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onomastic
adjective
of or relating to proper names.
More about onomastic
English onomastic comes straight from the Greek adjective and noun 辞苍辞尘补蝉迟颈办贸蝉, which has quite a few meanings: 鈥減ertaining to a name, naming, special name; (in grammar) nominative (case); vocabulary (organized by subject and not by letter).鈥� 翱苍辞尘补蝉迟颈办贸蝉 is a derivative of the verb 辞苍辞尘谩锄别颈苍 鈥渢o name, call by name,鈥� itself a derivative of the noun 贸苍辞尘补, the Greek development of Proto-Indo-European nomen-, which appears in Latin as 苍艒尘别苍, Germanic (English) name, and Sanskrit 苍腻虂尘补. One of the things that make Greek Greek is the presence of prothetic vowels (prothetic means 鈥減ut in front鈥�) at the beginning of a word, such as the o- in 贸苍辞尘补, the a- in 谩蝉迟谤辞苍 鈥渟tar鈥� (akin to English star and Latin stella, from assumed sterla), the e- in 别苍苍茅补 鈥渘ine鈥� (Latin novem, Sanskrit 苍谩惫补). Some of the prothetic vowels can be explained according to Indo-European linguistics, others not; they are a source of endless research and speculation. Onomastic entered English in the 18th century.
how is onomastic used?
Today鈥檚 baseball rosters are filled with names, not nicknames, not like the ones that used to be. The N.B.A. playoffs are equally devoid of onomastic pleasures, just cheap echoes of Magic and the Mailman, Tiny and Tree, Chief and Cornbread.
… the survey found that mothers鈥� top reason for onomastic discontent was that they hadn鈥檛 been bold enough …
attractancy
noun
the capacity, especially of a pheromone, to attract.
More about attractancy
Attractant is to attractance and attractancy as repellent is to repellence and repellency. Both sets of words are used mostly in biochemistry to describe chemicals, such as pheromones or insectifuges, that attract, drive away, or affect the behavior of other creatures. Attractancy entered English in the 20th century.
how is attractancy used?
From these various investigations it became very clear that numerous components of the cotton plant had some attractancy for the boll weevil, although their effects were often short-ranged.
The attractancy of the brown-rot fungus was discovered by Dr. Glenn Esenther, an entomologist at the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin.
synastry
noun
Astrology. the comparison of two or more natal charts in order to analyze or forecast the interaction of the individuals involved.
More about synastry
English synastry is an astrological term coming ultimately from Greek 蝉测苍补蝉迟谤铆补, a noun compounded of the Greek preposition and prefix syn, syn- 鈥渨ith,鈥� completely naturalized in English, the Greek noun 谩蝉迟谤辞(苍) 鈥渟tar,鈥� familiar in astronomy, astronaut, and astrology, and the abstract noun suffix -ia, which is also native to Latin, becoming the noun suffix -y in English. Synastry entered English in the 17th century.
how is synastry used?
… she matches people according to chart comparison, a branch of astrology called Synastry.
I find this sad because the synastry was really pretty good.