different between athame vs ashame

English

Etymology

From the non-word arthame from a French manuscript. Arthame is either from a misreading of handwritten Italian arctrave, which is a variant of architrave (“main beam”), or from corruptions of the Medieval Latin word artavus (“quill-sharpening knife”). Artavus was also mistranslated into the non-word artauo in an Italian manuscript. The arthame was conflated with the cortel nero ("black knife") by the author Grillot de Givry in 1931, and that conflation was passed on to Gerald Gardner (the creator of Wicca).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??????.me?/, /?????.me?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????.me?/, /????.me?/, /?æ.???me?/

Noun

athame (plural athames)

1. A ceremonial pointed knife or dagger, used especially in Wicca and other neopagan traditions and having a black handle with magical symbols on it. [from 20th c.]
   • James R. Lewis, Witchcraft Today: An Encyclopedia of Wiccan and Neopagan Traditions (page 22)

     The athame is a black-handled ritual knife—one of the most common distinguishing marks of the Neopagan Witch. Gerald Gardner, in Witchcraft Today, called the athame one of the three most essential tools of the Witch.

Alternative forms

• athamé

Translations

Anagrams

• Tehama, hamate

English

Etymology

From Old English ?s?amian, ?s?eamian, from ?- + s?eamian (“feel shame”), from Proto-Germanic *skam?nan, from *skam? (“shame, humiliation”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???e?m/
• Rhymes: -e?m

Verb

ashame (third-person singular simple present ashames, present participle ashaming, simple past and past participle ashamed)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To feel shame; to be ashamed.
2. (transitive, rare) To make ashamed; to shame.
   • 1740, The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, Sylvanus Urban (ed.), vol 10, p. 245 (Google preview):

     I am young Woman indifferently well brought up in the Country, and might rai?e my fortune con?iderably had I not got ?uch a Habit of Sweating, which quite a?hames me, when in Company, to ?ee my Face of a dewy Sweat, and the generality complain of Cold.

   • 1860, Frederic W. Farrar, Julian Home: A Tale of College Life, p. 99 (Google preview):

     The notice annoyed and ashamed him.

   • 1983, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard) Oct 18 - Dec 1, p. 399 (Google preview):

     If it is one Minister who has done it he has ashamed us all and the title "Minister" will not be respected anymore.

   • 2009, Steve Scott, Insiders - Outsiders, ?ISBN, pp. 36-37 (Google preview):

     They would think that I had abandoned them, that I could not handle the stress and pressure and this ashamed me immensely.

   • 2013 Sept. 24, Sudarsan Raghavan, "Kenyan officials say Nairobi mall siege is over," Washington Post (retrieved 30 Sept 2013):

     “As a nation, our head is bloodied but unbowed,” Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said in a televised address, declaring three days of mourning. “We have ashamed and defeated our attackers.”

References

• ashame at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Seaham