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ifyoucantfixit:
hypethral \hi-PEE-thruhl\, adjective:
(Of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
Follow the gallery around for about a thousand paces until you come to the hypethral. With it dark out you might miss it, so keep an eye open for the plants.
-- Gene Wolfe, Shadow and Claw
The choice of top light for the main galleries is said to have been dictated by the belief that Greek temples were hypethral, that is, open to the sky; from which it was inferred that Greek taste demanded to see works of art under light from above.
-- Benjamin Ives Gilman, Museum Ideals of Purpose and Method
Hypethral stems from the Greek roots hyp- which means "under" and aîthros meaning "clear sky."
ifyoucantfixit:
tawpie \TAW-pee\, noun:
A foolish or thoughtless young person.
Do ye no hear me, tawpie? Do ye no hear what I'm tellin' ye?
-- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Weir of Hermiston
You are just idle tawpies.
-- Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, Profit and Loss
Tawpie comes from the Swedish word tåbe meaning "a simpleton."
ifyoucantfixit:
paronymous \puh-RON-uh-muhs\, adjective:
Containing the same root or stem, as the words wise and wisdom.
The sentence seems to reverberate with echoes of assonance—another distinctive trait of Haweke's writing often enriched with alliterative patterns or even rhymes—on both sides of the two central words: "pale petal," whose juxtaposition involves an anagramatical and paronymous variation.
-- Heide Ziegler, Facing Texts
This in itself is a significant achievement in a language so flowery and paronymous to the extent that exaggeration, especially at that time of its literary history, is widely considered to be one of its inherent characteristics.
-- Sabry Hafez, The Quest for Identities
Paronymous stems from the Greek roots para- meaning "beside" and onoma meaning "a name."
ifyoucantfixit:
baccate \BAK-eyt\, adjective:
1. Berrylike.
2. Bearing berries.
Such fruits are collectively called baccate or berried.
-- John Hutton Balfour, Class Book of Botany
Its appearance suggests that it is a capsule becoming baccate.
-- H. N. Ridley, Natural Science
Entering English in the 1820s, baccate is derived from the Latin word bacca meaning "berry."
ifyoucantfixit:
mote \moht\, noun:
1. A small particle or speck, especially of dust.
2. Moit.
A tiny mote of dust is truly a cosmos unto itself, that much we do now know. It contains molecules that are far too small for us to see without a microscope, but they are no less real than the dust itself or the piano on which the mote of dust has settled.
-- Roger A. Caras, Cat Is Watching
A white mote hovered in the air several feet away from her.
-- Sara Stern, Dragon's Song
Mote stems from the Norwegian word mutt meaning "a speck."
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