antefluance

sionnach Sooooooooooo, now we're luuuuring puir wee kiddies into pubs arrrrrre weeeeee?

THIS. IS. SHEER. PERFECTION.

And that's all I have to say 'bout that. Feb 27, 2009

dontcry bilby *snort* Feb 27, 2009

reesetee And on the page of a madeupical word, at that. :-) Feb 27, 2009

bilby Maybe we have found our mission. Move over Gideons. Feb 27, 2009

plethora "slightly older kiddy-esque creatures"

Like me? *smiles innocently* Stop luring me into pubs, Wordies! You are corrupting meeeeee!!

I'm fairly sure the pub down the street from my Mum's house (in my hometown) would have a dictionary. Because the publican is one of those who would be likely to whip out Latin words to impress others. Feb 27, 2009

zizoo Heh, but how many wee ones are actually on Wordie particularly?

Then again, if I'd found this site when I was eight, I'm sure I'd have been totally enthused with it then as much as now. A geek is me, was me, and always will be. ^^;

Edit: And... I think you might likely be speaking of slightly older kiddy-esque creatures. I'm rather bad at picking up on some of these things sometimes. Especially since I don't expect to see an eight-year-old in a pub generally. xD Feb 27, 2009

dontcry Sooooooooooo, now we're luuuuring puir wee kiddies into pubs arrrrrre weeeeee? Feb 27, 2009

yarb I've frequented more than one pub with a battered old collins or kids' illustrated tucked away among the pulp novels and imperial memoirs, but a SOED, qroqqa? That's swoon-inducing. Feb 26, 2009

reesetee Well, that's it, then. No more pubs for me unless they have a resident dictionary. I had no idea that was a requirement for a respectable pub. Feb 26, 2009

qroqqa Sign of a good pub. The Victoria round the corner has the Shorter Oxford, which even I consider supererogatory, but splendid. Feb 26, 2009

chained_bear qroqqa, that was a lovely piece of prose.

p.s. they have dictionaries in pubs? Feb 26, 2009

Prolagus and to have meanings of parts correctly explained, while we're at it

Ahem... I will add some etymologies on my list... pardon Feb 26, 2009

sionnach finiqqy qroqqa.
¿But shouldn't that be "finiququy qroquaqua"? Feb 26, 2009

qroqqa Antefluence is fine. I'm just finicky: I don't mind people madeupicking them, but if they appear to be Latin or Greek I like to see them properly done (and to have meanings of parts correctly explained, while we're at it); and I'm thinking of the puir wee kiddies who might take it for some venerable, battered word handed down from dictionary to dictionary and think it will impress others at the bar to bring it out in casual conversation, only to find their triumph ruined when some even more boring person challenges it and demands the pub dictionary. Feb 26, 2009

zizoo So... then how ought the word be constructed from Latin bases? Just "antefluence"? Or does "ante-" not work there for some reason which eludes me?

And yes, it is indeed made-up. Feb 26, 2009

qroqqa Made-up word, and ill-made. The verb stem "flow" is flu-, which gives (1) the noun flux- "flow" and (2) the participle fluent- "flowing" (-ent-, not -ant-, because flu- is second declension). (2) does not come from (1). From the participle ending -ent- comes the Latin abstract noun ending -entia. This, in French, not Latin, became -ence (as in influence etc.). Feb 25, 2009

zizoo -noun
Premature ejaculation.
(Latin ance "state of" + flux "flowing" + ante "before")
(edit)I made it up. =P Feb 25, 2009