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ductus
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ductus (“leading, conducting”, noun). Doublet of duct and douit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?k.t?s/
Noun
ductus (plural ductus or ducti)
- (writing)
- the number of strokes that make up a written letter, and the direction, sequence and speed in which they are written (Compare graph; see also aspect.)
- a subtle reduction of weight towards the middle of the stroke of the letter
- (anatomy) a duct, tube or canal in the body
References
- “ductus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?duk.tus/, [?d??kt??s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?duk.tus/, [?d?ukt?us]
Etymology 1
From d?c? (“to lead, conduct, draw”) +? -tus (action noun suffix).
Noun
ductus m (genitive duct?s); fourth declension
- (literally)
- (in general) leadership, leading, conducting
- (military) generalship, military lead, conduct, command
- (Medieval Latin) conveyance of water; a channel
- (figuratively) (of discourse)
- (acting) connection or structure of a play
- a period
Inflection
Fourth-declension noun.
Derived terms
- duct?rius (adjective)
- duct? (verb)
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Participle
ductus (feminine ducta, neuter ductum); first/second-declension participle
- perfect passive participle of d?c?
Inflection
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- ductus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ductus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ductus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- ductus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
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fist
English
Alternative forms
- foost (Scots)
Pronunciation
- enPR: f?st, IPA(key): /f?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
Etymology 1
From Middle English fist, from Old English f?st (“fist”), from Proto-West Germanic *f?sti, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Dutch vuist, German Faust. More at five.
Noun
fist (plural fists)
- A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward.
- The boxer's fists rained down on his opponent in the last round.
- (printing) The pointing hand symbol ?.
- (amateur radio) The characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code.
- (slang) A person's characteristic handwriting.
- A group of men. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- The talons of a bird of prey.
- (informal) An attempt at something.
- 2015, Daniel Taylor, Manchester City’s Sergio Agüero too good for Chelsea as Diego Costa labours (in The Guardian, 16 August 2015) [1]:
- City look stronger, fitter and more motivated than last season and even at this early stage the gap feels like a sizeable advantage. Yes, it is way too early to make snap judgments about the impact on the title race. It has, however, been long enough to ascertain that Manuel Pellegrini’s team are going to make a much better fist of it this time.
- 2005, Darryl N. Davis, Visions of Mind: Architectures for Cognition and Affect, page 144:
- With the rise of cognitive neuroscience, the time may be coming when we can make a reasonable fist of mapping down from an understanding of the functional architecture of the mind to the structural architecture of the brain.
- 2015, Daniel Taylor, Manchester City’s Sergio Agüero too good for Chelsea as Diego Costa labours (in The Guardian, 16 August 2015) [1]:
Synonyms
- bunch of fives
- fist-size
- ductus
Derived terms
Related terms
- fisticuff
- tight-fisted
Translations
Verb
fist (third-person singular simple present fists, present participle fisting, simple past and past participle fisted)
- To strike with the fist.
- ...may not score a point with his open hand(s), but may score a point by fisting the ball. Damian Cullen. "Running the rule." The Irish Times 18 Aug 2003, pg. 52.
- To close (the hand) into a fist.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 29:
- He noticed Ada's trick of hiding her fingernails by fisting her hand or stretching it with the palm turned upward when helping herself to a biscuit.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 29:
- To grip with a fist.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 34
- I am an officer; but, how I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when I was before the mast.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 34
- (slang) To fist-fuck.
Translations
See also
- knuckle
- punch
Etymology 2
From Middle English fisten, fiesten, from Old English *fistan ("to break wind gently"; supported by Old English fisting (“breaking wind”)), from Proto-Germanic *fistaz (“breaking wind, fart”), from Proto-Germanic *f?san? (“to break or discharge wind, fart”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys- (“to blow, breathe”). Cognate with Dutch veest (“a fart”), Low German f?sten (“to break wind”), German Fist (“a quiet wind”), Fisten (“breaking wind”), Swedish fisa (“to fart”), Latin sp?r? (“breathe, blow”), Albanian fryj (“to blow, breath”).
Verb
fist (third-person singular simple present fists, present participle fisting, simple past and past participle fisted)
- (intransitive) To break wind.
Derived terms
- fisting
Noun
fist (plural fists)
- The act of breaking wind; fise.
- A puffball.
Anagrams
- FITs, FiTs, ITFs, TIFs, fits, sift
Middle English
Alternative forms
- fust, fest, feest, vest
Etymology
From Old English f?st, from Proto-West Germanic *f?sti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi?st/, /fist/
Noun
fist (plural fistes)
- fist
Descendants
- English: fist
- Scots: fist, fyst
- Yola: hist, fest
References
- “f??st, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Middle French
Verb
fist
- third-person singular past historic of faire
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- feset
Verb
fist
- past participle of fise
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