Friday 16 March 2018

FOREIGN WORDS IN COMMON USE

F - 

fabricati diem - make my day(L)

fait accompli - thing  already done(Fr)

fatwa - a legal decision (Arab)

floreat -  let it flourish (L) 

fuhrer  - leader  (Ger) 


G. . .... 


glasnost  - openness 


Gotterdammerung  - in German  mythology  the final destruction  of the world. (Ger) 


gout  -  taste  ,artistic  discernment  (Fr) 


gulag  - labour  camp (Rus) 


h... .....


habeas  corpus -  Writ  to produce  a prisoner  before a court ( L)


haiku -   amusement  verse (Jap)


hajj  - pilgrimage  ((Arab)


Hakenkruez  - swastika  ( hooked cross) (Ger )


haute  cuisine -  high  class  cooking  ( Fr) 

hoi  polloi  -   common  people  (Gr)

homme d' affaires -  businessman


homme d'esprit  - man of wit or genius (Fr )

hos d' oeuvre  - savoury  appetiser (Fr )


I.. .....

ibidem -  in the same place (L) 


ich  dien  - I serve (Ger) 


id  est  - that is (L) 


Incunabulam  - book printed before  1501,original Latin  meaning  was 'swaddling  clothes


in extremis  - at the point  of death (L) 


Infra  dig - beneath  one's  dignity (L) 


inshallah  - if Allah wills, 'touch  wood'(Arab) 


 in vitro  - In a test  tube (L) 


ispo  facto  -  by the







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