Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2015/July

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2015/July. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2015/July, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2015/July in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2015/July you have here. The definition of the word Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2015/July will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofWiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2015/July, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
2015
← Dec 2014 Jan • Feb • Mar • Apr • May • Jun • Jul • Aug • Sep • Oct • Nov • Dec Jan 2016 →
1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  31

1

Foreign word of the day  in Latin
stemma n, noun
  1. (post-Classical, in general) a garland or wreath
  2. (post-Augustan, in particular) a garland hung upon an ancestral image
  3. (transferred sense) a pedigree, geneagram, or family tree
  4. (figurative) nobility, honoured pedigree, august lineage
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback

2

Foreign word of the day  in Old English
ǣrendfæst adjective
  1. bound on an errand
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback

3

Foreign word of the day  in Classical Nahuatl
mēxihcatl noun
  1. A Mexica or Aztec; an inhabitant of Mexico.
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback

4

Foreign word of the day  in Middle High German
zedel f, noun
  1. strip of paper
  2. written record, memory
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback

5

Foreign word of the day  in Russian
о́земь • (ózemʹ) adverb
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback

6

Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
piaçaba f, noun
  1. Brazilian palm trees Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia piassaba
  2. fibrous product of these trees, formerly used in making brooms and for other purposes
  3. toilet brush
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback

7

8

Foreign word of the day  in Polish
juma f, noun
  1. (colloquial, historical) a type of criminal activity popular in the 1990s in the western regions of Poland, involving theft of high value goods in Germany and then trafficking them across the Polish border
  2. (colloquial, by extension) theft
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback

9

Foreign word of the day  in Hausa
kufai m, noun
  1. (archaeology) ruin; (site of an) abandoned town
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback

10

Foreign word of the day  in Middle High German
burcgrâve m, noun
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback
Focus week: the Middle Ages

11

Foreign word of the day  in Middle English
lyard adjective
  1. (of a horse) having dappled white and grey spots
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback
Focus week: the Middle Ages

12

Foreign word of the day  in Middle Welsh
cantref m, noun
  1. The cantref: a mediaeval land division in Wales, between the cwmwd and the gwlad.
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback
Focus week: the Middle Ages

13

Foreign word of the day  in Old Norse
dróttinn m, noun
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback
Focus week: the Middle Ages

14

Foreign word of the day  in Old Galician-Portuguese
jograr m, noun
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback
Focus week: the Middle Ages

15

Foreign word of the day  in Old English
būrbyrde adjective
  1. of peasant birth
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback
Focus week: the Middle Ages

16

Foreign word of the day  in Old Spanish
castiello m, noun
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback
Focus week: the Middle Ages

17

18

19

Foreign word of the day  in Adyghe
жакӏэ • (žāč̣̍ắ) noun
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback

20

Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
ὀπώρα • (opṓra) f, noun
  1. the part of the year between the rising of Sirius and of Arcturus (i. e. the end of July, all August and part of September), the end of summer; later it was used for autumn
  2. since it was the fruit-time, it came to mean the fruit itself
  3. (figuratively) summer-bloom, i. e. the bloom of youth
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback

21

22

Foreign word of the day  in German
Stolperstein m, noun
  1. (literal) a raised or uneven stone or paving slab (for example in a cobblestone street) over which someone could stumble; a (literal) stumbling block
  2. (figurative) stumbling block (hindrance, obstacle)
  3. (architecture) stolperstein: small, cobblestone-sized memorial for an individual victim of Nazism
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback

23

24

25

Foreign word of the day  in Old Irish
aithne n or f, noun
  1. an act of entrusting, handing over; the thing entrusted
  2. an act of commanding; a command, order
  3. (biblical) a commandment, a Commandment
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback

26

27

Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
Ilmatar proper noun
  1. An air spirit in Finnish mythology; the mother of Väinämöinen in the Kalevala.
  2. a female given name
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback

28

Foreign word of the day  in Kanoé
pætæj noun
  1. moriche palm (Mauritia flexuosa, a palm tree of South America)
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback

29

30

Foreign word of the day  in Icelandic
stoða verb
  1. (impersonal, takes the accusative) to be of any use
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback

31

Foreign word of the day  in Lower Sorbian
gjarsć f, noun
  1. handful (amount held in hand; small quantity)
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback
Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia