amnicolist

English

WOTD – 7 September 2010

Etymology

Latin amnicola (“dwelling by a river”) + English -ist; compare the French amnicole

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ămnĭʹkəlĭst, IPA^(key): /æmˈnɪkəlɪst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

amnicolist (plural amnicolists)

1. (formal, rare) One who dwells by a river.
   • November 1782, Samuel Johnson, “A Tour to Celbridge”, in The Hibernian Magazine: or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, for November, 1782‎^[1], page 553:

     I determined to explore the banks of the Liffey, and to ſearch among the amnicoliſts for that entertainment which eluded my purſuit in the urbanity of the capital[.]

   • 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East‎^[2], page 47:

     He must be no teague. He must be a franklin, but not an amnicolist.

   • 1894, Samuel Conkey, “An Adventure with a Hackee”, in Mary Mapes Dodge, editor, St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls‎^[3], volume 21, part 1, page 185:

     Being easily exsuscitated, and an amnicolist fond of inescating fish and broggling, with an ineluctable desire for the amolition of care, I took a punt and descended the river[.]

   • 1906, J. E. L. Seneker, Frontier Experience: or, Epistolary Sesquipedalian Lexiphanicism from the Occident‎^[4], 102nd-anniversary edition, pages 12–14:

     I sojourned with agnations and cognations, who are amnicolists and engaged in terraculture, or agricolation.

   • 1920, Karle Wilson Baker, The Garden of the Plynck‎^[5], page 16:

     She was not a bad-looking person, though an amnicolist.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:amnicolist.

Translations

one who dwells by a river

• Finnish: joen rannalla asuva ihminen

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Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} riverain (fr) m
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} rivierasco m
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} costeño (es) m, ^{(please verify)} costero (es) m, ^{(please verify)} ribereño (es) m, ^{(please verify)} riberense (es) m

References

• “†amˈnicolist” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]

Anagrams

• monistical, moscatilin