charm
English
/tʃɑɹm/, /tʃɑːm/
noun
Definitions
- An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).
- The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration; often constructed in the plural.
- A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.
- (physics) A quantum number of hadrons determined by the number of charm quarks and antiquarks.
- (finance) A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the instantaneous rate of change of delta with respect to time.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English charme derived from Old French charme (magic spell, chant, spell) derived from Latin carmen (song, incantation, recitement, card for wool flax, charm).
Origin
Latin
carmen
Gloss
song, incantation, recitement, card for wool flax, charm
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Classifier
Kanji
歌, 唄
Emoji
🎵
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- anticharm English
- becharm English
- charmable English
- charmer English
- charmeress English
- charmest English
- charmeth English
- charmfest English
- charmful English
- charming English
- charmingly English
- charmingness English
- charmless English
- charmlessly English
- charmlessness English
- charmlet English
- charmlike English
- charmonium English
- charmoniumlike English
- charmstone English
- charmwork English
- countercharm English
- decharm English
- discharm English
- disencharm English
- encharm English
- exocharmic English
- outcharm English
- scharm English
- stone English
- ultracharming English
- uncharm English
- uncharmable English
- uncharming English
- work English
- carmen Latin
- carmen, carminis Latin
- carmino Latin
- Charme German
- charme Italian
- charmonio Italian
- charme Dutch, Flemish
- charme French
- шарм Russian
- *kan- Proto-Indo-European
- sjarm Norwegian Bokmål
- チャーム Japanese
- sjarm Norwegian Nynorsk
- becharmen Middle English
- charme Middle English
- charmen Middle English
- charmer Middle English
- charmyng Middle English
- encharmen Middle English
- charm Danish
- charme Danish
- charme Old French
- ĉarma Esperanto
- šarm Serbo-Croatian
- шарм Serbo-Croatian
- charme Norman
- kalmen Tagalog
- charme Middle French
- шарм Macedonian
- *kanmen Proto-Italic
- cham Antillean Creole
- work
- stone
- scharm
- charmer
- uncharm
- becharm
- decharm
- encharm
- charmeth
- charming
- discharm
- charmlet
- outcharm
- charmest
- charmful
- charmable
- charmwork
- charmless
- anticharm
- charmfest
- charmlike
- exocharmic
- charmingly
- charmeress
- uncharming
- charmstone
- charmonium
- disencharm
- uncharmable
- charmlessly
- charmingness
- countercharm
- charmlessness
- ultracharming
- charmoniumlike