cromulent
Étymologie
[modifier le wikicode]- (1996) Néologisme humoristique ad hoc, attribué à David X. Cohen[1], créé pour la version anglaise de l’épisode Lisa the Iconoclast de la série télévisée d'animation Les Simpson. Utilise le suffixe adjectival anglais -ulent, dérivé du suffixe latin -ulentus.
Attestations historiques
[modifier le wikicode]Edna Krabappel: "Embiggens"? I never heard that word before I came to Springfield.
— (Lisa the Iconoclast, The Simpsons, saison 7, épisode 16, 1996)
Elizabeth Hoover: I don't know why. It's a perfectly cromulent word.Clancy Wiggum: My God, he is fabulous!
— (Lisa the Iconoclast, The Simpsons, saison 7, épisode 16, 1996)
Seymour Skinner: He's embiggened that role with his cromulent performance.
Adjectif
[modifier le wikicode]cromulent \ˈkɹɑmjʊlənt\ ou \ˈkɹɑmjələnt\ (États-Unis) \ˈkɹɒmjʊlənt\ ou \ˈkɹɒmjələnt\ (Royaume-Uni)
- (Néologisme) (Par plaisanterie) Approprié, adéquat, acceptable, satisfaisant, valide.
This section will only look at the types of conclusions made for two very general techniques without getting into specific methods. There are certainly other cromulent techniques which may perform well for specific models and assumptions.
— (Alan M. Polansky, Observed Confidence Levels : Theory and Application, CRC Press, 2007, page 216)A configuration C that has k edges is in the cromulent form if every edge from to is in C.
— (Luís Felipe I. Cunha, Luis Antonio B. Kowada, Rodrigo de A. Hausen, Celina M.H. de Figueiredo, A faster 1.375-approximation algorithm for sorting by transpositions dans Algorithms in Bioinformatics: 14th International Workshop, WABI 2014, Wroclaw, Poland, September 8-10, 2014. Proceedings 14., Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014, pages 29.)The Kandahar decree is generally considered to be written in excellent literary Greek, in contrast to our Egyptian Greek legal documents. Despite rendering Indian ethical terminology appropriately into Greek, however, the titles of two religious groups, bramenai (βραμεναι / Brahmins) and sramenai (σραμεναι / Buddhist mendicants) are transliterated. The conclusion to be drawn should not be that the accomplished translator has failed, but that his audience are well aware of what these terms mean. Transliterating foreign religious terms may not make for ‘good Greek’, but it is a perfectly cromulent, culturally appropriate, local use of the language.
— (Eitan Grossman, Jennifer Cromwell, Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period, Oxford University Press, 2018, page 224)How much power Urbina ultimately develops will determine if we are looking at a plus regular or more of a cromulent everyday guy, but he’s advanced enough at present to handle a fairly aggressive stateside assignment in 2020 if the Twins were so inclined.
— (R.J. Anderson, Craig Goldstein, Bret Sayre, Minnesota Twins 2020 : A Baseball Companion, Baseball Prospectus, 2020)For her, the most convincing linguistic feat was when Alex, confronted for the first time with an apple (for which he had no word), combined his understanding of the colour of berries and the flavour and size of bananas to call the unnamed fruit a ‘banerry’, the word he continued to use for apples afterwards. This shows a real understanding that the sounds have meaning beyond just the rewards one can eke out of humans, and this ability embiggen his vocabulary by coining a neologism is among the most cromulent evidence of Alex’s understanding of his human speech.
— (Antone Martinho-Truswell, The Parrot in the Mirror, Oxford University Press, 2022, page 165)
Dérivés
[modifier le wikicode]Prononciation
[modifier le wikicode]- Royaume-Uni (Sud de l'Angleterre) : écouter « cromulent [Prononciation ?] »
- États-Unis d’Amérique : écouter « cromulent [Prononciation ?] »
Voir aussi
[modifier le wikicode]Références
[modifier le wikicode]Sources
[modifier le wikicode]- ↑ Bill Oakley, Commentaire sur DVD de l’épisode Lisa the Iconoclast de la saison 7 de The Simpsons, 20th Century Fox, 2005.
Bibliographie
[modifier le wikicode]- “cromulent”, dans Merriam-Webster, 2026 → consulter cet ouvrage
- Cette page comporte des éléments adaptés ou copiés de l’article du Wiktionnaire en anglais, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 : cromulent (liste des auteurs et autrices).