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x | genial |
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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friendly and cheerful
(especially of weather) pleasantly mild and warm
{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3
, The well breath'd youth, hot-mettled, and flush with genial juices, was now fairly in for making me know my driver. }}
marked by genius
* 2003 , Laura Fermi, Gilberto Bernardini, Galileo and the Scientific Revolution , Courier Dover Publications, page 111 [http://books.google.com/books?id=qGsZ4YmjhFwC&pg=PA111&dq=genial+idea+date:1940-2009&lr=lang_en&as_brr=3&as_pt=ALLTYPES]:
(anatomy) genian; relating to the chin
As a letter x
is the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x
is voiceless velar fricative.As an adjective genial is
great, fantastic.x
Translingual
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Letter
See also
(Latn-script)Etymology 2
Possibly from skull and crossbonesDerived terms
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- About fifty years later, in 1675, the Danish astronomer Ole Roemer (1644-1710) had the genial idea of using astronomical rather than terrestrial distances.
