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athame
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)
- 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.
- James R. Lewis, Witchcraft Today: An Encyclopedia of Wiccan and Neopagan Traditions (page 22)
Alternative forms
- athamé
Translations
Anagrams
- Tehama, hamate
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witch
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?ch, IPA(key): /w?t?/
- Rhymes: -?t?
- Homophone: which (in accents with the wine-whine merger), wich, wych
Etymology 1
From Middle English wicche, from Old English wi??e (“witch (female), sorceress”) and wi??a (“witch (male), sorcerer, warlock”), deverbative from wi??ian (“to practice sorcery”), from Proto-Germanic *wikk?n? (compare West Frisian wikje, wikke (“to foretell, warn”), German Low German wicken (“to soothsay”), Dutch wikken, wichelen (“to dowse, divine”)), from Proto-Indo-European *wik-néh?-, derivation of *weyk- (“to consecrate; separate”); akin to Latin victima (“sacrificial victim”), Lithuanian vi?kas (“life-force”), Sanskrit ??????? (vinákti, “to set apart, separate out”).
Noun
witch (plural witches)
- A person who practices witchcraft.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:witch.
- (now usually particularly) A woman who is learned in and actively practices witchcraft.
- (derogatory) An ugly or unpleasant woman.
- One who exercises more-than-common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person.
- One given to mischief, especially a woman or child.
- (geometry) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
- The stormy petrel.
- Any of a number of flatfish:
- Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (Torbay sole), found in the North Atlantic.
- Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis (megrim), found in the North Atlantic.
- Arnoglossus scapha, found near New Zealand.
- The Indomalayan butterfly Araotes lapithis, of the family Lycaenidae.
Synonyms
- (person who uses magic): See Thesaurus:magician
- (female magic user): wizardess, sorceress
- (male magic user): wizard, sorcerer, warlock
- (an ugly or unpleasant woman): See Thesaurus:old woman or Thesaurus:ugly woman or Thesaurus:shrew
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- Arnoglossus scapha on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Arnoglossus scapha on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Arnoglossus scapha on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Verb
witch (third-person singular simple present witches, present participle witching, simple past and past participle witched)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To practise witchcraft.
- (transitive) To bewitch.
- 2012, Carol Berg, The Daemon Prism: A Novel of the Collegia Magica, Penguin (?ISBN)
- The little man was seething and shaking, near collapse with fear and anger. “Tell 'em, Alvy.” “A tenday ago, Will came to the Cockatoo acting crazy, so scared he'd pissed hisself. Said the sorcerer had found him in the stables and witched him.”
- 2014, Charles L. McNichols, Crazy Weather, Counterpoint Press (?ISBN)
- “Maybe the Mormonhater witched him. There's lot of stories being told around about that old man.” “Them's lies,” denied South Boy hotly. “He may have scared Havek, but he never witched him.”
- 2017, Benjamin R. Kracht, Kiowa Belief and Ritual, U of Nebraska Press (?ISBN), page 134:
- Sometime in 1945 he faced an opponent who apparently “witched” him, causing facial paralysis and dizzy spells that rendered him bedridden. An old Indian doctor came to his bedside, looked into his eyes, and proclaimed that he had been witched by his Seminole adversary.
- 2012, Carol Berg, The Daemon Prism: A Novel of the Collegia Magica, Penguin (?ISBN)
- (intransitive) To dowse for water.
Derived terms
- witcher
See also
References
Etymology 2
Compare wick.
Noun
witch (plural witches)
- A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat and used as a taper.
Scots
Alternative forms
- wutch, whitch
Etymology
From Middle English wicche, from Old English wi??e (“witch (female),sorceress”) and wi??a (“witch (male), sorcerer”) m., deverbative from wi??ian (“to practice sorcery”), from Proto-Germanic *wikk?n? (compare West Frisian wikje, wikke (“to foretell, warn”), German Low German wicken (“to soothsay”), Dutch wikken, wichelen (“to dowse, divine”)), from Proto-Indo-European *wik-néh?-, derivation of *weyk- (“to consecrate; separate”); akin to Latin victima (“sacrificial victim”), Lithuanian vi?kas (“life-force”), Sanskrit ??????? (vinákti, “to set apart, separate out”).
Noun
witch (plural witchs)
- witch; A person, chiefly a woman, skilled in sorcery.
- warlock
- (transferred) Various animals, insects and objects in some way associated with witches.
- A moth in general; a tortoiseshell butterfly.
- The pole flounder or dab, Glyptocephalus cynoglossus.
- The seaweed, Laminaria saccharina.
- A red clay marble, generally one that is considered effective in winning games, a “wizard”.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Verb
witch (third-person singular present, present participle witching, past witchit, past participle witchit)
- (transitive) To harm (a person, etc.) by means of witchcraft; to bewitch, cast a spell on.
- (figuratively) To affect or influence as by witchcraft.
Further reading
- “witch” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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