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===Etymology=== |
===Etymology=== |
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{{root|en|ine-pro|*pro-||*meyḱ-}} |
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From {{ |
From {{uder|en|la|prōmiscuus||mixed, not separated}}, from {{m|la|prō||forth}} + {{m|la|misceō||mix}}. |
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===Pronunciation=== |
===Pronunciation=== |
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* {{IPA|/ |
* {{IPA|en|/pɹəˈmɪs.kju.əs/}} |
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* {{audio|en-au-promiscuous.ogg| |
* {{audio|en|en-au-promiscuous.ogg|a=AU}} |
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===Adjective=== |
===Adjective=== |
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{{en-adj}} |
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# Made up of various disparate |
# Made up of [[various]] [[disparate]] [[element]]s [[mix#Verb|mixed]] together; of [[disorderly]] [[composition]]. |
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#* '''1667''', [[w:John Milton|John Milton]], ''[[w:Paradise Lost|Paradise Lost]]'', Book 1, ll. 379-80 |
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#*: Came singly where he stood on the bare strand, / While the '''promiscuous''' croud stood yet aloof. |
#* {{RQ:Milton Paradise Lost|book=1|lines=379-80|text=Came singly where he stood on the bare strand, / While the '''promiscuous''' croud stood yet aloof.|year=1873}} |
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⚫ | #* {{RQ:Eliot Middlemarch|volume=I|book=I|chapter=I|page=4|passage=[T]hey had both been educated [...] on plans at once narrow and '''promiscuous''', first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor uncle and guardian trying in this way to remedy the disadvantages of their orphaned condition.}} |
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#* {{RQ:Eliot Middlemarch|1}} |
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# Made without [[careful]] [[choice]]; [[indiscriminate]]. |
# Made without [[careful]] [[choice]]; [[indiscriminate]]. |
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#: {{ux|en|A sail caught by a '''promiscuous''' wind.}} |
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# {{lb|en|pejorative}} [[indiscriminate|Indiscriminate]] in choice of sexual partners, or having many sexual partners. |
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# Having many [[sexual partner]]s, especially if [[indiscriminate]] in choosing said sexual partners. |
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#* {{quote-journal|1=en|year=2023|author=Parliament of Singapore|title=Women’s Charter (Family Violence and Other Matters) (Amendment) Bill|journal=Republic of Singapore Government Gazette|url=https://www.parliament.gov.sg/docs/default-source/default-document-library/women's-charter-(family-violence-and-other-matters)(amendment)-bill-18-2023.pdf|page=5|text=X spreads false rumours to third parties about X’s spouse being '''promiscuous'''. X’s spouse finds out about the rumours and is distressed. X has committed emotional or psychological abuse against X’s spouse.}} |
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* {{sense|made up of various disparate elements}} {{l|en|motley}} |
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====Translations==== |
====Translations==== |
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{{trans-top|made up of various disparate elements mixed together}} |
{{trans-top|made up of various disparate elements mixed together}} |
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* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|разнороден}} |
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* Catalan: {{t+|ca|promiscu}} |
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|promiscu}} |
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* Chinese: |
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*: Cantonese: {{t|yue|混雜|tr=wan6 zaap6 ge3|alt=混雜嘅}} |
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* Finnish: {{t+|fi|sekalainen}} |
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|sekalainen}} |
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* German: {{t|de|zusammengewürfelt}}, {{t|de|bunt gemischt}} |
* Galician: {{t|gl|promiscuo|m}} |
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* German: {{t+|de|zusammengewürfelt}}, {{t|de|bunt gemischt}} |
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* Macedonian: {{t|mk|разно́роден}}, {{t|mk|разно́виден}} |
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* Russian: {{t+|ru|разношёрстный}}, {{t+|ru|разноро́дный}} |
* Russian: {{t+|ru|разношёрстный}}, {{t+|ru|разноро́дный}} |
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* Slovak: {{t|sk|promiskuitný}} |
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* Spanish: {{t+|es|promiscuo}} |
* Spanish: {{t+|es|promiscuo}} |
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* Turkish: {{t+|tr|gelişigüzel}}, {{t+|tr|karışık}}, {{t+|tr|rastgele}} |
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|gelişigüzel}}, {{t+|tr|karışık}}, {{t+|tr|rastgele}} |
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{{trans-top|made without careful choice; indiscriminate}} |
{{trans-top|made without careful choice; indiscriminate}} |
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* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|безразборен}} |
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* Catalan: {{t+|ca|promiscu}} |
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|promiscu}} |
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* Danish: {{t+|da|promiskuøs}} |
* Danish: {{t+|da|promiskuøs}} |
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* Finnish: {{t+|fi|umpimähkäinen}}, {{t+|fi|summittainen}} |
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|umpimähkäinen}}, {{t+|fi|summittainen}} |
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* German: {{t+|de|wahllos}}, {{t+|de|willkürlich}}, {{t+|de|unüberlegt}} |
* German: {{t+|de|wahllos}}, {{t+|de|willkürlich}}, {{t+|de|unüberlegt}} |
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* Latin: {{t|la|promiscuus}} |
* Latin: {{t|la|promiscuus}} |
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* Macedonian: {{t|mk|безра́зборен}}, {{t|mk|непро́мислен}} |
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* Russian: {{t+|ru|неразбо́рчивый}} |
* Russian: {{t+|ru|неразбо́рчивый}} |
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* Slovak: {{t|sk|promiskuitný}} |
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* Spanish: {{t+|es|promiscuo}} |
* Spanish: {{t+|es|promiscuo}} |
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* Turkish: {{t+|tr|keyfî}} |
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|keyfî}} |
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{{trans-top|indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners}} |
{{trans-top|indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners}} |
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* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|разпуснат}} |
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* Catalan: {{t+|ca|promiscu}} |
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|promiscu}} |
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* Chinese: |
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*: Cantonese: {{t|yue|濫交|tr=laam5 gaau1 ge3|alt=濫交嘅}} |
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* Danish: {{t+|da|promiskuøs}} |
* Danish: {{t+|da|promiskuøs}} |
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* Finnish: {{t|fi| |
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|promiscue}} |
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* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kevytkenkäinen}} {{qualifier|of a woman}} |
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* French: {{t+|fr|promiscue|m}} |
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* Galician: {{t|gl|promiscuo|m}} |
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* Icelandic: {{t+|is|lauslátur}} |
* Icelandic: {{t+|is|lauslátur}} |
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* Irish: {{t|ga|ilchaidreamhach}} |
* Irish: {{t|ga|ilchaidreamhach}} |
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* Jarai: {{t|jra|rih}} |
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* Macedonian: {{t|mk|промискуитетен|tr=promiskuitéten}} |
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* Macedonian: {{t|mk|ра́спуштен}}, {{t|mk|промискуите́тен}}, {{t|mk|блу́ден}} |
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* Maori: |
* Maori: {{t|mi|tarau makere}} {{qualifier|of a woman}}, {{t|mi|ure paratī}} {{qualifier|of a man}}, {{t|mi|tīweka}} |
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* Polish: {{t+|pl|rozwiązły}}, {{t+|pl|rozpustny}} |
* Polish: {{t+|pl|rozwiązły}}, {{t+|pl|rozpustny}} |
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* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|promíscuo}} |
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|promíscuo}} |
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* Russian: {{t+|ru|неразбо́рчивый}}, {{t+|ru|распу́тный}}, {{t+|ru|распу́щенный}} |
* Russian: {{t+|ru|неразбо́рчивый}}, {{t+|ru|распу́тный}}, {{t+|ru|распу́щенный}} |
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* Slovak: {{t|sk|promiskuitný}} |
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* Spanish: {{t+|es|promiscuo}} |
* Spanish: {{t+|es|promiscuo}} |
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* Swedish: {{t+|sv|promiskuös}} |
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|promiskuös}} |
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{{trans-top|being in a mode in which a NIC gathers all network traffic}} |
{{trans-top|being in a mode in which a NIC gathers all network traffic}} |
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* Finnish: {{t|fi|erottelematon}}, {{t+|fi|valikoimaton}} |
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* French: {{t-needed|fr}} |
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* Occitan: {{t+|oc|mesclat}} |
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* Polish: {{t|pl|nasłuchujący}} |
* Polish: {{t|pl|nasłuchujący}} |
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* Slovak: {{t|sk|promiskuitný}} |
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===Further reading=== |
===Further reading=== |
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[[Category:en:Sex]] |
[[Category:en:Sex]] |
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{{C|en|Personality}} |
Revision as of 08:37, 8 June 2024
Englisch
Etymology
From Latin prōmiscuus (“mixed, not separated”), from prō (“forth”) + misceō (“mix”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɹəˈmɪs.kju.əs/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Adjective
promiscuous (comparative more promiscuous, superlative most promiscuous)
- Made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.
- Synonym: motley
- 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 379-80:
- Came singly where he stood on the bare strand, / While the promiscuous croud stood yet aloof.
- 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter I, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 4:
- [T]hey had both been educated [...] on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor uncle and guardian trying in this way to remedy the disadvantages of their orphaned condition.
- Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.
- A sail caught by a promiscuous wind.
- Having many sexual partners, especially if indiscriminate in choosing said sexual partners.
- 2023, Parliament of Singapore, “Women’s Charter (Family Violence and Other Matters) (Amendment) Bill”, in Republic of Singapore Government Gazette[1], page 5:
- X spreads false rumours to third parties about X’s spouse being promiscuous. X’s spouse finds out about the rumours and is distressed. X has committed emotional or psychological abuse against X’s spouse.
- (networking) The mode in which an NIC gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.
Derived terms
Translations
made up of various disparate elements mixed together
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made without careful choice; indiscriminate
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indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners
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being in a mode in which a NIC gathers all network traffic
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See also
Further reading
- “promiscuous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “promiscuous”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “promiscuous”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *meyḱ-
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- English terms with quotations
- English terms with usage examples
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