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witch
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?ch, IPA(key): /w?t?/
- Rhymes: -?t?
- Homophone: which (in accents with the wine-whine merger), wich, wych
Etymology 1
From Middle English wicche, from Old English wi??e (“witch (female), sorceress”) and wi??a (“witch (male), sorcerer, warlock”), deverbative from wi??ian (“to practice sorcery”), from Proto-Germanic *wikk?n? (compare West Frisian wikje, wikke (“to foretell, warn”), German Low German wicken (“to soothsay”), Dutch wikken, wichelen (“to dowse, divine”)), from Proto-Indo-European *wik-néh?-, derivation of *weyk- (“to consecrate; separate”); akin to Latin victima (“sacrificial victim”), Lithuanian vi?kas (“life-force”), Sanskrit ??????? (vinákti, “to set apart, separate out”).
Noun
witch (plural witches)
- A person who practices witchcraft.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:witch.
- (now usually particularly) A woman who is learned in and actively practices witchcraft.
- (derogatory) An ugly or unpleasant woman.
- One who exercises more-than-common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person.
- One given to mischief, especially a woman or child.
- (geometry) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
- The stormy petrel.
- Any of a number of flatfish:
- Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (Torbay sole), found in the North Atlantic.
- Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis (megrim), found in the North Atlantic.
- Arnoglossus scapha, found near New Zealand.
- The Indomalayan butterfly Araotes lapithis, of the family Lycaenidae.
Synonyms
- (person who uses magic): See Thesaurus:magician
- (female magic user): wizardess, sorceress
- (male magic user): wizard, sorcerer, warlock
- (an ugly or unpleasant woman): See Thesaurus:old woman or Thesaurus:ugly woman or Thesaurus:shrew
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- Arnoglossus scapha on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Arnoglossus scapha on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Arnoglossus scapha on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Verb
witch (third-person singular simple present witches, present participle witching, simple past and past participle witched)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To practise witchcraft.
- (transitive) To bewitch.
- 2012, Carol Berg, The Daemon Prism: A Novel of the Collegia Magica, Penguin (?ISBN)
- The little man was seething and shaking, near collapse with fear and anger. “Tell 'em, Alvy.” “A tenday ago, Will came to the Cockatoo acting crazy, so scared he'd pissed hisself. Said the sorcerer had found him in the stables and witched him.”
- 2014, Charles L. McNichols, Crazy Weather, Counterpoint Press (?ISBN)
- “Maybe the Mormonhater witched him. There's lot of stories being told around about that old man.” “Them's lies,” denied South Boy hotly. “He may have scared Havek, but he never witched him.”
- 2017, Benjamin R. Kracht, Kiowa Belief and Ritual, U of Nebraska Press (?ISBN), page 134:
- Sometime in 1945 he faced an opponent who apparently “witched” him, causing facial paralysis and dizzy spells that rendered him bedridden. An old Indian doctor came to his bedside, looked into his eyes, and proclaimed that he had been witched by his Seminole adversary.
- 2012, Carol Berg, The Daemon Prism: A Novel of the Collegia Magica, Penguin (?ISBN)
- (intransitive) To dowse for water.
Derived terms
- witcher
See also
References
Etymology 2
Compare wick.
Noun
witch (plural witches)
- A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat and used as a taper.
Scots
Alternative forms
- wutch, whitch
Etymology
From Middle English wicche, from Old English wi??e (“witch (female),sorceress”) and wi??a (“witch (male), sorcerer”) m., deverbative from wi??ian (“to practice sorcery”), from Proto-Germanic *wikk?n? (compare West Frisian wikje, wikke (“to foretell, warn”), German Low German wicken (“to soothsay”), Dutch wikken, wichelen (“to dowse, divine”)), from Proto-Indo-European *wik-néh?-, derivation of *weyk- (“to consecrate; separate”); akin to Latin victima (“sacrificial victim”), Lithuanian vi?kas (“life-force”), Sanskrit ??????? (vinákti, “to set apart, separate out”).
Noun
witch (plural witchs)
- witch; A person, chiefly a woman, skilled in sorcery.
- warlock
- (transferred) Various animals, insects and objects in some way associated with witches.
- A moth in general; a tortoiseshell butterfly.
- The pole flounder or dab, Glyptocephalus cynoglossus.
- The seaweed, Laminaria saccharina.
- A red clay marble, generally one that is considered effective in winning games, a “wizard”.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Verb
witch (third-person singular present, present participle witching, past witchit, past participle witchit)
- (transitive) To harm (a person, etc.) by means of witchcraft; to bewitch, cast a spell on.
- (figuratively) To affect or influence as by witchcraft.
Further reading
- “witch” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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druid
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French druide, from Old French, via Latin Druidae, from Gaulish *druwits, from Proto-Celtic *druwits (literally “oak-knower”), from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”) and *weyd- (“to see”).
The earliest record of the term in Latin is by Julius Caesar in the first century B.C. in his De Bello Gallico. The native Celtic word for "druid" is first attested in Latin texts as druides (plural) and other texts also employ the form druidae (akin to the Greek form). Cognate with the later insular Celtic words, Old Irish druí (“druid, sorcerer”) and early Welsh dryw (“seer”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?u?.?d/
- Rhymes: -u??d
Noun
druid (plural druids)
- One of an order of priests among certain groups of Celts before the adoption of Abrahamic religions.
Usage notes
- Often capitalized: Druid.
Derived terms
- druidic
- druidism
Translations
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?????d?/
Etymology 1
From Old Irish truit f (“starling”), from Proto-Celtic *trozdis, from Proto-Indo-European *trosdos (“thrush”); compare Latin turdus, German Drossel, and English thrush.
Noun
druid f (genitive singular druide, nominative plural druideanna)
- starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
Declension
Alternative forms
- druideog
Etymology 2
From Old Irish druitid (“shuts, closes; moves close (to), presses (against); approaches; moves away from, abandons”), possibly related to Welsh drws (“door”).
Verb
druid (present analytic druideann, future analytic druidfidh, verbal noun druidim, past participle druidte) (transitive, intransitive)
- (Ulster) close, shut
- move relative to something
- (with le) move close to, draw near, approach
- (with ar) close upon
- (with ó) move away from
Conjugation
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
druid m
- genitive singular of drud
Mutation
Further reading
- "druid" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “truit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “druitid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “druidim” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “druid” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?dru.ið?/
Noun
druïd
- inflection of druí:
- accusative/dative singular
- nominative/vocative/accusative dual
- nominative plural
Mutation
Polish
Etymology
From Gaulish *druwits, from Proto-Celtic *druwits (literally “oak-knower”), from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”) and *weyd- (“to see”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?dru.it/
Noun
druid m pers (feminine druidka)
- druid
Declension
Further reading
- druid in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
From French druide, from Latin Druidae.
Noun
druid m (plural druizi)
- druid
Declension
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology 1
From Old Irish truit f (“starling”), from Proto-Celtic *trozdi-, from Proto-Indo-European *trozdo- (“thrush”).
Noun
druid f (genitive singular druide, plural druidean)
- starling
Etymology 2
From Old Irish druitid (“shuts, closes; moves close (to), presses (against); approaches; moves away from, abandons”), possibly related to Welsh drws (“door”).
Verb
druid (past dhruid, future druididh, verbal noun druideadh, past participle druidte)
- shut closely
- cover
- enclose, surround
- advance, come up
- join
- hasten
- step toward
- approach, draw near
Alternative forms
- truid
Mutation
References
- “druid” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “truit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “druitid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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