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ysabetwordsmith's journal in this entry, and I couldn't resist trying to figure it out for myself.
I suspect these are completely made up words, but maybe they're not. I know there are many, many old words that aren't in our dictionaries anymore because they fell out of use decades ago.
Does anyone know the definitions to the following words:
1. droringe
2. euculiar
3. eulexithymia
4. frobgnosticon
5. hypolexithymia
6. myriadoxy
7. quordic
Oh, and BTW, they're not online. Any of them. Except for where they're found inysabetwordsmith's LJ. So, no good Googling. I tried. I Googled like a champ, but alas, the Google-fu failed me.
I'm pretty solid on what I think that myriadoxy, eulexithymia, and hypolexithymia mean. Mostly because I'm solid on Latin (it's my one foreign language) and pretty good on ancient Greek.
I think myriadoxy has to be like "many religions" or a religion of many things, many parts, many different elements. "Myria" - meaning many. Like the word "myriad".
Eulexithymia is easy, I hope. "Eu" means good. "Lex" relates to books. Rarely (and I do mean rarely), it can apply as "writing". Or, occasionally, the law.
It could be "the mental condition of having good books" or "the mental condition of writing good words" or "the mental condition of having/creating good laws".
Same with hypolexithymia except substitute all the examples of "good" for "too few". So, "the condition of mind of having too few books" or "the condition of mind of writing too few words" or "the condition of mind of creating/having too few laws".
Quordic has me thrown, because I don't know whether the r is part of the stem or the suffix. If the stem is "quo" and "-rdic" is just the ending, then it might mean something relating to position. Because "quo" in Latin is roughly "where" and "what" (e.g., Quo Vadis = "Where are you going?").
But if "quor" is the root, then I'm in trouble. Because it might be from "quore" which is a permutation on the Italian "cuore", which is the word for "heart" or something dealing with the heart.
Might be from a word like "quorum", which is Latin again, but is approximately "of which". I'm not sure how that would work. Because "-ic" is something that's related to, characterized by. So literally it would be "related to of which".
With "quordic", I'm afraid that the root might not be Latinate at all, but might stem from something completely outside the Romance language families. In which case, I'm rubbish. I'm deeply afraid it might stem from "Quoran" or another Arabic word that I have no experience with.
Frobgnosticon has me for a loop. Frob I had to go look up. Wikipedia has this to say about it: any small device or object (usually hand-sized) which can be manipulated, or frobbed..
Gnosticon I get. gnost- is easy as pie. Gnostic in specific refers to gnosticism, which was an ancient Greek sorta thing where they had lots of knowledge and they tried to put together a bunch of religions, and basically, in generic use, it's relating to having spiritual/intellectual knowledge of religious things, especially obscure knowledge for getting into heaven.
Thread that together and I think it's either a knowledge of spiritual, intellectual things that can be manipulated or held or the other way around, a knowledge of spiritual and intellectual things that manipulates or holds things (or people).
Don't ask me about "droringe". I don't know root from stem in that word, and I already know it's definitely not Latinate. I'm guessing something Germanic, maybe? It's outside my expertise for sure.
ysabetwordsmith's journal in this entry, and I couldn't resist trying to figure it out for myself. I suspect these are completely made up words, but maybe they're not. I know there are many, many old words that aren't in our dictionaries anymore because they fell out of use decades ago.
Does anyone know the definitions to the following words:
1. droringe
2. euculiar
3. eulexithymia
4. frobgnosticon
5. hypolexithymia
6. myriadoxy
7. quordic
Oh, and BTW, they're not online. Any of them. Except for where they're found in
ysabetwordsmith's LJ. So, no good Googling. I tried. I Googled like a champ, but alas, the Google-fu failed me. I'm pretty solid on what I think that myriadoxy, eulexithymia, and hypolexithymia mean. Mostly because I'm solid on Latin (it's my one foreign language) and pretty good on ancient Greek.
I think myriadoxy has to be like "many religions" or a religion of many things, many parts, many different elements. "Myria" - meaning many. Like the word "myriad".
Eulexithymia is easy, I hope. "Eu" means good. "Lex" relates to books. Rarely (and I do mean rarely), it can apply as "writing". Or, occasionally, the law.
It could be "the mental condition of having good books" or "the mental condition of writing good words" or "the mental condition of having/creating good laws".
Same with hypolexithymia except substitute all the examples of "good" for "too few". So, "the condition of mind of having too few books" or "the condition of mind of writing too few words" or "the condition of mind of creating/having too few laws".
Quordic has me thrown, because I don't know whether the r is part of the stem or the suffix. If the stem is "quo" and "-rdic" is just the ending, then it might mean something relating to position. Because "quo" in Latin is roughly "where" and "what" (e.g., Quo Vadis = "Where are you going?").
But if "quor" is the root, then I'm in trouble. Because it might be from "quore" which is a permutation on the Italian "cuore", which is the word for "heart" or something dealing with the heart.
Might be from a word like "quorum", which is Latin again, but is approximately "of which". I'm not sure how that would work. Because "-ic" is something that's related to, characterized by. So literally it would be "related to of which".
With "quordic", I'm afraid that the root might not be Latinate at all, but might stem from something completely outside the Romance language families. In which case, I'm rubbish. I'm deeply afraid it might stem from "Quoran" or another Arabic word that I have no experience with.
Frobgnosticon has me for a loop. Frob I had to go look up. Wikipedia has this to say about it: any small device or object (usually hand-sized) which can be manipulated, or frobbed..
Gnosticon I get. gnost- is easy as pie. Gnostic in specific refers to gnosticism, which was an ancient Greek sorta thing where they had lots of knowledge and they tried to put together a bunch of religions, and basically, in generic use, it's relating to having spiritual/intellectual knowledge of religious things, especially obscure knowledge for getting into heaven.
Thread that together and I think it's either a knowledge of spiritual, intellectual things that can be manipulated or held or the other way around, a knowledge of spiritual and intellectual things that manipulates or holds things (or people).
Don't ask me about "droringe". I don't know root from stem in that word, and I already know it's definitely not Latinate. I'm guessing something Germanic, maybe? It's outside my expertise for sure.
