["collected in drops from trees"]
  • encratitic (relating to Encratism)
  • exprætor (probably ex-praetor?)
  • four in hand [attributive; of a chariot]
  • litræ [pl.; singular presumably litra] (Roman measure of weight)
  • mimi (type of Roman stage play) [in Marcus Aurelius]
  • mocrotu (type of incense)
  • monache (broad cloth used in ancient times)
  • sagmatogene (type of cloth used in the ancient world)
  • scytala [in Plutarch, "Agesilaus and Pompey Compared"] (see scytale)
  • Troglodyte [in Plutarch's "Life of Antony"] (Troglodytes: apparently a specific people/nation)
  • wain (another name of the constellation "the Bear" [according to the Odyssey])
Biology (general or miscellaneous)
  • ecological fitting (successful integration (for the organism in question) into a new habitat, thanks to adaptations from a previous environment)
  • ecological succession (change in the species composition of an ecological community over time)
  • refugium (more general than current def: anywhere in which an organism may take refuge from a danger)
  • RNA interference (biological process in which RNA molecules inhibit gene expression or translation, by neutralizing targeted mRNA molecules; syn: post-transcriptional gene silencing)
Biology (as described in ancient/archaic texts)
  • after-pig [in Aristotle; "metachoerum" in another text] (runt of a litter of piglets)
  • ambidental [in Aristotle; noun and adj.; describing a class of animals}}
  • animalculae [pl. noun, in Aristotle; sing. = animalcula?; "animalcule" used in the same work] (animalcula/-um )
  • convolute [in Aristotle; noun] (an analogous organ? (sperm and eggs seem to be considered convolutes of one another))
  • diaphysis [in Aristotle] (a cloven structure)
  • emprosthuretic [in Aristotle; of an animal] (opposite of opisthuretic)
  • hippomanes [in Aristotle] (the substance/thing from which the philtre is derived: either (a) from a growth on a newborn foal's forehead that is black, broad, and round, and slightly smaller than a dried fig, and which the mother bites off or (b) from excretions from a mare's genitals, both occurring when a mare is "wind-impregnated" and runs to the point of exhaustion)
  • nonambidental [in Aristotle; see "ambidental" above; also spelled "non-ambidental" in the same work]
  • opisthuretic [in Aristotle; of an animal] (opposite of emprosthuretic; seems to have some relation to mating)
  • pabulum [in Galen] (liquidy substance produced in stomach during digestion)
  • podagra [in a hoofed animal]
  • residuum [in Aristotle; in "outlet of the residuum" in fish] (excrement? semen?)
  • scut (runt of a litter (of pigs))
  • sow-virus [in Aristotle; in "they have to put the boar to the sow repeatedly owing to her dropping after intercourse what is called the sow-virus"] (likened to a hippomanes (first sense mentioned above))
  • spiritus [in Aristotle; in "As the parts [...] are on the point of differentiating they are distended by the spiritus; this is clearer in males in the testes, but appears also about the breasts" and "as to the pleasure which accompanies coition it is due to emission not only of semen, but also of a spiritus, the coming together of which precedes the emission"] (something contained in the semen that conveys the principle of the soul)
  • strangalides [in Aristotle] ("knots", such as in a woman's breast, due to a build-up of milk in that spot, according to Aristotle)
  • superfoetally [in Aristotle] (see superfetation)
Botany
  • nectar guide (marking on a flower that direct pollinators to nectaries at the bases of flowers)
  • non-preference defense (deterring consumption (of the plant) without impacting the consumer's digestion)
  • secondary plant metabolite (metabolite that is used for something other than plant growth or reproduction (e.g. defense))
Christianity
Entomology
  • accessory gland (gland that produces (in females) lubricants and glues to keep eggs affixed to surface where they are laid and to each other or (in males) lubricants and protection for sperm)
  • air sac (modified extension of the trachia in some insects)
  • asynchronous muscle (flight muscle paired with another muscle, where when one muscle is contracted the other relaxes, and vice versa, powering flight mechanically rather than through independent nerve impulses)
  • DVAV dance (dorso-ventral abdominal vibration dance)
  • degree day [similar to def 2] (measure of heat units above a lower threshold above which an insect can develop, accumulated over 24 hours)
  • direct flight (form of flight in which wing beats are directly controlled by muscles attached to sclerites)
  • dorso-ventral abdominal vibration dance (dance used by honey bees, possibly to regulate foraging activities according to seasonal availability)
  • ecdysteroid moulting hormone (triggers replication of underlying epidermial cells)
  • eusociality [either more specific than current def or another sense] (type of social organization including (1) cooperative brood care (including care of offspring from other individuals), (2) overlapping generations within a colony of adults, and (3) a caste system, involving a division of labor into a small reproductive and large non-reproductive groups)
  • filter chamber (adaptation of the gut in sap feeders that allows for removal of excess water and sugars, while concentrating other nutrients for digestion)
  • foregut (foremost part of the alimentary canal, where food is ingested, broken down, and sometimes stored; includes mouth, pharynx, crop (sometimes), and proventriculus)
  • hindgut (hindmost part of the alimentary canal, where water, salts, and remaining nutrients are reabsorbed; includes the ileum, colon, and rectum)
  • indirect flight (form of flight in which muscles are attached to the notum and distort the thorax to produce wing strokes)
  • JH (juvenile hormone)
  • labium (structure in insect mouthparts like a lower lip; helps hold and manipulate food)
  • midgut (middle part of the alimentary canal, where food is digested and nutrients absorbed)
  • migratory syndrome [possibly SOP] (set of behaviours and traits that appear before migration and are designed to offset the strains of migration)
  • nuptial gift (gift such as food or a spermatophylax given by a male insect to win over a female)
  • oogenesis-flight syndrome (flight syndrome in which oogenesis, and sometimes reproductive development, diapauses)
  • ostium [subsense of def 1] (one-way valve allowing hemolymph into the dorsal vessel)
  • palp [current def might need expansion/splitting] (organ in maxillae and labium that houses smell and taste receptors)
  • peritrophic membrane (structure in midgut that compartmentalizes food boli and is excreted with them)
  • pin, pinning [specialized sense]
  • pinning block (block that ensures proper spacing of labels of an insect specimen while pinning)
  • point (small, triangular piece of cardstock paper used for displaying insects)
  • point, pointing ((method of) displaying insects too small to be pinned by gluing them to a point)
  • raptorial [of legs] (adapted for holding; in insects, often with enlarged and spiny tibia and femur)
  • round dance (dance performed by honey bees for the purpose of advertizing the presence of food within about 15 metres of the next)
  • sclerotization [specialized sense] (cross-linking of proteins in the chitin matrix of the exocuticle in tanning)
  • seminal vesicle (organ where sperm is stored until mating occurs)
  • spermathecal gland (gland that supplies nutrients to the spermatheca)
  • spermatophore [possibly covered by def 2] (packet of sperm, included in a spermatophylax)
  • spreading board (board used for pinning and drying insect specimens in preparation for display)
  • stadium [subdef of last sense] (duration of an instar (i.e. how long it lasts))
  • sternum (ventral side of an insect's body)
  • stomodaeum (foregut)
  • stylet [subdef of zoology sense] (highly modified mandibles and maxillae in the piercing-sucking mouthparts of some insects, mainly (exclusively?) hemipterans)
  • synchronous muscle (flight muscle that is stimulated by a nerve impulse for each wing beat)
  • tanning (hardening of the exocuticle after moulting)
  • tripod gait (insect walking gait, in which a fore and hind leg on one side and middle leg on the other are on the ground at any given time)
  • trunk (main body of a myriapod)
  • vas deferens [def might need to be modified to be more inclusive of variations in anatomy]
  • ventral nerve cord [possibly SOP]
Epidemiology/Pathology
  • biological transmission (transfer of a disease-causing organism after it has developed or reproduced in the vector)
  • etiological agent (organism that directly causes disease in another organism)
  • horizontal transmission (transfer of disease-causing organisms between hosts and vectors, or vectors and other vectors of the same generation)
  • intermediate host (host in which a disease-causing organism reproduces asexually or does not reproduce)
  • mechanical transmission (transfer of disease-causing organisms from a vector to a vertebrate, without the disease-causing organism undergoing any development)
  • vector competence (ability of a vector to acquire, maintain, and transmit a disease-causing organism
  • vertical transmission (transfer of disease-causing organisms from one generation of vectors to the next)
Fur trade
  • canot du maitre [Canadian fur trade; in "...whose canots du maitre carried trade goods westward in the summer and supplies westward in the spring and great cargoes of furs on the homeward journey in high summer"] (shorter, 24-27 foot canoe, 50-60 inches wide, holding 4-6 men with provisions and gear; 1.5 ton capacity)
  • canot du nord [Canadian fur trade; in "The hivernants...made their annual trip from the interior in lighter birch-bark canots du nord..."] (longer, 32-36 foot canoe, 60-66 inches wide, holding 7-12 men with provisions and gear; 3-4 ton capacity)
  • mangeur du lard [fur trade; "The Montreal-Fort William run was accomplished with amazing efficiency by the mangeurs du lard whose canots du maitre..."]
  • Montreal canoe (canot du maitre)
  • north canoe (or "North canoe"?) (canot du nord)
Law (including Catholic Canon Law)
  • affidavit [in Plato] (broader sense, referring to a spoken statement in a court defense)
  • in solidum [referring to appointments of parish priests] (jointly? in a group?)
  • pro hac vice [secular US law; Catholic use] (for this term)
  • propositum [in "To more faithfully fulfil their propositum [...] consecrated women can form associations"]
  • useful day [Canon Law; in phrases like "within ten useful days [from, e.g., the issuance of a decree]"]
Mathematics/Geometry
  • componendo [in Euclid, Archimedes; italicized]
  • (in) continued proportion [of a set of numbers; possibly SOP, but not covered at continued]
  • dirimendo [in translation of Archimedes; italicized]
  • hyperboloid of revolution [see "paraboloid of revolution" below; possibly separable as "hyperboloid" + "of revolution"]
  • linear [of a number] (cf. "plane" and "solid"; likely a number that is not the product of any numbers, and can therefore only produce a line)
  • medial [technical definition in Euclidean geometry]
  • paraboloid of revolution [possibly separable as "paraboloid" + "of revolution"] (see image at Paraboloid)
Medicine, etc. (Modern)
  • heat prostration [in "deaths from heat prostration" during a time of extreme summer heat]
  • malnutrition [technical] (deficiency, imbalance, or excess of nutrients in one's diet (so obesity is malnutrition))
  • PMI (postmortem interval)
Medicine (Pre-Modern)
  • anadosis [in Hippocratic Corpus] (some sort of bodily process involving the blood; distribution of nutrients throughout the body?)
  • caricum [in Hippocratic Corpus] (type of medicine)
  • chalcitis [in Hippocratic Corpus] (type of alum with various medicinal uses)
  • costive [noun; in Aristotle] (something that reduces diarrhea/thickens the stool)
  • exfoliate [in Hippocratic Corpus; intransitive verb; of broken bone]
  • deliquium animi [in Hippocratic Corpus] (deliquium/fainting?)
  • eneorema [in Hippocratic Corpus; urine described as having a "cloudy eneorema"]
  • enfarcted (obstructed? but most likely synonym of infarcted)
  • exsangous [in Hippocratic Corpus; of a bone] (being deprived of blood)
  • hip-bath [in Hippocratic Corpus]
  • lethargus [in Hippocratic Corpus; in a human]
  • lumbricus [in Hippocratic Corpus; as plural "lumbrici"] (see Latin entry)
  • melanteria [in Hippocratic Corpus] (used at least sometimes in dry form, applied to, e.g. a hemorrhoid)
  • mola uteri [possibly archaic]
  • monoculus [in Hippocratic Corpus] (type of bandaging; listed alongside the "simple," "slightly winding," "rhombus", etc.)
  • peplium [in Hippocratic Corpus] (some sort of medicinal herb)
  • pneuma [in Hippocratic Corpus; Galen] (travels through blood vessels; lightest and thinnest substance in the body; likely a hypothetical vitalist substance)
  • sesamoides [sing.; in Hippocratic Corpus] (something that "purges upwards")
  • spatula [in Hippocratic Corpus; in "a thin spatula is to be pushed through these holes which have been burned" (in cauterization)]
  • srychnos [in Hippocratic Corpus] (its juice was used medicinally, in ointments)
  • strangle [in Hippocratic Corpus; "if the flesh which surrounds the bone [...] become inflamed and strangled"]
  • subsanguineous [in Hippocratic Corpus; describing people, and their likelihood of being affected by a disease]
  • thymia [in Hippocratic Corpus] (warts? found on the glans penis)
Middle Ages
  • lidus, lida (a semi-free peasant in between a serf/servus and a colonus)
Military
  • AINav
  • AOL [military] ("absent on leave" maybe?)
  • breast-work [possibly archaic] (armour covering the breast)
  • grounding [in (ancient) military context--though it might be more general: "the mode of grounding and taking up arms"]
  • lance [late Medieval French army] (a military unit consisting of a heavily armed horseman and his attendants)
  • morale officer
  • ribauld [from French] (early muzzle-loaded artillery; smaller ones were predecessors of the musket)
  • snafued [adjectival use]
Nautical/Navy
  • APA (class of ship?)
  • bilge [intransitive verb; US navy slang] (to be expelled, possibly limited to training)
  • black gang (a department or section of crew on a ship, possibly the engine room crew?)
  • cercurus, cercuri [in English; seen more than once]
  • chief [navy]
  • clipping shack (SOP?) (room on a ship containing ammo clips, etc.)
  • clip shack (clipping shack)
  • flagbag (probably just bags containing signal/semaphore flags)
  • jack-box ["telephone jack-box"; on a ship]
  • Kohler [in "The Kohler coughed, backfired, and began to chug like an old Ford"; located on a navy ship] (engine (genericized or brand?))
  • lie to [referring to a ship without sails]
  • OTC [US navy; in "The OTC ordered the Caine to drop out"]
  • pad eye [nautical]
  • pointer [in "The engine-room pointer answered"]
  • quarterdeck (in a navy building)
  • slip hook
  • stream [intransitive verb; navy: referring to the deployment of a paravane]
  • TBS [in "...stay fixed in the wheelhouse, where he could hear the TBS and watch the helmsman]
  • Title B [navy; "Title B inventory", "Title B gear"] (some sort of category of equipment; includes things like snatch blocks)
  • wind scoop [in "Jorgensen yanked the tin wind scoop out of the opening [of the starboard scuttle]"]
Pest control
Philosophy/Dialectic
Retail
  • production [in grocery stores] (preparing food for sale, such as cutting watermelon, slicing meat, etc.)
Science (general or miscellaneous)
Symbolic Logic, Logic, Set Theory
  • antitransitivity (the property illustrated by: ((Rxy + Ryz) → [not]Rxz))
  • argument instance (the argument resulting when the blanks of an argument form are filled in)
  • asymmetry (the property illustrated by: (Rxy → [not]Ryx); not to be confused with nonsymmetry)
  • axiom schema of abstraction (for any clearly stated condition, Sx, there exists a set B whose elements are exactly those objects which satisfy Sx)
  • axiom schema of separation (for every set A and every condition Sx there is a set B whose elements are exactly those members of A for which Sx holds)
  • bound variable [logic] (variable within the scope of a quantifier; opposite of free variable)
  • cogency (the property of an argument that is both inductively strong and has all true premises)
  • compound sentence (a sentence that either (a) contains one or more simple sentences and at least one compounding phrase or (b) contains a compound subject or a compound predicate)
  • conclusion indicator [logic] (a word/phrase that signals a conclusion, such as: therefore, hence, thus, so, we may infer, consequently, it follows that...)
  • definitive description (a phrase that designates an object with a description that is satisfied by one, and only one, object)
  • field (in a 2-place relation, the union of the domain and the range)
  • imperfect [logic; of a syllogism, conclusion, proposition]
  • irreflexivity [logic] (in all cases for x, not Rxx; not to be confused with nonreflexivity)
  • logic-chopping
  • many-many (synonym of many-to-many)
  • many-one (synonym of many-to-one)
  • molecular formula (a wff that is not an atomic formula)
  • necessary [logic; adj (said of a premise)] (expressing necessity)
  • nonreflexivity [logic] (not in all cases for x, Rxx; in some cases for x, not Rxx; not to be confused with irreflexivity)
  • nonsymmetry (not in all cases for x and all cases for y, (Rxy → Ryx); (or) in some cases for x and some cases for y, Rxy and not Ryx; not to be confused with asymmetry)
  • nontransitivity (not in all cases for x, y, and z ((Rxy and Ryz) → Rxz; (or) in some cases for x, y, and z ((Rxy and Ryz) and not Rxz))
  • one-many (synonym of one-to-many)
  • one-one (synonym of one-to-one, injective)
  • perfect [logic; of a syllogism, conclusion, proposition]
  • per impossibile [logic] (by proving the impossibility of; defined in the Prior Analytics as "proving something impossible by means of a hypothesis conceded at the beginning")
  • philosopheme ([Aristotle's definition:] demonstrative inference; syllogism)
  • premise indicator [logic] (a word/phrase that signals a premise, such as: as, since, for, because, given that, for the reason that, inasmuch as...)
  • proper inclusion (the state of being a proper subset)
  • properly included (being a proper subset)
  • quantificational logic (logic of sentences involving quantifiers, predicates, and names, which investigates the properties that arguments, sentences, and sets of sentences have in virtue of their quantificational structure)
  • recursive definition [logic] (a definition with a basis, a recursive clause, and an extremal clause)
  • reflexivity (in all cases for x, Rxx; (or) in all cases for x ((x,x) is a member of R)
  • satisfaction (the quality of satisfying a set of conditions)
  • seriality (in all cases for x and some cases for y, Rxy)
  • singular term (a word or phrase that designates (or is meant to designate) an individual object; either a proper noun or a definite description (see above))
  • substitution instance (a wff that has a constant in place of the variable; expressed as Q(a/x), where the wff is identical to Q, except with a taking the place of x)
  • symmetric complement (synonym of symmetric difference)
  • symmetry (in all cases for x and y, (Rxy → Ryx)
  • truth-functional
  • truth-functional logic (the logic of truth-functional combinations of simple sentences, investigating the properties that arguments, sentences, and sets of sentences have in virtue of their truth-functional structure)
  • tva (initialism of truth value assignment; namely, the assignment of the value "true" or "false" to each of the atomic wffs of a language in symbolic logic; synonym of interpretation)
  • union axiom (for every set of sets A, there is some set C whose elements are all and only the elements of at least one B ∈ A)

By Word Type

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Alternative (or possibly so) Spellings (of words with existing entries)
Archaic (or likely so) Senses
  • campus (field? (specifically referring to a battle field))
  • connive [transitive; in "Out of reverence to Cato, he for a while connived her impurity and immodesty, but at length dismissed her" (in Life of Lucullus, Plutarch, Dryden translation)] (to pretend to be ignorant of in order to escape blame)
  • consilience [more literal sense] (coming together (e.g. of elements))
  • deprecate [intransitive? "deprecate for"]
  • distraught (more literal/physical sense: stretched apart?)
  • fossiles [in Aristotle] (stones that cannot be melted)
  • freak (sexual frenzy, agitation/aggression due to being in heat)
  • glose [verb]
  • impatience [in Life of Cimon, Plutarch, Dryden translation] (apparently an unwillingness/inability to suffer)
  • intellects [in "his intellects" (Life of Lucullus, Plutarch, Dryden translation)] (intellectual faculties; intellect)
  • minister [in "that which ministered chiefly to the accusation against him", in Plutarch's Life of Cimon] (aggravate?)
  • nothing loth/nothing loath (something along the lines of "whole-heartedly")
  • period [in Dryden's translation of Plutarch; e.g. "Any speeches, also, that he was present at, he would go over again with himself, and reduce into periods"] (sections? or perhaps "sentences", which is already in the entry)
  • raillier [noun] (apparently synonymous with railer)
  • require [with a verb in the infinitive; as in, e.g. "requires to drink"] (to need; same as sense 3, but with a verb)
  • safe (sure, certain)
  • side [in The Way of All Flesh, by Samuel Butler, ch. 11 ("Theobald posed as the most ardent lover imaginable, but, to use the vulgarism for the moment in fashion, it was all “side.”"); archaic slang]
  • siren [in Aristotle; apparently an adjective; in "the smaller [bee] siren, of a dun colour, the larger siren, black and speckled"]
  • sompnour [used in 1924 translation of Aristophanes]
  • spirituous [in Aristotle's Meteorology] (made of, or like, spirit (air)]
  • standby ["[at a distance] vision [...] slips away, not finding the stand(-)by of the difference between part and part"]
Borrowings (misc.)
Borrowings (Latin)
  • ad quem [ecclesial legal context]
  • ad quo [ecclesial legal context]
  • ad ulteriora [canon law] (without the presence of (the accused)?)
  • alternando [italicized; in "[if A is to B what C is to D] it follows alternando that [A is to C what B is to D]"
  • causatum [in Aristotle, discussing causes]
  • ex aequali (used in discussing ratios in Euclid's geometry)
  • intra [in footnotes (like other Latin terms like ibid., loc. cit., etc.]
  • pulmo marinus
  • sub fin. [was italicized]
Figurative Uses (of words with existing entries)
  • cadenza [figurative; in "cadenza of obscenity]
  • case-hardened [figurative use by Ulysses in the Odessey in reference to himself]
  • doughty [figurative, of an ancient military helmet]
  • elephantine [figurative; in "elephantine gallantry"]
  • freshet [figurative]
  • fur [of water] (to roughen the surface of; figurative version of def 1)
  • head [in "of his own head"] (initiative)
  • nombril [figurative, non-heraldic sense]
  • purveyor [less literal sense; purveyors of immorality, bad ideas, etc.]
  • star (leading figure; outstanding representative)
  • straw [transitive verb; of trees being strewn by a hurricane] (possibly a variant of "strew")
  • sulphurous [in "sulphurous cursing ensued"]
(More) Literal Uses (of words with existing entries)
  • coleopterous [in Aristotle] (having sheathed wings; mostly overlaps with existing sense)
  • deforce [non legal sense]
  • discretion [more literal sense; in Aristotle: "water, snow, and hail [...] are concretions in the same way as thunder and lightning are discretions"]
  • laxed [more literal/physical, non-linguistic context]
(Possible) Nonce/Nonsense Words

The following were all found in a navy/nautical context, so some may not actually be nonce words:

  • bandersnatch [possibly just a nonce/nonsense word]
  • chortlewort [possibly just a nonce/nonsense word]
  • doppelganger [probable nonce word] (thingy; thingamajigger)
  • dudelsak [possibly just a nonce/nonsense word]
  • galumph [transitive; possible nonce word]
  • jaxo [nonce/nonsense word]
  • rath [in "starboard rath"; possible nonsense word]
  • snozzle [possibly just a nonce/nonsense word]
  • varse [possibly just a nonce/nonsense word]
  • vorpale [possibly just a nonce word]
Slang/Informal Language (mid-20th century)
  • caulk off [US navy slang] (to sleep)
  • funk [verb; in "he would have funked it badly"] (possible typo for "flunk", but that doesn't seem to fit in the broader context)
  • Mohammedan [WWII era] (referring to (presumably sexual) fantasies; possibly has some relation to view of Mohammedans being polygamous)
  • slick [US, slang, mid-20th century] (a type of magazine; examples given are Esquire and the Ladies' Home Journal)

By Part of Speech

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Abbreviations
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Abbreviations
  • q.s. [in Hippocratic Corpus; in "Let there be two parts of the old grease to the fresh, and of the other things, q.s."]
  • /s [used at the end of letters, immediately preceding the name of the writer; seen in formal correspondence between Church prelates] (possibly "signed")
Adjectives
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Adjectives
Interjections
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Interjections
  • aiai [exclamation]
  • banzai (as a more negative exclamation; something like "yikes" or "yeesh")
  • soh [exclamation]
  • yoh
Nouns
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Compound Nouns
Miscellaneous
  • antithetic
  • athletæ [in Hippocratic Corpus] (plural of athlete?)
  • Boyard
  • brune [in Lucretius; possibly a substantive adjective; in "the black [woman] is a brune", speaking of the defects of various sorts of women]
  • carriage [in Aristotle; possibly just a bad translation] (passive movement of an inanimate object)
  • cerd
  • cerealia [pl.?; in Hippocratic Corpus] (type of food; possibly just cereal)
  • cotyledones [alt. pl. of cotyledon]
  • displasiology [in Plato]
  • drag [in an awestruck "what kind of drag do you have?" to an ensign, who gets a special invitation from an admiral]
  • ebullition [of fire; in "flame is the ebullition of a dry exhalation" in Aristotle's Meteorology]
  • excalcitration (possibly synonymous with calcitration (and definitely related))
  • excurvation
  • fal-lal
  • galiard (type/genre of musical composition in Renaissance)
  • infrastructure (the actual land infrastructure is bult on, as opposed to superstructure (see below))
  • instantaneity (invisibility (because of small size))
  • instrumentalisation (normal, non-philosophical sense)
  • Kallikak (a certain tribe of people)
  • malversator
  • naprotechnology
  • nesting (instinct-driven cleaning, organizing, and protective behaviour exhibited in the third trimester of pregnancy)
  • pandemian [apparently an epithet of Venus; in Lucretius]
  • pet [in "upon some displeasure and pet he had taken upon a childish and frivolous occasion, [he] threw himself headlong from the top of the house"]
  • pother ["in a pother"] (in a state of disturbance, confusion; extension of current sense)
  • Pr. [geographical abbreviation] (promontory?)
  • quilombola [mentioned as a group of people alongside indigenous and river peoples in the Amazon]
  • redact
  • scrae [seen in plural form]
  • screw (worn out old cow)
  • shorty [in reference to a male SO; heard in "Got Your Back", by T.I.)
  • sillicyprium
  • spousality (state/quality of being spousal)
  • stumblejohn
  • tangent [in "the cutoff tangent on Roi Island is 045"]
  • tonguing [in "The Wellerman"] (cutting strips of whale blubber to render into oil)
  • tradent (someone who passes on a tradition?)
  • trencherlet
  • tropic [in Epictetus: "Do not propose to me such a tropic"; possible misprint]
  • twitterlet
  • value [as in "create value" in business/economics]
Phrases
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Phrases
  • hold to bail [in "These officers were required to hold to bail the Prytanes, the Strategi, and the Hipparchi of the preceding year until their accounts had been audited"]
Prepositions
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Prepositional Phrases
Symbols
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Symbols
  • : (comparing pairs of parallels/analogous concepts: (A:B::B:C) = A is to B as B is to C)
Verbs
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Miscellaneous
  • article [in Plutarch's "Life of Dion": "the son of Dionysius, in despair of holding out longer for his father, capitulated, and articled with Dion to deliver up the castle with all the garrison soldiers and ammunition"] (either something like "negotiate," or falls under sense 3)
  • decoct [intransitive, in "decocting in the sun"] (something akin to etymological sense of "burn")
  • discover (out of) [intransitive]
  • esconce [reflexive, with "to"] (possibly a variant of "ensconce")
  • flesh [reflexive, in Plutarch's "Life of Caesar": "it had been agreed that they should each [...] make a thrust at him, and flesh themselves with his blood"]
  • make sure (to be sure; to have certainty; to think that something is or will be certainly the case)
  • putiate [verb; in "what causally putiates the belief or causally sustains it"]
  • search dingle and dell (to search all over)
  • stein [verb; in "their [foggara's] access shafts [were] regularly steined and capped with stone slabs"]
  • unthrid [in Rhoades' Aeneid]
  • vent (past participle of vent)
Phrasal Verbs
  • beat up ([transitive use of] to go diligently about in order to get (helpers or participants))
  • din into (inculcate through constant shouting)
  • lamb down (to lamb)
Verbalizations of nouns
  • artificer
  • cope [in "coped and crowned"; presumably related to the clerical garb sense of "cope"]
  • patent (land patent sense)

Other

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Terms encountered only as mentions
  • amanuensis (something along the lines of companion, friend)
  • announce [intransitive; with "for"]
  • biodynamics (branch of biology dealing with the activity of living organisms)
  • bum-towel (type of plant)
  • chanteur (male counterpart of a chanteuse)
  • coin of the realm (cash; change)
  • comes (advisor/companion to a Roman emperor; a companion star; a blood vessel accompanying another larger one)
  • con dolore [music notation; possibly translingual or simply SOP Italian] (sorrowfully)
  • cruising radius
  • cumrade (chamber-fellow)
  • demilune (half moon)
  • dextrosinistral (left-handed but capable of writing with the right hand)
  • Ditto (copier, mimeograph)
  • dixie (former $10 bill in Louisiana)
  • domine [Scotland; possibly Scots] (schoolmaster)
  • duello (code of conduct for duelling)
  • duplex [adj.; of an apartment] (having rooms on two connected floors)
  • encyclical [more general usage]
  • fallible [of information] (false; unreliable)
  • fixative (specifically: a fixer in the photography sense)
  • fortepiano (direction to play music loudly, then softly)
  • girasol (a plant/flower that turns towards the sun; a heliotrope)
  • gloss away (explain away)
  • gravity [figurative] (attraction, movement)
  • hound's piss (type of plant)
  • isolato (specifically, hermit or recluse who is out of sync with the physical/spiritual world in which they live)
  • itinerarium (Roman Catholic prayer from the breviary used for a person about to undertake a journey)
  • jar [British slang] (drink; alcoholic beverage)
  • lateral [adj] (describing the change in employment of a lateral (noun sense 4))
  • liquescent (tending to become liquid)
  • LOGO (programming language used to teach children how to use computers)
  • logomachy (a word game)
  • magistrate (distinction between US (inc. justice of the peace, civil officer, police judge) and UK (inc. members of executive government, monarch))
  • mare's fart (type of plant)
  • Metrodome/metrodome?
  • metroliner (high-speed railway)
  • mop (moppet, in the sense of rag doll)
  • municipium (self-governing town within the Roman Empire (as opposed to just any municipality))
  • niece (illigitimate daughter of a clergyman) [used to throw off suspicion of having broken the vow of celibacy)
  • neology (a neologism)
  • nephew [see "niece" above]
  • noctidiurnal [of ancient Mexican calenders] (pertaining to both day and night; based on a sequence of both night and day)
  • nocuous (bothersome)
  • novelette (cheaply sensational romance)
  • novitiate (condition of being a beginner (in any field))
  • numerist (one who attaches significance to numbers and numerology)
  • OD (initialism of: "officer of the day", "Old Dutch", "olive drab", or "overdrawn")
  • osé
  • parity (ability to give birth)
  • pay [archaic or obsolete] (pacify (a creditor by satisfying a debt))
  • peccatophobic (someone constantly afraid of sinning)
  • pelucid
  • permapress (fabric that resists wrinkles)
  • prefect (dean in a Jesuit college)
  • rent-a-car [generic; countable], (rental car)
  • reclame (public attention; self-advertisement; knack for getting publicity) [from French]
  • sybil (alternate case form of Sybil)
  • twitch-ballock (type of plant)
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Non-English

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French
German
Hebrew
Italian
Latin
  • æthereum [Ecclesiastical; in "María Virgo assúmpta est ad æthéreum thálamum"]
  • aptationis [seen in forms "aptationes", "aptationibus"; Ecclesiastical context] (adaptation?)
  • bellicus [in New College Latin & English Dictionary] [noun] (bugle, bugle call)
  • nosmetipsos [Ecclesiastical Latin]
  • paroecia [Ecclesiastical Latin] (parish)
  • paroecialis [Ecclesiastical Latin; of a church] (parochial/parish)
  • pervigil [as "pérvigil"; Ecclesiastical Latin; related to pervigilo]
  • pinguedine [(neo-?)Vulgate Latin] (see Italian entry)
  • profluus [(neo-?)Vulgate Latin]
  • realissimum [possibly New or Medieval Latin]
  • satago [in a prayer intention: "Semper irreprehensíbiles iúvenes nostri tibi sátagant inveníri", translated as "May our young people be concerned with remaining blameless in your sight"] (more positive meaning: occupy oneself with, be concerned with)
  • sitiit [verb form (seen as "sítiit")]
  • tune (then)
  • Udalricus (name of a saint)
  • uitiosior [in "progenies uitiosior" in an English text]
  • urgentior [seen as "urgentióribus" in "...quátenus, te regénte, urgentióribus aetátis nostrae postulationibus generose respondeant" in a prayer intention]
  • vosmetipsos [Ecclesiastical Latin]
Portuguese
Spanish
  • acechanza (something that nature suffers)
  • alborozante (see alborozar)
  • anonadar [reflexive] [in translation of Philippians 2:7] (to abase oneself? to make oneself insignificant?)
  • a rajatabla [modifying a noun]
  • atinar
  • binar (more literal meaning along the lines of "do something twice" or "repeat a duty")
  • bisiesto [in "escogí la número 124 que por ser bisiesto correspondería idealmente al día de hoy"]
  • coralidad (correspondence? harmony?)
  • cotolengo
  • encarecido [adj.; "un encarecido llamamiento"]
  • en rigor
  • exitismo
  • hospitalizar [of a religious order] (something like "take care of in a hospital" or "admit into one's hospital")
  • marear (something more figurative, along the lines of "cause (someone) confusion", such as by giving conflicting information)
  • parresia
  • portaalfanje (literally "scimitar-bearer"; maybe "executioner")
  • recordado ["el recordado [Nombre]"] ((the) late?)
  • retaceen [3rd per. pl., present (not sure what the infinitive would be): "algunos católicos de buena posición retaceen su ayuda económica a la Iglesia"] (withdraw)
  • tejido (missing figurative senses)
  • trascender, trascendido ["Desde que trascendió que estaba preparando la encíclica..."; "Royal le preguntó si era cierto el trascendido de que estaba preparando la encíclica"]
Unknown language
  • primerear [in a speech by Pope Francis: "Let us not forget the primacy of God, his primerear, his having taken the first step." The word occurs in the same form (including the italics) in the original Italian]

Entries with Definitions to be Improved

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English
  • perichoresis
  • report (noun: sense 1 does not distinguish long written documents from brief verbal accounts)
  • voluntaryism (should not be considered an alternative form of voluntarism, which should in fact be labelled an alternative form of voluntaryism in the relevant sense)
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