Corbeau
adjective

Pronunciation:
[kɔʁbo]

Definition:
French for "raven". In English used to refer to a black-green colour similar to the sheen of oil, or that of a raven's feathers.

Etymology:
From the Latin corvus meaning raven.

Usage:

"After finishing her greatest painting yet, "Green Cow Travels Through Black Hole" Alison marvelled ( Read more... )

 

Happy Monday! Two words because I missed last week. The second word for today was posted a long while back but it's such a beautiful word, now that there's more traffic in the community I felt it needed a second go!

Ianthine
adjective

Pronunciation:
[i-an-theen]

Definition:
violet-coloured

Etymology:
From the Latin ianthinus meaning violet ( Read more... )

Cortinate
adjective

Pronunciation:
[kor-ti-nate]

Definition:
Resembling a cobweb.

In biological terms it refers to a “a cobwebby remnant of the partial veil which in some mature mushrooms hang from the edges of the cap.”

Etymology:
Probably from the Latin cortina (also the noun form) meaning curtain.

Usage:
"Each dress in the Gothic ( Read more... )

Etymology:
From the Latin pulvis meaning dust and ulentus meaning abounding in.

Usage:
"Every door or window in the school building would not open without creaking loudly. It was obvious that the building had not been visited in a long time, the pulverulent surfaces of every desk a testament to its abandonment."

Love Tahlia. So how are your ( Read more... )

Etymology:
From the Latin “…undec ( im ) eleven ( ūn ( us ) one + -decim,  comb. form of decem ten) + -illion,  as in million .”

Usage:
"Melanie’s excuse for not participating in NaNoWriMo this year was her alleged bout of agraphia but really she was terrified by the daily word count.

“I can’t write do it! The daily word count's like ( Read more... )

Acronycal
adjective

Pronunciation:
[acron-i-kal]

Definition:
Occuring at sunset

Etymology:
From the Greek akronychos meaning at sunset.

Eisegesis
noun

Pronunciation:
[ahy-si-jee-sis] (EYE-si-jee-sis)

Definition:
A highly subjective, bias interpretation of a text so that it introduces the reader's own ideas rather than draw ( Read more... )

Happy Monday, logophiles!

Quadrumane
noun

Pronunciation:
[kwä′dro̵̅o̅ mān]

Definition:
An animal with four hands.

Etymology:
From the Latin Quadru meaning four and manus meaning hand.

Usage:
"The average quadrumane is able to throw faeces with twice the speed as any of its lesser, bipedal cousins."

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Usage:
"For a bird of its size it was surprisingly latipennate with one wing alone making up at least a third of its full size."

Love Tahlia, enjoying this brief moment of consciousness.