Did you possibly mean one of these? mediaeval, medieval
Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- etc. See medieval, etc.
Wiktionary
- adj. alternative spelling of medieval.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or relating to the Middle Ages.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
- adj. as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened
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Identify the Wordienik!!
Well, wrap me in a looroll and call me Mummy!
‘tis the time for ‘ID the ‘nik!’
To quote bilby, who organised it last time round:
“Many thanks to the wondrous efforts of uselessnes...wodge, tear-resistant, systematic, slopseller, sinistral, queasy, protean, prodigal, present, playful, panda, od and 18 more...
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frindley's ark
I'll describe it once it begins to take shape. But I'll explain the name: it's a reversal of what happened when the Americans changed the name of Thomas Keneally's novel to Schindler's List.
mediæval, encyclopædia, archipelago, grateful, typography, paraph, pilcrow, colophon, grandiloquent, alinea, bailiwick, sagbutt and 88 more...
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Talk like frindley
Suggestions of frindley idioms that have caught your eye but which aren't yet listed, perhaps because I'm blind to their frindley-ness, are welcome.
i'd feel like a r..., yikes, crikey, i am affronted, way too much, grr, pompous old git, whiz-bang super-d..., especially devast..., evensnog, schopfling, nibling and 36 more...
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for which I postfer the American spel...
catalogue, doughnut, practise, labour, favourite, colour, theatre, behaviour, neighbour, dialogue, mediæval, encyclopædia and 4 more...
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with a sense of adoration
becomma, aesthetic, cadency, catharsis, chantepleure, meraki, mediaeval, pianoter, subvocalisation, tempestuous, tulle, serendipity and 32 more...
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Cherry picked
Words on which users with more than 500 comments left their very first comments (notwithstanding that 12 of these users left their first comments on profiles or lists).
If you pass 500...ithyphallic statues, life caching, quine, surcease, set, gehunteschpundt, claptrap, random, septmontium, scraffle, englishable, hypnopompic and 29 more...
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frindley I must respectfully bow out of the discussion. While I know plenty about typography and something about linguistics and phonetics, I know zilch about Italian other than my exposure to musical Italian, which, of course, has very little with real Italian to do! Apr 5, 2008
bilby Well, I could have cited zaino, buono,voi, neurologia, etc. Even bianco and viola are effectively dipthongs because the syllable break is bridged by the semi-consonant |j|. I suppose people can argue whatever they want but the commonly-held position of Italian linguists is that there are all kinds of dipthongs in Italian: ascending and descending, symmetrical and asymmetrical, etc. Apr 4, 2008
Prolagus I can't tell - I studied them during high school (Latin and Greek, that's the origin of my list).
But I think we have some phonetic diphthongs: for example, boia should be disyllabic.
Whooooooaaaaa I'm so late for work! Apr 4, 2008
frindley I was just playing around – I think you're right that Italian doesn't make use of ligatures to represent diphthongs. And it looks as if Italian may have dropped the "o" anyway (at least in my Collins Pocket).
Not sure I would describe the pairs of vowels in bianco and viola as diphthongs, as the letters belong to separate syllables. Diphthongs are the kinds of "moving" vowels that you get within a syllable, e.g. fair (eh-uh or ɛə), place (eh-ee or eɪ), tour (oo-uh or uə). As I understand it, Italian is a language of pure vowels (or is that just the musician-singer in me emerging?) and so never uses the diphthongs that you'll hear in English.
These points taken together could lead to the conclusion that Italian orthography doesn't employ ligatures for diphthongs because phonetically the language doesn't feature diphthongs. Apr 4, 2008
Prolagus Yes, I meant typographical dipthongs. oops. Apr 4, 2008
bilby Medioevale looks right to me. Of course there are Italian dipthongs, they just don't have any special treatment in the orthography.
eg. bianco, viola, muore, etc. Apr 4, 2008
Prolagus I don't think so, actually. I'm pretty sure Italian doesn't have diphthongs (of course, I might be wrong. For the first time in my life). Apr 4, 2008
frindley Or would that be mediœvale? Apr 4, 2008
Prolagus It's funny how, in Italian, the correct term would be medioevale, with an o. Apr 4, 2008
uselessness Also a typography nerd: *raises hand*
It's definitely one of the better kinds of nerds to be. ;-) Jan 16, 2008
reesetee Someone give sionnach a sleeping pill. ;-) Jan 16, 2008
seanahan I thought I was, or knew, all the different types of nerds, but typography is a new one. It's good to have you aboard. Jan 16, 2008
sionnach Imagining frindley, newly refreshed from slumbering on a Posturepædic Mattress, trimming quills and breaking out the vellum in anticipation of firing up a fresh broadside against Wikipædia. Sadly, Brother Malachi, the retromingent reprobate, has being pissing in the madder-vats again, so the ink situation is looking a little dire ...
Such are my insomniac musings.
Jan 15, 2008
frindley (And yes, I'm a typography nerd.) Jan 15, 2008
frindley I like it spelled like that. Not just with "ae" but with the ligature. Jan 15, 2008