different between macedonia vs inwit

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.

English

Etymology

From Middle English inwit (“mind, reason, intellect, understanding; soul, spirit; feeling; the collection of inner faculties; one of five inner faculties; one of the outer bodily senses.; inward awareness of right or wrong, conscience”), from Old English *inwitt, in?ewitnes (“consciousness, conscience, knowledge, knowing”), equivalent to in- +? wit. Compare Scots inwit, Saterland Frisian Gewieten, West Frisian gewisse, Dutch geweten, German Low German Geweten, German Gewissen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nw?t/

Noun

inwit (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Inward knowledge or understanding.
2. (obsolete) Conscience; inward sense of morality.

Derived terms

• angel's inwit

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ynwitt, inwitt, inwytt, ynwytt, inwyt, inwytte, ine-wyt

Etymology

From Old English *inwitt; equivalent to in- +? witt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?inwit/, /?n?wit/

Noun

inwit (uncountable)

1. reasoning, mental acuity, brainpower.
2. attitude, impression, essence
3. A mental process or power
4. morality, moral code; judgement
5. (rare) plan, intent, purpose.

Descendants

• English: inwit (archaic)

References

• “inwit, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-02.