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galimatias

See also: galimatías

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French galimatias, first attested in 1653 in Sir Thomas Urquhart's translation of Rabelais's works.[1]

Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /ˌɡæləˈmeɪʃi.əs/, /-ˈmæti.əs/

Noun

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galimatias (uncountable)

  1. nonsense, gobbledygook
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:nonsense
    • 1888, Henry James, chapter 5, in The Reverberator, Macmillan and Co.:
      […] and the old lady listened in silence, solemnly, rather coldly, as if she thought such talk a good deal of a galimatias: she belonged to the old-fashioned school and held that a young lady was sufficiently catalogued when it was said that she had a dazzling complexion or the finest eyes in the world.
  2. confused mixture; hodgepodge
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hodgepodge

Translations

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References

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  1. ^ “galimatias”, in World Wide Words‎[1], 2022 April 18 (last accessed)

French

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FWOTD – 2 March 2023

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Unknown, first attested in Michel de Montaigne (1580) and other late 16th-century authors. There exist many very different hypotheses. The Trésor de la langue française informatisé cites sources that reject most of these hypotheses,[1] including the only one in the dictionary of the Spanish Real Academia, which presents this as if it were not just one of many conjectures: "From Ancient Greek κατά Ματθαῖον (katá Matthaîon, “according to Matthew”), in reference to the way he describes the genealogy at the beginning of his Gospel."[2] The Trésor comments it is commonly believed to be from Late Latin ballēmatia (“dance; obscene song”). Coromines and Pascual prefer a derivation from Latin Joseph ab Arimathia (“Joseph of Arimathea”), where Arimathia was thought of as an exotic place or country, then applied to incomprehensible speech,[3] while also stating that the etymology may never be known with confidence, and that it appears the term is an invention of Michel de Montaigne's.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡa.li.ma.tja/ ~ /ɡa.li.ma.tjɑ/
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Noun

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galimatias m (plural galimatias)

  1. nonsense, gobbledygook, galimatias
    • 1897, Émile Laurent, “Les verbes nouveaux”, in La Poésie décadente devant la science psychiatrique:
      Voilà qui est déjà bien obscur. Les vers suivants sont absolument incompréhensibles. C’est du pur galimatias.
      This is already very obscure. The following lines are absolutely incomprehensible. They are pure gibberish.

Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ “galimatias”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
  2. ^ “galimatías”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16
  3. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “galimatías”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, pages 40-41

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Polish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French galimatias.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡa.liˈma.tjas/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -atjas
  • Syllabification: ga‧li‧ma‧tias

Noun

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galimatias m inan

  1. (colloquial) mishmash, hotchpotch
    Synonym: miszmasz

Declension

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Declension of galimatias
singular plural
nominative galimatias galimatiasy
genitive galimatiasu galimatiasów
dative galimatiasowi galimatiasom
accusative galimatias galimatiasy
instrumental galimatiasem galimatiasami
locative galimatiasie galimatiasach
vocative galimatiasie galimatiasy

Further reading

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  • galimatias in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • galimatias in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French galimatias.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ga‧li‧ma‧ti‧as

Noun

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galimatias m (invariable)

  1. galimatias; gobbledygook (meaningless speech)

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French galimatias.

Noun

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galimatias n (uncountable)

  1. galimatias

Declension

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declension of galimatias (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) galimatias galimatiasul
genitive/dative (unui) galimatias galimatiasului
vocative galimatiasule
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