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anecdote

English

Alternative forms

  • anecdota (only attested in the plural (anecdotae), probably non-standard)
  • anecdoton (Grecian)
  • anecdotum (rare, Latinate)

Etymology

Late 17th c., from French anecdote, from Ancient Greek ????????? (anékdotos, accounts unpublished), from ??- (an-, not, un-) + ??????? (ékdotos, published), from ???????? (ekdíd?mi, I publish), from ??- (ek-, out) + ?????? (díd?mi, I give).

Virtually identical cognates in other European languages – French anecdote, German Anekdote, Spanish anécdota, among others.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /?æ.n?k.do?t/

Noun

anecdote (plural anecdotes)

  1. A short account of a real incident or person, often humorous or interesting.
  2. An account which supports an argument, but which is not supported by scientific or statistical analysis.
  3. A previously untold secret account of an incident.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • data

Verb

anecdote (third-person singular simple present anecdotes, present participle anecdoting, simple past and past participle anecdoted)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To tell anecdotes (about).
    • 1879, Eustace Clare Grenville Murray, That Artful Vicar
      They were all men of the same set, knowing one another intimately, and knowing the same people; so they fell to talking and anecdoting in such pleasant wise that dinner-time approached []
    • 1986, Elliot L. Gilbert, Best Short Stories from the California Quarterly, 1971-1985 (page 101)
      Bob anecdoted the circus he and Jimmy had seen that afternoon.

Anagrams

  • encoated, toe dance, toe-dance, toedance

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.n?k.d?t/

Noun

anecdote f (plural anecdotes)

  1. anecdote

Descendants

  • ? Russian: ???????? (anekdót) (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

  • “anecdote” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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sory

English

Etymology

Latin sory, from Ancient Greek ???? (sôru, a kind of ore).

Noun

sory (uncountable)

  1. (chemistry, obsolete) green vitriol, or some earth impregnated with it

Anagrams

  • Syro-, rosy, roys

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • sori, sari, særi, sorry, soory, sary, sari?

Etymology

From Old English s?ri?, from Proto-Germanic *sairagaz. Equivalent to sore +? -y.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?s??ri?/

Adjective

sory (plural and weak singular sorye, comparative sorier, superlative soriest)

  1. sad, sorrowful
    1. painful, distressful
    2. sorry, remorseful, regretful
  2. pitiful, downtrodden, dismal:
    1. cheap, low-quality
    2. luckless; cheated by fate
  3. iniquitous, malicious; having bad intentions

Derived terms

  • sorinesse
  • soryly

Descendants

  • English: sorry
    • ? Scots: sorry, sorra
  • Scots: sairy

References

  • “s?r?, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-09.

Adverb

sory

  1. (rare) harshly, intensely; with extreme force
  2. (rare) sadly; while upset

References

  • “s?r?, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-09.

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