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  2. Dictionnaire de l'Académie française - Wikipedia

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    It has published thirteen editions of the dictionary, of which three were preliminary, eight were complete, and two were supplements for specialised words. [2] The completed edition of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française , the first official dictionary of the French language, was presented upon completion by the Académie to King Louis XIV .

  3. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).

  4. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language.. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j.

  5. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.

  6. List of Latin phrases (V) - Wikipedia

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    verbatim: word for word: The phrase refers to perfect transcription or quotation. verbatim et literatim: word for word and letter by letter: verbi divini minister: servant of the Divine Word: A phrase denoting a priest. Cf. "Verbum Dei" infra. verbi gratia (v. gr. or v. g.) for example: Literally, "for the sake of a word". Verbum Dei: Word of ...

  7. Canary trap - Wikipedia

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    Special attention is paid to the quality of the prose of the unique language, in the hopes that the suspect will repeat it verbatim in the leak, thereby identifying the version of the document. The term was coined by Tom Clancy in his novel Patriot Games , [ 1 ] [ non-primary source needed ] although Clancy did not invent the technique.

  8. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English

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    This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.

  9. Verbatim - Wikipedia

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    Verbatim means word for word. It may refer to: Verbatim, a 1996 album by Bob Ostertag "Verbatim" (song), a 2015 song by Blackbear; Verbatim (brand), a brand of storage media and flash memory; Verbatim (horse), an American racehorse; Verbatim, edited by Erin McKean; Verbatim theatre, a form of documentary theatre