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  2. List of English homographs - Wikipedia

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    When the prefix "re-" is added to a monosyllabic word, the word gains currency both as a noun and as a verb. Most of the pairs listed below are closely related: for example, "absent" as a noun meaning "missing", and as a verb meaning "to make oneself missing". There are also many cases in which homographs are of an entirely separate origin, or ...

  3. Unpaired word - Wikipedia

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    An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.

  4. Heteronym (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    noun footprints re: rè noun re (music) ré noun king scopo: scòpo noun goal scópo verb I sweep sorta: sòrta noun kind sórta verb I rose tema: tèma noun theme, subject téma noun fear torta: tòrta adjective, ppl. twisted (f. sing.) tórta noun a torte venti: vènti noun winds vénti noun twenty volgo: vòlgo verb I turn vólgo noun the ...

  5. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  6. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    Nouns and adjectives [ edit ] The citation form for nouns (the form normally shown in Latin dictionaries) is the Latin nominative singular, but that typically does not exhibit the root form from which English nouns are generally derived.

  7. Affix - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, an affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form. The main two categories are derivational and inflectional affixes. . Derivational affixes, such as un-, -ation, anti-, pre-etc., introduce a semantic change to the word they are atta

  8. Back-formation - Wikipedia

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    Back-formation may be similar to the reanalyses or folk etymologies when it rests on an erroneous understanding of the morphology of the longer word. For example, the singular noun asset is a back-formation from the plural assets. However, assets was not originally a plural; it is a loanword from Anglo-Norman asetz (modern French assez).

  9. Capitalization in English - Wikipedia

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    APA Style is a “down” style, meaning that words are lowercase unless there is specific guidance to capitalize them such as words beginning a sentence; proper nouns and trade names; job titles and positions; diseases, disorders, therapies, theories, and related terms; titles of works and headings within works; titles of tests and measures; nouns followed by numerals or letters; names of ...