What was the last word that you read and had to stop to look

Dissemination, senpai.

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Respice Finem

>>9433944
of

Diachronic

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>>9433944
>>9433963
>Respice Finem

Verwegenheit

>>9433944
effluvium

also my favourite word now

The last time I looked at a dictionary was to see if a word I invented was in there.

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>>9434002
wow you must be important

>>9433944
quitter

>>9433944
Ashamed to admitt it, but it was "heuristic".

>>9434010
Stay mad wordlet

>>9433988
the word and the definition are disgusting. Attune your gustatory (and indeed, olfactory) sense a little better and come back at a later date.

>>9434017
Ya man, feel shame for not knowing a word.

>>9433944
felicity

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>>9433944
Note that english is not my native language, it was buzzard, i always called them fucking vultures and that's it.

Cantilever

august

>>9433944
>neophyte

Pretty cool word desu from Beauvoir's memoir

Matutinal - of or pertaining to the morning. I came across this word while reading The Island of the Day Before.

>>9434224
This is a good thread. We should have a thread like this up all the time.

immanent

diatribe

>>9433985
Turbopleb

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>>9434244

>>9434250
asshole

>>9433944
Tyrol

Alacrity

tussore

gullible

Amphitryon

>>9433988
This is legit also the word I last looked up too. Holy shit.

>>9434017
>Ashamed to admitt it, but it was "heuristic".

Ironic

interstitital

bathos

>>9433944
Joanna Newsom is my dreamgirl

>>9433944

ἐξέστησαν

malthusianism

Abreaction

>>9434378
you should look the definition of "ironic"

>>9434367
Was it there?

>>9434248
Thank you, very insightful.

futon

Embiggen

>>9433944
Epistolary

>>9434730
No, you should. Pleb.

Nothing worse than people who correct people's use of the word "irony" wrongly.

Ironic.

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Furrow

Saturnine.
I was composing my bildungsroman when Word suggested it as a synonym for morose, and my curiosity was peeked.

maieutics

>>9434886
i think it's piqued. just lettin ya know.

enfeoffed

>>9434087
Kek. I searched for it too because of this song (foreign here):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR3KemSZYlc

Brusque

occluded

Medina. In Spanish. it means old neighborhood

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>>9434870
stop

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>>9435146

>>9433944
ribald, apparently.
I fucking love the dictionary function of kindle. It's my favorite.

>>9433944
"Definition"

>>9433944
sprate, from a book about the old west that used a bunch of archaic words for mood but made me look them up to know what was happening

>>9435270
yeh, it's a nice feature. one of the few things i miss about not using a reader.

Päderast
Its german and basically male pedolphile who likes young boys

>>9435478
>not knowing what a pederast is in any language
lmaoing. are you underage?

macaronic

>>9435004
Spanish really did get brutalised by Arabic, didn't it?

Zimin word

Sough. might be my new favorite word

>>9435481
Fuck off pedophile

Endymions

>>9434729
GR?

>>9435478
No offense, but you're almost as stupid as the matutinal guy.

>>9434870
you are wrong

>>9434730
he was right

>>9435505
Fuck off pedophile

>>9435492
>he thinks a word that everyone and their mother knows is pedophiles' lingo
Literally everyone who has studied history of Rome in any quantity (ie anyone who has been to a decent high-school) knows what pederasty is, you retarded fucking turbopleb.

>>9435600
Fuck of pervert roman

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>>9433944
Grandiloquent

I was able to guess what it meant but I always double check when I don't recognize a word.

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>>9435616
Grandly eloquent?
>look it up
>mfw that's actually pretty much it

Sycophant

Simpliciter.

>>9434253
you really looked that up?

enmity

Eschar, for school
Propinquity, for recreational reading

>>9435852
>Propinquity, for recreational reading
>didn't read King Lear in middle school
kek

>>9433944
dragoman

>>9434017
I still haven't looked it up. How'd you find it?

>>9435859
Well now I have to spend my summer filling in my sheakspere gaps to avoid further humiliation on the internet.

Schadis.

>>9435889
Where did you read it by the way? I vividly remember propinquity in King Lear for whatever reason, curious of the date of your reading.

>>9435912
some words i even associate with the books in which i first encounteted them-- 'eleemosynary,' for instance, in Tom Jones.

oleaginous

>>9435912
Came across it in Metamorphoses yesterday, I don't remember the exact context, I think it was in a footnote.

sublunary

>>9433944

bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk

>>9433944

tautology/tautologies

Amanuensis

Before that 'felicitous' just to confirm what I thought it meant

>>9436181
>bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk

The closest synonym I've seen is Bladyughfoulmoecklenburgwhurawhorascortastrumpapornanennykocksapastippatappatupperstrippuckputtanach. Some say Ullhodturdenweirmudgaardgringnirurdrmolnirfenrirlukkilokkibaugimandodrrerinsurtkrinmgernrackinarockar, but that's totally different

>>9436203
Ok, Mr. Boswell

>>9433968
Fuck you I was going to make that joke. I'm probably the only one who got it, too.

girlfriend.

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>>9437287

>>9437287
relevant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veNzHk-ZNEs

Hale

ossify

senescence

>>9433981
Cool word, never heard it before

>>9434244
Crucial for reading any metaphysics, probably (I'm guessing) also for theology

>>9434897
Surprised I never heard this since I've read a lot of commentaries on Plato

>>9434224
>>9434935
Also cool. I like this kind of thread.

intelligence

>>9433944
circumambulate

Fluke in the context of whales

Dalliance

>>9433944

Spectrum, never realized gender is on one.

>>9433944

Going through Moby Dick, and I have to google a ton of shit that Ishmael says just because the references are a bit archaic today.
Learning tons of shit though.

There's a lot of kids in this thread. 99% of these are obvious to anyone with a classical education.

>>9437434
Literally 'walk around'
>>9437396
Literally 'understanding'
>>9437369
Literally 'starting to be old'
>>9437367
Literally 'boneify'
>>9437353
Literally 'health'
>>9436199
Literally 'same reasoning'
>>9436114
Literally 'under the moon'
>>9435852
Literally 'nearness'
>>9435838
Literally 'enemy-ness'
>>9435722
Literally 'simply'
>>9435616
>Sycophant
Literally 'grand talking'
>>9434999
Literally 'hidden'
>>9434854
Literally 'letter-ness'
>>9434406
Literally 'stand between'
>>9434270
Literally 'keenness'
>>9434244
Literally 'stay in'
>>9434051
Literally 'happiness'
>>9433988
Literally 'thing flowing out'
>>9433981
Literally 'though time'
>>9433950
Literally 'scatter about'

>>9439163
Fuck off, toff.

>>9439163
>posting this late in a thread
>implying you didn't look up each word to "appear" smart

have i not posted 'internecine' itt?

>>9438855
kek

gf

;_;

>>9433944
Apperception

Pusillanimous

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>>9434732
>>9434367
>mfw I fell for it

Terrified and sarcasm. Also irony. I guess I'm fucking retarded.

magnets

Proktophantasmist
It's actually quite funny

>>9433950
Seriously?

>>9439498
Literally "small spirited."

>>9439847
Literally the most annoying poster in this thread

>>9434378
coincidental is the word you're looking for, champ.

>>9437935
wow great word

Antediluvian
adj. of or belonging to the time before the biblical Flood.

>>9439886
>biblical

no. the word is also used in secular texts to refer to pre-flood eras in non-christian cultures.

>>9439951
In the context I read it in, The Everlasting Man, it had that denotation

>>9437374
>....The truth of 'Christian maieutics' rests upon the subjectivity of the existential human being. Its origin and goal is a truth which is transmittable only indirectly, because it must be appropriated independently. The process of conveying it reduces to a mere 'attention-getting,' so that appropriation is made possible for everyone as an individual.
Karl Loewith, From Hegel to Nietzsche, p.362. This passage concerns Kierkegaard. FYI.

>>9439964
Yeah in christian society/culture that's exactly what it means, I was just pointing out that it has a broader and possibly secular meaning.

>>9433944
detritus

Urbane.

I swear I've looked it about 10 times already but I never remember...

>>9433944
"Isotopy"

I'm still not 100% on it

>>9434886
>this pseud-post

picayune

"halcyon days"

>>9440329
to qualify someone who's nice?

>>9434886
piqued*

yeesh, I hope you get a good editor who isn't Clippy

>>9439163
>>tautology
>Literally 'same reasoning'
nah. same thing / redundant
used in logics or when you accuse someone of not having a point. (aka "duh!")

In philosophy, some will argue that the whole of maths is a tautology. There's no doubt in maths, because you're always only saying that A is A, despite all the sophistication.

What was *your* point? That all these words are useless and just fancy ways of saying simple things?
My point is that if you've oversimplified on a topic I happen to know, it's probably the same for the other words.

>>9440371
so I read about the fish legend and everything

Cameralism

According to my history, it was "Lysenkoism", which was like some Russian campaign thing against genetics.

>>9433944
felching

>>9440410
I think he's just saying "learn greek and latin". Also he wasn't wrong, you just don't understand the point of his post.

>>9439163
Be glad they're at least taking time to look it up

>>9440685
>Also he wasn't wrong
Yes he was. Read a goddam dictionary, the entry "tautology".
greek and latin don't help understand english words, it's more confusing than anything. And snobs don't need to learn latin and greek to namedrop a greek or latin origin. The etymology is interesting, but it's a complex process, so you have to learn it for itself, for each word.

I guess I picked the example where the literal translation was the most confusing. In the other cases, anon used his knowledge of the context to adapt the (*not*) literal translation to reflect the current meaning of the words.

But now that I'm on it, he's also blatantly wrong on "sycophant" :
>>Sycophant
>Literally 'grand talking'
not.
wiktionary : Ancient Greek συkοφάντης (sukophántēs), itself from σῦkον (sûkon, “fig”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I show, demonstrate”). The gesture of "showing the fig".

>>literaly grand talking
>he wasn't wrong
get lost, fucking uneducated snobs. Don't tell people to learn greek and latin if you don't even know the Greek for "to show".

>>9439163
You're wrong on my account anyway. Seek help.
Also, it's not the point at all that people are not figuring out the word for themselves.

>>9440720
A tautology is saying something like "he's hurting because he's in pain", where the proposition uses itself as its premise. "same reasoning" is correct here.

>>9440739
auto doesn't mean "same"
logos doesn't mean "reasoning"

1) Anon clearly doesn't know basic Greek (see also his completely false translation of sycophant)
2) even if he did, it would often be more confusing than anything, when stumbling upon a new word.

I'm not saying don't learn Greek. Just don't be a pedant.

>>9440759
>logos doesn't mean "reasoning"
logos *can mean reasoning, among other more usual meanings, like speech or discourse.

>>9440720

"literally grand talking" referred to "grandiloquent" not "sycophant".

He was being a bit off topic with his first line but learning etymology is useful and he is right, if you know Latin and Greek a lot of words that may have mystified you otherwise, become obvious. It's still fine to look them up anyway because there may be nuances in the contemporary meaning that you can't get from the Greek or Latin meaning on its own.

>>9440759
He isn't saying these are the definitions of these words, he's just breaking the words into pieces and giving an approximate interpretation of the parts as someone would do if he is reading and meets an unfamiliar word.

How is he being a pedant?

>>9440787
But he's also implying people aren't already doing that. The thread topic was simple. Not everyone should be insecure enough to preface their response with "well I basically got the word from etymological guesswork and context clues but I wanted to verify or check for the coloring of the word as well".
It's just annoying, like systematically going through a favorite books thread and telling people that their opinion isn't fact. Uh, thanks.

>>9440797
Yes, he missed the point of the thread with:
>There's a lot of kids in this thread. 99% of these are obvious to anyone with a classical education.

but the rest of his post was fine. Maybe I'm just fine with it because I like etymology, but I think the backlash was stupid. People reacted like their feelings were hurt.

>murated

I can't wait for Trump to murate my nation

>>9433950
perfunctorily

>>9433944
brutilated

feminism

>>9439163
Literally 'autistic'

>>9441171
Not that person, but there's nothing autistic about knowing Latin and Greek.
It's necessary, actually.

>>9441193
How is it necessary?

>>9434213
Is that worth reading?
Ive had it on my shelf for a couple of years now..

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Chyron. Actually a useful word.

This isn't where I was exposed to chyron, but if you're looking for an app to learn more words, Word of the Day (on the app store, idk about Google Play) is the best one I've been able to find. Most of its words are uncommon, and you actually learn. knoword.org is also useful, but it's got a limited pool of words, and it doesn't take long to memorize the definitions.

>>9433944
monosyllabic