عبد الحفيظ جباري
15/02/2008, 05:24 PM
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته،
يسعدني أن أوافي الواتاويين بكلمتيْ هذا اليوم.
والسلام عليكم.
Prescient (adjective)
Pronunciation: ['pre-shênt]
Definition: Having knowledge beforehand.
Usage: The noun is "prescience" ['pre-shêns]. "May had the prescience to take her umbrella to work despite the sunny skies this morning."
Suggested Usage: Let us hope we all have the prescience to designate a driver before we go partying. But this is a word that comes in handy anywhere thinking ahead is appropriate: "Lou's wealth resulted from prescient investments before retirement." At home try this: "I'm not prescient and you didn't call; how could I know you would bring all your friends home for lunch?"
Etymology: From Latin praescins, participle of praescire "to know ahead": prae- "before" + scire "to know" (whence "science"). Scire and scindere "split" derive from the PIE stem *skei- "cut, split." Old Irish scian "knife" and English sheath, and Greek skhizein "to split" whence "schism" and "schizo-" probably all share the same origin.
–Dr. Language, YourDictionary.com
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Etcetera (noun)
Pronunciation: [et-'se-tê-rê]
Definition: And others of a similar kind.
Usage: Today's word is a bit more focused than such native expressions as "so forth," "so on," and "among others;" it refers only to others of the same class. English also uses Latin et alii, abbreviated as et al. "and others" to refer to coauthors, such as "Anderson et al.," meaning that Anderson was one of several authors. Today's word is also a countable noun that means, in the plural (etceteras), "miscellaneous extra things or persons."
Suggested Usage: There is no need to string several etceteras on the end of a sentence even though you might be tempted, "Sheila has a million reasons for not cooking: the stove doesn't work, the ingredients are old, the restaurants are cheap, etc." One "etcetera" suffices as a substitute for even the 999,997 missing reasons here. The plural noun can be a lot of fun: "The prince arrived with a ton of luggage and an entourage of busy little etceteras."
Etymology: Today's word is a Latin two-word phrase, et "and" plus cetera "the others." "Cetera" comes from *ke-etero- where tero- means "a second time, again," also found in ceteris paribus "other things being the same." The ke- is an ancient word for "this." Because [k] became [h] in initial position in English, we are not surprised that "here, hence, hither" all begin with this root. It also turns up in "he/him" and "her" (dative-accusative of Old English heo "she.") The neuter 3rd singular pronoun in Old English was hit "it," heard today in some rural dialects in the Southeastern United States. In Old Russian *ke- developed into sei "this," found today in segodnya "today" and seichas "right now" from a time when chas, now "hour," meant "moment."
–Dr. Language, YourDictionary.com
يسعدني أن أوافي الواتاويين بكلمتيْ هذا اليوم.
والسلام عليكم.
Prescient (adjective)
Pronunciation: ['pre-shênt]
Definition: Having knowledge beforehand.
Usage: The noun is "prescience" ['pre-shêns]. "May had the prescience to take her umbrella to work despite the sunny skies this morning."
Suggested Usage: Let us hope we all have the prescience to designate a driver before we go partying. But this is a word that comes in handy anywhere thinking ahead is appropriate: "Lou's wealth resulted from prescient investments before retirement." At home try this: "I'm not prescient and you didn't call; how could I know you would bring all your friends home for lunch?"
Etymology: From Latin praescins, participle of praescire "to know ahead": prae- "before" + scire "to know" (whence "science"). Scire and scindere "split" derive from the PIE stem *skei- "cut, split." Old Irish scian "knife" and English sheath, and Greek skhizein "to split" whence "schism" and "schizo-" probably all share the same origin.
–Dr. Language, YourDictionary.com
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Etcetera (noun)
Pronunciation: [et-'se-tê-rê]
Definition: And others of a similar kind.
Usage: Today's word is a bit more focused than such native expressions as "so forth," "so on," and "among others;" it refers only to others of the same class. English also uses Latin et alii, abbreviated as et al. "and others" to refer to coauthors, such as "Anderson et al.," meaning that Anderson was one of several authors. Today's word is also a countable noun that means, in the plural (etceteras), "miscellaneous extra things or persons."
Suggested Usage: There is no need to string several etceteras on the end of a sentence even though you might be tempted, "Sheila has a million reasons for not cooking: the stove doesn't work, the ingredients are old, the restaurants are cheap, etc." One "etcetera" suffices as a substitute for even the 999,997 missing reasons here. The plural noun can be a lot of fun: "The prince arrived with a ton of luggage and an entourage of busy little etceteras."
Etymology: Today's word is a Latin two-word phrase, et "and" plus cetera "the others." "Cetera" comes from *ke-etero- where tero- means "a second time, again," also found in ceteris paribus "other things being the same." The ke- is an ancient word for "this." Because [k] became [h] in initial position in English, we are not surprised that "here, hence, hither" all begin with this root. It also turns up in "he/him" and "her" (dative-accusative of Old English heo "she.") The neuter 3rd singular pronoun in Old English was hit "it," heard today in some rural dialects in the Southeastern United States. In Old Russian *ke- developed into sei "this," found today in segodnya "today" and seichas "right now" from a time when chas, now "hour," meant "moment."
–Dr. Language, YourDictionary.com