Palimpsest (N): Parchment (Skin of an animal prepared for writing, painting) used for second time after the original writing has been erased.
Something that is used again or altered but is still having the traces of it earlier form.
“Palin”, means “again” and “psestos” means, “rubbed smooth”. “Psetos” comes from “psen” which means to rub smooth.
Ex: “The house is a palimpsest of the tastes of successive owners”.
Remembering this word can be made easy by linking it up with its cognate, which is quite a familiar word, at least to Compsci people.
Palindrome (N): A word or a phrase that reads the same backwards as forwards.
Examples of palindrome are the numbers such as 12321 or 121 and names such as NITIN etc.
People you must have remembered the logic behind identifying a palindrome during your computer programming lab sessions, It is done by matching the numbers or characters in the given sequence (Matching the first and last and so on).
So the word can be broken as “palin” which means “again” and “dromos” means “running” (“dromos” comes from “dramein” which means to run). Thus the meaning is running back again.
More cognates (Not from barrons):
Palilalia (N): A speech disorder characterized by involuntary repetition of words, phrase, sentences
Palin + Lalia (speech, chatter)
Palilogy (N): Repetition of word or phrase for emphasis.
Regards,
V
Something that is used again or altered but is still having the traces of it earlier form.
“Palin”, means “again” and “psestos” means, “rubbed smooth”. “Psetos” comes from “psen” which means to rub smooth.
Ex: “The house is a palimpsest of the tastes of successive owners”.
Remembering this word can be made easy by linking it up with its cognate, which is quite a familiar word, at least to Compsci people.
Palindrome (N): A word or a phrase that reads the same backwards as forwards.
Examples of palindrome are the numbers such as 12321 or 121 and names such as NITIN etc.
People you must have remembered the logic behind identifying a palindrome during your computer programming lab sessions, It is done by matching the numbers or characters in the given sequence (Matching the first and last and so on).
So the word can be broken as “palin” which means “again” and “dromos” means “running” (“dromos” comes from “dramein” which means to run). Thus the meaning is running back again.
More cognates (Not from barrons):
Palilalia (N): A speech disorder characterized by involuntary repetition of words, phrase, sentences
Palin + Lalia (speech, chatter)
Palilogy (N): Repetition of word or phrase for emphasis.
Regards,
V
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