different between idiosyncrasy vs macedonia

English

Etymology

First attested in 1604, in modern sense since 1665, from Ancient Greek ????????????? (idiosunkrasía, “one’s own temperament”), from ????? (ídios, “one’s own”) + ??? (sún, “together”) + ?????? (krâsis, “temperament”). Analyzable as idio- +? syn- +? -crasy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??d??(?)?s??k??si/
• IPA^(key): /??d.i.???s??.k??.si/
• IPA^(key): /??di.??s??k??si/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??dio??s??k??si/
• Hyphenation: idio?syn?crasy

Noun

idiosyncrasy (plural idiosyncrasies)

1. A behavior or way of thinking that is characteristic of a person.
2. A language or behaviour that is particular to an individual or group.
3. (medicine) A peculiar individual reaction to a generally innocuous substance or factor.
4. A peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify.

Synonyms

• eccentricity
• foible
• habit
• mannerism
• oddity
• quirk
• vagary

Derived terms

• idiosyncratic
• idiosyncratically

Translations

See also

References

• idiosyncrasy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• idiosyncrasy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Noun

macedonia (plural macedonias)

1. (cooking) Alternative form of macédoine
   • 1991, New York Magazine (volume 24, number 50, page 94)

     Try the whole filet mignon, roast duckling, green lasagna, choucroute garni, Cornish hens, and the macedonia of fruit made each day.

Anagrams

• daemoniac, dæmoniac

Italian

Etymology

From Macedonia, probably referring to the great ethnic variety that distinguished that region.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.t??e?d?.nja/

Noun

macedonia f (plural macedonie)

1. (cooking) fruit salad (often tinned)
2. (figuratively) a mixture of heterogeneous elements; a mishmash, medley

Derived terms

• parola macedonia (“portmanteau word”)

Further reading

• Macedonia di frutta on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Anagrams

• demoniaca, emaciando

Spanish

Etymology

The sense “fruit salad” via French macédoine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ma?e?donja/, [ma.?e?ð?o.nja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /mase?donja/, [ma.se?ð?o.nja]

Noun

macedonia f (plural macedonias)

1. fruit salad
2. female equivalent of macedonio

Adjective

macedonia

1. feminine singular of macedonio

Further reading

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