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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread C again #103353 05/14/03 02:24 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh OP Carpal Tunnel OP wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 calk. Pointed extension to prevent slipping. Calliope. Muse of epic poetry callipygian. shapely fundament caliopsis. coriopsis callose. complex branched plant carbohydrate callosity. calloused calotte. Catholic skullcap caloyer. Eastern monk calpac. Turkish sheepskin hat calque. Semantic borrowing. Word given special meaning by analogy with word in another language. calumet. Indian pipe calvados. French apple brandy calvarium. Upper skull calx. Left after calcination calycle. An epicalyx calyculus. A small cup-shaped structure. Calypso. Delayed Ulysses for seven years calyptra. Spore cover in mosses calyx. Green flower cover (sepals) camber. Slightly arched surface camas. White flowers camarilla. Secret advisors to the Spanish kings. Cambium. gives rise to phloem and xylem cambist. Currency exchange manuals/dealers Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: C again #103354 05/14/03 02:27 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,156 B Bean old hand Bean old hand B Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,156 cambist. Currency exchange manuals/dealers Not terribly surprising, since cambiare means to change in Italian, and scambiare means to exchange. It just occurred to me, Dr. Bill, that you'd probably enjoy learning either Italian or Latin. Knowledge of either one makes guessing word meanings in English pretty easy, a lot of the time! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: C again #103355 05/14/03 05:50 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont and cambiata are changing voices. formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: C again #103356 05/14/03 07:01 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh OP Carpal Tunnel OP wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear Bean: I did study Italian a bit. I found a copy of the Decameron that had belonged to my grandfather, hidden in the attic. The "devil into hell" story was in original Italian, and I had to get an Italian dictionary to be able to read it. Here's URL in Italian! Don't have the dictionary http://dev.stg.brown.edu:1977/decameron/itDecSrchPlc.jsp?display=none&place=TEBAIDE oh, hell, I'll make shortlink http://makeashorterlink.com/?O2E815194 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter calque #103357 05/15/03 05:31 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta B Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta Calque (aka loan translation)is more than just any semantic borrowing. It's translating a combination literally and then using the translation to mean what the combination means in the original language, rather than just taking over the foreign word. An example in English is the word gospel,which comes from the OE godspel = good news, a calque of the Greek euanggelion = good news (hence the word evangelist). Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: evangel #103358 05/15/03 01:06 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh OP Carpal Tunnel OP wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 evangel n. 5ME & OFr evangile < L evangelium, good news (in LL(Ec), gospel) < Gr euangelion, good news (in N.T., gospel) < euangelos, bringing good news < eu3, well + angelos, messenger: see ANGEL6 1 the gospel 2 [E3] any of the four Gospels 3 5Gr euangelos6 an evangelist And thanks Bingley, for teaching me something. 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