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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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vampire
English
Alternative forms
- vampyre (archaic)
Etymology
From French vampire, from German Vampir, from a Slavic word, probably Serbo-Croatian vàmp?r (said to be an alteration of a term *upir), from Proto-Slavic *?pyr?. Compare Russian ?????? (upýr?), Polish upiór, etc. Doublet of oupire.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?væm.pa?.?(?)/
Noun
vampire (plural vampires)
- A mythological undead creature said to feed on the blood of the living. [from earlier 18th c.]
- Synonyms: nosferatu, lamia, cadaver sanguine
- (colloquial) A person with the medical condition systemic lupus erythematosus, colloquially known as vampirism, with effects such as photosensitivity and brownish-red stained teeth.
- A blood-sucking bat; vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) [from later 18th c.]
- Synonym: vampire bat
- (figuratively, derogatory) A person who drains one's time, energy, money, etc.
- (dated) A vamp: a seductive woman who exploits men.
- 2004, David W. Menefee, The First Female Stars: Women of the Silent Era (page 4)
- "What followed this decision was exactly what we had expected: Mr. Fox, realizing that the public was tiring of Theda Bara in vampire roles, announced that he would star her in a production of Romeo and Juliet," she illustrated.
- 2004, David W. Menefee, The First Female Stars: Women of the Silent Era (page 4)
- (US, slang) A medical technician who works with patients' blood.
- 2000, Tracie Peterson, Colorado Wings (page 373)
- "I draw blood from patients, and then I take it back to the lab and analyze it. Sometimes, the vampires do all the sticks, that is to say the lab assistants do all the blood collections." He grinned. "We have our own language at the lab."
- 2000, Tracie Peterson, Colorado Wings (page 373)
Synonyms
- (blood drinker): hemovore, hematophagous
Derived terms
Related terms
- vamp
Descendants
- ? Bengali: ???????????? (bhêmpayar)
- ? Irish: vaimpír
- ? Japanese: ?????? (vanpaia), ????? (banpaia)
- ? Marathi: ?????????? (vh?mp?yar)
- ? Thai: ??????? (w?m-paai)
- ? Scottish Gaelic: bhampair
- ? Swahili: vampiri
- ? Welsh: fampir
Translations
Verb
vampire (third-person singular simple present vampires, present participle vampiring, simple past and past participle vampired)
- (transitive, figuratively) To drain of energy or resources.
See also
- werewolf
- bloodsucker
- hemovore
- Vampire (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Common vampire bat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Desmodus rotundus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Desmodus rotundus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Desmodus rotundus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- The meaning of the word "vampire"
References
Anagrams
- vampier
Esperanto
Etymology
vampiro (“vampire”) +? -e
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /vam?pire/
Adverb
vampire
- vampirically
Related terms
- vampira (“vampiric”)
- vampiro (“vampire”)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v??.pi?/
Noun
vampire m (plural vampires)
- vampire
Derived terms
- vampirique
- vampiriser
Descendants
- ? Armenian: ?????? (vampir)
- ? Asturian: vampiru
- ? Belarusian: ?????? (vampir)
- ? Catalan: vampir
- ? Czech: vampýr
- ? English: vampire (see there for further descendants)
- ? Galician: vampiro
- ? Georgian: ??????? (vam?iri)
- ? Greek: ?????? (vampír)
- ? Italian: vampiro
- ? Malagasy: vampira
- ? Occitan: vampire
- ? Romanian: vampir
- ? Russian: ?????? (vampir) (see there for further descendants)
- ? Slovak: vampír
- ? Spanish: vampiro, vampira
- ? Basque: banpiro
- ? Cebuano: bampira
- ? Tagalog: bampira
- ? Waray-Waray: bampira
- ? Ottoman Turkish: ??????? (vampir)
- Turkish: vampir
- ? Ukrainian: ?????? (vampir)
Further reading
- “vampire” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Verb
vampire
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of vampirar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of vampirar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of vampirar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of vampirar
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [vam?pi.re]
Noun
vampire f pl
- plural of vampir?
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