Word origins

• AmalecThe grandson of Esau through his eldest son, in the Hebrew Bible.
• antiphrasisUse of a word or phrase in a sense opposite of its literal meaning, especially for ironic or humorous effect.
• apophasisAn allusion to something by denying that it will be mentioned.
• appellativeOf or pertaining to an appellative noun or common noun.
• battaliaOrder of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops or of a naval force, ready for action.
• birrusA coarse kind of thick woollen cloak, worn by the poor in the Middle Ages.
• bituminateTo treat or impregnate with bitumen.
• brachylogyConcise speech; laconism.
• bullateResembling a bulla or blister; inflated; blistered; bulliform.
• capituleA summary.
• categoriccategorical
• cellariumA cellar used for storage in an abbey.
• centenniumSynonym of century: A period of 100 years.
• clausureThe act of shutting up or confining; confinement.
• coaptateTo join or attach.
• commaticHaving short clauses or sentences, often separated with commas
• compaginateTo unite or hold together.
• compendiateTo sum or collect together.
• concordancyagreement
• concordialcorrelated to grammatical concord
• conterminateHaving the same bounds or extent; coterminous.
• coxalsciatic (relating to the hip)
• cribellumA spinning organ having many fine pores, situated in front of the spinners in some araneomorph spiders.
• custumalA survey of a medieval English manor, listing each tenant and the customs under which the tenancy was held.
• decretoryPertaining to an authoritative decree or final judgement.
• denominativeBeing a name.
• deplanateFlattened; made level or even.
• depurateTo remove impurities from; to purify.
• diluvialRelating to or produced by a flood or deluge.
• dosserSomeone who dosses, someone known for avoiding work.
• dubietyDoubtfulness.
• duodecadeA period of twelve years.
• dynastA ruler or governor, especially a hereditary ruler or someone who founded or is part of a dynasty.
• elinguationThe removal of the tongue.
• entelechyThe complete realisation and final form of some potential concept or function; the conditions under which a potential thing becomes actualized.
• eremiteA hermit; a religious recluse, someone who lives alone.
• erotesisA figure of speech whereby a question is asked in confident expectation of a negative answer.
• excambionexchange or barter, especially of lands.
• ex hypothesiFollowing from the hypothesis; in accordance with the hypothesis; by hypothesis; as a consequence of assumptions made; theoretically; supposedly; hypothetically.
• exsiccationThe act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture.
• ex tuncfrom the beginning, from the outset. Used to describe certain legal effects that can affect situations prior to this point in time and therefore can affect past actions.
• farinoseYielding or related to farina
• feudaryHeld by, or relating to, feudal tenure.
• floccoseCovered or growing in wooly tufts
• foraminateHaving foramina or openings.
• forisfamiliateTo renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.
• frumentaceousResembling or pertaining to grain, especially wheat.
• fulvidFulvous; tawny-coloured.
• GadareneOf or pertaining to the ancient city of Gadara (near modern-day Umm Qais, in Jordan).
• GeraseneOf, from or relating to Gerasa
• glandulousOf, pertaining to, or composed of glands; glandular, glandulose.
• gryposisAbnormal curvature or hooked appearance.
• habilitateQualified or entitled.
• halicoreThe dugong.
• hemicraniaA headache affecting one side of the head.
• heterocliteIrregularly declined or inflected.
• horripilationA real or fancied bristling of the hair of the head or body, resulting from disease, terror, chilliness, etc.
• humanateImbued with humanity.
• hypocorismA term of endearment, often a diminutive; a pet name.
• illaudableNot laudable; unpraiseworthy.
• impanateTo embody in bread, especially in the bread of the Eucharist.
• impenitencethe property of being impenitent, of lacking penitence, of not being regretful of wrongs done
• inapprehensibleThat cannot be apprehended; not apprehensible to or graspable by either body or mind.
• indicibleindescribable
• ingenerateInnate, inborn.
• inseparateNot separate; together, united, undivided.
• inspissateTo thicken a fluid, in the sense of making it more viscous, especially by boiling, evaporation, or condensation; to condense.
• interversionThe swapping of positions within a sequence; transposition or permutation.
• intitulateTo entitle.
• invocatorOne who invocates the spirits of the dead.
• irreptionA creeping in.
• ithyphallicOf or pertaining to the erect phallus that was carried in bacchic processions.
• lacertusA bundle or fascicle of muscular fibres.
• laticlaveA badge of two wide purple stripes, worn by senators and certain other high-ranking people in ancient Rome.
• laudemiumPayment made to the lessor of an emphyteusis when the property is sold or gifted to a new lessee.
• lavatoriumA washroom or -place.
• lecanomancyDivination by interpreting the sound or effect of an object or substance (commonly a gem) falling into a body of water.
• levirA husband's brother.
• madefactionThe act of madefying, or making something wet.
• MaglocuneA male given name from Proto-Brythonic, of historical usage, notably borne by Maelgwn Gwynedd.
• marasmusA condition of chronic undernourishment especially in children, caused by a diet deficient in calories or the inability to digest protein and presenting as a severe loss of body weight.
• meliorateTo make better; to improve; to solve a problem.
• meliorativeThat meliorates; curative, improving, salutary.
• metabasisA change from one subject to another.
• metempsychosisTransmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death.
• miliarenseA large silver coin of Ancient Rome, introduced in the early 4th century.
• minaciousSynonym of threatening, in its various senses.
• minacitySynonym of menace: The action or process of threatening or the tendency to threaten.
• mithridatiumSynonym of mithridate.
• mithridatumSynonym of mithridate.
• mutatis mutandisWith the necessary changes being made; with the necessary modifications; with such changes as are necessary to ensure congruence.
• mutilitydeformity, defectivity
• mygaleA shrew or ferret.
• NeustriaThe western part of the Frankish empire, corresponding roughly to modern-day northern France.
• novenniumA nine-year period.
• oblatumAn oblate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis.
• obnubilationThe action of darkening or fact of being darkened, as with a cloud; obscuration.
• obstipateTo induce severe constipation through an intestinal blockage
• octaplaA Biblical octapla: an edition of the Bible in eight parallel versions or languages.
• octenniumAn eight-year period.