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Circuits
10-19-2018, 02:37
abriproprium?
abripropriam?

(see abripropriousness)

This is a word I know from back in the day. Inspired by a thread somewhere on words we know, but of which we don't quite get the roots, or the roots no longer are in general circulation.

Abri(o?) apparently being an archaic synonym in- or anti- or mala-

First time I've typed a word into the internets searches in recent memory and get nothing back on general results that relates to what I've typed.

Can a co-arfer get a hand here? Am I hallucinating, or just remembering more than the interwebs is willing or able to return on basic searches?

Is this the start of the Zuckerber memory coup?
roberth
10-19-2018, 05:54
I can't find it either.

An abri is a dugout - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/abri
ray1970
10-19-2018, 06:45
I have never heard that word so I think you just made it up. The only way you can prove otherwise is to provide me with a link to the meaning.

[Coffee]
ray1970
10-19-2018, 06:48
Seems to have Latin roots.

Perhaps related to the word ?abripio??
ChickNorris
10-19-2018, 07:16
ABRIR proprium. ?

Open property/ownership
Irving
10-19-2018, 07:45
Were Troublco still here, we could ask him.
CS1983
10-19-2018, 07:55
ABRIR proprium. ?

Open property/ownership

Abrir is not Latin, but a Romance derivative of the Latin aperire.
ChickNorris
10-19-2018, 08:47
Right. * A non sequitur & my bad in the notes
Martinjmpr
10-19-2018, 09:34
Some of you may need to embiggen your vocabulary.

It's a perfectly cromulent word.







OK, J/K I'm pretty well read and I've never heard it either. [Coffee]
ChickNorris
10-19-2018, 09:39
This sidewalk aint for fancy walkin....
Gman
10-19-2018, 13:04
I have enough problem with street cred without obfuscating my written/spoken communication using archaic or rarely used syntax.
TheGrey
10-22-2018, 20:35
pro?pri?um (prō′prē-əm) n. pl. pro?pri?a (-prē-ə) In Aristotelian thought, a predicable property common to all members of a kind but not constituting part of the definition of that kind. [Medieval Latin, from neuter of Latin proprius, proper (to) (translation of Greek idion); see per in Indo-European roots.]
Zundfolge
10-22-2018, 20:41
Allopurinol? You got the gout?

Or are you thinking malapropism? (which would be kinda ironic)
Gman
10-22-2018, 21:53
Allopurinol? You got the gout?

Uloric is expensive, but it works extremely well. [Coffee]
rondog
10-22-2018, 22:23
Can't help ya, but my folks made me learn how to spell antidisestablishmentarianism in 1st or 2nd grade - still don't know WTF it means.
Rucker61
10-23-2018, 00:24
Someone is waxing sesquipedalian.
10x
10-23-2018, 07:18
Unless we get back to speaking American (not english), i won't be able to participate in this discussion.
What does that mystery word mean that the OP noted?
CS1983
10-23-2018, 07:32
Can't help ya, but my folks made me learn how to spell antidisestablishmentarianism in 1st or 2nd grade - still don't know WTF it means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidisestablishmentarianism

It means to be against the "removal of the Anglican Church's status as the state church of England, Ireland, and Wales."
Martinjmpr
10-23-2018, 08:19
Uloric is expensive, but it works extremely well. [Coffee]


I don't get HBO but isn't Uloric a character on Game of Thrones? [LOL]