different between enigma vs anachronism

English

Alternative forms

• ænigma (chiefly archaic)

Etymology

From Latin aenigma (“riddle”), being derived itself from the Ancient Greek verbal noun ??????? (aínigma, “dark saying, speaking in riddles”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n??m?/, /??n??m?/

Noun

enigma (plural enigmas or enigmata)

1. Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable.
2. A riddle, or a difficult problem.

Related terms

• a riddle wrapped up in an enigma
• Enigma machine
• enigmatic

Translations

References

Anagrams

• gamine, imagen, in-game

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin aenigma (“riddle”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (aínigma, “dark saying, riddle”).

Noun

enigma m (plural enigmes)

1. enigma

Related terms

• enigmáticu

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish enigma, from Latin aenigma (“riddle”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (aínigma, “dark saying, riddle”).

Noun

enigma inan

1. enigma

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin aenigma (“riddle”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (aínigma, “dark saying, riddle”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /??ni?.m?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /e?ni?.ma/

Noun

enigma m (plural enigmes)

1. enigma

Derived terms

• enigmàtic

Further reading

• “enigma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Esperanto

Etymology

enigmo +? -a

Adjective

enigma (accusative singular enigman, plural enigmaj, accusative plural enigmajn)

1. enigmatic

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?eni?m?/, [?e?ni?m?]
• Rhymes: -eni?m?
• Syllabification: e?nig?ma

Noun

enigma

1. enigma

Declension

Galician

Etymology

From Latin aenigma (“riddle”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (aínigma, “dark saying, riddle”).

Noun

enigma m (plural enigmas)

1. enigma

Related terms

• enigmático

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ænigma, from Ancient Greek ??????? (aínigma).

Noun

enigma m (plural enigmi)

1. enigma, riddle, conundrum

   Synonyms: giallo, mistero

Related terms

• enigmatico
• enigmista
• enigmistica
• enigmistico

References

Anagrams

• gemina, igname

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e??ni?.ma/, [e??n??mä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e?ni?.ma/, [??ni?m?]

Noun

?nigma n (genitive ?nigmatis); third declension

1. Alternative form of aenigma

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin aenigma (“riddle”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (aínigma, “dark saying, riddle”).

Noun

enigma m (plural enigmas)

1. enigma

Related terms

• enigmático

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [e?ni?ma]

Noun

enigma f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of enigm?

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin aenigma (“riddle”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (aínigma, “dark saying, riddle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?ni?ma/, [e?ni??.ma]

Noun

enigma m (plural enigmas)

1. enigma, conundrum (something that is puzzling)
2. riddle, conundrum

Related terms

• enigmático
• enigmáticamente

Further reading

• “enigma” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Anagrams

• gemina

English

Etymology

From New Latin anachronismus, from Ancient Greek ???????????? (anakhronismós), from ????????????? (anakhronízomai, “referring to the wrong time”), from ??? (aná, “up against”) + ??????? (khroníz?, “spending time”), from ?????? (khrónos, “time”). Analyzable as ana- +? chrono- +? -ism

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?n?k?r?n?zm, ?n?k?r?n?z?m; IPA^(key): /??næ.k??.n?.z(?)m/

Noun

anachronism (countable and uncountable, plural anachronisms)

1. A chronological mistake; the erroneous dating of an event, circumstance, or object. [from 17th c.]
2. A person or thing which seems to belong to a different time or period of time. [from 19th c.]

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• anachronism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Anachronism”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume I (A–B), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 300, column 2.

Anagrams

• Monarchians