Etymology — The origins of English words

rejoint

Origin

From re- + joint.

pule

Origin

From French piauler, a variant of French piailler (“to chirp, cheep”). Compare Italian pigolare (“to cheep as a chicken”).

reconditeness

Origin

From recondite + -ness.

printshop

Origin

From print + shop.

refractor

Origin

From refract + -or.

professionality

Origin

From professional + -ity.

proletarianize

Origin

From proletarian + -ize.

rathole

Origin

From rat + hole.

rachis

Origin

From New Latin rhachis/rachis, from Ancient Greek ῥάχις (rhákhis, “spine, ridge”).

proletarianism

Origin

From proletarian + -ism.

putsch

Origin

Borrowed from German Putsch, from Alemannic German Putsch (“knock, thrust, blow”), of imitative origin.

quartile

Origin

From Middle French quartil, from Medieval Latin quartilus. By surface analysis, quart + -ile.

prudential

Origin

From Latin prudentia + -al.

purves

Origin

Variant of Purvis.

psammon

Origin

From psammo- + -on, to be analogous to plankton.

pullout

Origin

Deverbal from pull out.

redemptorist

Origin

From French Rédemptoriste, from Italian Redentorista, from redentore (“redeemer, savior”) (notably the Messiah, Christ; from Latin redēmptor, from redēmptus, perfect passive participle of redimō (“redeem, buy back”), itself from re- (“back; again”) + emō (“buy; gain, take, procure”)) + -ista (“-ist”).

recit

Origin

Borrowed from French récit.

quondam

Origin

Borrowed from Latin quondam. Compare whilom.

quidnunc

Origin

From Latin quid nunc? (“what now?”).

raik

Origin

From Middle English rake (“path”), from Old Norse rák (“trail”), from Proto-Germanic *rēkō, *raką, *rakō, *rakǭ (“file of tracks, line”), from Proto-Indo-European *(o)reg'-, *(o)reg'a- (“to straighten, direct”). Cognate with Icelandic rák (“streak, grazing”), Icelandic raka (“strip, series”), Norwegian røk (“grazing”), Norwegian rak (“wick”), Old English race, racu (“a run, riverbed”).

puellile

Origin

From Latin puella (“female child, girl”) + English -ile (suffix meaning ‘capable of; tending to’ forming adjectives), modelled after puerile. Puella is derived from puellus (“male child, young boy”) + -a (feminine form of -us); puellus is a contraction of puerulus (“little boy; little slave”), from puer (“boy, lad; male page, servant, or slave; child”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, little; smallness”)) + -ulus (“suffix forming diminutives of nouns indicating small size or youth”).

repine

Origin

Believed to have been formed (with uncertainty, due to the unusual formation) as re- + pine, with the verb giving rise to the noun (first attested in 1529 and 1593 respectively); compare the Middle English verb repinen (“(uncertain) to cause trouble to someone, grieve”) (from pīnen (“to cause pain, grieve, hurt, trouble; to starve, pine; to torment, torture”), from Old English pīnian), which may be related.

recognitive

Origin

From Latin recognitus + English -ive (adjective suffix).