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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread déraciné #150871 11/23/2005 12:34 PM Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 203 Homo Loquens enthusiast Homo Loquens enthusiast Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 203 Quote: déraciné adjective uprooted or displaced from one's geographical or social environment; deracinated. noun a person who has been or feels displaced. ORIGIN early 20th cent.: French, literally ‘uprooted.’ Why is this word not at Dictionary.com or Merriam-Webster? (I'm looking for usage citations and an audio-link). Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: déraciné #150872 11/23/2005 12:56 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont perhaps because it's basically the French usage? look for deracinated. formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: déraciné #150873 11/23/2005 1:14 PM Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 270 Israel Logwood enthusiast Logwood enthusiast Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 270 Israel Yep, it only appears in my French dictionary, and it only appears as verb (uproot, deprive). Declension of the infinitive "déraciner". Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: déraciné #150874 11/23/2005 2:42 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh Declension of the infinitive "déraciner". Declension refers to the inflection of nominal forms and conjugation to the verbal ones. Verbal forms of each are: decline and conjugate. Inflect (inflection / inflexion) can be used as a sort of generic. Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: déraciné #150875 11/23/2005 2:48 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass déraciné, a. [Fr.: see DERACINATE v.] ‘Uprooted’ from one's (national or social) environment. Also as n. 1921 19th Cent. May 770 The unseen Jew déraciné provides munitions of argument for the revolutionary group. 1926 J. BUCHAN Dancing Floor I. vi, She rides well, but her manners are atrocious. Lord, how I dislike these déracinés! 1931 in W. Rose Outl. Mod. Knowl. 751 To be delocalised is not be be déraciné. 1935 AUDEN & ISHERWOOD Dog beneath Skin III. iv, I'm quite déraciné, as they say in Bloomsbury. 1952 D. DAVIE Purity of Diction in Eng. Verse ii. 24 The typical déracinée, Fanny Price. 1964 R. CHURCH Voyage Home v. 71 The dreadful self-consciousness of so many déraciné Americans, aping the hyper-civilized European decadents. 1967 Listener 22 June 832/1 Our ‘dynamic’ epoch has..produced a succession of déracinés ranging from Bartók to Stravinsky. OED2 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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