scacchic en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /ˈskækɪk/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tek- Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšáyati Proto-Iranian *xšáyati Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ) Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (mlkʾ) Persian شاه (šâh)bor. Provençal escacbor. Italian scacco Italian scacchi Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English scacchic From Italian scacchi (“chess”) + -ic (suffix meaning ‘of’ or ‘relating to’ forming adjectives). Scacchi is the plural of Italian scacco, derived from Old Catalan and Provençal escac (“chess piece”), from Persian شاه (šâh, “king, shah; (chess) king”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tek- (“to get control or power over; to obtain, receive; to take by the hand”).
Meanings
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(error-lua-exec, not-comparable, rare) Of or relating to chess.
In response to this barbarity, the philosopher Philometer invents chess, effectively replacing the body metaphor with the scacchic metaphor.
2008, Mark N. Taylor, “Mirror to the Polity”, in Review of Politics, →DOI:[A]lthough Brunet y Bellet has indeed given a valuable description and reproduction of the Introductory portions of the scacchic part of that MS., he does not pretend to treat the positions of even that section, and has little or nothing to say about the pages filled with examples of other games.
1905, Willard Fiske, Chess in Iceland and Icelandic Literature, page 201:The second theme to feed in from Bloodline is that of playing games. This is certainly true of the scacchic opening, […]
2006, Paul Kane, The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy, →ISBN, page 170: