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cordillera
noun
a chain of mountains, usually the principal mountain system or mountain axis of a large landmass.
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The English noun cordillera is a borrowing of Spanish cordillera 鈥渃hain or ridge of mountains.鈥� The Spanish noun is a diminutive of cuerda 鈥渞ope, string,鈥� from Latin chorda 鈥渃hord, cord, intestine (as food)鈥� itself a borrowing of Greek 肠丑辞谤诲岣� 鈥済uts, sausage, string (of rope or of a lyre).鈥� Cordillera originally applied to the Andes Mountains and later to the same mountain chain in Central America and Mexico. Cordillera entered English in the early 18th century.
how is cordillera used?
In the Western Hemisphere, the term Cordillera was first applied to the Cordillera de los Andes or Andes Mountains, which form a compact and continuous bundle of ranges along the western side of South America.
The dawn breaks high behind the towering and serrated wall of the Cordillera, a clear-cut vision of dark peaks rearing their steep slopes on a lofty pedestal of forest rising from the very edge of the shore.
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The very rare English noun hypocorism comes from the equally rare Latin noun hypocorisma 鈥渁 diminutive (word),鈥� a direct borrowing of Greek 丑测辫辞办贸谤颈蝉尘补 鈥減et name, endearing name; diminutive (word),鈥� a derivative of the verb 丑测辫辞办辞谤铆锄别蝉迟丑补颈 鈥渢o play the child, call by an endearing name.鈥� 贬测辫辞办辞谤铆锄别蝉迟丑补颈 is a compound formed from the prefix hypo-, here meaning 鈥渟lightly, somewhat,鈥� and 办辞谤铆锄别蝉迟丑补颈 鈥渢o caress, fondle.鈥� The root of 办辞谤铆锄别蝉迟丑补颈 is the noun 办贸谤脓 鈥済irl, maiden鈥� or 办贸谤辞蝉 鈥渂oy, youth.鈥� The Greek nouns are from the same Proto-Indo-European root ker- 鈥渢o grow鈥� as the Latin Ceres, the goddess of agriculture, and its derivative adjective 肠别谤别腻濒颈蝉 鈥減ertaining to Ceres,鈥� the source of English cereal. Hypocorism entered English in the 19th century.
how is hypocorism used?
Powsoddy, a now obsolete name for a pudding, was also used as a hypocorism in the late sixteenth century, paralleling the affectionate use of the word pudding itself in our own century, though lovers usually alter the pronunciation to puddin.
The addition of diminutive or familiar prefixes and suffixes to the name of a saint to produce a ‘pet name’ or hypocorism, is common in the Celtic areas …
suborn
verb
to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
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The Latin verb 蝉耻产辞谤苍腻谤别, the ultimate source of English suborn, is composed of the prefix sub- 鈥渦nder, subordinate, near to, partially, secretly鈥� and the verb 辞谤苍腻谤别 鈥渢o prepare, equip, arrange.鈥� 翱谤苍腻谤别 is from an assumed 辞谤诲苍腻谤别, a derivative of the noun 辞谤诲艒 (stem ordin-) 鈥渓ine, row, rank, grade.鈥� Sub辞谤苍腻谤别 has several meanings: when the sense of the verb 辞谤苍腻谤别 predominates, the compound means 鈥渢o supply, furnish; to dress up (in costume or disguise); when the sense of the prefix sub-, meaning 鈥渟ecretly, covertly,鈥� predominates, the compound means 鈥渢o instigate secretly or underhandedly, prepare clandestinely.鈥� An extension of this last sense, 鈥渢o induce someone to commit a crime or perjury,鈥� from suborner in Old and Middle French, is its current sense in English. Suborn entered English in the 16th century.
how is suborn used?
… he had been concerned 鈥渂ecause of known Russian efforts to suborn such individuals.鈥�
… I had been brought in as a spy, to help in betraying him, and Joyce had suborned him to the act of treachery.