different between zany vs vesical

English

Etymology

From Middle French zani, zanni, from Italian zanni (“a kind of masked clown character”), from Zanni, a dialectal form of Giovanni.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ze?ni/
• Rhymes: -e?ni
• Hyphenation: za?ny

Adjective

zany (comparative zanier, superlative zaniest)

1. Unusual and awkward in a funny, comical manner; outlandish; clownish.
2. Ludicrously or incongruously comical.

Synonyms

• wacky

Derived terms

• zaniness

Translations

Noun

zany (plural zanies)

1. (obsolete) A fool or clown, especially one whose business on the stage is to imitate foolishly the actions of the principal clown.
   • a. 1631, John Donne, Epistle to Mr. I. W.

     Then write that I may follow, and so be / Thy echo, thy debtor, thy foil, thy zany.

   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     So there he caught me lying like a zany on the ground. You may guess I stood at attention soon enough, but told him I was looking at the founds to see if they wanted underpinning from the floods.

Verb

zany (third-person singular simple present zanies, present participle zanying, simple past and past participle zanied)

1. (obsolete) To mimic foolishly.

References

• John Dover Wilson, comp. (1911) Life in Shakespeare's England: A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge: At the University Press, OCLC 2938084.

Anagrams

• Zayn, zayn

English

Etymology

From Latin vesica (“bladder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?s?k?l/, /?vi?s?k?l/
• Homophone: vesicle (for some pronunciations)

Adjective

vesical (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Pertaining to the urinary bladder.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:vesical.

Derived terms

• infravesical
• prevesical
• supravesical
• urethrovesical

Anagrams

• clavies

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /besi?kal/, [be.si?kal]
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

vesical (plural vesicales)

1. (anatomy) vesical

Derived terms

• prevesical
• rectovesical
• uterovesical

Related terms

• vejiga

Further reading

• “vesical” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.