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Archaic words and phrases. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Archaic words and phrases. Wiktionary has a category on Archaic terms by language.
Pages in category "Archaic English words and phrases". The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Archaism. In language, an archaism is a word, a sense of a word, or a style of speech or writing that belongs to a historical epoch beyond living memory, but that has survived in a few practical settings or affairs. Lexical archaisms are single archaic words or expressions used regularly in an affair (e.g. religion or law) or freely; literary ...
Prithee is an archaic English interjection formed from a corruption of the phrase pray thee ( [I] ask you [to]), which was initially an exclamation of contempt used to indicate a subject's triviality. [1] The earliest recorded appearance of the word prithee listed in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1577, while it is most commonly found in ...
Faggot (unit) A faggot, in the meaning of "bundle", is an archaic English unit applied to bundles of certain items. Alternate spellings in Early Modern English include fagate, faget, fagett, faggott, fagot, fagatt, fagott, ffagott, and faggat. A similar term is found in other languages (e.g. Latin: fascis).
Lexical lists. 16th tablet of the Urra=hubullu lexical series, Louvre Museum. The cuneiform lexical lists are a series of ancient Mesopotamian glossaries which preserve the semantics of Sumerograms, their phonetic value and their Akkadian or other language equivalents. [1] They are the oldest literary texts from Mesopotamia and one of the most ...
Thou is the nominative form; the oblique / objective form is thee (functioning as both accusative and dative); the possessive is thy (adjective) or thine (as an adjective before a vowel or as a possessive pronoun); and the reflexive is thyself. When thou is the grammatical subject of a finite verb in the indicative mood, the verb form typically ...
Nosferatu (word) " Nosferatu " has been presented as an archaic Romanian word [1] synonymous with "vampire". It was largely popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Western fiction such as the gothic novel Dracula (1897) and the German expressionist film Nosferatu (1922). One of the suggested etymologies of the term is that it ...