different between semordnilap vs palindrome

English

Etymology

A reverse spelling of palindromes. "Semordnilap", according to author O.V. Michaelsen, was probably first used by recreational linguist Dmitri Borgmann, cited by Martin Gardner in the revised edition of C. C. Bombaugh's Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature (1961) [1]. The underlying concept (but not the term) is found at least as far back as Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno (1889).

Noun

semordnilap (plural semordnilaps)

1. A word, phrase, or sentence that has the property of forming another word, phrase, or sentence when its letters are reversed. A semordnilap differs from a palindrome in that the word or phrase resulting from the reversal is different from the original word or phrase.

Synonyms

• (word, phrase, or sentence that forms another when its letters are reversed): anadrome, half-palindrome, heteropalindrome, reversgram, reversible anagram, semi-palindrome, word reversal, levidrome
• See also antigram, in which the meaning is necessarily negated but letters may be freely rearranged.

Translations

Anagrams

• palindromes

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (palíndromos, “running back again”), from ????? (pálin, “back, again, back again”) + ?????? (drómos, “running, race, racecourse”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pæl?nd???m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pæl?nd?o?m/

Noun

palindrome (plural palindromes)

1. A word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics.

   “Rise to vote sir” is an example of a sentence that is a palindrome.

   Level, madam and racecar are examples of single word palindromes.

2. (by extension) A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction.
3. (genetics) A stretch of DNA in which the sequence of nucleotides on one strand are in the reverse order to that of the complementary strand

Derived terms

• (genetics): massive palindrome

Translations

Coordinate terms

• aibohphobia
• anagram
• semordnilap

Further reading

• palindrome on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• pramindole

French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (palíndromos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.l??.d??m/

Noun

palindrome m (plural palindromes)

1. palindrome

Further reading

• “palindrome” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Adjective

palindrome f

1. feminine plural of palindromo