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NEMESTRINUS
[noun]
1. Roman mythology: God of the forests and woods.
[adjective]
2. inhabiting forests or groves.
Etymology: Latin.
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NEMESTRINUS
[noun]
1. Roman mythology: God of the forests and woods.
[adjective]
2. inhabiting forests or groves.
Etymology: Latin.
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DIY Know Your Shoes Guide from Enerie here. My favorite shoes aren’t listed yet - Louis Heels which were popular in the 1920s. First seen at inspiration & realisation’s Facebook page.
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List of non-ableist words
I want to compile a list of words folks can use instead of ableist slang, I grabbed a few from this page to start this off, please add to the list as this circulates. And reblog!
- flimsy
- inadequate
- insufficient
- unconvincing
- unsatisfactory
- undesireable
- inept
- pathetic
- deficient
- hollow
- meager
- perfunctory
- absurd
- ridiculous
- lousy
- fucked up
- rubbish
- irrational
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7 Common Words and Their Little-Known Relatives
When some words have hit the big time, they’ve left clunky related words behind.more
- EXHAUST/INHAUST
While “exhaust,” from the Latin for “draw out of,” was first attested in 1540 and went on to a great career in the English vocabulary, “inhaust,” with the meaning “draw into,” was attested in 1547 (something about a “flye inhausted into a mannes throte sodenly”) but soon became obsolete.- OMNISCIENT/NESCIENT
You know about “omniscient,” which comes from the Latin for “all knowing,” but did you know there was a counterpart meaning “not knowing”? You can now consider yourself more-scient!- RESUSCITATE/EXSUSCITATE
“Exsuscitate” was around in the 1500s, as was “resuscitate,” but where “resuscitate” was for the act of bringing someone back from the dead, “exsuscitate” was for the less impressive act of rousing or waking someone up from sleep. It didn’t stick, and it doesn’t look likely to be resuscitated.- PRELIMINARY/POSTLIMINARY
“Postliminary” has a technical use in international law, where it refers to the “right of postliminy” (stuff taken in war gets returned), but it’s also been used sporadically since the early 19th century as the opposite of “preliminary.”- INCANTATION/EXCANTATION
If your incantation turns out to be a magic spell that somehow gets you in a jam, it might be good to be able to perform an excantation to get yourself out of it. Too bad the word, attested in 1580, is now obsolete.- INCRIMINATION/CONCRIMINATION
It wouldn’t be fun to be the subject of an incrimination, but it might be a little more fun to be part of a concrimination with your friends, meaning “a joint accusation.” The word shows up in a 1656 dictionary, but we have no evidence that anyone ever used it.- INAUGURATE/EXAUGURATE
Back in 1600 the word “inaugurate” was used to describe a ceremonial act of consecration or induction into office, but there was also the word “exaugurate” meaning, according to the OED, “To cancel the inauguration of; to unhallow, make profane.”
Steven A. Jacobson’s Eskimo words for snow.
A. Snow particles
1) Snowflake
- qanuk - ‘snowflake’
- qanir - ‘to snow’
- qanunge - ‘to snow’
- qanugglir - ‘to snow’
2) Frost
- kaneq - ‘frost’
- kaner- ‘be frosty/frost sth.’
3) Fine snow/rain particles
- kanevvluk - ‘fine snow/rain particles
- kanevcir - to get fine snow/rain particles
(4) Drifting particles
- natquik - ‘drifting snow/etc’
- natqu(v)igte - ‘for snow/etc. to drift along ground’
5) Clinging particles
- nevluk - ‘clinging debris/
- nevlugte- ‘have clinging debris/…’lint/snow/dirt…’
B. Fallen snow
6) Fallen snow on the ground
- aniu - ‘snow on ground’
- aniu -‘get snow on ground’
- apun - ‘snow on ground’
- qanikcaq - ‘snow on ground’
- qanikcir - ‘get snow on ground’
7) Soft, deep fallen snow on the ground
- muruaneq - ‘soft deep snow’
8) Crust on fallen snow
- qetrar - ‘for snow to crust’
- qerretrar - ‘for snow to crust’
9) Fresh fallen snow on the ground
- nutaryuk ‘fresh snow’
10) Fallen snow floating on water
- qanisqineq - ‘snow floating on water’
C. Snow formations
11) Snow bank
- qengaruk - ‘snow bank’ [Y, HBC]
12) Snow block
- utvak - ‘snow carved in block’
13) Snow cornice
- navcaq - ‘snow cornice, snow (formation) about to collapse’
- navcite - ‘get caught in an avalanche’
D. Meterological events
14) Blizzard, snowstorm
- pirta - ‘blizzard, snowstorm’
- pircir - ‘to blizzard’
- pirtuk - ‘blizzard, snowstorm’
15) Severe blizzard
- cellallir - cellarrlir- ‘to snow heavily’
- pir(e)t(e)pag - ‘to blizzard severely’
- pirrelvag- ‘to blizzard severely’
Useful Word of the Day - PATHOS
From the Ancient Greek “Πάθος” [ Pathos - Path’-os ]
From πάσχω (paskhō, “I feel, suffer”) (aorist: ἔπαθον (epathon)
Quality that arouses sorrow pain and pleasure / a feeling in which the mind suffers and activates the urge to respond to situations, feelings, experiences
It can be used to describe situations than an individual responds to:
a. an affliction of the mind, emotion, passion to do or create or to endure
b. a passionate deed - lust
c. used by the ancient Greeks in either a good or bad sense
d. in the NT in a bad sense, depraved passion, vile passions.
12 Enjoyable Names for Relatively Common Things
- box tent : the plastic table-like item found in pizza boxes
- jamais vu : that feeling of seeing something for the first time, even though there’s nothing new about it
- paresthesia : that tingling sensation when your foot falls asleep
- grawlix : the string of typographical symbols comic strips use to indicate profanity (“$%@!”)
- caruncula : the small, triangular pink bump on the inside corner of each eye
- badinage : another word for playful banter
- rhumba : a group of rattlesnakes
- dringle : to waste time by being lazy
- agraffe : the wire cage that keeps the cork in a bottle of champagne
- wings : those back flaps on a bra
- rasher : a single slice of bacon
- purlicue : the web between your thumb and forefinger more
