Should Be Studying

[debka_notion]

I should be studying, but I'm taking a brief break to exclaim in amazement/humor/pleasure at some of the words I've encountered/acquired this semester:
-paytanic
-amphibolous
-proleptically
-prolegomon
-actu
-intertext
and the list continues- those are just the ones on my mind right now. Isn't academia wonderful?

Edit: More words as I run across them in notes and the like:
apotropaic
angelomorphism

Comments

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I know "proleptically" and "intertext", but not the other ones. Teach me the meanings so that I can boggle the Word spellcheck!

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Paytanic: derived from paytan, from piyyut (ahh, multilingual derivations): relating to writers of devotional poems.

-amphibolous: having multiple meanings/purposes

-prolegomon: I still need a good definition: it seems to be in the same genre of introduction and preface and such, at least in on of its uses. I should give in and use the dictionary.

-actu: sort of like actual, but usually used in the phrase: in actu, which seems close to "in reality" but not quite. It seems to be one of those weird medieval philosophy words.

[thevortex.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't "in actu" be Latin, then? chinchillama?

The Vortex

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

It ought to be, I think.

Also, even though I don't know the word, I have the vague sense that it ought to be "prolegomenon" instead of "prolegomon".

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was a typo on my part. Apparently a repeated one. Sorry.

[doctor-nine.livejournal.com]

"in actu" would indeed be Latin. Literal definition would be something like "in the doing," "in the performance," something to that effect. It's from "agere" ultimately, I guess -- that crazy verb meaning to do/drive/lead/etc.

Oh, and actu by itself is meaningless, as that would be the ablative case. The free-standing word in the nominative is "actus."