. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
you have here. The definition of the word
will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
Hi all,
New to Wiktionary - I've been learning some Woiwurring (language of my mob). I made an update to the Woiwurrung etymology, but I'm not confident I've referenced correctly/followed the correct formatting etc. I was hoping someone could take a look and let me know how to fix it up/make any required edits so I can learn from there before I make any further edits. TIA all. JakeEwings (talk) 10:08, 2 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
The page https://en.wiktionary.orghttps://dictious.com/en/Category:en:Chess has the 'English terms related to x' redirect to https://en.wiktionary.orghttps://dictious.com/en/ches in the link which is supposed to redirect to chess, not ches, and I don't know how to change it 2804:14C:124:A20F:599:D76:1C3B:F89E 18:29, 4 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Have been searching in vain for the grammatical term for "a word used as a name for itself", such as "cheese" in "Cheese is derived from the Old English ċēse". Should be simple to track down, but I'm flummoxed.
- So, to Google, of course. It immediately suggested autology, which is an interesting phenomenon but definitely not what I'm looking for (it refers to a word or phrase that describes itself, not one that names itself).
- A second search recommended autonymous, one of whose senses is "(of a symbol, word, term, etc) Exhibiting autonymy; used as a name for itself", which sounds exactly like the correct definition. Unfortunately, however, I could not easily find attestation of that particular sense elsewhere on Wiktionary or on another site, and the meanings that I could find on Wiktionary for that family of words are still not what I'm after.
- One of those entries links to a Wikipedia article on use–mention distinction, which definitely does address my question, and employs the term signifier (3rd paragraph of the article). Signifier, though, appears to be too broad: Lots of different entities can serve as signifiers, and they don't have to signify themselves.
- From the Wiki article on italics, we get an excellent description ("entioning a word as an example of a word rather than for its semantic content"). Conspicuously absent, however, is an actual single term for this.
- Same with the article on quotation marks: An "instance of a word refers to the word itself rather than its associated concept". Another good description, but still no official name for such a thing.
So it seems not even Wikipedia provides the answer. Normally, if some arcane word has ever been used for a particular concept, it can readily be found there, even if not on any other quickly accessible source. Thus I wonder whether the term I want exists at all. — HelpMyUnbelief (talk) 19:20, 4 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
- Isn't what you're referring to just a mention? As seen in use-mention distinction. 115.188.72.131 09:17, 5 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
- Of course such an occurrence is a mention as opposed to a use. But again, I'm looking for the generally recognized, unambiguous grammatical term for a mentioned word, on the same par of specificity with, say, "phrase", "noun", "postpositive", or "copula". Surely "mention" is not the name that linguists would use; it looks like a far worse candidate than "signifier". — HelpMyUnbelief (talk) 22:33, 5 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
IP tried to request a "buzzword" label but that discussion went silent with no action nor consensus. So, i'm going to re-request that label here, and here's what the code would look like:
labels = {
display = "]",
pos_categories = "buzzwords"
}
Examples of entries that would be labelled as buzzwords, as copied directly from IP: big data, AI, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, metaverse, internet of things, extended reality, XR (in the extended reality sense), and spatial computing.
Sincerely, 67.209.129.129 05:34, 11 December 2024 (UTC)Reply