2022-03-09
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – E - execrable & inexecrable & execrate
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Dictionary.com:
ออกเสียง execrable = “EK-si-kruh-buhl”
ออกเสียง execrate = “EK-si-kreyt”
Collins English Dictionary:
inexecrable adj. = thoroughly execrable.
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions:
execrable & inexecrable
Execrable means “very bad,” “abominable.” “detestable”:
“The drunken actor gave an execrable performance.”
“Your rude behavior is execrable.
Inexecrable occasionally appears in print,
but it is obsolete and is probably mistaken for some
such word as inexecrable.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
execrate
Did you know?
To Latinists, there's nothing cryptic about the origins of execrate-
the word derives from exsecratus, the past participle of the
Latin verb exsecrari, meaning "to put under a curse."
Exsecrari was itself created
by combining the prefix ex- ("not") and the word sacer ("sacred").
Sacer is also an ancestor of such English words as sacerdotal
("relating to priests"), sacral ("holy or sacred"), sacrifice, sacrilege,
and of course sacred itself.
There's also execration, which, true to its exsecrari roots,
means "the act of cursing" or "the curse so uttered."
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
execrable
Did you know?
He or she who is cursed faces execrable conditions.
Keep this in mind to remember that
execrable is a descendant of the Latin verb exsecrari,
meaning "to put under a curse."
Since its earliest uses in English, beginning in the 14th century,
execrable has meant "deserving or fit to be execrated,"
the reference being to things
so abominable as to be worthy of formal denouncement
(such as "execrable crimes").
But in the 19th century we lightened it up a bit,
and our "indescribably bad" sense has
since been applied to everything from roads
("execrable London pavement" - Sir Walter Scott)
to food ("The coffee in the station house was ... execrable." - Clarence Day)
to, inevitably, the weather ("the execrable weather of the past fortnight"
- The (London) Evening Standard).
