different between pleb vs commentor

English

Etymology

A clipping of plebeian and plebe, sometimes also understood as a back-formation from plebs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Noun

pleb (plural plebs)

1. A commoner, a member of the lower class of a society.
2. (derogatory) A common person, an unsophisticated or cultureless person.
   • 1795, John O'Keeffe, Life's Vagaries, Act V, Scene ii, line 85:

     You're under my roof, you pleb.

3. (US, slang, usually derogatory) A freshman cadet at a military academy.
   • 1838, Caroline H. Gilman, The Poetry of Travelling in the United States..., p. 76:

     I found some of the novices, plebs they are called, home-sick, and weary with their discipline.

   • 1922, Dialect Notes, American Dialect Society, No. 5, p. 189:

     At Annapolis, the natives are crabs, the freshmen plebs, the sophomores youngsters.

Synonyms

• prole, plebe, plebeian

Antonyms

• toff, posho

Related terms

• plebe, plebeian, plebs

Translations

Adjective

pleb (not comparable)

1. Of or concerning the lower class of a society.
2. (derogatory) Undistinguished, commonplace, unsophisticated, vulgar, coarse.

References

• “pleb, n. and adj.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2006

Anagrams

• BPEL, blep, pelB

English

Noun

commentor (plural commentors)

1. Alternative form of commenter

Latin

Etymology

From commin?scor (“devise, contrive, invent”) +? -t?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kom?men.tor/, [k?m?m?n?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kom?men.tor/, [k?m?m?n?t??r]

Verb

commentor (present infinitive comment?r?, perfect active comment?tus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. I consider thoroughly, think over, deliberate, discuss, write upon
2. I study or prepare for

Conjugation

Derived terms

• comment?rius

Descendants

• Catalan: comentar
• Galician: comentar
• Italian: commentare
• Occitan: comentar
• Portuguese: comentar
• Spanish: comentar

References

• commentor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• commentor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• commentor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• commentor in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• comment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.