Interesting Words (moved from Games)

[Iáson]

ᾤοντο γὰρ ἀνδραποδισθήσεσθαι... Xenophon.

Now that's a monster of a word... not a pleasant thing to happen to one, either.

 

[Iáson]

bibliolatry

 

[Hemo Rusticus]

ᾤοντο γὰρ ἀνδραποδισθήσεσθαι... Xenophon.

Now that's a monster of a word... not a pleasant thing to happen to one, either.

Also of some philological interest, as it (& its cognates) seems to preserve the vocalic nasal reflex 'α' as opposed to, say, ἀνδροφόντης.

 

[Hemo Rusticus]

seersucker

 

[Pacifica]

Ruben(s)esque.

 

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

The etymological connection between 'devil' and 'parliament', despite appearances.

 

[Iáson]

The etymological connection between 'devil' and 'parliament', despite appearances.

quid est hoc?

 

[Pacifica]

Utrumque a verbo Graeco quod est βάλλω originem ducit. Diabolus enim est is qui διαβάλλει. Parlamentum autem est quasi locus ubi homines parabolant, id est faciunt parabolas sive Latinius verba. Confer verbum Francogallicum parler, id est loqui.

 

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

orbital hypertelorism.

 

[Pacifica]

This word is interesting in that it is awkward, but since it's a single word rather than a wording it doesn't belong on the Odd and Unfortunate Wordings thread: concommotio.

 

[Pacifica]

Petulcus.

 

[Pacifica]

Hierosolymipeta, a Jerusalem-seeker, one who goes to Jerusalem.

 

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

Porpoise. The etymology.

 

[Pacifica]

Laetamen, manure, fertilizer, from the "fertile" sense of laetus.

 

[Pacifica]

Solivagus.

 

[Pacifica]

Murilegus = mouse-picker = cat.

 

[Bitmap]

Solivagus.

Murilegus = mouse-picker = cat.

Sounds like German compounds.

 

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

Diskothekenwarteschlangensondernutzungsgebühr.

 

[Pacifica]

A special fee for the use of waiting lines at discotheques?

I must be missing something.

 

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

The discos have to pay it. For creating queues.