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quiver
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kw?v?/
- (General American, Canada) enPR: kw??v?r, IPA(key): /?kw?v??/
- Rhymes: -?v?(?)
- Hyphenation: qui?ver
Etymology 1
From Middle English quiver, from Anglo-Norman quivre, from Old Dutch cocare (source of Dutch koker, and cognate to Old English cocer (“quiver, case”)), from Proto-West Germanic *kukur (“container”), said to be from Hunnic, possibly from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür (“leather vessel for liquids”); see there for more. Replaced early modern English cocker, the inherited reflex of that West Germanic word.
Noun
quiver (plural quivers)
- (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act I, Scene I, line 271:
- Don Pedro: Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 39:
- Arrows were carried in quiver, called also an arrow case, which served for the magazine, arrows for immediate use were worn in the girdle.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act I, Scene I, line 271:
- (figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
- He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver.
- (obsolete) The collective noun for cobras.
- (mathematics) A multidigraph.
Derived terms
- quiverful
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English quiver, cwiver, from Old English *cwifer, probably related to cwic (“alive”).
Adjective
quiver (comparative more quiver, superlative most quiver)
- (archaic) Nimble, active.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Part II, Act III, Scene II, line 281:
- [...] there was a little quiver fellow, and 'a would manage you his piece thus; and 'a would about and about, and come you in and come you in.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Part II, Act III, Scene II, line 281:
Etymology 3
From Middle English quiveren, probably from the adjective.
Verb
quiver (third-person singular simple present quivers, present participle quivering, simple past and past participle quivered)
- (intransitive) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion
- Synonyms: tremble, quake, shudder, shiver
- And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.
Derived terms
- aquiver
- quivering
- quiversome
Translations
References
Further reading
- quiver on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman quivre, from Old Dutch cocare; perhaps ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür or Hunnic. Doublet of coker.
Alternative forms
- quyver, qwyver, qwywere, qwyvere, whyver
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kwiv?r/
Noun
quiver (plural quivers)
- A quiver (a receptacle for arrows)
- (rare, vulgar) A vulva.
Descendants
- English: quiver
References
- “quiver, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.
Etymology 2
From Old English *cwifer, probably related to cwic (“alive”).
Alternative forms
- quyver, quyvere, cwiver
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kwiv?r/
Adjective
quiver
- fast, speedy, rapid
- energetic, vigourous, vibrant
Descendants
- English: quiver
References
- “quiver, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.
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reflex
English
Etymology
From Late Latin reflexus, past participle of reflectere (“to bend back”). Photography sense is from noun sense meaning “reflection”.
Pronunciation
- (noun, adjective) IPA(key): /??i?fl?ks/
- (verb) IPA(key): /???fl?ks/
Noun
reflex (plural reflexes)
- An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
- 1970, Stanis?aw Lem, trans. Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox, Solaris:
- For a while, I shall have to make a conscious effort to smile, nod, stand and perform the thousands of little gestures which constitute life on Earth, and then those gestures will become reflexes again.
- 1970, Stanis?aw Lem, trans. Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox, Solaris:
- (linguistics) The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.
- Synonym: derivative
- Antonym: etymon
- Coordinate term: cognate
- The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
- 1898, Christian Brinton, in The Century
- The superstition of the loup-garou, or werewolf, belongs to the folklore of most modern nations, and has its reflex in the story of "Little Red Riding-hood" and others.
- 1898, Christian Brinton, in The Century
- (chiefly photography) Reflection or an image produced by reflection. The light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
Translations
Adjective
reflex (comparative more reflex, superlative most reflex)
- Bent, turned back or reflected.
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
- the reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
- Produced automatically by a stimulus.
- (geometry, of an angle) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
- 1878, James Maurice Wilson, Elementary Geometry, MacMillan, page 10:
- A polygon is said to be convex when no one of its angles is reflex.
- 1895, David Eugen Smith and Wooster Woodruff Bernan, New Plane and Solid Geometry, page 7:
- An angle less than a right angle is said to be acute; one greater than a right angle but less than a straight angle is said to be obtuse; one greater than a straight angle but less than a perigon is said to be reflex or convex.
- 1958, Howard Fehr, “On Teaching Dihedral Angle and Steradian” in The Mathematics Teacher, v 51, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, page 275:
- If the reflex region is the interior of the angle, the dihedral angle is reflex.
- 1991, B. Falcidieno et al, “Configurable Representations in Feature-based Modelling” in Eurographics '91: Proceedings, North-Holland, page 145:
- A reflex edge of a polyhedron is an edge where the inner dihedral angle subtended by two incident faces is greater than 180°.
- 2001, Esther M. Arkin et al, “On the Reflexivity of Point Sets”, in Algorithms and data structures: 7th International Workshop, WADS 2001: Proceedings, Springer, page 195:
- We say that an angle is convex if it is not reflex.
- 2004, Ana Paula Tomás and António Leslie Bajuelos, “Quadratic-Time Linear-Space Algorithms Generating Orthogonal Polygons with a Given Number of Vertices”, in Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2004 Proceedings, part 3, Springer, page 117:
- P denotes a polygon and r the number of reflex vertices.
- 1878, James Maurice Wilson, Elementary Geometry, MacMillan, page 10:
- (painting) Illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture.
Synonyms
- (of an angle): re-entrant
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
reflex (third-person singular simple present reflexes, present participle reflexing, simple past and past participle reflexed)
- (transitive) To bend, turn back or reflect.
- To respond to a stimulus.
Anagrams
- Flexer
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin reflexus, first attested 1803.
Adjective
reflex (feminine reflexa, masculine plural reflexos, feminine plural reflexes)
- reflected
- Synonym: reflectit
- (psychology) reflex
- (botany) reflexed
- (linguistics) reflexive
- Synonym: reflexiu
Noun
reflex m (plural reflexos)
- reflection (something that is reflected)
- Synonym: reflexió
- reflex (an automatic response to a simple stimulus)
Further reading
- “reflex” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “reflex” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “reflex” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
References
Czech
Noun
reflex m
- reflex
Related terms
- See flexe
Further reading
- reflex in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- reflex in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French réflexe, from Latin reflexus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /re??fl?ks/, /r??fl?ks/
- Hyphenation: re?flex
- Rhymes: -?ks
Noun
reflex m (plural reflexen, diminutive reflexjes n)
- reflex (automatic response by an organism)
- Synonym: reflexus
Derived terms
- reflexachtig
- reflexmatig
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: refleks
Hungarian
Etymology
From German Reflex, from French réflexe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?r?fl?ks]
- Hyphenation: ref?lex
- Rhymes: -?ks
Noun
reflex (plural reflexek)
- reflex (an automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing)
- (photography) reflection
- Synonyms: visszfény, tükröz?dés
Declension
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- reflex in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Romanian
Etymology
From French réflexe, from Latin Reflex.
Adjective
reflex m or n (feminine singular reflex?, masculine plural reflec?i, feminine and neuter plural reflexe)
- reflex
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
From French réflexe, first attested 1811.
Noun
reflex c
- a reflex, a (quick and spontaneous) reaction
- a reflector (tag, strip or band; carried by pedestrians and bicyclists to be visible from automobiles)
Declension
References
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