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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.
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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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galimatias
noun
confused or unintelligible talk.
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Galimatias, 鈥渃onfused or unintelligible talk,鈥� is a masculine singular noun in French. It first appears in 1580 in an essay of Montaigne鈥檚; it first appears in English in 1653 in a translation of Rabelais. Galimatias has no reliable etymology: scholars suggest a connection with gallimaufry 鈥渁 hodgepodge, a jumble,鈥� but these are just guesses.
how is galimatias used?
“I have seen this letter in which you tell me there is so much galimatias, and I assure you that I have not found any at all. On the contrary, I find everything very plainly expressed …”
Such productions are called books, because there is no other name for them. As a matter of fact, idle talk and galimatias of the sort are in no wise literature.
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