glamour vs hex what difference
what is difference between glamour and hex
English
Etymology
Some say from Scots glamer, supposedly from earlier Scots gramarye (“magic, enchantment, spell”).
The Scottish term may either be from Ancient Greek γραμμάριον (grammárion, “gram”), the weight unit of ingredients used to make magic potions, or an alteration of the English word grammar (“any sort of scholarship, especially occult learning”).
A connection has also been suggested with Old Norse glámr (poet. “moon,” name of a ghost) and glámsýni (“glamour, illusion”, literally “glam-sight”). From Grettir’s Saga aka Grettis Saga, one of the Sagas of Icelanders, after the hero has been cursed by Glam, aka Glamr:
“…he was become so fearsome a man in the dark, that he durst go nowhither alone after nightfall, for then he seemed to see all kinds of horrors.
And that has fallen since into a proverb, that Glam lends eyes, or gives Glamsight to those who see things nowise as they are.”
Glamsight (glámsýni) is also referred to in the Icelandic collection Sturlunga saga.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡlæmə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡlæmɚ/
Noun
glamour (countable and uncountable, plural glamours)
- (uncountable) Originally, enchantment; magic charm; especially, the effect of a spell that causes one to see objects in a form that differs from reality, typically to make filthy, ugly, or repulsive things seems beauteous.
- 1882, James Thomson (B. V.), “The City of Dreadful Night”:
- They often murmur to themselves, they speak
To one another seldom, for their woe
Broods maddening inwardly and scorns to wreak
Itself abroad; and if at whiles it grow
To frenzy which must rave, none heeds the clamour,
Unless there waits some victim of like glamour,
To rave in turn, who lends attentive show.
- They often murmur to themselves, they speak
- 1882, James Thomson (B. V.), “The City of Dreadful Night”:
- (uncountable) Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).
- glamour magazines; a glamour model
- (uncountable) Any excitement, appeal, or attractiveness associated with a person, place, or thing; that which makes something appealing.
- The idea of being a movie star has lost its glamour for me.
- Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, or person, through which it or they appear delusively magnified or glorified.
- A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (countable) An item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance.
Alternative forms
- glamor (US); however, the -our spelling is the more common spelling, even in the US
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
glamour (third-person singular simple present glamours, present participle glamouring, simple past and past participle glamoured)
- (transitive) To enchant; to bewitch.
References
- “Glámr” in: Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon — An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
Danish
Etymology
From English glamour.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡlamuːr/, [ɡ̊laˈmuːɐ̯] or IPA(key): /ɡlamɔr/, [ˈɡ̊lamɒ]
Noun
glamour c (singular definite glamouren, not used in plural form)
- glamour
Derived terms
- glamourisere
- glamourøs
Finnish
Noun
glamour
- glamour (charm)
Declension
French
Noun
glamour m (uncountable)
- glamour
Adjective
glamour (invariable)
- glamorous
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English glamour
Noun
glamour m (definite singular glamouren)
- glamour
Related terms
- glamorøs
References
- “glamour” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English glamour
Noun
glamour m (definite singular glamouren)
- glamour
Related terms
- glamorøs
References
- “glamour” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Spanish
Etymology
From English glamour.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡlaˈmuɾ/, [ɡlaˈmuɾ]
Noun
glamour m (uncountable)
- Alternative spelling of glamur
Further reading
- “glamour” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Noun
glamour c (definite singular glamouren) (uncountable)
- glamour
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɛks/
- Rhymes: -ɛks
Etymology 1
First attested about 1830, from Pennsylvania German hexe (“to practice witchcraft”), from German hexen (compare Hexe (“witch”)). The noun appeared later, in the 1850s. Cognate to Norwegian Bokmål heks (“witch”) and Dutch heks (“witch”), Dutch beheksen (“to bewitch”), Old English hægtesse (“witch, hag”). Doublet of hag.
Verb
hex (third-person singular simple present hexes, present participle hexing, simple past and past participle hexed)
- (transitive) To cast a spell on (specifically an evil spell), to bewitch.
Translations
Noun
hex (plural hexes)
- An evil spell or curse.
- A witch.
- (rare) A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft).
Derived terms
- hexcraft
Translations
Etymology 2
Short for hexadecimal.
Noun
hex (uncountable)
- (computing, informal) Clipping of hexadecimal.
Translations
Etymology 3
Short for hexagon.
Noun
hex (plural hexes)
- A hexagonal space on a game board.
- (climbing) a hexagon-shaped item of rock climbing equipment intended to be wedged into a crack or other opening in the rock.
Derived terms
- megahex
See also
- (climbing): nut
References
Anagrams
- exh