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megrim en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈmiːɡɹɪm/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French migraigne, semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin hēmicrānia (“pain in one half of the head”), from Ancient Greek ἡμικρᾱνίᾰ (hēmikrāníă), from ἡμι- (hēmi-, “hemi-, half”) + κρανίον (kraníon, “skull”) (whence also English cranium). Doublet of migraine and hemicrania.

Meanings

  1. (archaic) A headache; a migraine.
  2. (archaic) A fancy, a whim, a caprice.
  3. (in-plural) See megrims (“depression; any of various diseases of animals”).
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:megrim.

Forms

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Deriveds

megrimish

Relateds

migraine · hemicrania

megrim en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ˈmiːɡɹɪm/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Unknown.

Meanings

  1. A flatfish of the genus Lepidorhombus native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean; specifically, a Cornish sole, sail-fluke, witch or whiff (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis).
    • MEGRIM (LEPIDORHOMBUS WHIFFIAGONIS)[…]NOTE: In Ireland,this species is often called "witch", a name that properly belongs to the craigfluke, Glyptocephalus cynaglossus, which is a right-handed flatfish. Both species are marketed as "white sole." 2016, http://specimenfish.ie/irish-record-fish/marine-species/megrim-lepidorhombus-whiffiagonis/:

Forms

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Deriveds

four-spot megrim

Synonyms

Cornish sole (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) · witch (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) · white sole (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) · sail-fluke (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) · whiff (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis)

Translations (13)

gl rapante (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) · sh patarača oštronoska (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) · ca bruixa (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) · bg мегрим (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) · ru мегрим (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) · fi lasikampela (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) · fo glaskvoysa (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) · es gallo (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) · gl meiga (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) · sh patarača (type of flatfish of the genus Lepidorhombus) · es gallo del norte (L. whiffiagonis) (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) · fr cardine franche (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) · hu nyelvhal (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis)