Etymology of the word retard

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Must Tard?

In automotive terms, to advance or retard (as in ignition timing) is to move it either forward or back from it's initial reference point.

They should have used it in Young Frankenstein.

"Put...the candle...retard!"

I most certainly retarded

reatrd from french retarde - slowpoke. same as seal in russian

the etymology of word Dream is much more interesting

by all means do tell?

A tard is a pie.

Armed is Dream, but that's prolly not what they will add.

muss old english for mouse they used mustard to kill mice hence mus tard.

See us when you get your degrees in linguistics. You are not able to comprehend any field of study without first learning how to do so.

it's a verb that means to dampen or slow

retarder (re-tar-day) - "to delay" in french

that's where the english word retard comes from, meaning "to slow"

example - My commute to work was retarded by a six vehicle accident on the freeway.

Last Edited by Anonymous Cowherder on 12/15/2021 08:33 AM

"Re-" means doing something again.

So "Retard" means being a tard over and over.

In French, it means late.

"Je suis en retard" - I am late.

You're serious?

Because this was more or less where i was going in my own thinking, it's an ambition i have, is linguistics underrated as a field of study in which case to your mind?

Trumptarded = 2 more weeks....

retard, n.


[a. F. retard (= Sp., Pg. retardo, It. ritardo), f. retarder: see next.]

1.1 Retardation, delay. in retard, retarded, delayed; in the rear of.

   1788 Jefferson Writ. 1859 II. 353 A single day's retard.    1865 Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xv. x. (1872) VI. 65 The rearward regiments;are in painful retard.    1886 Ruskin Præterita I. iv. 132, I was far in retard of them in real knowledge.    1971 Times 14 Apr. 14/3 The Government, somewhat in retard of the fact, enacted the‥eugenic protection law in 1949.

2.2 retard of the tide or retard of high water, the interval between the moon's transit and the high water following upon this. Also ellipt.

   1833 Phil. Trans. CXXIII. 19 The retard;at Portsmouth appears to be intermediate between that at Brest and at London.    1845 Encycl. Metrop. V. 257* marg., Retard of high water upon the moon's transit.    1862 New Amer. Cycl. XV. 471 At Boston, this delay, which is called the retard, or age of the tide, is nearly 36 hours.

3.3 A device in a motor vehicle for retarding the ignition spark.

   1932 Motoring Encycl. 10/3 The Bosch automatic advance and retard (Fig. 3) is a simple design for a stationary armature type of magneto.    1977 Hot Car Oct. 75/3 The old one is capped off still retaining the advance retard.

4.4 U.S. slang. A mentally retarded person.

   1970 Time 23 Mar. 49 There are‥heroin addicts, Air Force and CIA mental retards and Broadway Indians doing a Broadway Snake Dance.    1971 New Yorker 16 Jan. 76 The younger son, self-described as ‘a hard-core retard’, dreams of escaping to the wilds of Oregon to gambol with the bears and squirrels.    1979 Observer 21 Oct. 53/5 These are men who have been out of England for years on end.‥ Social retards, they can still hold onto their given obsolete ideas and prejudices about women because of their geographical isolation, and their marooned intellects.

Last Edited by Lago on 05/29/2023 04:34 PM

This thread is retarded.

Let them leave no room for doubt and be made dun seen as self-evident today.

Very interesting topic OP.

Etymology of word origins is fascinating to no end. Also somewhat of a road to madness that's filled with shocking revelations that only a few will attempt to discover...

Filthy rag lost purpose.

I love etymology. *spelling* and grammar (grimoire) and out-of-the-box thinking. 5*'s

slow/impaired

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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their historical development. It can be a fascinating and rewarding hobby, and it can also help you to improve your spelling and grammar.

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etymology

(ɛtɪˈmɒlədʒɪ)

Forms: [4 with Latin termination ethimolegia], 5–6 ethi-, ethymologie, -y(e, (5 ethimilogie), 6–7 ætym-, etim-, etymologie, -y(e, 6– etymology.

[a. OF. ethimologie, mod.F. etymologie, ad. L. etymologia, a. Gr. ἐτυµολογία, f. ἐτυµολόγ-ος: see etymologe.]

1. a.1.a The process of tracing out and describing the elements of a word with their modifications of form and sense.

   1588 Fraunce Lawiers Log. i. xii. 51 Notation or Etymologie is the interpretation of the word.    1725 Watts Logic i. iv. §1 This tracing of a word to its original, (which is called etymology), is sometimes a very precarious‥thing.    1786 H. Tooke Purley (1798) I. ix. 456 The explanation and etymology of those words‥require a degree of knowledge in all the antient northern languages.

¶With explanation drawn from the Gr. derivation. (Cf. L. veriloquium, by which Cicero renders the Gr. word.)

   1613 R. C. Table Alph. (ed. 3), Etymologie, true expounding.    1681 tr. Willis' Rem. Med. Wks. Voc., Etymology, the true exposition or interpretation of a thing.

b.1.b An instance of this process; an account of the formation and radical signification of a word.

   1460 J. Capgrave Chron. 34 As Ysider tellith in the third book of Ethimilogies.    1575 Turberv. Falconrie 204 So that the etymologie of the name proceedeth all upon one cause.    1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. v. ii. 8 Neither let this Etymologie of Britaines seeme to be either harsh or absurd, seeing the very words sound alike, etc.    1665 Boyle Occas. Refl. v. i. (1675) 296 Critical Inquiries into Obsolete Rites, or Disputable Etymologies.    1755 Johnson Pref. Dict. Wks. IX. 201 For the Teutonick etymologies, I am commonly indebted to Junius and Skinner.    1845 Stoddart in Encycl. Metrop. (1847) I. 166/1 A little investigation will show this etymology [of since] to be entirely erroneous.

c.1.c The facts relating to the formation or derivation (of a word). (In 16–17th c. occur confused expressions such as ‘the etymology comes from,’ ‘to derive the etymology from’.)

   [1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. iii. ii. (1495) 50 What is the menynge of the Ethimolegia and the settyng of this name?]    1447 O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 46 Yf we them dewly kun applye And ordenelly aftyr the ethimologye.    1581 Marbeck Bk. of Notes 276 Dagon‥as maie be iudged by the Etimologie of the word, was some God of the Sea. For Dag in Hebrue signifieth a fish.    1583 Fulke Defence (1843) 267 The etymology of this English word ‘priest’ cometh from presbyter.    1631 Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 683 Heralt‥is meerely a Teutonic or Duytch word, and in that tongue and no other, the true Ætymologie thereof is onely to be found.    1651 Howell Venice 34 Som derive the Etimologie of this rare Cittie from Venetia, which is old Latin signifieth the frothing or seething of the Sea.    1666 G. Harvey Morb. Angl. (J.), Consumption is generally taken for any universal diminution and colliquation of the body, which acceptation its etymology implies.    1725 Watts Logic i. iv. §1 If the meaning of a word could be learned by its derivation or etymology, yet, etc.    1865 Max Müller Chips (1880) II. xxv. 260 The etymology of a word can never give us its definition.

transf.    1864 Kirk Chas. Bold I. ii. 48 Those distinctions of origin, habits, dialect, and history which constitute what may be termed the etymology of the nation.

†d.1.d Etymological sense, original meaning. Obs.

   a 1592 Greene Jas. IV, i. ii, Ateu. What's thy name? Nano. Nano. Ateu. The etymology of which word is a dwarf.    1631 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlew. (1641) 332 This name [widowes]‥hath received one constant Etymology; ‘deprived’ or ‘destitute’.    1711–14 Addison Spect. (J.), Pelvis is used by comick writers for a looking-glass, by which means the etymology of the word is visible.

2.2 That branch of linguistic science which is concerned with determining the origin of words.

   1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. vi. 93 Others have better observed the laws of Etymology, and deduced it from a word of the same language.    1797 Godwin Enquirer i. vi. 44 The science of etymology has been earnestly recommended.    1862 Marsh Eng. Lang. iii. 48 Etymology, is the study of the primitive, derivative, and figurative forms and meanings of words.    1864 Max Müller Sc. Lang. Ser. ii. vi. (1868) 242 As long as etymology was carried on on such principles it could not claim the name of a science.

3.3 Gram. That part of grammar which treats of individual words, the parts of speech separately, their formation and inflexions.

   1592 West Symbol. §100 The rules of Grammar, touching eyther the Ætymologie or Syntaxis thereof.    1612 Brinsley Lud. Lit. ix. (1627) 127 For the Etymologie, all the difficulty is in these three parts of Speech, Nownes, Verbs, and Participles.    1669 Milton Accedence Wks. (1847) 457/1 Etymology, or right wording, teacheth what belongs to every single word or part of speech.    1748 Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 304 Etymology and Syntax, as Grammarians call them.    1824 L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 60 The second part of grammar is etymology.