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c. 1400, “strange style of dress” (especially one meant to deceive), from disguise (v.). Meaning “false or misleading appearance, something that serves or is intended for concealment of identity” is from 1630s. Disguisement in this sense is from 1570s but now is disused.Related entries & more 6
undisguised (adj.)c. 1500, in reference to things, from un- (1) “not” + past participle of disguise (v.). Of persons, attested from 1670s.Related entries & more
c. 1300, “conceal the personal identity of by changes of guise or usual appearance, with intent to deceive,” from Old French desguiser “disguise, change one’s appearance” (11c., Modern French déguiser), from des- “away, off” (see dis-) + guise “style, appearance,” which is from Germanic (see guise).
From mid-14c. as “conceal or cover up the original character of by a counterfeit form or appearance.” Originally primarily “to put out of one’s usual manner” (of dress, etc.), “change one’s appearance;” a sense preserved in phrase disguised with liquor (1560s) “being changed in behavior by intoxication.”
It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety. [Thomas De Quincey, “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater,” 1856]
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Related: Disguised; disguising.Related entries & more
travesty (n.)1670s, “literary burlesque of a serious work,” from adjective meaning “dressed so as to be made ridiculous, parodied, burlesqued” (1660s), from French travesti “dressed in disguise,” past participle of travestir “to disguise” (1590s), from Italian travestire “to disguise,” from Latin trans “across, beyond; over” (see trans-) + vestire “to clothe” (from PIE *wes- (2) “to clothe,” extended form of root *eu- “to dress”).Related entries & more
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late 14c., “mar the external figure of, impair the beauty, symmetry, or excellence of,” also “transform the appearance of, disguise,” from Old French desfigurer “disfigure, alter, disguise, destroy,” from Medieval Latin diffigurare, from assimilated form of Latin dis- (see dis-) + figurare “to form, shape,” from figura “a shape, form, figure” (from PIE root *dheigh- “to form, build”). Related: Disfigured; disfiguring; disfiguration.Related entries & more
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frankly (adv.)“in an unreserved manner, without concealment or disguise,” 1530s, from frank (adj.) + -ly (2).Related entries & more human (n.)“a human being,” 1530s, from human (adj.). Its Old English equivalent, guma, survives only in disguise in bridegroom.Related entries & more
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“plainly, without disguise or reservation of meaning, not by inference; clearly, unmistakably,” 1630s, from explicit + -ly (2). Opposed to implicitly.Related entries & more occultation (n.)
early 15c., occultacioun, “disguise or concealment of identity,” from Latin occultationem (nominative occultatio), noun of action from past-participle stem of occultare “to hide, conceal,” frequentative of occulere “to cover over, conceal” (see occult).Related entries & more
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early 15c., dissemblen, “assume a false seeming; conceal real facts, motives, intentions, etc.; mask the truth about oneself,” from Old French dessembler, from Latin dissimulare “make unlike, conceal, disguise,” from dis- “completely” (see dis-) + simulare “to make like, imitate, copy, represent,” from stem of similis “like, resembling, of the same kind” (see similar). Related: Dissembled; dissembling.
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Form altered apparently by influence of resemble, Old French resembler. Earlier was Middle English dissimule, from Old French dissimuler. Transitive meaning “make unlike, disguise” is from c. 1500; that of “give a false impression of” is from 1510s.
To dissemble is to pretend that a thing which is is not: as, to dissemble one’s real sentiments. To simulate is to pretend that a thing which is not is: as, to simulate friendship. To dissimulate is to hide the reality or truth of something under a diverse contrary appearance: as, to dissimulate one’s poverty by ostentation. To disguise is to put under a false guise, to keep a thing from being recognized by giving it a false appearance: as I cannot disguise from myself the fact. [Century Dictionary]
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person (n.)
c. 1200, persoun, “an individual, a human being,” from Old French persone “human being, anyone, person” (12c., Modern French personne) and directly from Latin persona “human being, person, personage; a part in a drama, assumed character,” originally “a mask, a false face,” such as those of wood or clay, covering the whole head, worn by the actors in later Roman theater. OED offers the general 19c. explanation of persona as “related to” Latin personare “to sound through” (i.e. the mask as something spoken through and perhaps amplifying the voice), “but the long o makes a difficulty ….” Klein and Barnhart say it is possibly borrowed from Etruscan phersu “mask.” De Vaan has no entry for it.
From mid-13c. as “one of the persons of the Trinity,” a theological use in Church Latin of the classical word. Meanings “one’s physical being, the living body; external appearance” are from late 14c. In grammar, “one of the relations which a subject may have to a verb,” from 1510s. In legal use, “corporate body or corporation other than the state and having rights and duties before the law,” 15c., short for person aggregate (c. 1400), person corporate (mid-15c.).
The use of -person to replace -man in compounds for the sake of gender neutrality or to avoid allegations of sexism is recorded by 1971 (in chairperson). In person “by bodily presence” is from 1560s. Person-to-person is attested by 1919, originally of telephone calls.
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guiser (n.)“masquerader, mummer, one who goes from house to house, whimsically disguised, and making diversion with songs and antics, usually at Christmas,” late 15c., agent noun from guise.Related entries & more guise (n.)late 13c., “style or fashion of attire,” from Old French guise “manner, fashion, way,” from Frankish *wisa or some similar Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *wison “appearance, form, manner,” from *wissaz (source also of Old High German wisa “manner, wise”), from PIE root *weid- “to see.” Sense of “assumed appearance” is from 1660s, from earlier meaning “mask, disguise” (c. 1500).Related entries & more
derisive word for an old man, 1885, according to OED a variant of obsolete Cockney guiser “mummer, one wearing a mask or costume as part of a performance” (late 15c.; see guise). If so, the original notion was “one who went about in disguise,” hence “odd man,” hence “old man” (it still commonly is qualified by old).Related entries & more
c. 1300, “conceal the personal identity of by changes of guise or usual appearance, with intent to deceive,” from Old French desguiser “disguise, change one’s appearance” (11c., Modern French déguiser), from des- “away, off” (see dis-) + guise “style, appearance,” which is from Germanic (see guise).
From mid-14c. as “conceal or cover up the original character of by a counterfeit form or appearance.” Originally primarily “to put out of one’s usual manner” (of dress, etc.), “change one’s appearance;” a sense preserved in phrase disguised with liquor (1560s) “being changed in behavior by intoxication.”
It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety. [Thomas De Quincey, “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater,” 1856]
Related: Disguised; disguising.Related entries & more
*weid- Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to see.”
It forms all or part of: advice; advise; belvedere; clairvoyant; deja vu; Druid; eidetic; eidolon; envy; evident; guide; guidon; guise; guy (n.1) “small rope, chain, wire;” Gwendolyn; Hades; history; idea; ideo-; idol; idyll; improvisation; improvise; interview; invidious; kaleidoscope; -oid; penguin; polyhistor; prevision; provide; providence; prudent; purvey; purview; review; revise; Rig Veda; story (n.1) “connected account or narration of some happening;” supervise; survey; twit; unwitting; Veda; vide; view; visa; visage; vision; visit; visor; vista; voyeur; wise (adj.) “learned, sagacious, cunning;” wise (n.) “way of proceeding, manner;” wisdom; wiseacre; wit (n.) “mental capacity;” wit (v.) “to know;” witenagemot; witting; wot.
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit veda “I know;” Avestan vaeda “I know;” Greek oida, Doric woida “I know,” idein “to see;” Old Irish fis “vision,” find “white,” i.e. “clearly seen,” fiuss “knowledge;” Welsh gwyn, Gaulish vindos, Breton gwenn “white;” Gothic, Old Swedish, Old English witan “to know;” Gothic weitan “to see;” English wise, German wissen “to know;” Lithuanian vysti “to see;” Bulgarian vidya “I see;” Polish widzieć “to see,” wiedzieć “to know;” Russian videt’ “to see,” vest’ “news,” Old Russian vedat’ “to know.”Related entries & more
“visit slums of a city,” especially for diversion or amusement, often under guise of philanthropy, 1884, from slum (n.). A pastime popularized by East End novels. Earlier it meant “to visit slums for disreputable purposes or in search of vice” (1860). Related: Slumming.Related entries & more
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“figurative treatment of an unmentioned subject under the guise of another similar to it in some way,” late 14c., from Old French allegorie (12c.), from Latin allegoria, from Greek allegoria “figurative language, description of one thing under the image of another,” literally “a speaking about something else,” from allos “another, different” (from PIE root *al- (1) “beyond”) + agoreuein “speak openly, speak in the assembly,” from agora “assembly” (see agora). Related: Allegorist.Related entries & more
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c. 1300, in boke of Prouerbyys, the Old Testament work, from Old French proverbe (12c.) and directly from Latin proverbium “a common saying, old adage, maxim,” literally “words put forward,” from pro “forth” (from PIE root *per- (1) “forward”) + verbum “word” (see verb). Hence, in the Scriptural sense, “an enigmatical utterance; a mysterious or oracular saying that requires interpretation.”
Used generally from c. 1300 in reference to native sayings, “short pithy sentence, often repeated colloquially, expressing a well-known truth or a common fact ascertained by experience or observation; a popular saying which briefly and forcibly expresses some practical precept; an adage; a wise saw: often set forth in the guise of metaphor and in the form of rime, and sometimes alliterative” [Century Dictionary].
By late 14c. as “byword, reproach, object of scorn.” The Book of Proverbs in Old English was cwidboc, from cwide “speech, saying, proverb, homily,” related to cwiddian “to talk, speak, say, discuss;” cwiddung “speech, saying, report.”Related entries & more
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early 15c., dissemblen, “assume a false seeming; conceal real facts, motives, intentions, etc.; mask the truth about oneself,” from Old French dessembler, from Latin dissimulare “make unlike, conceal, disguise,” from dis- “completely” (see dis-) + simulare “to make like, imitate, copy, represent,” from stem of similis “like, resembling, of the same kind” (see similar). Related: Dissembled; dissembling.
Form altered apparently by influence of resemble, Old French resembler. Earlier was Middle English dissimule, from Old French dissimuler. Transitive meaning “make unlike, disguise” is from c. 1500; that of “give a false impression of” is from 1510s.
To dissemble is to pretend that a thing which is is not: as, to dissemble one’s real sentiments. To simulate is to pretend that a thing which is not is: as, to simulate friendship. To dissimulate is to hide the reality or truth of something under a diverse contrary appearance: as, to dissimulate one’s poverty by ostentation. To disguise is to put under a false guise, to keep a thing from being recognized by giving it a false appearance: as I cannot disguise from myself the fact. [Century Dictionary]
Beguine (n.)late 15c., from French béguine (13c.), Medieval Latin beguina, “a member of a women’s spiritual order professing poverty and self-denial, founded c.1180 in Liege in the Low Countries.” They are said to take their name from the surname of Lambert le Bègue “Lambert the Stammerer,” a Liege priest who was instrumental in their founding, and it’s likely the word was pejorative at first. French bègue is of unknown origin. Related: Beguinage.
The women’s order, though sometimes persecuted, generally preserved its good reputation, but it quickly drew imposters who did not; nonetheless it eventually was condemned as heretical. A male order, called Beghards founded communities by the 1220s in imitation of them, but they soon degenerated (compare Old French beguin “(male) Beguin,” also “hypocrite”) and wandered begging in the guise of religion; they likely were the source of the words beg and beggar, though there is disagreement over whether Beghard produced Middle Dutch beggaert “mendicant” or was produced by it. The male order was condemned by the Church early 14c. and vanished by mid-16c.
Cole Porter’s “Begin the Beguine” (1935) refers to a kind of popular dance of West Indian origin, from French colloquial béguin “an infatuation, boyfriend, girlfriend,” earlier “child’s bonnet,” and before that “nun’s headdress” (14c.), from Middle Dutch beggaert, ultimately the same word as the above. Compare English biggin “child’s cap” (1520s), from the French word.Related entries & more
also diss, slang, by 1980, shortening of disrespect or dismiss, originally in African-American vernacular, popularized by hip hop. Related: Dissed; dissing. Earlier it was short for distribute in late 19c. printers’ slang and for disconnected in the telephone-line sense, and in this sense it was given a slang figurative extension as “weak in the head” (1925).Related entries & more
Dis Roman underworld god, from Latin Dis, contracted from dives “rich,” which is related to divus “divine, god” (from PIE root *dyeu- “to shine,” in derivatives “sky, heaven, god”), hence “favored by god.” Compare Pluto and Old Church Slavonic bogatu “rich,” from bogu “god.”Related entries & more
word-forming element of Latin origin meaning 1. “lack of, not” (as in dishonest); 2. “opposite of, do the opposite of” (as in disallow); 3. “apart, away” (as in discard), from Old French des- or directly from Latin dis- “apart, asunder, in a different direction, between,” figuratively “not, un-,” also “exceedingly, utterly.” Assimilated as dif- before -f- and to di- before most voiced consonants.
The Latin prefix is from PIE *dis- “apart, asunder” (source also of Old English te-, Old Saxon ti-, Old High German ze-, German zer-). The PIE root is a secondary form of *dwis- and thus is related to Latin bis “twice” (originally *dvis) and to duo, on notion of “two ways, in twain” (hence “apart, asunder”).
In classical Latin, dis- paralleled de- and had much the same meaning, but in Late Latin dis- came to be the favored form and this passed into Old French as des-, the form used for compound words formed in Old French, where it increasingly had a privative sense (“not”). In English, many of these words eventually were altered back to dis-, while in French many have been altered back to de-. The usual confusion prevails.
As a living prefix in English, it reverses or negatives what it is affixed to. Sometimes, as in Italian, it is reduced to s- (as in spend, splay, sport, sdain for disdain, and the surnames Spencer and Spence).Related entries & more
“impartiality,” 1650s, from dis- “opposite of” + interest (n.).Related entries & more
“uncivil, rude,” 1570s; see dis- + courteous. Related: Discourteously; discourteousness.Related entries & more
“discord, incongruity, want of harmony,” c. 1600; see dis- + harmony.Related entries & more
“want of respect or reverence, incivility,” 1630s, from dis- + respect (n.).Related entries & more
“want of unity, state of separation; absence of accord,” 1630s, from dis- + unity.Related entries & more
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Biden | 34 | 25 | 101 | 29 |
On e | 34 | 16 | 47 | 11 |
Om | 28 | 10 | 26 | 8 |
Sol | 46 | 10 | 35 | 17 |
O | 15 | 6 | 12 | 3 |
O Rion | 71 | 35 | 64 | 28 |
O Mega | 41 | 23 | 94 | 22 |
O Sirius | 110 | 38 | 79 | 52 |
Apostrophe | 133 | 52 | 137 | 47 |
Osiris | 89 | 35 | 73 | 46 |
Catastrophe | 126 | 45 | 171 | 63 |
“a source of discouragement,” 1946; see dis- + incentive (n.).Related entries & more
“showing disrespect, wanting in respect; irreverent, uncivil,” 1670s; see dis- + respectful. Related: Disrespectfully; disrespectfulness.Related entries & more
fourth letter of the Roman alphabet, from Greek delta, from Phoenician and Hebrew daleth, pausal form of deleth “door,” so called from its shape. The form of the modern letter is the Greek delta (Δ) with one angle rounded. As the sign for “500” in Roman numerals, it is said to be half of CIƆ, which was an early form of M, the sign for “1,000.” 3-D for “three-dimensional” is attested from 1952.Related entries & more -derm word-forming element meaning “skin,” from Greek derma “skin, hide, leather,” from PIE root *der- “to split, flay, peel,” with derivatives referring to skin and leather.Related entries & more
Eighty Nine | 116 | 62 | 154 | 46 |
Sequence | 89 | 35 | 127 | 37 |
Fibonacci | 62 | 44 | 181 | 55 |
Forty Four | 144 | 54 | 99 | 45 |
Clock | 44 | 17 | 91 | 28 |
Mask | 44 | 8 | 64 | 28 |
Ai | 10 | 10 | 44 | 17 |
Adonai | 44 | 26 | 118 | 37 |
Kyle | 53 | 17 | 55 | 19 |
X+Y | 49 | 13 | 5 | 5 |
7+6 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
Magazine | 76 | 40 | 140 | 41 |
Biden TIME | 81 | 45 | 162 | 54 |
Mask Up | 81 | 18 | 81 | 36 |
Tower | 81 | 27 | 54 | 27 |
One Hundred and Ten Stories | 271 | 109 | 350 | 125 |
Saturnalia | 116 | 35 | 154 | 73 |
Santa | 55 | 10 | 80 | 35 |
Magical | 46 | 28 | 143 | 44 |
Say 10 | 46 | 10 | 37 | 19 |
Up | 37 | 10 | 17 | 8 |
Geometry | 108 | 45 | 108 | 36 |
Freemasonic | 108 | 54 | 189 | 63 |
Time Ghost | 116 | 44 | 127 | 46 |
Confusion | 116 | 44 | 127 | 46 |
Word or Phrase | English Ordinal | Full Reduction | Reverse Ordinal | Reverse Full Reduction |
Prince of Peace | 116 | 71 | 235 | 64 |
abstract suffix of state, from Old English dom “statute, judgment” (see doom (n.)). Originally an independent word, but already active as a suffix in Old English (as in freodom, wisdom). Cognate with German -tum (Old High German tuom). “Jurisdiction,” hence “province, state, condition, quality.”Related entries & more
active word-forming element in English and in many verbs inherited from French and Latin, from Latin de “down, down from, from, off; concerning” (see de), also used as a prefix in Latin, usually meaning “down, off, away, from among, down from,” but also “down to the bottom, totally” hence “completely” (intensive or completive), which is its sense in many English words.
As a Latin prefix it also had the function of undoing or reversing a verb’s action, and hence it came to be used as a pure privative — “not, do the opposite of, undo” — which is its primary function as a living prefix in English, as in defrost (1895), defuse (1943), de-escalate (1964), etc. In some cases, a reduced form of dis-.Related entries & more deca- before a vowel, dec-, word-forming element meaning “ten,” from Latinized combining form of Greek deka “ten” (from PIE root *dekm- “ten”). In the metric system, “multiplied by ten;” while deci- means “divided by ten.”Related entries & more
in the metric system, word-forming element denoting one-tenth of the standard unit of measure, 1801, from French deci-, taken arbitrarily from Latin decimus “tenth,” from decem “ten” (from PIE root *dekm- “ten”).Related entries & more demi-
word-forming element meaning “half, half-sized, partial,” used in English from mid-14c., especially in technical terms from French, from Old French demi “half” (12c.), from Late Latin dimedius, from Latin dimidius “half, one-half,” which contains the elements dis- “apart” (see dis-) + medius “in the middle, between; from the middle,” as a noun “the middle;” from PIE root *medhyo- “middle.” Formerly also demy-, and in early use often written as a separate word.Related entries & more
word-forming element meaning “tree,” from Greek dendron “tree,” sometimes especially “fruit tree” (as opposed to hylē “timber”), from PIE *der-drew-, from root *deru- “to be firm, solid, steadfast,” also forming words for “wood, tree.”Related entries & more deoxy-
also desoxy-, word-forming element used to make chemical names for compounds which contain fewer oxygen atoms than other compounds, from de- + first two syllables of oxygen.Related entries & more
word-forming element meaning “of or pertaining to skin,” from Greek dermat-, from derma “(flayed) skin, leather,” from PIE root *der- “to split, flay, peel,” with derivatives referring to skin and leather. The shortened form derm- was used from mid-19c. but is considered incorrect.Related entries & more
Word or Phrase | English Ordinal | Full Reduction | Reverse Ordinal | Reverse Full Reduction |
The Great Re-Set | 151 | 61 | 200 | 74 |
Jesus Christ | 151 | 43 | 146 | 74 |
13 Reasons Why | 151 | 52 | 127 | 55 |
CIA | 13 | 13 | 68 | 23 |
Central Intelligence | 188 | 89 | 325 | 109 |
Such a Little Thing | 188 | 71 | 244 | 91 |
Crown of Thorns | 188 | 71 | 163 | 64 |
The Coronavirus | 188 | 71 | 190 | 82 |
18:86 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 23 |
Eighty Sixed | 135 | 63 | 162 | 54 |
Eighteen | 73 | 46 | 143 | 35 |
Saturnalia | 116 | 35 | 154 | 73 |
Santa | 55 | 10 | 80 | 35 |
Magical | 46 | 28 | 143 | 44 |
Say 10 | 46 | 10 | 37 | 19 |
Up | 37 | 10 | 17 | 8 |
Geometry | 108 | 45 | 108 | 36 |
Freemasonic | 108 | 54 | 189 | 63 |
Time Ghost | 116 | 44 | 127 | 46 |
Confusion | 116 | 44 | 127 | 46 |