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More about oeillade
Oeillade 鈥渁n amorous glance鈥� has been in English for more than 400 years, but it remains completely unnaturalized. The word is obviously French, its pronunciation not obvious. Oeillade in French means a glance that is furtive, conspiratorial, or secret, or a glance that is flirting and amorous: 鈥渟ignificant glance鈥� or 鈥渕eaningful glance鈥� conveys the English meaning but not its esprit. The first half of oeillade, oeil, means 鈥渆ye鈥� in French and is a regular development from Latin oculus, source of English oculist and binocular 鈥�(with) both eyes.鈥� The noun suffix –ade is the French variant of the common Romance suffix that appears as –ado in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, and Occitan, but as –ato in Italian. The suffix comes from the Latin past participle suffix –腻迟耻蝉. The English noun ogle “an amorous, flirtatious glance,” a synonym of oeillade, ultimately comes from Dutch or Low German oeglen, oghelen 鈥渢o make eyes at,鈥� a derivative of the noun oog 鈥渆ye鈥�; but ogle, too, fails the amour test. Oeillade entered English in the late 16th century.
how is oeillade used?
Oeillades leap toward one another; gazes of longing, smugness, hypocritical piety intertwine in a wordless dance.
Here she was absolutely outrageous鈥攚ith long鈥恏eld poses, and wicked oeillades at the audience鈥攂ut anyone who could bring himself to be anything but enchanted would need to be more outrageous than she.
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camaraderie
noun
a spirit of trust and goodwill among people closely associated in an activity or endeavor.
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Camaraderie, 鈥渁 spirit of trust and goodwill among people closely associated in an activity or endeavor,鈥� is a French word, a derivative of French camerade, camarade 鈥渞oommate.鈥� The French noun comes from Spanish camarada 鈥渃hamberful,鈥� later 鈥渃hambermate.鈥� Spanish camarada is a derivative of 肠谩尘补谤补 鈥渃hamber, room,鈥� from Latin camara, camera 鈥渁rched roof, vaulted roof or ceiling,” a borrowing of Greek 办补尘谩谤补 (with the same meanings). Camaraderie entered English in the first half of the 19th century.
how is camaraderie used?
The Fair Fight teams are composed of an exemplary cohort of women and men who do not wait for a better day. Instead, they create it with ingenuity, a spirit of camaraderie, and a love of humanity that never fail to humble me.
If there were clashes behind the scenes of 鈥淧arks and Recreation,鈥� they never became public. It was easy to believe in the affection and camaraderie shared by the main characters.
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lunisolar
adjective
pertaining to or based upon the relations or joint action of the moon and the sun.
More about lunisolar
Lunisolar, meaning 鈥減ertaining to or based upon the relations or joint action of the moon and the sun,鈥� is used exclusively in astronomy, as in lunisolar calendar or lunisolar precession. The word comes straight from the Latin nouns 濒奴苍补 鈥渕oon鈥� and 蝉艒濒 鈥渟un鈥� (the –i– is a Latin connecting vowel). It is no accident that 濒奴苍补 looks so much like Russian 濒耻苍谩: They both come from the same Proto-Indo-European noun 濒辞耻办蝉苍腻, from the root leuk-, louk-, luk– 鈥渢o shine, be bright.鈥� 尝辞耻办蝉苍腻 becomes 谤补辞办丑蝉丑苍腻 鈥渟hining, brilliant, radiant鈥� in Avestan (the Old Iranian language of the Zoroastrian scriptures); as a proper name, 搁补辞办丑蝉丑苍腻 is transliterated in Greek as 搁丑艒虫谩苍脓 Roxanne (the English spelling was affected by the name Anne). 搁补辞办丑蝉丑苍腻 was an Iranian princess who become Alexander the Great鈥檚 wife (she bore Alexander a posthumous son). Latin 蝉艒濒 comes from Proto-Indo-European 蝉腻飞别濒 (from 蝉腻飞别濒 to 蝉腻飞辞濒 to 蝉腻辞濒 to 蝉艒濒). The derivative noun 蝉腻飞别濒ios 鈥渟un鈥� becomes 丑岣条颈辞蝉 in (Classical Attic) Greek. Greek dialects have the forms 脓茅濒颈辞蝉 (Homeric), 丑腻虂濒颈辞蝉 and 腻茅濒颈辞蝉 (Doric), and awelios (Cretan). Lunisolar entered English in the second half of the 17th century.
how is lunisolar used?
To correct for seasonal drift, the Chinese, Hindu, Jewish and many other calendars are lunisolar. In these calendars, a month is still defined by the moon, but an extra month is added periodically to stay close to the solar year.
The day of or the day after the New Moon marks the start of the new month for most lunisolar calendars. The first month of the Chinese calendar starts on Friday, February 12, 2021 (at midnight in China’s time zone, which is 13 hours ahead of EST), making this Chinese New Year, the start of the year of the Ox!
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