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More about oeillade
Oeillade “an amorous glance” has been in English for more than 400 years, but it remains completely unnaturalized. The word is obviously French, its pronunciation not obvious. Oeillade in French means a glance that is furtive, conspiratorial, or secret, or a glance that is flirting and amorous: “significant glance” or “meaningful glance” conveys the English meaning but not its esprit. The first half of oeillade, oeil, means “eye” in French and is a regular development from Latin oculus, source of English oculist and binocular “(with) both eyes.” The noun suffix –ade is the French variant of the common Romance suffix that appears as –ado in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, and Occitan, but as –ato in Italian. The suffix comes from the Latin past participle suffix –ātus. The English noun ogle “an amorous, flirtatious glance,” a synonym of oeillade, ultimately comes from Dutch or Low German oeglen, oghelen “to make eyes at,” a derivative of the noun oog “eye”; but ogle, too, fails the amour test. Oeillade entered English in the late 16th century.
how is oeillade used?
Oeillades leap toward one another; gazes of longing, smugness, hypocritical piety intertwine in a wordless dance.
Here she was absolutely outrageous—with long‐held poses, and wicked oeillades at the audience—but anyone who could bring himself to be anything but enchanted would need to be more outrageous than she.
camaraderie
noun
a spirit of trust and goodwill among people closely associated in an activity or endeavor.
More about camaraderie
Camaraderie, “a spirit of trust and goodwill among people closely associated in an activity or endeavor,” is a French word, a derivative of French camerade, camarade “roommate.” The French noun comes from Spanish camarada “chamberful,” later “chambermate.” Spanish camarada is a derivative of cámara “chamber, room,” from Latin camara, camera “arched roof, vaulted roof or ceiling,” a borrowing of Greek kamára (with the same meanings). Camaraderie entered English in the first half of the 19th century.
how is camaraderie used?
The Fair Fight teams are composed of an exemplary cohort of women and men who do not wait for a better day. Instead, they create it with ingenuity, a spirit of camaraderie, and a love of humanity that never fail to humble me.
If there were clashes behind the scenes of “Parks and Recreation,” they never became public. It was easy to believe in the affection and camaraderie shared by the main characters.
lunisolar
adjective
pertaining to or based upon the relations or joint action of the moon and the sun.
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Lunisolar, meaning “pertaining to or based upon the relations or joint action of the moon and the sun,” is used exclusively in astronomy, as in lunisolar calendar or lunisolar precession. The word comes straight from the Latin nouns lūna “moon” and sōl “sun” (the –i– is a Latin connecting vowel). It is no accident that lūna looks so much like Russian luná: They both come from the same Proto-Indo-European noun louksnā, from the root leuk-, louk-, luk– “to shine, be bright.” Louksnā becomes raokhshnā “shining, brilliant, radiant” in Avestan (the Old Iranian language of the Zoroastrian scriptures); as a proper name, Raokhshnā is transliterated in Greek as Rhōxánē Roxanne (the English spelling was affected by the name Anne). Raokhshnā was an Iranian princess who become Alexander the Great’s wife (she bore Alexander a posthumous son). Latin sōl comes from Proto-Indo-European sāwel (from sāwel to sāwol to sāol to sōl). The derivative noun sāwelios “sun” becomes hḗlios in (Classical Attic) Greek. Greek dialects have the forms ēélios (Homeric), hā́lios and āélios (Doric), and awelios (Cretan). Lunisolar entered English in the second half of the 17th century.
how is lunisolar used?
To correct for seasonal drift, the Chinese, Hindu, Jewish and many other calendars are lunisolar. In these calendars, a month is still defined by the moon, but an extra month is added periodically to stay close to the solar year.
The day of or the day after the New Moon marks the start of the new month for most lunisolar calendars. The first month of the Chinese calendar starts on Friday, February 12, 2021 (at midnight in China’s time zone, which is 13 hours ahead of EST), making this Chinese New Year, the start of the year of the Ox!