adiakari

Basque

FWOTD – 6 December 2022

From adia (“lament”) +‎ -kari.

adiakari anim

weeper (particularly a hired mourner)
Synonyms: adiagile, erostari
- 1913, Marcel Proust, translated by Joxe Austin Arrieta, Swann-etik [Swann's Way] (Denbora galduaren bila [In Search of Lost Time])‎^[1], Alberdania-Elkar, published 2010, →ISBN:
  Txori bat ote, perpaus txikiaren arima oraino osagabea ote, lamina bat ote, izaki ikusezin eta adiakari hori, zeinaren pleinua segidan errepikatzen baitzuen pianoak samurki?
  Was it a bird, was it the soul, as yet not fully formed, of the little phrase, was it a fairy—that being invisibly lamenting, whose plaint the piano heard and tenderly repeated?
Eurasian scops owl (Otus scops)
Synonym: apo-hontz
- 2012, J.M. Olaizola "Txiliku", Piztiarioak‎^[2], Elkar, →ISBN:
  Adiakaria izenekoa ere askotan aipatu ohi da, eta hontzaren edo urubiaren antzeko animalia bat dela uste da.
  The so-called weeper is often mentioned too, and it is thought to be an animal similar to barn owls or wood owls.

Declension of adiakari (animate, ending in vowel)