{"id":2636,"date":"2010-04-02T14:18:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T14:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2010-04-02T14:18:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T14:18:12","slug":"word-of-the-day-paraphe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=2636","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; paraphe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/bfranklin.gif\" width=\"250\" height=\"120\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" alt=\"Example of a signature with a paraph\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>paraphe<\/strong>, which is also spelled <strong>parafe<\/strong>, came up last night at the French conversation group &#8211; we were looking for how to say initial (letter) in French and found this word, along with <em>initiale<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The word also exists in English &#8211; paraph. Definitions include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a flourish made after or below a signature, originally to prevent forgery<\/li>\n<li>a flourish after a signature, originally to prevent forgery<\/li>\n<li>a flourish or other embellishment made after a signature, either as idiosyncrasy or to protect against forgery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/paraph\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>It comes from via French from the Medieval Latin <em>paraphus<\/em>, a variant of <em>paragraphus<\/em> (paragraph).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word paraphe, which is also spelled parafe, came up last night at the French conversation group &#8211; we were looking for how to say initial (letter) in French and found this word, along with initiale. The word also exists in English &#8211; paraph. Definitions include: a flourish made after or below a signature, originally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,10,15,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-language","category-latin","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}