FLECTcomes fromflectere, the Latin verb meaning "to bend." The root sometimes takes the formflex-. Things that areflexiblecan be bent, and when youflexa muscle, you're usually bending a limb—which, as a trainer at the gym will tell you, requires the use offlexormuscles. FLECT来自拉丁语...
1580s, of a line of verse, "wanting an unaccented syllable in the last foot," from Late Latincatalecticus, from Greekkatalektikos"leaving off," fromkata"down" (seecata-) +legein"to leave off, cease from," from PIE root*sleg-"be slack, be languid." A complete line is said to ...
catty-cornered(adj., adv.) "diagonally opposite," 1838, earliercater-cornered(1835, American English), from now-obsoletecater"to set, cut, or move diagonally" (1570s), from Frenchcatre"four," from Latinquattuor(from PIE root*kwetwer-"four"). Comparecarrefour. Related:Catty-corner; cattyco...
"an improper or inconsistent metaphor, exceptional or undue extension of a word's meaning" (as "to stone someone with bricks"), 1580s, from Latin catachresis, from Greek katakhresis "misuse" (of a word), from katakhresthai "to misuse," from kata "down" (here with a sense of "per...
FLECTcomes fromflectere, the Latin verb meaning "to bend." The root sometimes takes the formflex-. Things that areflexiblecan be bent, and when youflexa muscle, you're usually bending a limb—which, as a trainer at the gym will tell you, requires the use offlexormuscles. FLECT来自拉丁语...
FLECTcomes fromflectere, the Latin verb meaning "to bend." The root sometimes takes the formflex-. Things that areflexiblecan be bent, and when youflexa muscle, you're usually bending a limb—which, as a trainer at the gym will tell you, requires the use offlexormuscles. ...