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mystery
English
Etymology
From Middle English mysterie, from Anglo-Norman misterie (Old French mistere), from Latin mysterium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (must?rion, “a mystery, a secret, a secret rite”), from ?????? (múst?s, “initiated one”), from ???? (mué?, “I initiate”), from ??? (mú?, “I shut”). Displaced native Old English ?er?ne.
Pronunciation
- enPR: m?s?t?r?, m?s?tr?, IPA(key): /?m?st??i/, /?m?st?i/
- Hyphenation: mys?te?ry, myst?ery
Noun
mystery (countable and uncountable, plural mysteries)
- Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown. [From XIV century.]
- Someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature.
- (obsolete) A secret or mystical meaning. [From XIV century.]
- 1567, Matteo Bandello, Certain Tragical Discourses of Bandello, tr. Geffraie Fenton:
- ...and, not knowing the meaning or misterie of her pollicie, forgat no termes of reproche or rigorous rebuke against his chast doughter.
- 1567, Matteo Bandello, Certain Tragical Discourses of Bandello, tr. Geffraie Fenton:
- A religious truth not understandable by the application of human reason alone (without divine aid). [From XIV century.]
- 1744 (first printed), Jonathan Swift, A Sermon on the Trinity
- If God should please to reveal unto us this great mystery of the Trinity, or some other mysteries in our holy religion, we should not be able to understand them, unless he would bestow on us some new faculties of the mind.
- 1744 (first printed), Jonathan Swift, A Sermon on the Trinity
- (archaic outside Eastern Orthodoxy) A sacrament. [From XV century.]
- 1809, Sir Robert Ker Porter, Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden: During the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808:
- There are seven mysteries, or sacraments, in the Greek church, viz. baptism, the chrism (a rite peculiar to this church), the eucharist, confession, ordination, marriage, and the holy oil.
- 1809, Sir Robert Ker Porter, Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden: During the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808:
- (chiefly in the plural) A secret religious celebration, admission to which was usually through initiation. [From XV century.]
- (Catholicism) A particular event or series of events in the life of Christ. [From XVII century.]
- A craft, art or trade; specifically a guild of craftsmen.
- 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
- The trades, the crafts, the mysteries, would all be losers.
- 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Synonyms
- roun (obsolete)
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
References
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman misterie.
Noun
mystery
- Alternative form of mysterie (“mystery”)
Etymology 2
From Old French mistere.
Noun
mystery
- Alternative form of mysterie (“duty”)
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tale
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?te?l/
- Rhymes: -e?l
- Homophone: tail
Etymology 1
From Middle English tale, from Old English talu (“tale, series, calculation, list, statement, deposition, relation, communication, narrative, fable, story, accusation, action at law”), from Proto-West Germanic *talu, from Proto-Germanic *tal? (“calculation, number”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to reckon, count”). Cognate with West Frisian taal (“speech, language”), Dutch taal (“language, speech”), German Zahl (“number, figure”), Danish tale (“speech”), Icelandic tala (“speech, talk, discourse, number, figure”), Latin dolus (“guile, deceit, fraud”), Ancient Greek ????? (dólos, “wile, bait”), Albanian ndjell (“to lure”), Northern Kurdish til (“finger”), Old Armenian ??? (to?, “row”). Related to tell, talk.
Noun
tale (plural tales)
- An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.
- A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
- 1631, John Milton, "L'Allegro":
- And every shepherd tells his tale
- Under the hawthorn in the dale.
- 1631, John Milton, "L'Allegro":
- A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, Book I, Preface, §4:
- the ignorant, […] who measure by tale, and not by weight
- 1602, Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall
- In packing, they keep a just tale of the number that every hogshead containeth ...
- 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 5, Twelfth Century
- They proceeded with some rigour, these Custodiars; took written inventories, clapt-on seals, exacted everywhere strict tale and measure
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, Book I, Preface, §4:
- (slang) The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim.
- (obsolete) Number; tally; quota.
- 1611, King James Version, Exodus 5:8:
- And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
- 1697, John Dryden, The Works of Virgil, Pastoral III:
- Both number twice a day the milky dams
- And once she takes the tale of all the lambs.
- 1611, King James Version, Exodus 5:8:
- (obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.
- (obsolete) Speech; language.
- (obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
- (law, obsolete) A count; declaration.
- (rare or archaic) A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
- (rare or archaic) A report of any matter; a relation; a version.
- 1605, Francis Bacon, Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human, Volume I, Chapter IX:
- […] birds […] are aptest by their voice to tell tales what they find; and likewise by the motion of their flight to express the same.
- 1605, Francis Bacon, Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human, Volume I, Chapter IX:
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English talen, from Old English talian (“to count, calculate, reckon, account, consider, think, esteem, value, argue, tell, relate, impute, assign”), from Proto-Germanic *tal?n? (“to count”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to count, reckon, aim, calculate, adjust”). Cognate with German zählen (“to count, number, reckon”), Swedish tala (“to speak, talk”), Icelandic tala (“to talk”).
Verb
tale (third-person singular simple present tales, present participle taling, simple past and past participle taled)
- (dialectal or obsolete) To speak; discourse; tell tales.
- (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.
Derived terms
- taler
Etymology 3
Noun
tale (plural tales)
- Alternative form of tael
Anagrams
- EATL, ETLA, Elta, LATE, TEAL, TEAl, Teal, et al, et al., late, leat, tael, teal, tela
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??l?/
Noun
tale
- plural of taal
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse tala
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?t?æ?l?]
Noun
tale c (singular definite talen, plural indefinite taler)
- speech, talk, address, discourse
Inflection
Verb
tale (imperative tal, infinitive at tale, present tense taler, past tense talte, perfect tense har talt)
- to make a speech
- to speak, talk
Inflection
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ta?.l?/
- Hyphenation: ta?le
Noun
tale f (plural talen, diminutive taaltje n)
- Obsolete form of taal.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tal/
Verb
tale
- inflection of taler:
- first/third-person singular present indicative
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
- étal
Ido
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tale/
Adverb
tale
- hence
Italian
Etymology
From Latin t?lis.
Adjective
tale (plural tali)
- such
Related terms
Anagrams
- alte, tela, late
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?ta?.le/, [?t?ä????]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?ta.le/, [?t???l?]
Adjective
t?le
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of t?lis
Noun
t?le
- vocative singular of t?lus
References
- tale in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Limburgish
Noun
tale f
- languages
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *tala, from Proto-West Germanic *talu, from Proto-Germanic *tal?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ta?l?/
Noun
t?le f
- spoken or written words, that which someone says
- language
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
Further reading
- “tale (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “tale (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I
Middle English
Alternative forms
- tal, talle
- taile, taille (chiefly Northern ME)
Etymology
From Old English talu, from Proto-West Germanic *talu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ta?l(?)/, /?tal(?)/
Noun
tale (plural tales)
- personal narrative, account
Descendants
- English: tale
- Yola: taale
References
- “t??le, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Northern Kurdish
Noun
tale ?
- happiness
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse tala.
Noun
tale m (definite singular talen, indefinite plural taler, definite plural talene)
- speech, talk, address, discourse
Derived terms
Verb
tale (imperative tal, present tense taler, passive tales, simple past talte, past participle talt, present participle talende)
- to make a speech
- to speak, talk
Derived terms
References
- “tale” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse tala
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²t??l?/
Noun
tale m (definite singular talen, indefinite plural talar, definite plural talane)
tale f (definite singular tala, indefinite plural taler, definite plural talene)
- speech
- a speech, talk, discourse, an address
Derived terms
Verb
tale (present tense talar or taler, past tense tala or talte, past participle tala or talt, passive infinitive talast, present participle talande, imperative tal)
- alternative form of tala
Derived terms
References
- “tale” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?ta.le]
Pronoun
tale
- feminine plural of t?u
- neuter plural of t?u
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tale/, [?t?a.le]
Verb
tale
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of talar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of talar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of talar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of talar.
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