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Wiktionary:Glossary
Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

GLA: glossary of terms used in the Wiktionary community. see also Appendix:Glossary - which contains terms used in the body of this dictionary. (There is also the Wikipedia:Glossary)


A
Accessibility - the ease with which web pages may be navigated and read, especially for those with disabilities.
Anchor - an HTML marker used to direct a web browser to a position which is not at the default top of page position.
Adj., -adj – adjective. E.g.: {{en-adj}}
Adv., -adv – adverb. E.g.: {{en-adv}}
AGF – assume good faith – A general principle of public wikis.
AHD – American Heritage Dictionary. See {{enPR}}.
anon, anonip – Someone who edits Wiktionary without signing in. Also, IP.
archaic – The definition is no longer in general use, but still found in some contemporary texts (eg, the Bible). Examples: thee and thou (for you). Generally understood by educated people, but rarely used in current texts or speech. Compare with obsolete and dated. This definition is currently under active debate in Wiktionary:Obsolete and archaic terms

B
b.g.c., bgc - (not used in articles) books.google.com
block - to (temporarily or permanently) prevent a specific user - by username or IP address - from editing Wiktionary by entering the user on a list of blocked individuals; only admins can do this
bluelink - a link to an existing Wiktionary (or other Wikimedia) page; contrast redlink
bookmark - the term Frontpage uses for the anchor HTML tag.
bot - an automated or semiautomated process used to perform tasks on Wiktionary, an abbreviated form of robot.
BP - the Beer Parlour discussion forum for general policy discussions and proposals, requests for permissions and major announcements. E.g.: WT:BP.
BTW - By the way (Internet slang phrase)

C
c. – circa or about – often used in dates of quotations.
c – of common gender, such nouns may be of male or female gender without changing their form.
cat, category – see Appendix:Glossary#category
CFI – Wiktionary:Criteria for inclusion. E.g.: WT:CFI
CGEL – Cambridge Grammar of the English Language.
CJK, CJKV - Chinese, Japanese, Korean (and Vietnamese); CJK characters.
clitic pronoun - a weak pronoun; a pronoun of one syllable which is dependent on another word and cannot be used on its own. Compare with emphatic or strong.
CSS – Cascading Style Sheets, used in creating web pages.
colloquial – (of a word or sense) used in conversational speech or informal writing, but usually not in formal speech or writing, such as "lots of". (Not to be confused with slang, nonstandard.)

D
dat - the dative case. Caution: dat is also the ISO 639-3 code for the Darang Deng language.
dated – still in use, but generally only by older people, and considered unfashionable or superseded, particularly by younger people. Examples: wireless (in sense "broadcast radio tuner"), groovy, gramophone, gay (in the senses of "bright", "happy", etc.) Compare with obsolete and archaic This definition is currently under active debate in Wiktionary:Obsolete and archaic terms
desysop - To revoke the admin privileges of a Wikimedia administrator.
dewikify - To convert one or more intra-wiki links to plain words.
dystmesis - Non-standard tmesis, most memorably accompanied with invective infixation.

E
ed. – editor, edition – often used in quotations.
ELE - Entry layout Explained, the style guide for Wiktionary. E.g.: WT:ELE
emphatic pronoun -
English: a reflexive pronoun (eg yourself) used for emphasis (eg you must do it yourself.)
Greek: a structurally independent personal pronoun, in contrast with weak or clitic prounouns.
en – English
enWP – English Wikipedia
enwikt – English Wiktionary
est – Estonia, Estonian
etymon – the source word in an etymology
extant – Of a word, in current use (as opposed to archaic or obsolete).

F
{{F.}} - of French origin. E.g.: {{F.|nl}} (indicating a Dutch word of French origin)
f – of feminine gender
FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions
FL, fl – foreign language
fpl – feminine plural. Caution: this abbreviation has the same form as an ISO 639-3 code.
Fr, fr – French

G
GBS – Google Book Search
GP - Google Print, a search engine from Google for published books, now called Google Book Search
GP - Grease Pit, a place to discuss technical issues in Wiktionary. E.g. WT:GP

H
headword - The word described by a given dictionary entry. Usually, the headword has the same spelling as the page name. Exceptions are for entries in languages with optional diacritics (e.g. līber), entries without Unicode representation (e.g. sign language entries and hieroglyphics like wi), and when MediaWiki prohibits the preferred spelling (e.g. ).
headword line – At the core of each entry is a headword line, which lists the headword in bold, often followed by basic grammar and orthography details, e.g. gender, inflected forms, alternate orthography in languages with multiple orthographies like Japanese, Korean, and Serbian. Some editors use the phrase inflection line instead.
historical – Means included for historical information; the thing it refers to is not in current use or no longer exists; e.g. blueshirt, Czechoslovakia. This does not mean the same as "obsolete"; while the thing referred to is obsolete, the word that refers to it is extant. — Paul G 12:17, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

I
idiom – A phrase which has a meaning apparently unconnected with the individual words that make it up. E.g. to come a cropper.
IMO, IMHO – In My Opinion, In My Honest Opinion (Internet slang phrase).
inflection – the change in form of a word to represent a change in tense etc. In English an example would be run, runs, ran and running. In highly inflected languages such as Latin there will be many more forms. See also: (1) Conjugation and (2) Declension.
inflection line, infl - See headword line. E.g. {{infl|tr|adverb}}
invective infixation - dystmesis, accompanied by insertion of an invective between the parts divided, e.g., "abso-bloody-lutely".
IP – Someone who edits without signing in. Also, anon, anonip.
IPA – International Phonetic Alphabet.

J
JS - JavaScript

L
L1, L2, etc. – the first-level, second-level, etc. headers on any Wiktionary page, corresponding to (and generating) HTML elements <h1>, <h2>, etc.
lemma – the citation form of an inflected word, especially the form found in bilingual or abridged dictionaries. For verbs, this is usually either the infinitive, or the first-person singular present tense form (depending on the language); for nouns, this is usually the nominative singular (in languages with case and number); and for adjectives, this is usually the nominative singular masculine or neuter form. The plural of lemma is traditionally lemmata, but the form lemmas exists as well.
lexeme – roughly: the abstract "word" underlying a set of inflections; for example, gives and given belong to the same lexeme, which is usually identified by its lemma form give. See also: (1) Wikipedia on lexeme, (2) Wiktionary:Languages with more than one grammatical gender, (3) conjugation (above, on this list) and (4) declension (also above).
LOP - Wiktionary:List of protologisms, see protologism

M
m – of masculine gender
m.pl - masculine plural
Monobook - the name used for the CSS file used to control the appearance of Wiktionary on your web browser.
mpl – masculine plural, although m.pl may be preferred to avoid confusion with the ISO 639-3 code for the language Middle Watut.

N
n – of neuter gender
namespace - an optional prefix to a page title, eg "Help", "Template". Thus Help:How to check translations is a page within the "Help" namespace.
nl – Netherlands, Dutch
nonce – said of a term that was coined for a particular utterance
NPOV – "Neutral Point of View". (Articles are meant to be written from a NPOV, not from a POV or particular Point Of View.)
ns/NS - namespace

O
OBE - Overtaken By Events.
obs, obsolete – indicates a term no longer in use, no longer likely to be understood. Compare with archaic and dated. This definition is under discussion in Wiktionary talk:Obsolete and archaic terms
OED – Oxford English Dictionary. Also SOED (Shorter), OED1 (1st edition), OED2 (2nd edition), NOED (New).
OmegaWiki - Previously known as Ultimate Wiktionary and WiktionaryZ, a project stemmed from Wiktionary, (homepage)
OTOH – On the other hand (Internet slang phrase)
OTRS - Open source Ticket Request System

P
p - plural
p. – post or after, often used in quotations.
phrase – Sometimes called a "set phrase", a string of words which have a special meaning. In other words, if one of the words in the phrase is changed for another word of similar meaning, the entire phrase is altered. Flight simulator is a phrase because it has a special meaning that flying simulator doesn't. Cf idiom
pl – plural, although the abbreviation p is preferred, to avoid confusion with the ISO 639-1 code for the Polish language.
pluralia tantum – nouns with no singular form – see Category:English_pluralia_tantum
POS – Part(s) of Speech. (POS) is a placeholder which can be replaced with any of the approved POS headers.
POV – "Point of View"
Articles are meant to be written from a Neutral Point of View (NPOV), not from a POV – particular point of view

R
redlink - a link to a Wiktionary (or other Wikimedia) page that does not exist; contrast bluelink
RfAP - Request for audio pronunciation; i.e. request that an audio file be added to an entry.
RfC – Request for clean-up, see WT:RFC
RfD – Request for deletion, see WT:RFD
RfV – Request for verification, see WT:RFV
romanisation/romanization – a particular form of transliteration, where a non-Roman script is converted into the Roman one. (eg. singnómi in “συγγνώμη (singnómi)”). See tr.
RT(F)M – Read the (fucking) manual.
rv – Revert to prior content.
rvv – Revert Vandalism.

S
s – singular
SAMPA – SAMPA, a set of systems for representing the phonemes of various languages in plain ASCII text.
Not to be confused with X–SAMPA, the system for representing the full IPA in plain ASCII text.
sandbox - a page that users may edit in whatever way they want. There is a public sandbox at Wiktionary:Sandbox or users may create their own.
sc - script. Terms appearing in the English Wiktionary that are written in scripts other than the Latin (roman) script use a script template to select the optimal fonts for readers. Templates like {{t}} and {{term}} accept a parameter named {{{sc}}} to specify the script. Caution: the ISO 639-1 code sc is for the Sardinian language. See tr. E.g. {{term|sc=Grek|λόγος|tr=lógos}}
scap - specific to #wikimedia-tech channel: sync-common-all-php.
sg - Some templates use this abbreviation for singular, but the abbreviation s is preferred to avoid confusion with the ISO 639-1 code for the Sango language. E.g.: {{en-noun|sg=[[noun]] [[phrase]]}}
SIL – SIL International, formerly the Summer Institute of Linguistics; home of Ethnologue, and official registrar of the ISO 639 three-letter language codes (such as en for English).
SOP, SoP — "[the] sum of [its] parts". Describes a multi-word term whose meaning follows directly from the combination of its constituent words. Note that many terms like fried egg and prime number are sum of parts but idiomatic in other ways.
stemmer, stemming - software used to produce the stem from the inflected form of words.
stop word - a word ignored by a search engines, usually one on a list of such common words.
strong pronoun - (Greek) an emphatic pronoun.

T
TR – the Tea room
tr - transliteration. Terms appearing in the English Wiktionary that are written in scripts other than the Latin (roman) script are followed by a transliteration. Templates like {{t}} and {{term}} accept a parameter named {{{tr}}} for the transliteration. See sc above. Caution: the ISO 639-1 code tr is for the Turkish language. E.g. {{term|sc=Grek|λόγος|tr=lógos}}
tr., tran. – translator or translated, often used in quotations.
transliteration – the conversion of text in one script into an equivalent in another script. This may include the conversion of diacritical marks into alternate forms without diacritical marks (e.g., Mörder → Moerder).
TTBC - Ambiguous or possibly incorrect translations needing checking from a native speaker.

U
UK – UK English, i.e. The English of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the British Isles excluding the Irish Republic).
UTC – Coordinated Universal Time

V
!vote – A sarcastic reference to the essay Polls are evil, a reminder that wiki-voting is not binding, per se, but a useful tool nevertheless. The exclamation point is a computing term for "not".
VIP - Wiktionary:Vandalism in progress, a page to list recent vandalism sprees.

W
weak pronoun – a pronoun of one syllable which is dependent on another word and cannot be used on its own; sometimes called clitic. Compare with emphatic or strong.
WF (or Wonderfool) A particular abnormally persistent vandal.
wheel war – A struggle between two or more admins in which each undoes the other's admin actions — in particular, unblocking and reblocking a user; undeleting and redeleting, or unprotecting and reprotecting an article.
wikify, wfy, wikification – to create wikilinks and/or to format in accordance with Wiktionary's standards.
wikitext, wiki markup - a markup language, the simplified alternative to HTML used to write pages in wiki webs.
wikt –Wiktionary
WiktionaryZ - See OmegaWiki
WMF - Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., the parent organization of Wiktionary and other projects
WordNet - lexical database for the English language at Princeton University here.
WP – Wikipedia

X
X-SAMPA – Extended SAMPA, a system for representing the full IPA in plain text.


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