warlock
A male magic-user; a male equivalent of a witch; a wizardA male magic-user; a male equivalent of a witch; a wizard.
» Tom is a warlock and Mary is a witch.
Tom ist ein Zauberer, und Maria ist eine Hexe.
Том колдун, а Мэри ведьма.
Meaning
2 sensesA male magic-user; a male equivalent of a witch; a wizard.
Hexer, Hexenmeister, Zauberer
чернокни́жникčernoknížnik, колду́нkoldún, волше́бникvolšébnik
чаклу́нčaklún, чарівни́кčarivnýk, характе́рникxaraktérnyk
a male witch or demon
(especially)A magic-user (regardless of gender).
Examples
4 sentencesTom is a warlock and Mary is a witch.
ruТом колдун, а Мэри ведьма.
deTom ist ein Zauberer, und Maria ist eine Hexe.
You're a warlock, Tom.
deDu bist ein Hexenmeister, Tom.
Tom is a warlock.
I'm a warlock.
ruЯ колдун.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English warloghe, warlowe, warloȝe, from Old English wǣrloga (“traitor, deceivFrom Middle English warloghe, warlowe, warloȝe, from Old English wǣrloga (“traitor, deceiver”, literally “truce-breaker”), from Proto-West Germanic *wārulogō (“liar”), equivalent to Old English wǣr (“covenant, truce, pact, promise”) (from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁- (“true”); whence also Latin vērus) + loga (“liar”), from Proto-Germanic *lugô, related to Old English lēogan (whence English lie). The hard -ck ending originated in Scottish and Northern English, like the sense "male magic-user" (from the notion that such men were in league with the Devil and had thus broken their baptismal vows / betrayed Christianity). Cognate with Old Saxon wārlogo (“liar, unfaithful or insidious one”).
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