Adonai Look up Adonai at Dictionary.com
Old Testament word for "God," late 14c., from Medieval Latin, from Hebrew, literally "my lord," from adon (see Adonis) + suffix of 1st person.
-acious Look up -acious at Dictionary.com
adjectival word-forming element meaning "given to, inclined to, abounding in," from Latin -aci- (nominative -ax), noun ending used with verbal stems, + -ous.
Graeco- Look up Graeco- at Dictionary.com
also Greco-, modern word-forming element, from Latin Graecus "Greek" (see Greek (n.)) on model of Anglo-, Franco-, etc.
historico- Look up historico- at Dictionary.com
word-forming element meaning "historical," from Latinized form of Greek historikos "historical" (see historical). Modern combinations sometimes use historio-.
priestly (adj.) Look up priestly at Dictionary.com
mid-15c.; see priest + -ly (1). Old English had preostlic, but the modern word seems to be a Middle English re-formation.
hypno- Look up hypno- at Dictionary.com
word-forming element meaning "sleep," from Greek hypnos "sleep," from PIE *supno-, suffixed form of root *swep- (1) "to sleep" (see somnolence).
atto- Look up atto- at Dictionary.com
word-forming element meaning "one quintillionth," 1962, from Danish atten "eighteen" (a quintillion is 10 to the 18th power), related to Old English eahtatene (see eighteen).
hiding (n.1) Look up hiding at Dictionary.com
"concealment," early 13c., verbal noun from hide (v.1). Hiding-place is from mid-15c.; an Old English word for this was hydels.
-arch Look up -arch at Dictionary.com
word-forming element meaning "a ruler," from Greek arkhos "leader, chief, ruler," from arkhe "beginning, origin, first place" (see archon).
heal-all (n.) Look up heal-all at Dictionary.com
1570s, "universal remedy," from heal + all; applied since 1814 to various plants supposed to possess healing virtues. The native word for panacea.
Apollonian (adj.) Look up Apollonian at Dictionary.com
1660s, from Apollo (Greek Apollon) + -ian. The Greek adjective was Apollonios. The word also is attested in English as Apollinarian (1753), Apolline (c. 1600).
forever (adv.) Look up forever at Dictionary.com
late 14c., for ever; from for + ever. Often written as one word from late 17c. As a noun by 1858. Emphatic forevermore is from 1819.
referral (n.) Look up referral at Dictionary.com
1920, "act of referring," from refer + -al (2). Especially to an expert or specialist (a sense attested from 1955). Earlier word was referment (1550s).
monotone (n.) Look up monotone at Dictionary.com
"unvarying tone in music or speaking," 1640s; see monotony. OED says use of the word as a noun "is peculiar to Eng." Related: Monotonic; monotonically.
falafel (n.) Look up falafel at Dictionary.com
by 1951 as a traveler's word, not common or domestic in English until 1970s; from Arabic falafil, said to mean "crunchy."
gast (adj.) Look up gast at Dictionary.com
"animal which does not produce in season," 1729, an East Anglian dialect word, perhaps from or related to Middle Dutch gast "barren soil."
firstly (adv.) Look up firstly at Dictionary.com
"in the first place, before anything else," 1530s, but never a common word (simple first usually serving its place), from first + -ly (2).
infra (adv.) Look up infra at Dictionary.com
"under, below, further on," from Latin infra "below, under, beneath" (see infra-). A Latin word sometimes encountered in footnotes.
kino- Look up kino- at Dictionary.com
before vowels, kin-, word-forming element in use from late 19c. and meaning "motion," from Greek kino-, from kinein "to move" (see cite).
labio- Look up labio- at Dictionary.com
word-forming element in medical use since 17c., taken as a comb. form of Latin labium "lip" (see lip (n.)).
-in (2) Look up -in at Dictionary.com
word-forming element in chemistry, usually indicating a neutral substance, antibiotic, vitamin, or hormone; a modification and specialized use of -ine (2).
cardboard (n.) Look up cardboard at Dictionary.com
1848, from card (n.) + board (n.1). Figurative sense is from 1893. An earlier word for the same stuff was card paper (1777).
daimon (n.) Look up daimon at Dictionary.com
transliteration of Greek daimon "lesser god, guiding spirit, tutelary deity," 1852; see demon. Employed to avoid the post-classical associations of that word.
dar Look up dar at Dictionary.com
Arabic word, literally "house," used in place names, such as Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, literally "House of Peace."
criminy (interj.) Look up criminy at Dictionary.com
also crimine, 1680s; it looks like Italian crimine "crime" but likely is simply another euphemism for Christ as a swear-word.
deferment (n.) Look up deferment at Dictionary.com
1610s, from defer (v.1) + -ment. As a word for "conditional exemption from a military draft" it dates to 1918, American English.
entero- Look up entero- at Dictionary.com
before vowels enter-, word-forming element meaning "intestine," from comb. form of Greek enteron "an intestine, piece of gut" (see enteric).
botryo- Look up botryo- at Dictionary.com
before vowels botry-, word-forming element meaning "cluster, cluster-like," from Greek botrys "cluster of grapes," which is of unknown origin.
-eme Look up -eme at Dictionary.com
in linguistics, noted as an active suffix and word-formation element from 1953; from French -ème "unit, sound," from phonème (see phoneme).
drowse (v.) Look up drowse at Dictionary.com
1570s, probably a back-formation from drowsy. Old English had a similar word, but there is a 600-year gap. Related: Drowsed; drowsing.
chipotle (n.) Look up chipotle at Dictionary.com
"smoke-dried jalapeño chili," from Mexican Spanish, ultimately a Nahuatl (Aztecan) word, said to be a compound of chilli "chili pepper" (see chili) + poctli "smoke."
connote (v.) Look up connote at Dictionary.com
1660s, from Medieval Latin connotare "to mark along with," (see connotation). A common word in medieval logic. Related: Connoted; connoting.
-centric Look up -centric at Dictionary.com
word-forming element meaning "having a center (of a certain kind); centered on," from Latinized form of Greek kentrikos "pertaining to a center," from kentron (see center (n.)).
chai (n.) Look up chai at Dictionary.com
"tea," 1919, from the Russian or Arabic word for "tea" (see tea, and compare cha). Now used especially of spiced teas.
battlefield (n.) Look up battlefield at Dictionary.com
1812, from battle (n.) + field (n.). The usual word for it in Old English was wælstow, literally "slaughter-place."
beginning (n.) Look up beginning at Dictionary.com
late 12c., "time when something begins," from begin. Meaning "act of starting something" is from early 13c. The Old English word was fruma (see foremost).
loquacity (n.) Look up loquacity at Dictionary.com
c. 1200, from Latin loquacitatem (nominative loquacitas) "talkativeness," from loquax "talkative" (see loquacious). An Old English word for it was ofersprecolnes.
mage (n.) Look up mage at Dictionary.com
"magician," c. 1400, Englished form of Latin magus "magician" (see magi). An "archaic" word by late 19c. (OED), revived by fantasy games.
-ol Look up -ol at Dictionary.com
word-forming element in chemistry, variously representing alcohol, phenol, or in some cases Latin oleum "oil" (see oil (n.)).
oo- Look up oo- at Dictionary.com
word-forming element meaning "egg, eggs," from Greek oon "egg," cognate with Latin ovum, Old Norse egg (see egg (n.)).
overlord (n.) Look up overlord at Dictionary.com
c. 1200, from over- + lord (n.). Chosen 1943 as the Allied code-word for the D-Day invasion of northern France.
geographer (n.) Look up geographer at Dictionary.com
"one versed in geography," 1540s, from geography + agent noun ending -er (1). The Greek word was geographos (Medieval Latin geographus).
carbide (n.) Look up carbide at Dictionary.com
compound formed by combination of carbon and another element, 1848, from carb-, comb. form of carbon + chemical suffix -ide. The earlier word was carburet.
giga- Look up giga- at Dictionary.com
word-forming element meaning "billion" (U.S.) in the metric system, 1947, formed arbitrarily from Greek gigas "giant" (see giant).
harmful (adj.) Look up harmful at Dictionary.com
mid-14c., from harm (n.) + -ful. Related: Harmfully. Old English had hearmful but the modern word probably is a Middle English formation.
heritable (adj.) Look up heritable at Dictionary.com
early 15c., from Old French heritable (c. 1200), from heriter "to inherit" (see heritage). The Medieval Latin word was hereditabilis. Related: Heritability.
homophile (n.) Look up homophile at Dictionary.com
1960, from homo- (2) "homosexual" + -phile. An attempt to coin a word for a homosexual person as part of a social group, rather than a sexual deviant.
hottie (n.) Look up hottie at Dictionary.com
also hotty, "attractive person," teen slang by 1995, from hot + -ie. The same word was used from 1947 with sense "hot water bottle."
innermost (adj.) Look up innermost at Dictionary.com
mid-14c., from inner + -most. In the same sense innerest is from c. 1200. The older word is inmost. Innermore also existed in Middle English.
idio- Look up idio- at Dictionary.com
word-forming element meaning "one's own, personal, distinct," from Greek idios "own, personal, private, one's own" (see idiom).