They are weird, strange, convoluted.
These funny words do not run conversations.
Do you know, for example, the meaning of the adjective
"obvie"
?
He qualifies "
what the meaning is obvious, which comes naturally to mind"
, informs Robert.
The
"pinchina"
is a large woolen cloth, the first traces of which date back to the 17th century, in the vicinity of Toulon, according to the Trésor de la langue française.
These curious and cheerful words punctuate the French language.
Today,
Le Figaro invites
you to (re) discover them.
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● Syllogomania
We all have a loved one who suffers from it.
The one for whom it is insurmountable to throw away or part with their belongings, despite the requests of those around them.
Photo of him disguised as a teddy bear, plush nibbled by moths, dented box filled with dust ... The
"syllogomaniac"
struggles to get rid of his objects.
The word etymologically means
"immoderate taste for accumulation"
, and would come from
syllogos
,
"meeting"
and
mania
.
● Knot
This curious word designates
“the state of a knotted child, that is to say one who is rickety, who does not grow”
, we read in
Les mots disparus by Pierre Larousse
(Larousse, 2017).
The
"nouure"
is a
"bone deformation observed in rickets"
, which is recognized by thickened similar to nodes.
It is also, in botany, the
"beginning of the formation of the fruit"
.
● Serendipity
It came into use recently, a little over ten years ago, reports the Académie française. The
"serendipity"
, borrowed from English
serendipity
, is the
"gift to accidentally successful discoveries"
. The word is frequently used in the scientific world. We speak of
"serendipity"
in connection with an unexpected discovery or an error, linked to a search and a
"form of intellectual availability"
. It was created by Horace Walpole, politician and writer, which he borrowed from an oriental tale,
The Three Princes of Serendip
(1754).
Serendip
is an Old English transcription of
"Sri Lanka"
(
Sri
,
“Sovereignty, wealth, splendor”
and
Lanka “to obtain by lot”
).
● Bacbuc
Rabelais is the father of this cheerful term.
He thus evokes the
"dive Bacbuc"
is the
"blessed bottle"
, according to Littré.
It comes to us from the Hebrew,
baqboūq
, meaning
“bottle, flask”
.
Marie-Luce Demonet, professor emeritus of French literature at the François Rabelais University in Tours, specifies in
The name of Bacbuc
: “the name of Bacbuc appears in the
Quart Livre
[...] but also in the
Brief statement
which gives the origin of the Hebrew term Bacbuc, the bottle “so called of the sound it makes when emptied”. ”
● Misophonia
From ancient Greek
miso
,
"hatred, aversion"
, and from
phonie
,
"noise"
,
"misophony"
is the name of the deep detestation of bodily sounds: mouth noises, chewing gum, breathing too hard, breath in the ear, etc.
When they hear these noise pollution too closely, misophones are capable of the worst.
