Onomatopœia. A mocking name. The making of words from sounds; as, to hiss, a peewit or cuckoo from the sound it makes.
Optative (mood). The wish mood; as, ‘Oh! that I had wings.’ ‘May you be happy.’
Out- (a fore-eking). Outban, exile; outfaring, peregrination, exodus; outhue, outliken, depict or draw.
Over- (a fore-eking). Overbold, audacious; overhang, impend; overweigh, preponderate.
-p, -b, -f (endings). They mean small in kind or short in time:—Poke, pop, poke quickly; dip, a small dive; slip, a small slide; rip, to rive quickly.
Palindrome. Gr. palin, back; dromos, a running. A set of words which read the same backwards as forwards; as, ‘Lewd did I live, evil I did dwel,’ or ‘Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor.’
A palindrome’s the same as read
From head to tail, or tail to head.
Palpitate. Throb.
Panacea. Allheal.
Paradigm. Gr. paradeigma, an offshowing, outshowing, a plan. A table of word-shapes.