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Operose is a borrowing from the Latin adjective 辞辫别谤艒蝉耻蝉 鈥渂usy, active, painstaking, taking or involving much care.鈥� 翱辫别谤艒蝉耻蝉 is a derivative of the noun opus (stem oper-) 鈥渓abor, work, a work鈥� and the adjective suffix –艒蝉耻蝉, meaning 鈥渇ull of, abounding in.鈥� Opus comes from an uncommon Proto-Indo-European root op– 鈥渢o work, produce in quantity.鈥� In Oscan, the most conservative of the Italic languages, the root appears in the verbal adjective 煤辫蝉补苍苍补尘 (in form equivalent to Latin operandam, and both derived from Italic opesandam) 鈥渢o be built, to be made.鈥� Sanskrit derives the noun 谩辫补蝉 鈥渨ork鈥� from op-, and Avestan the compound hvapah– 鈥済ood work.鈥� Operose entered English in the 16th century.
how is operose used?
In reality no problem can be imagined more operose, than that of decomposing the sounds of words into four and twenty simple elements or letters, and again finding these elements in all other words.
So long as we insist upon approaching them through the operose and roundabout method of dead-language studies, schooldays will flee away, and the object will not be accomplished.
elide
verb (used with object)
to suppress; omit; ignore; pass over.
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Elide comes straight from the Latin verb 脓濒墨诲别谤别 鈥渢o strike out, crush, smash,鈥� a compound of the preposition and prefix 脓, 脓-, a variant of ex, ex-, here indicating deprivation or loss, and the combining form –濒墨诲别谤别, from laedere 鈥渢o wound, injure, damage.鈥� 膾濒墨诲别谤别 and elide both have the legal sense 鈥渢o nullify, invalidate,鈥� and the grammatical or prosodic sense 鈥渢o omit a vowel or syllable in pronunciation,鈥� as formerly in English th鈥檈mbattled plain, and in French 濒鈥檋辞尘尘别, or Italian 濒鈥檜辞尘辞. Laedere has no known etymology. Elide entered English in the 16th century.
how is elide used?
These videos slyly elide the long hours that lie between seeing how something is done and knowing how to do it.
They confused her, made her angry, as though the whole middle section of her life鈥攖he part where she was supposed to grow to adulthood, bear children, be a young mother, and watch her children grow to adulthood鈥攈ad simply been elided.
adventitious
adjective
associated with something by chance rather than as an integral part; extrinsic.
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Adventitious comes from the Medieval Latin adjective 补诲惫别苍迟墨迟颈耻蝉, from Latin 补诲惫别苍迟墨肠颈耻蝉 鈥渃oming from without, from abroad, foreign, external, made or happening by chance, casual.鈥� 础诲惫别苍迟墨肠颈耻蝉 is a derivative of the verb 补诲惫别苍墨谤别 鈥渢o come to, arrive at, reach鈥� (formed from the preposition and prefix ad, ad– 鈥渢o, toward鈥� and the simple verb 惫别苍墨谤别 鈥渢o come, be on the way, approach鈥�) and the suffix –墨肠颈耻蝉, used for forming adjectives from the past participle stems of verbs (here, advent– from adventum). The zoological or botanical sense 鈥渁ppearing in an abnormal or unusual position or place, as a root鈥� dates from the second half of the 17th century. Adventitious dates from the early 17th century.
how is adventitious used?
It is not founded on organic strength, the delicate, ennobling mark of a good endowment, of sound blood and a sound character, but is in a curious way something adventitious, accidental, perhaps even usurped or stolen.
This is exhausting, of course, but far less so than the tenor of a normal museum, which groups works by adventitious categories of period and style.