After about a decade of preparation, Merriam issued the entirely new Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged (familiarly known as Webster's Third,) in September 1961, edited by Philip Babcock Gove and containing over 450,000 entries, including over 50,000 new words and as many new senses for existing words. The final definition, zyzzogeton, was written on October 17, 1960, the final etymology was done on October 26, and the final pronunciation was done on November 9. Final copy went to the typesetters, R. R. Do ...

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The name of the region also survives in the tribal designation of the ancient population of Latins, from whom the Romans originated. In Roman mythology, the shadowy king Latinus (or Latium) allegedly gave his name to the region. Modern linguists postulate origins in a Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) root *stela- (to spread, extend), expressing the idea of "flat land" (in contrast to the local Sabine high country). But the name may originate from an earlier, non Indo-European one. See the Online Etymological Dictionary. Since Latium is respected more as a designation for ancient Rome, it is no ...

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The word robot comes from the word robota meaning "drudgery", "work of a villein" in literary Czech and "work", "labor" in literary Slovak. While Karel Čapek is frequently acknowledged as the originator of the word, he wrote a short letter in reference to the Oxford English Dictionary etymology in which he named his brother, painter and writer Josef Čapek as its true inventor. [1]. In an article in the Czech Lidové noviny in 1930, he also explains that he originally wanted to call the creature dělňas (a substantive ...

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The term imperialism was a new word in the mid-19th century. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it dates back to 1858. The Latin root is imperium (command or supreme power). According to the Oxford English Dictionary(OED), imperialism was generally used only to describe English policies. Read Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe for a wider perspective of descriptions of English Policies. The term imperialism was used to describe the American war supporters in the Spanish Amer ...

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The Oxford English Dictionary's entry for wand simply states that words like wend, wind, wand, and wander all have a common PIE root, and that this root is related to the idea of turning. (note that – wand originally meant a supple switch, not a stiff rod, and is related to the word from which whip is derived. The most important IE root (found in Pokorny 3. *er- 1152.) is treated in one of the American Heritage Dictionary's etymological indices under *wer-2. Though this root al ...

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Shogakukan has compared its Nikkoku dictionary to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) because Nikkoku represents the largest and most thorough dictionary of the Japanese language, and also provides etymologies and historical citations for its entries. However, it falls short of the OED's project. Although most entries contain citations from early known usages of the word in a text, it does not consistently or systematically seek out the earliest known example of the word. Because of this the Nikkoku cannot ...

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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest historical meaning of the word information in English was the act of informing, or giving form or shape to the mind, as in education, instruction, or training. A quote from 1387: "Five books come down from heaven for information of mankind." It was also used for an item of training, e.g. a particular instruction. "Melibee had heard the great skills and reasons of Dame Prudence, and her ...

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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word luggage enters printed English in 1596. The word dervied from the verb "lug," as in "that which needs to be lugged about." The idea of pulling things inherent in the verb lug combines with the suffix -age to create the word we know today. "Baggage" is a similar word with the same suffix. This common word ending (-age) means that the item is functionally related to the root word; hence "baggage" is functionally related to the noun "bag," and luggage ...

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Bull, meaning nonsense, dates from around the 17th century (Concise Oxford Dictionary), whereas the term bullshit was first used in 1915, in American slang, and came into popular usage only during World War II. The word "bull" itself may have derived from the Old French boul meaning mistake. The term bullshit is a near synonym. Many believe it to be a simple English-language invention, a compounding of "bull" and "shit", referring to the feces of male cattle. The word shit (a vulgar term for f ...

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Unlike other dictionaries, WordNet does not include information about etymology, pronunciation and the forms of irregular verbs and contains only limited information about usage. The actual lexicographical and semantical information is maintained in lexicographer files, which are then processed by a tool called grind to produce the distributed database. Both grind and the lexicographer files are freely available, but modifying and maintaining ...

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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest historical meaning of the word information in English was the act of informing, or giving form or shape to the mind, as in education, instruction, or training. A quote from 1387: "Five books come down from heaven for information of mankind." It was also used for an item of training, e.g. a particular instruction. "Melibee had heard the great skills and reasons of Dame Prudence, and her ...

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Pastiche is also used with a rather different meaning: a work is called pastiche if it was cobbled together in imitation of several original works. As the Oxford English Dictionary puts it, a pastiche in this sense is "a medley of various ingredients; a hotchpotch, farrago, jumble." This meaning accords with etymology: pastiche is the French version of Italian pasticcio, which d ...

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Per the American Heritage Dictionary, jurisprudence is the English for jurisprudentia. This is the Late Latin form of a compound word, originally juris + prudens (a contraction of providens, from the verb providere, "to provide"). The best English definition of jurisprudentia is probably "[abstract] legal knowledge." 'Juris' (both pronounced in Latin) is the genitive form of Jus meaning "law." So, 'juris' means "of law" or "legal." In particular, 'juris' refers to oral legal trad ...

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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the name "lepton" (from Greek leptos) was first used by physicist Léon Rosenfeld in 1948: Following a suggestion of Prof. C. Møller, I adopt — as a pendant to "nucleon" — the denomination "lepton" (from λεπτός, small, thin, delicate) to denote a particle of small mass.[1] The name originates from before the discovery in the 1970s of the heavy tau lepton, which i ...

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This usage of deadline comes originally from journalism, representing the time limit for submitting copy to the printer to be typeset. It probably derives from an earlier usage in printing, representing a guideline marked on a plate for a printing press (inside which all content should appear). The early origins of this usage are less certain. The earliest use of deadline in any sense, as cited by Oxford English Dictionary, refers simply to lines that do not move such as one used in angling; slightly later America ...

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In the Roman alphabet, serifs originated with the carving of words into stone in ancient Italy. Artisans would carve out a bit of extra space at the end of the long strokes of letters to prevent gravel and dust from collecting in the corners of the letters. The etymology of "serif" is obscure, but in any case almost as recent as the face. The oldest citations in the Oxford English Dictionary are 1841 for sans serif, which the OED gives as sanserif, and 1830 for serif. Indeed, the OED speculate ...

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The terms "Arvanitika" and "Arvanitic" derive from the word "Avanitai" (Αρβανίται). The etymology according to Yannis Koulakis' dictionary (ISBN 960-239-135-9) is "Arvanitika adj. < Arvanitis -> theme Arvanit-ika". See also Arvanites#Origin_and_history_of_the_name. According to Ethnologue, the alternate names for this language are "Arvanitika", "Arvaniti ...

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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word luggage enters printed English in 1596. The word derived from the verb "lug," as in "that which needs to be lugged about." The idea of pulling things inherent in the verb lug combines with the suffix -age to create the word we know today. "Baggage" is a similar word with the same suffix. This common word ending (-age) means that the item is functionally related to the root word; hence "baggage" is functionally related to the noun "bag," and luggage ...

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A toponymist is one who studies toponymy. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first occurrence of the word "toponymist" can be dated roughly to the middle of the nineteenth century. It can be argued that the first toponymists were the storytellers and poets who explained the origin of certain place names in order to elucidate their tales; sometimes place-names served as the basis for the legends themselves. The process of folk etymology usually took over, whereby a false meaning was extracted from a name based on its struc ...

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Related terms for urban or suburban miscreants can be found in the dictionary entry for "chav". The popularity of these terms has grown since the 1980s, and their usage reflects serious and light-hearted issues arising from changes in British urban life rather than an increased need to characterize the lifestyle of travellers. Pikey has quite a different meaning from crustie - a word which became popular during the 1990s and refers to a kind of hippie traveller who rejects many aspects of modern society and identifies with the un ...

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The word wilderness is derived from the notion of wildness, in other words that which is not controllable by humans. The word's etymology is from the Old English wildeornes, which in turn derives from wildeor meaning wild beast (wild + deor = beast, deer) (The Collins English Dictionary, 2000). From this point of view, it is the wildness of a place that makes it a wilderness. The mere presence or activity of people does not disqualify an area from wilderness status. Many wilderness areas have historically b ...

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One of Hungarian orthography's principles is being phonetic among with being traditional, etymologic and simplifying. The current edition of "MHSz" is the 11th from 1984, reprint 1994 with extended dictionary part. Therefore most words can be read out correctly, if one knows the pronunciation of the letters. The pronunciation of Hungarian letters in standard Hungarian. (You might want to increase your browser's display font size to see the IPA symbols more correctly). ^  List of com ...

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